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Sorry for late reply. Thank you, I'll check that out.

https://support.maxon.net/hc/en-us/articles/8658038724124-Cinema-4D-2025-3-June-18-2025 jeebus... UV tool refresh. UDIMS.. texel density... they listened. hoping they continue with Laubwerk and add wind/dynamics.

yoooooo it's actually out 😮

chuck me a simple scene which has this problem and ill see if theres anything obvious. Just a cube with a texture which complains about it missing. Don't use 'save project', just copy the file as-is so no file paths get changed. Why not turn on windows/mac backups? both OS's have built in tools where you can roll back a file to any previous version from weeks or months ago. In fact use the network drive as the backup location that way you get local performance and the backups are all RAIDed up. Nothing stops you from having your external drive backed up. Its just a drive like any other. Set it to backup to your local machine or the NAS when connected, it can silently do this in the background. Here I run most projects from an external 4tb SSD, that drive backs up to a local 18tb hdd whilst connected. On top of this there's the backups via proliferation; ie. theres a copy of most stuff on the render master, theres a copy on the Raided NAS when projects are finished. Even without my own official backup, the data gets copied around so much that its always in multiple places.

They usually don't wait that long. For the past few cycles they've been pushing out new features (pyro, cloth, particles, scene nodes) in the most rudimentary form up front then building up as they go with each patch. I'm hoping it's not September for 1.0 baseline version of fluids. Looking at the past release notes, they seem to have a July release, then quiet until September. I'm interested in seeing what's in Houdini 21 to be honest. They've seemingly invested a lot in ML and it should be more prevalent in H21. I'd like to see more DCCs adopt it as well.

yes, maxon seems very excited and confident with this release to the point where they're willing to show sneak peaks. it's a very exciting release im looking forward to(although may not be able to upgrade straight away)... both fluids coming and a uv overhaul are already big ideas... i'm loving the overhauls especially. cinema4d killing it recently and i'm there for it. also, im loving using scene nodes and excited for improvements in that area as well...

It's funny you ask this, as I was under the same impression because years ago when I worked with C4D in an office environment it was no problem at all, but according to Maxon Support working on network drives was never and is not officially supported and not recommended! I opened a ticket with them because every single one of my scenes just 404ed every single texture I connected to the scene when pressing render, even though I could clearly see the previews on the nodes (so it found the files). This is what I got from them: I was caught off guard by this and basically asked them if they're fucking kidding me, to which they replied: So not only does it not work at my company, there is not even some kind of workaround they can give me a side from "change some settings on your NAS and hope it works lol". Because I'm a scatterbrain and I don't trust myself overwriting stuff with older stuff that I cannot recover because I have no backups, which already happened. Due to it being on the NAS though, IT could recover an older file from a week ago. Hehe, I'm good with IT, that's not the problem. They are just ridiculously overworked and don't have time to invest hours into something that would make ONE guys workflow easier in a company with 200+ employees. It's a medical company, so the amount of stuff that has to be tested / verified with new software is frankly absolutely ridiculous and takes a crazy amount of time. I do not like the thought of not having at least one separate backup of my data that is updated every day one bit. Data that is not backed up might as well not exist. I have learned this the hard way in the past.

In what way does c4d not support network drives? Lots of our projects run directly from a NAS and all of our render farm systems pull directly from a synology NAS. Never had a single problem especially not since the network load/save code got a huge speed bump a few years ago. Regarding the WFH bit, to be honest it really depends on the ratio of office vs home stuff. Here we have a variety of people 99% in the office and the odd day here or there from home. Some who do 50/50 and some who do 99% home with the odd office day; and we all do it differently. Those who are mostly in the office just pop some files on a drive to take home when they know they wont be in the next day. Those are are mostly at home do likewise, just stick some work on a usb stick and bring it with you. For the 50:50 guys, its largely remote desktop. chrome remote desktop is ok and simple and free. The best option though is parsec. Now I know IT have said no... but... sometimes IT just need to be worked around. A little system reinstall here to regain admin control, the odd gift sent to IT so they look the other way there... Regarding the NAS, why even bother? You said you're the only one doing 3D, so why not just keep absolutely everything local on your work desktop? Or just bite the bullet. Grab a 2/4TB external ssd and do everything from that. Then sticking it in your pocket for wherever you're working. I mean if youre happy with the network drive speed then youll probably also be happy with a simple spinning hdd; a 4tb external 2.5" drive is £110, or £220 to make it an ssd.

