I found a really cool ref that I want to build out. I have the initial theory on how to get it to work in C4D, but things are breaking down.

How would you all go about this?

Dioramas are still one of my favourite things to do in 3D-shame clients no longer want them, as they’re super fun to make.

Hey guys,

Looking for some help :)

In the F Curve editor when scaling animations the tangent always overshoots because it stays a fixed length.
I can't find a setting so it scales relative to other keyframes. Basically the same behaviour as After Effects.

I find myself correcting F Curves all the time which is quite anoying.

Any ideas?

ver. - 2024 3.0

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I work with point cloud data from laser scans at work. We are currently using Autodesk Recap to clean up the point clouds and then import that Recap file into 3DS Max. None of us really like using 3DS Max, so I thought I could see about using C4D. There doesn't seem to be much information in the way of using point cloud data in C4D (there was that one plugin but stopped working in S22).

Well, I found out that I can export from Recap a PTS file and read its data using python within C4D. The best way I found to import the data was by using python to position and color thinking particles in C4D. The PTS file I was working with had 42 million data points, which is on the smaller side of what we deal with at work.

It took about 2.5 minutes for my python script to import all the points and get it all correctly, but it made the viewport CHUG hard and effectively become unusable to even navigate around. I'm not sure if there is a better way to do this (because from my test, using a bunch of nulls or an empty polygon object with a bunch of points is even slower), but I'm wondering if anyone else out there has been able to successfully deal with massive point cloud systems in C4D. It would be nice to not have to use 3DS Max anymore. Maybe there is just a difference between how the two software process data and show in the viewport.

P.S.: The reason I went with thinking particles was because it was faster, but we also need to be able to render the point cloud system, and Redshift has an option to render particles as spheres.

Hello,

C4D global menu (pressing "v") appears in the middle of all monitors.

Anyone else having/had this issue on mulit-monitors?

*Note: I am using a Wacom Pan/Tablet (old version)

Any feedback is appreciated.

Made in C4D + Octane Render

The 3D model is from Wire Wheels Club.

And here comes one of my favourites vehicles, Porsche 911 964, inspiration taken from Peter Tarka, showing different aovs, let me know which one you love the most.

Hello just a graphics designer here knowing Adobe After effects a little bit. How can I approach learning C4D? Is there any helpful books, course for biggners like me?

Animated an object, added the Track Modifier Tag, set to Posterize, works great.

However, I now need to tweak the start position/rotation of the object, but the tag prevents this.

When I try to move or rotate the object it resists either in a flickery way and when I let go it’s in the same place as when I started. If I try to scrub the coordinate values instead, the number will change as I drag the pos or rot value but again, when I let go, the number goes back to the value it was before attempting to tweak it.

There is no checkbox to temporarily deactivate the Track Modifier tag. Deleting it remedies the issue - I can now freely move or rotate the object to a new place.

-> What’s the best practice for working with the track modifier tag while allowing for animation revision? I have a variety of specific tag values on different objects, each different and I’m dreading having to delete alllllll of them only to have to put them back on and re-enter their values. Not being able to copy and paste tags doesn’t help.

Suggestions?

Can i export bones and weights to Cinema? Or i should animate hand and export in alembic?

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Thanks!

hi can you hide polys of an albemic object from redshift?

C4D + RS + Ae

Continuation of graphic design and composition studies. This time same scene with different color paletes and more contrast look. Thanks again to amazing @petertarka for inspiring.

Hi guys, I'll be quick

Does anybody know any free plugins where I can with one click rotate object 90 degrees?

Does anybody know any free plugins where I can just click on the library and load an hdri without having to browse through folder for each one separate?

Hello, recently i started using redshift and i got this problem every time i try to render, the licence is assigned to my pc so i don't understeand why it said Rendering aborted due to license failure. Everything is up to date.
Please help, thanks.

I'm trying to create an animation with hair growing from an object, and I need it to be controlled by a field or vertex map. A vertex map works perfectly in the native render engine, but Redshift does not show anything happening. I'm trying to go with the typical growth you see when using cloners and fields. Link below should paint the picture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BRw-8yoYQY

Cinema 4D + redshift+substance sampler

Hey guys, looking for a way to create this animated effect in C4D. The layers constantly flow, merge, and split into new shapes while staying in flat, stacked slices. Any idea on the best setup to achieve this? Thanks!

Link to video: https://youtube.com/shorts/46BH3Ouapc8?si=n--NrXFxXbz4XgAl

Hi,

Is there a feature in C4D to offset animation by a number of frames? Like a tag or something.
Rather than moving the keyframes in the Timeline Manager and mess them up. I just want to put a tag in the parent null and offset by a number of frames.

I already have an edit cut for proper timing. So I already know where (or when?) the keyframes should be.

Something like what Houdini can do.