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Dear members We are happy to announce brand new Youtube channel with focus on C4D node system. In our research we realized that training content for nodes is very sparse and lacking in quality and depth. We already have two lessons available which will be part of ongoing series. Humble request from our side is that, even if you are not into nodes, please subscribe in order that the channel grows which will enable us to monetize it down the road. On longer timeline this can enable us to reduce the subscription period or even remove it alltogether and open up forum for many more artists. https://www.youtube.com/@CORE4D Thank you and enjoy the content! P.S. Any member willing to contribute to the channel is more than welcome - drop us a message : )

If we added everything from the start you would have to wait months more. We delivered what we think is a great release that is very usable. Additional features will come.

The OM is arguably one of Cinema's greatest strengths, and its userbase are rather attached to it, not to mention, used to it, so I think it makes sense to introduce such a powerful new system via an innately familiar interface, and using its workflows and structures. I like having all the particle stuff there in the OM where I can always see it and (mostly) what it is doing without having extra windows floating about. That's not to say I couldn't also see it working in a nodal context, but I have to say I kinda like it where it is... CBR

Today I was fooling around in the new release and the possibilites are certainly mind-boggling. Here's a particle stream that drives a volume builder which is displaced at rendertime for super-fine detail. Nothing special, but it was super-fun to make... and it plays in the viewport in the 20-30 fps range, which is very fine 🙂

My guesses and expectations for the new particles: Good performance Properly embedded in the new universal simulation system Somewhat basic feature set at launch, but deepened in the next releases Natural behaviour (I hope for good presets/starting points) Easy, intuitive UI As for x-particles - in hindsight, it makes a lot of sense that they broadened their portfolio with Terraform, Taiao, Cycles, Meshtools, etc. Perhaps they knew or anticipated this move by Maxon. Yeah, well, it's quite obvious actually, as particles are so immensely useful. in comparison to my expectations above, i think of x-particles: Performance is mediocre at best, even with the GPU-Nexus-Acceleration It's somewhat isolated in C4D, interactivity is possible, but it often requires jumping through extra hoops It's packed with features, to the point where it's all too much. I kept learning and forgetting stuff at the same pace 😕. I guess it will take some years until C4D's new particles fully replace x-particles. But maybe it's a lot faster with a fresh new concept. We'll see soon 🙂 In my experience, it's a lot of work to make things behave natural. Just some rain with turbulence? It never feels quite right, I feel like I always have to fight that damn thing Watching Bob Walmsley's great tutorials make it look easy, but I keep getting lost in the tabs and sub-tabs of this plugin. It doesn't help that there is no translation for my native language available, which sucks at this price.

