[Tony Barone]

I emailed Maxon about it and they suggested the same thing, trashing prefs etc.. they also said to try their own “force-quit” if it locks up. Theirs is holding both Shift keys and hit Del. If it works, it will generate a crash log at least.

I also tried turning off Open GL in the prefs, quitting and then turning it back on.. I haven’t had the issue return since trying that. Doing a similar thing fixed my Photoshop issues I had been having with Mavericks.

[Tony Barone]

Brian, thank you very much for your help! Especially for posting the file… not sure I would have been able to figure it out from your explanation. 🙂

[Tony Barone]

I’m using standard XPresso nodes, I don’t know the first thing about python.

I have it setup as per one of your suggestions:

Math Multiply (10) – Universal (Integer) – Math Divide (10) – Text

[Tony Barone]

Is there a way to also have it display a .0 when its not .1-.9? and/or add a “degree” symbol at the end?

The problem is, this is to show the degree of rotation of an object, and I have the object stopping at different points which sometimes have a .5 and sometimes nothing at all, so if I were to add the degree symbol as a different text object, I would have to have it move closet to the number when theres not a decimal after it.

Thanks again!

[Tony Barone]

THANK YOU!

[Tony Barone]

I’m running Mavericks and C4D R15…. I would STRONGLY advise against “upgrading” to Mavericks.
I haven’t been able to reproduce the issue step-by-step, but so far have had my MacPro 2012 completely freeze up several times, and its been while using C4D. Each time has been while opening a file from the Finder, the computer has completely locked up… clock stops moving, only thing movable is mouse for some reason. Its making me feel like I’m back in OS9!

[Tony Barone]

I see what you mean about it being a bit twitchy! I like your example as well.. thanks!

[Tony Barone]

Adam,

Thanks for your file, I haven’t quite figured out how it works, but it looks nice. Also not sure how to reset it to the beginning.

I’ve uploaded an updated version of what I was working on just to show you what the cubeside2 is for. Its basically to make it appear as though its printing bi-directionally. My setup works, but I was hoping to somehow build it all into an Xpresso setup without having to animate separate sliders.

I can’t figure out how to step the cubesides up by 10% or any % each time the main object reaches its max left/right distance. Is there a way to setup an xpresso chain where it adds a set distance when another object reaches a specified location?

6515_3dprintexample.c4d.zip

[Tony Barone]

Sorry, I posted my working file after the original post. I really appreciate your help on this one.

[Tony Barone]

Adam,

As always, thanks VERY much for your help. While your solution is certainly simpler than what I have in the works, unfortunately, it won’t accomplish what I’m going for.

If you take a look at the file I attached to my post, you should be able to see what I mean.

I have my object moving right/left repeat, within a boolean to reveal a logo. Each time my moving object reaches the farmost left/right point (increment of 50% on the slider), I want the Posemorph to increase by a 10% step, first on the “Cube-Side 1” when the moving object reaches the Right, then “Cube-Side 2” when it reaches the right.. and so on.

In that way, the printhead (which I haven’t modeled yet) will appear to be “printing” the logo as it moves both right and left.