[Sandy Weber]

Hi Nathaniel!
Thanks so much for your response!
What sort of speeds can I expect from the Mediahub? Enough for 4K ProRes444? Am I correct that the expansion is a separate enclosure that attaches to the Mediahub via Thunderbolt 3?
Also, as far as LTO backup, is there a drive that you recommend (or does that come with the Mediahub system?)
Best,
Sandy

[Sandy Weber]

I understand what you are saying about creating smaller groupings of clouds and then compositing them together, offsetting each of their timings. Unfortunately, I don’t know that that will work in this case as the cloud has to maintain a relatively specific shape. But it is definitely worth thinking about.

Here is a simplified project file that I have been experimenting with. The movement of the cloud is actually going to be tracked to a live action shot (and so will have a ton of keyframes – this experiment only has three…). You can see I was able to add a formula effector which rotates and pulsates the particles individually, I just can’t seem to be able to offset their timing as far as position goes.

12443_cloudtest01.c4d.zip

Thanks!
Sandy

[Sandy Weber]

Thanks for your response Steve!
Though I can’t quite tell what is going on under the hood of Cloud Generator, it looks like it creates a cluster of particles just once rather than a constant emmission of particles and then that cluster is kind of considered a group of particles that you can then move as a group (or add certain effectors to – some effectors seem to work, others don’t). Not sure if I’m describing that correctly or not. I suppose if someone has used Cloud Generator before, they could explain it better…
I guess what I am trying to do is to break apart that “group” so that the individual particles are treated individually so I can get overlapping action on the particles. As the cloud moves I’d like some variation in the speed that individual particles are moving rather than just a random motion of particles moving apart and coming together.
I fear I’m still not explaining myself…
Thanks!
Sandy