Paul established a US-based entity for Maxon, to serve North and South America and introduced Cinema 4D to The Americas in 1998, His initiatives included strategic partnerships with industry-leading production studios and design firms, along with orchestrating product bundles with Adobe After Effects and Apple Final Cut Pro. Paul's leadership and strategic planning played a pivotal role in Maxon's unprecedented growth. Today, Cinema 4D stands out as one of the fastest-growing and widely-used 3D products for digital content creation. He takes pride in being part of a team that facilitated the emergence of 3D in the motion graphics industry. In 2016, Paul was honored with the Studio Daily 50 award, recognizing influential creatives and technologists. Known for his creative energy, customer service advocacy, and support for training and education, Paul is often invited to speak at industry events, particularly on the subject of motion graphics. Describe yourself in a single word Enabler (the good kind 🙂 ) How did you get into C4D/ Maxon and 3D in general? In the early 90’s I got my first job in the 3D industry – marketing managerfor ElectricImage (a 3D animation product on Mac). This was in the early days of 3D. I was there for a few years (learned a lot about the industry, artists and studios). They were purchased by the company Play (wellknown for the Snappy). Play was formed by former marketing people from Newtek. I was pretty sure my position was redundant, so, I went back into freelance marketing. Maxon started out as one of those freelance jobs. Which area interests you most? Facilitating, inspiring, motivating and helping creatives be successful in achieving their vision. What other apps are you using and what for? I assume this question is more geared towards artists. How about I tell you one of the things I find really interesting out there? I think Rive (https://rive.app/) is an extremely innovative and unique new offering and a significant breakthrough in the creation of real time vector graphics. At its core, Rive is a new graphics format. Rive graphics are not just static; they can be animated, interactive, and functional. The format and its players are open source so designers can create interactive content forproducts, apps, websites, and games - and Rive runs anywhere (web,iOS, Android, Windows, Unreal, Unity, C++, etc.). A huge advantage is how greatly it speeds up workflow by reducing designer-developer handoff. Which learning resources you used and would recommend? This forum of course, Cineversity, of course! School of Motion, Linkedin Learning, and YouTube/Google searches for anything useful. Do you think talent is overrated and can be offset with a lot of hard work? I’ve always felt there were two types of 3D animators and digital artists ingeneral - those who are naturally artistic and less technical, and those who are more technical with less artistic background. We used to call it right and left brained, (but I’ve recently read some scientists call that a fallacy). And there are those amazing exceptions – the people who seem to have both artistic “talent” and an innate understanding of technology. Talent is an intrinsic skill (as in something that comes natural to you). But it is a skill. So yes, I do think those not born with it can develop artistic sensibility. Your best advice for newcomers, tip or trick to pick up regarding marketing and industry? Create. Even with talent, nothing comes without practice and execution. Create what you love, what inspires you. Be inspired by others. Inspire others. Thoughts on AI? Artists worrying about how AI is going to affect the industry and their careers is completely understandable. But it cannot be ignored. It’s here and it’s not going away. The best thing to do is figure out how it canultimately serve and empower you. Part of being a creative professional is adapting to what is thrown at you, whether it be a client’s desires or technology advancements. Top 3 wishes for C4D a. That it will continue to humbly serve the artistic community. b. That it will continue to innovate and impact the industry. c. That it will be remembered as having a positive impact on the industry and secure a place in design history. Message for Core4D Stay positive, stay passionate and keep the community spirit. Tell us something we could not possibly know about you but you find important or funny : ) In my early 20’s I was an actor. I did mostly stage musicals, but I did doone film. I was a pirate in the movie Hook. I was also in the Hook Coke commercial – like everything else it can still be found on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUIAPbXevaA For fun, I still perform in a band with my buddy and my daughter https://thelaurelcanyonband.com/ Plans after a long journey with Maxon? Clear my head, look out into the horizon of the industry and get a good idea of what’s happening in the industry and where it’s going. Hopefully, I will find something where I can focus my passion and energy. Yes, I am actually looking for a job (it’s been rumored I am retiring – no way!! I have too much energy left.) – hopefully, it will besomewhere in the industry. This industry is my family. Also, some exciting news. This week I've accepted an invitation to be an Advisor for the team at Rive. It’s not a job. I took an advisory position for a product I think has a tremendous amount of potential in the interactive design industry. I encourage everyone to check it out. Really innovative and fun. If people want to contact you https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbabb/

It really isn't a port of any kind, it is a new development from the ground up and any similarities to TP are simply due to it being a particle system as well.

It is true that you can't drive the creation of particles with map, shader or noise yet. But there are two workarounds. You can either drive a polygon selection with map/shaders/noise and use that to restrict the emission, or you can emit evenly and instantly kill particles based on a map/shader/noise. Here is an example. The shader field drives a vertex color tag which is then used to set the particle colors on emission. Particles are emitted into a first group where there color is checked. If the it is below a certain value the particle is killed right away, if not it is moved to a permanent group where it will happily continue it's particle life. In case you wondering where the animation is coming from, that's set in the Shader Field with the remapping graph to cycle through different grey values of the texture. This is not the most efficient way as the buffers need to be cleaned up more frequently than needed, but you can achieve the intended effect. kill_by_map.c4d

I only watched Chris‘ video about particles so far... my first impression is really good! It's elegantly designed: a limited set of building blocks, but with endless possibilities. I love the shared use of forces, fields, vertex maps, it's so powerful and versatile. And I applaud the simple, visual setup in the object manager. Very well done! 🙂

It's a wonderful release, adding a boatload of functionality to simulation and a solid first step to bringing our particles up to date, and fully integrated with other simulation components - as Chris was at pains to point out the possibilities now are mind-boggling ! I think a lot of people will be very happy with this release, except possibly the guys who make X-Particles; it will be interesting to see where they pivot next. Of course all the attention is rightly focused mainly on the particles, but I was pleased that there have been good updates in other areas, a few of my own suggestions have been added to modelling functionality, and RS got a lot of love and improvements, not least being the toon shader stuff. The new Connectors functionality and workflows are so much easier to work with than the old system, so that is very welcome too. So all in all, I am loving this release... CBR

