I tried this but have two issues:

1. When I click the alembic objects to bake them, the bake option isn’t available, and I’m not sure what exactly I have to do to make it appear.

2. When the <u style=”font-weight: bold;”>bake objects option does appear, when I click it, it doesn’t do anything.

I have the current version of C4D installed. Any idea…

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This is great, thanks! Although, it doesn’t seem to apply to exporting PSR data within a cloner. I tried to work around this by baking the cloner. At this point, I can see that each object within the cloner has its own PSR data, which changes as I scrub through the animation. When I try to click these all, then go into the dope sheet -> Functions…

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Hi!

Does anyone know a good workflow, ideally without XPresso, for exporting null PSR data from C4D to Ae? I tried to use Cineware, but it doesn’t seems to handle nulls within cloners very well. The only keyframes I have are on the spacing between objects in the cloner, each of which has a null attached to it.

UPDATE: Using XPresso, I created a…

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Ah nice. Do you know if there’s a way for me to still smooth the timing of the animation without breaking it with the time keyframes?

Here you go! Thanks 🙂

This is a tricky one, but I’ll try to describe.

WHAT I’M TRYING TO DO

I have two robotic arms picking up one object each, then moving them to another place and dropping them.

HOW I’M DOING THIS

I have X and Z position keyframes on both of them, which I turned into “soft” so I could drag the motion path in the viewport. I’m also using the “time”…

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Amazingly helpful, this is just what I was looking to do. Thanks again 🙂

This is pure genius. I’m assuming you can make a texture based on this fracture, where the lines have a stroke color and the pieces have a fill color?

Hey! I’m trying to make the voronoi-like texture on this material, but it’s very difficult to find a way to get the almost completely consistent stroke lines. Does anyone have a workflow for this? I’ve tried voronoi generators and to use the built in voronoi Maxon Noise, but to no avail. Thanks!

My objects are already editable :/ Happy to provide any other detail

This worked! The only issue is that the rotation in the viewport doesn’t match the rotation in RS Render View. I have the material projection set to “cubic”.

Hello!

I applied an animated texture (PNG sequence) to a face of an object. It looks great in the RS Render View, but it is incredibly low quality in the viewport and also not reflecting the rotation change I made to it?

Does anyone know how to set up a higher quality viewport preview of materials? I’d like this to be smooth so I can plan my camera…

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No worries! Thanks for the help. 🙂

I also misspoke: it’s totally possible to use a switch group with a cloner. The solution is in this video at 15 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkXzzt1Iti8.

It’s surprisingly hard to find the official documentation for such a seemingly important concept! I’ll let you know if this works within the context of…

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Hey! Thanks.

The issue is that I can’t use a cloner because the cloner doesn’t allow me to use a switch group, which is how I’m trying to start turning the particles from blue to red as they increase in height/vibration.

Do you know if there’s a way to make the particles rigid bodies with each other without using a cloner?

Happy to share the…

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Hi Everyone,

My goal

I’m hoping to model air particles that rise to the top of a box and obey rigid body dynamics with each other and the box. Ideally, for each particle, as it smoothly ramps up to a faster vibration, it also rises in the y direction and changes color from blue to orange.

My big question

I know this is a complex question, so for…

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Sorry for the reply. This looks great! Thank you 🙂

Hi Kouraib,

Thanks for the fast reply. I’ll try the clip and zero opacity solution.

Here is my project file. You’ll notice that when you scrub through the timeline, the particles that start as red do indeed begin to vibrate and increase in y value, but some of them transition to blue and stop vibrating when they enter that part of the shader.…

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Hi Everyone,

My goal

I’m trying to animate a cloned grid of particles so that, at random, particles start to vibrate increasingly strongly, and the ones that do so also rise to a specific height (to be specific, by 50 cm).

My concept

I’m trying to accomplish this by using two effectors: a random effector to randomize the y-position osc… Read more