Hi everyone! I have a bit of an issue to solve. I've started my new job in a company with no 3D experience. Basically I am responsible for visualizing all the products and creating animations. As a consequence I had the difficult task ahead to create a pipeline and an environment within the restrictions given by IT to work in. This needs to work on my office workstation and my office notebook that I can take home to work remotely. At first I though hey, that's going to be easy, I'll just leave all the files and my asset library on a network drive, link that in the files and we're golden... but then I learned that C4D still doesn't support network drives. I have some VERY strong words for how ridiculous it is that a software like C4D doesn't support a simple network drive in 2025, but I will keep them to myself. Apparently they are working on it, but still. Currently I have the following setup: I have two folders on the network drive, called: active_projects This is where the projects I'm currently working on are libraries This is where my C4D settings / materials / etc. library is located. It also contains another subfolder with non-C4D-specific files like HDRIs and textures These two folders also exist on my workstation desktop on my C drive and this what I'm ACTUALLY working with, so I don't have the network drive issue and faster workflow, due to the C drive being an NVME drive an not a NAS. I have a script running on my workstation desktop (using Robocopy) that periodically copies changed files from these folders on my local C drive to the "mirror copies" of these folders on the NAS / network drive. This is basically just a backup and the only way to make these files available on my notebook. To make sure I am not overwriting new files on the NAS with old files from my notebook (since I don't use it very often) this script does NOT exist on my notebook. So what I have to do when I want to work at home is: Turn on the notebook Connect to the company network via VPN Copy all new files from the NAS (libraries AND active_projects) onto my notebook When done, copy all the changed files from my notebook back onto the NAS I am REALLY unhappy with this setup since its prone to mistakes and really unwieldy. Does anyone here have experience with a setup like this and can give me a pointer? Remoting into the workstation in the office is sadly not an option right now, as the only IT approved remote desktop software is WAY to low quality for 3D work and doesn't work with C4D at all really. If only C4D supported goddamn basic network drives...

That's fine too I guess. I really like that Maxon are now giving us a peek at upcoming features, and September will be here before we know it.

the post on instagram leads me to now believe the livestream tomorrow is not coinciding with the release at the same time... "Join us Wednesday at 7 am PST for an exciting livestream about the upcoming new features in Cinema 4D & Redshift "

It would be great to have such converter.

I hope that foam could be generated too. Water without foam looks like not water...

Jeez I thought they'd wait till September for fluids. Looks cool.

STREAMING ON JUNE 18TH AT 10AM (est)

You could use the VF to fracture your single Plane with the video texture... What kind of cones do you have ?

Could you circumvent the problem by just splitting the singular grid-video into separate image sequences?

I'm guessing standalone and included in Maxon One with new bells and whistles. No idea if it will still be called Autograph but the roadmap for those guys is now likely easier as they won't have to replicate anything that is already in Red Giant. The past couple of years too I was wondering how they could afford development, now they don't have to worry as much. Some of the dedicated nerds on Reddit are really swearing about this but I don't get the hate. We get to see new cool stuff in the future and that is a win. Not much more to say about it, so now we can all wait and see what happens.

@Michael McAfee Please attach the scene file and videos you have

Thank you so very much. Seems I may have resolved the matter by using version 10 which my boot sequence is required to be compatible with Redshift. Again, thank you for your kind words, you are the best!!!!! DDO

This seems simple in theory, but I'm struggling. Maybe someone has a simpler way of doing this -- Basically I have a video file that contains a grid of smaller individual videos. I need to take the individual squares from the video grid, and put those onto a grid of clones in Cinema 4D using Redshift. I've tried projecting the video file onto the clones, but the clones have a border, so it's not lining up correctly. I've also tried using Scalar User Data in the Redshift material, and using the Object ID Normalized attribute, which also isn't quite working. Perhaps because the grid isn't a perfect square? (It's 24x26). If anyone has achieved something similar, I'd be grateful for any insights or advice. Have spent the last 2 days trying to get this to work with no luck. Thanks!

Your listed version number is 2025.1.3. We are up on 2025.2.1 now, so that's the first thing to check. Then we could look at what video driver you have installed. And we could do with a couple of comparative screenshots as well, to check that what you are actually seeing matches the words you are using ! That wasn't meant to be as condescending as it sounds - it's just that a term like reverse perspective could mean a few possible things in 3D space, and we need to know exactly what you see so we have a fixed point to start investigations from ! Having said all that, I am not the person to assist with this, being one of those people who seems to be leaving the Win 11 upgrade to the last possible moment - I haven't done it yet. CBR

Once again, I am humbled to ask for help ... but, HELP, please! I am using Windows 11, recent upgrade from Windows 10 -- that is when this camera issue first appeared. I am using Redshift _C4D) and the standard camera is showing a reverse perspective from my scene??? I have googled the issue with little luck for my level of understanding ... at this time, anyway. Can someone of greater knowledge/experience please, please, help this lowly plebe navigate to a solution. Any help would be most greatly welcomed. Thank you in advance for tolerating such a noob question!

Thank you, ALL! This solved my issue and I am humbly grateful! DDO