Softbody Triggering
Hello! I was wondering if there’s a way to trigger softbody simulation based on a vertex map animation. Something similar to what the Dynamic Body State node does in Xpresso with cloner objects. I’ve...
View ArticleProrender optimization and updating scene
The render itself is very fast, but I spend minutes just “updating scene” and “compiling shaders”. How do I optimize that part of the rendering process? What sort of things are going on when...
View ArticleCamera Mapping question
Hello I’m trying an effect where I’m using a fake video projector to project on an object in C4d. So I’m using camera mapping as a texture projection method. Now what I’m trying to do is for the...
View ArticleRemove obsolete/unused material and selection tags from mesh objects
Hello, Is there an efficient way to remove/consolidate unused, repeating, and/or obsolete materials and selection tags on a mesh object?See screenshot for the current situation.After several rounds of...
View ArticleCreate manual iteration list?
Hello,I will simplify the example to make it easier to understand; Suppose I have a spline with 100 points: Whenever an object distance is less than 5 cm of the spline points 1, 15, 70 and 100 the...
View Articledynamic mograph ignores effectors
I have items falling with gravity, but, their visibility should turn off when it passes the plain effector and it does not.attached is a starting scene with 3 clones, 1 hidden to show the plain...
View Articlelock objects rotation to the image plane
I have a scene with a camera move - I have several pieces of text that I would like to place in various positions. I would like the text to always face perfectly aligned to the image plane. Target and...
View ArticleEditing a Mograph selection tool tag
I have an array of cloned geometry and I have a selection of some of the array’s points saved into a Mograph Selection Tag so I can hide those particular instances of the geometry using a plain...
View ArticleBest Rigging Practice adding controlers
HiIm not a rigger so have no professional training so I want to make sure the ways Im doing things is optimal so have a few questions.Controllers:1) I can use any object as a controller why is it...
View ArticleCreate Origami Behavior with a Plane?
Trying to get a plane to behave like a real-world piece of paper for origami-like objects (e.g. moving/rotating an edge moves/rotates the polygons connected but does not deform/stretch polygons). Thanks!
View ArticleOutput path “./output/$prj_$take” What’s up with this?
Hey there,Recently I upgraded to R19 from R17 and I’ve encountered something of a conundrum a la the output paths of rendered files.Used to be that when I rendered something, in the save menu inside...
View ArticleMoGraph tutorial?
I’m looking for a MoGraph tutorial to learn about the basics of MoGraph. I’m working on a scene, and all I want is some confetti falling down. The confetti IS falling down now, but I’m lost in all the...
View Article3D object in Facebook post
Hi There,Anyone knows how to export glp file for Facebook post from Cinema 4D?Thank you,Taha
View ArticleBaking roughness/glossiness/reflectance
Hi guys, I just tried to bake out maps for a games engine. Everything works fine so far…only thing I cannot find is the option to bake out the reflectance/roughness/glossiness of a material… There is...
View ArticleProxy Voronoi Fracture Rigid Bodies
HiI’m looking to simulate some realistic breaks in a short amount of time. The detailing feature in R19 looks great, but using the Moving Mesh mode is just far too slow escpecially when I’m breaking up...
View ArticleSpline ik flipping
Hi Dr. Sassi, I was hoping you could answer this for me as I’ve seen in another post that helped with:(https://www.cineversity.com/forum/viewthread/2334/#8862).My dilemma is, I have a character thats...
View ArticleCloner Offset + Rate Direction Inversion?
I’m working on a project where a minigun is blasting away with rounds of ammo being fed into the chamber. I’m using a cloner to align the bullets along the munitions feeder, however… When using the...
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Ball coaster plugins/kit
Hello guys! Does anyone know where I could find some C4D kit or plugin to make any kind of ball coaster faster & easier ? (see attachment) I already know a way with spline wrap, etc… but I as...
View ArticleMoGraph text and colors
Is there a way to give each letter of a MoGraph MoText object a separate color?I can make a separate MoText object for each letter and than give each object a separate color. But is there a way to have...
View Articlerendering a quicktime movie from CInema 4D
I’d like to render quicktime movies out of Cinema4d running on Windows 7 (yes - I know image sequences are much better)Does Apple actually make you purchase Quicktime Pro to get that functionality in...
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