Sascha Koeth
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Maxon C4D Coins
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This is currently the closest I got to an answer:
But until now I could not make those solutions work for me…
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Is it possible to use keyboard shortcuts for CEP panel's function when the panel is out of focus?
Hi guys, Is it possible to assign keyboards shortcuts that will initiate my jsx function? I am building CEP panel for after effects and I want to give a user an ability to quickly launch function using shortcuts rather than clicking … Continue reading
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Hi Hector, sorry for answering so late. the notify me of new replies does not seam to work for me.
So thanks for the link, but “How to undock panels?” is not really what I was looking for. My question was more: “How to activate an extension panel with a hotkey?”
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Hi Usama,
thanks for your input! Here are some comments on them:
– the resolution of the image is much higher than the voxel resolution can get even close to.
– yes. adding noise to the voxels… I tried that, but the stepping is too intense. so the noise needs to be soo intense to “break” the stepping that there is no image-texture-based-look left anymore.
– Yes. Using Octane instead of Redshift… might be a solution, but not in a environment where Redshift is a must.
– TurbulenceFD. I guess everything that works with simulation is way out of the scope of what I can handle within the project this is for.
– The volumebuilder settings all boil down to beeing limitied to a 0.2 setting in voxel size and no lower setting possible even when changing the voxel count by different methods.
I am in contact with the guys from maxon. But they did not come up with a solution yet.
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Thank you my Master! May the force be with you, aswell!
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Good to know! Maybe with those types, in some kind of custom node based rig, something like this would be possible… but thats way beyond my skillset 😉
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Hi Bosten, thanks for your input on this!
About the light contribution. Yes I have all lights contribute 1. And GI is set to brute force.
About the VDB. I am not using an external VDB. Actually My setup is the same as the one in your second video. BUT. While the guy in the second video uses a rather “small” and “thick” block to put his clouds into I have a very “thin” and comparably “huge” sphere. So while at his setup he needs to go down to 1 and the voxels allready render quite a while to get to that resolution but with the “surface” I need to cover it, it is not possible to go small enough with the voxels as in “Fog” mode of the volume builder it always calculates the complete sphere and not only the thin surface I need for the global cloud layer. And Redshift volume does not work with the SDF mode of the volume builder. The SDF mode would do what I need: Only create voxels around the surface of the sphere and by that creating way less voxels meaning higher resolutions would be possible. But as long as the SDF mode is not supported by Redshift, C4D is not capable of doing things like this:
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I found a solution! It´s the highly expensive x-particles plugin with their newest XP Open VDB Mesher: https://insydium.ltd/support-home/video-manuals/x-particles-video-manual/generators/xpopenvdb/#1309
See the result:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Da9gTbCImeX70gaKEU0UNuCI9K_KbJZA/view?usp=sharing
In the front it´s x-particles. In the back it´s the C4D Volume Mesher Setup. Both tweaked to the best possible with all types of smoothing and reshaping setting and a C4D smoothing deformer.
Plus: the xparticle mesher renders 3 times faster than the C4D one. But xparticles is nearly as expensive as c4d on it´s own… so … well…
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Found the solution! Although I did not want to work with X-Particles the xpSplineGrowth modifier is exactly what I am looking for!