Hey, thank you both for the good info on this issue. Think I just may try to get R17 going on the new system since I’ve always struggled with big daylong renders with my underpowered computer in the past.

I’ve just upgraded to Win11 and installed Unreal Engine 5.4 and Blender 4.1 on a new computer but still do some projects on my trusted R17 edition and am curious what the chances are that it might actually run on Win11? Might save me some time should anyone know.

I’m designing a space scene of a ringed planet lit only by a nebula image in a Sky object. When I try to add a light to produce a sun-like shadow on the planet, the rings become completely black, even after adding a Compositing tag and excluding the light from the rings or going into the Light’s Project tab to try to exclude the rings from there.…

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Through the years I’ve owned Cinema 4D versions R9, R12 Broadcast, and R17 Studio and in the past been a member of Cineversity, but now that I’m needing their CV-VRCAM to enable us to create VR content for a space exploration website and social media, I learn that I must subscribe to C4D 25 in order to use the Cineversity plugin. I don’t need the…

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When I create an object in C4D Lite R25 there is a visible axis but it’s not activated, enabling you to drag the object around on one axis or another nor rotate it about an axis. Can this be fixed by a Settings change or is it part of the new R25 workflow?

Yes, Graham, thanks for your response. I am using the Cinema 4D camera, which I did add to the scene over in C4D. I have also run through the definitely annoying login process in order to start up C4D Lite 22 and am not constrained in any way to modeling to my heart’s content over in Cinema. It just appears AE and C4D are not speaking to each…

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Still have yet to be able to open up a C4D Lite 21 model back into After Effects without seeing one of the following errors popping up: “AEGPPlugin Cineware SceneLayer: Cineware AliveThread_Execute failed (5027::12)” – or – “Layer size must match composition and use default transform values“. The second I straightened out by assuring both…

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Thanks, Chris. My main issue is the file size of even the shortest videos before I arrive at the final mp4. I usually go with the Apple ProRes 4444 codec, but I wonder if you’d suggest others which may result in smaller, yet high quality renders?

I’m running AE 2020 with Element 3D and have been noticing these errors lately upon closing out AE: “AfterFX.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close“, this after it has already closed. But the rendering issues started after receiving an Element 3D error that I failed to save but mentioned experiencing an “unrecoverable error“. Later I…

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Andy, I really appreciate your assistance in working through this area of C4D that is still not my strong suit after 11 years of experience with the program. That setup is ideal for our robot arm motion and I suppose I’d just replace the cylinders and spheres with sections of the robot arm and then keyframe the Joint 2 Goal. Guess I could just…

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Andy, thank-you so much for your super tip. After trying everything else, I eventually came to the same conclusion. And yes, I would very much like to take a look at an example, if you don’t mind. That would be a great help.

We have a robot model with no legs or any need to animate the eyes and just basic body Vibrate tags or Sound Effector for a simple mouth sync-up to an audio file, but we’re having difficulty setting up the arms for character animation, which have floating sections (3 fingers, hand, forearm, and shoulder) that do not touch each other. The arms…

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Yep, you got it. So often, like pre-comping a layer in After Effects, just applying the dependable Fracture Object in C4D makes it all better. I ended up using Pose Morphs, but would have rather not had to deform the geometry, so this is the preferred method, and simpler! Thanks.

I’m needing to do some simple animation varying the Y position of a robot’s mouth shape to coincide with the spoken word (no music) and have tried several options but no luck so far. Tried the MoGraph Sound Effector and it does the trick, but apparently only operates on MoText objects. Also tried GSG’s Signal plugin, but I think it only responds…

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