[Tim Bowen]

thanks Tim,

any step by step on how that works?

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[Tim Bowen]

So let me see…. do you have a background plane or something in the scene? Is that what you’re seeing the HDRI image in? If so, go to the Compositing Tag on the sky object. Click on the Exclusion Tab, and then drag the background object into the Exclusion area….this will prevent the Sky from reflecting on the Background.

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[Tim Bowen]

Hi Rob,

The HDRI image should be applied to a sky or sphere (surrounding the scene). Select the sky object, add a compositing tag which in C4D 9.6 is under File>Cinema 4D tags>Compositing. Once the tag is applied, click on the icon to the right of the object, then in the properties window below, check off seen by camera. Hope that makes sense, and helps..

-Tim

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[Tim Bowen]

Hi Brian,

thanks for the response. Yeah that reference was actually done in AE.
I’m on Cinema 9.6, and supposing that’s why your file won’t open.
Anyway you could relate that info?

thanks

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[Tim Bowen]

Thanks,

just seems like it’s running a little slow on my Intel Mac.
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 12 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Bus Speed: 1.6 GHz

Using After Effects CS3.

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[Tim Bowen]

I emailed Maxon. They said:
“Go within your Preferences (Edit=>Preferences) and within the Common page, try changing the Render
Threads from Optimal to 4, and see if that resolves the issue for you. If it’s the issue I think
this is, then this rendering issue has been fixed in R11 of CINEMA 4D.”

That Worked!

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[Tim Bowen]

THANKS JON,

I DID FIGURE IT OUT AFTER I STARTED USING IT WITH 3D INVIGORATOR IN MIND. I USED THE COLOR MAP FEATURE AND ALL IS WORKING PRETTY GOOD. I WOULD PREFER THAT THEY CHANGE SOME OF THE CONTROLS TO INCLUDE BEZIER HANDLES AND CENTER POINTS, INSTEAD OF JUST NUMBER REFERENCES.

-TIM

[Tim Bowen]

Hey Pete,

I noticed that you responded pretty quickly to my post this morning. I don’t think I had the “Wildflower Exploding into daisies” thing on the web at that time… well anyway, it’s there now, so if you got to see it Great!… thanks for the compliment on the reel. If you have any other thoughts on the reel as a whole, let me know. I’m always trying to make it better as I look for work in off times.
Thanks
-Tim

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[Tim Bowen]

Peter,

thanks for the tip. I used a layer with the shatter effect on the text. This fades up so the “rectangle” shatter starts to tear the word apart. I’m then fading in and scaling up (not from zero though) another layer with the shatter effect using the custom daisey flower shape. I also added a shatter effect on the text “blue” glow, using the custom daisey shape reading the alpha channel. There are some other parameter adjustments I made in the options menu, but I don’t remember at the moment. I used Boris’ BCC4 plug in for After Effects; 3D Image Shatter to create this.
I’m putting it on my reel at http://www.timbowen.com if you want to see the finished product. It should be up today December 12. If I tweak it at all, it will be to have more of the tear happening right before the explosion.

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[Tim Bowen]

Hi Pete,
sorry for the delay in responding. I’ve been trying several things. The BCC 3D Image shatter allows you to have “rectangles” (and other shapes) to burst apart from the text… but when you choose custom shape, the custom shape replaces all the text. So then there’s no text left! Quite annoying….The only thing I don’t like about your suggestion is that I want the shatter particles to come FROM the text breaking apart into daiseys. Changing the opacity, just looks like it switches quickly from word to a bunch of daiseys…..
Still looking for other suggestions… Maybe I’m still out to lunch on approaching this correctly???
Thanks guys

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