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Best wishes everyone. Let's keep having fun with 3D, and with life as well.

What to say...Thanks for nice memories and helpful people. I learned a lot from this place. Our journey is at the end, but this mean another one should start. Bye friends.

Toodles peeps! Have really enjoyed being a part of Core4D and it's predecessor C4D Cafe. Hope to meet some of you elsewhere on the web! Au revoir!

Good Bye All! Thanks for the memories! Good Luck to you endeavours!

Goodbye all and I wish you all the best in your creative journey. But no matter where that journey takes you, I only hope that our paths cross again! Dave For some reason, the Douglas Adams reference just felt right...not sure why.

agreed. everyone else here did it for the passion/love of a software and company which has long since transformed. Just like Lightwave, however, it's still embedded somewhere in our hearts.

wait what? I think all of us who are still here have helped pay what we could for this site over the years. In return Core was developing training and small plugins to help those of us who were contributors to this site. We didn't ask for free shit. We didn't expect it. All of us were surprised and thankful for their effort to expand the site to include these extras. It's stated in this thread that Core would be shut down October 1st. We didn't expect things to start disappearing well before tomorrow's deadline. Sure we have questions and we don't like how this is happening, and the fact it's happening at all. You're gaslighting all of us with some self-righteous rant?, and saying we're acting like Maxon? Thanks for insulting all of us who had questions and comments about this site as it closes for ever. Fucking ridiculous bs. Good luck everyone else.. see you on other sites.

Funny timing to finish with.

Thanks for your reply, Unfortunately this is not a specific issue, it is a systemic issue. I expect Maxon has received hundreds of messages about errors in takes. I am asking if there is a problem with our understanding of the TAKE system, or if there are specific settings for the system to work properly, or if there is an alternative of this system, or is everyone suffering in silence with these massive bugs?

Deleting long rant. I think the only people who made money out of this venture were the folks running the website hosting company, who made out like bandits.

Is this true? I always thought that Maya and Max were the most expensive apps on the market? And I agree it does seem strange that Maxon don’t have a forum… It would only help the software surely?

People, you are complaining about this and exhibit same behavior as maxon. you want forum to exists, cater to your needs, tutorials to be made, files to be available but you expect the guys behind it to work for free. they opt to close it since they can't make it and are struggling and we judge them for looking to make a living with their skill set. i did a generous donation a year ago and know for a fact who did so as well and without @Hrvoje@kingcoma and some other people who made substantial donations thios place would be long gone

Fair points. There have been comments that people don't like forums anymore, but the SideFX and Blender forums are big, healthy and thriving, especially (obviously) the latter. Though different people are obviously involved, I can't help but note that the trend is the same - all these approaches of pricing the app high, paywalling the forum, removing the scene nodes help files, Maxon having no official forum, and so on and so on, are exercises in starving the beast and smacking the hand of the users. All three of the cited apps, Houdini / C4D / Blender, have elements that require the users to make excuses for the apps shortcomings or accept apologies and explanations for where things disappoint or fall short. We know the grass is not 100% greener anywhere and the discussions have been long covered. But all this combined with the empty 2026 release does provide a good moment to take a breath and take stock. Possibly full Scene Nodes training will roll out sometime around the 10th anniversary of when they first introduced it. Not to end things on a downer but I'm reminded again there is a simple fix for users and it involves the temporary pain point of reorienting yourself and your muscle memory in front of a new app and going from there.

It was the best and only one place to learn advanced node based stuff. There are only few advanced YT videos that I found. Pretty sad that Maxon doesn't have its own official forum. Really only one company without forum on the whole world.

Pretty sad note to end on imo, just another smack in the face to the community that’s kept this going for all these years. Hope to see some Of you over on happy polygons discord server, or my own. We can always look for an alternative place to hang out from there. I’m out

All attachments from thread are gone. I wanted to make copy of this great useful knowledge here at the end of this month but I see that they all gone before month over.

Yeah I had half hoped we'd get the traditional week or two discussion about the latest C4D release, but the barely there C4D 2026 edition put paid to that as there was nothing in it to discuss. Putting the site behind a paywall and then the training and files behind a paywall to help people who are already shelling out for one of the priciest 3D apps in the industry does feel like doubling down on something not great, but it is what it is I suppose. I'll check out Vozzz's forum but he better put up a joint Houdini / Blender page in it somewhere. Good luck everyone.

so everything created here is now going to be behind a new paywall, such as your short youtube vids and small plugins? shaking head in disbelief… wow. it looks like downloads from threads are even disabled.. at least for me they are. alright i”m out.

Hello We opted to remove that as well since providing such level of knowledge, especially in technical areas of C4D was valid and made sense with the forum generating enough profit to cover expenses. We will rather focus our technical know-how into producing paid trainings and assets from now on. We made every possible effort we could to keep things free, accessible and shared massive amounts of knowledge but we, as everyone else, have to pay our bills.

Just before the forum closes I have one last post! I have been dabbling with Blender and am comparing render times of my PC against my Mac. For this I wanted to use the Junkshop scene (which I have) and the Monster and Classroom scenes which I don't have. I have looked but cannot seem to find them. Is there a way of extracting them from the benchmark software perhaps or if anyone can point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance 🙂

Why is the entire Core4D YouTube channel content delisted? Does it hurt to leave it up? Those are still helpful tutorials, even if the site doesn't exist anymore.

I have a likely simple question but it's driving me crazy. I have a vertex map applied to vertex attribute node and I'm using it as a mask in a material blender, but I can't get this material to show up. Any ideas? Vertex_Map_For_Textures.c4d

My apologies for the tonedeaf post. I value this community and as a long-time member and participant, both professionaly and personally, I too grieve the loss.

Maybe not the best idea to hide a forum behind a paywall? I would never access a new forum that demands me to pay first. I did it here because I know it and been here for years. If I was new I would immediately quit the site on paywall feature access request

I get what Donovan is trying to do but it's a bit like the fire department handing out customer service surveys after the building has burned down because they were having doughnuts next door. Shrug.