Yes it is coming

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/maxon-updates

FFS, read what I said. I said that I didn't see the need for Maxon to focus on developing one themselves, and it's not high on the list of stuff Maxon needs to tidy up in C4D, as there are so many areas of C4D that have been left in the cupboard for years. We all know what they are. So I don't think Maxon needs to develop their own real-time renderer like Unreal has. There's a perfectly good real-time renderer available to everyone which I gather is getting a lot of traction and use in the film industry. It's called Unreal Engine and Maxon have a whole page up mentioning how they're continuing to improve C4D's integration with it. https://www.maxon.net/en/cinema-4d/features/unreal-integration I think I'd rather Maxon keep developing C4D, and also keep improving their integration with Unreal Engine, rather than spending their development resources trying to create a separate real-time renderer that competes with Unreal Engine. If I get really keen on real time rendering I'll probably (a) make sure I have a rig that can handle Unreal Engine, and then (b) spend time learning Unreal Engine, plus whatever integration methods work best with C4D (after I resub) rather than waiting around hoping that Maxon will develop their own real-time renderer designed to compete with whatever the Unreal Engine development budget has come up with. Unreal Engine is great and it will keep getting greater in 2025, 2026 and 2027. Meanwhile C4D's character rigging could use improvement, C4D can't do fluids yet, and C4D's Bodypaint is older than some of the women I see in Melbourne pushing around kids in baby strollers. So I think Maxon should probably sort a few of those issues out first before they try to develop a brand new real-time renderer designed to compete with Unreal Engine's place in the film production market.

the problem with real time rendering is that it will never match what unreal engine does. not because c4d isnt capable of doing such thing, it’s just that DCCs arent built the way game engines are built. the reason why unreal engine is so fast is because of the amount of viewport optimizatios it does to get rendering at that speed. these optimizations wouldnt work for a DCC, where accurate data is needed. for example, unreal, just like almost every other game engine of old, does insane amounts of LOD optimizations, eliminating alot of geometry data for performance gains. mesh shading is another use of this… combine with a bunch of other optimizations in the viewport and other areas, unreal can get those speeds. but these types of optimizations dont work well for any DCC because loss of data is not a good thing for a program where data is needed to operate on for modeling/animation/simulations. game engines are always built to look ‘good enough’. DCCs are built to look accurate. therefore, c4d cant truly compete with the real time market. its not its purpose and a market thats not really needed imo… techincally, if maxon wanted, they could make c4d into unreal more than any other DCC. it has directx12. and directx12 supports mesh shading… c4d also has multi instancing, which unreal uses a similar tech to make high geo environments… the tech is there, but the purpose is not…

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That can be done with a shader field in the vertex color tag. No need for Scene Nodes. But: You can do some cool scene node setups when it comes to scattering initial spawn locations for the particles and crafting your own velocities and such.

You can create a Vertex Color Tag from a texture using scene nodes. The Vertex Color Tag can then be used to control particles in whatever way you want. Image 2 Vertex Colors_0003.c4d It's quicker if you can do without UVs though Position 2 Vertex Colors 01.c4d

I wonder how many of the new particle features were inspired from my suggestions to Maxon... But watching so many long-expected mechanics to finally get implemented can only make my eyes water...

Ah, finally found it, had to offset the hand and position it a bit better, zero out everything and use the mirror tool. Don't forget to turn of skinning and resetting binding pose for the clone. It all works now.

Maxon just like Autodesk (mudbox and sculpting beta inside Maya) conceded defeat of specific feature sets to outside devs like Substance Painter, Mari, Zbrush and 3D Coat who had better performance and a growing user base. Blender is the only developer actively pushing sculpting and texture painting in its app and from what I've seen many pros people still prefer Zbrush and Painter. The difference is, Blender isn't beholden to shareholders or worried about trying to turn a profit so it can keep developing toolsets that people may not even use, like their editor.

While that's certainly true for the old stuff, they continually improved new tech over the last releases. Like Fields, Nodes, Universal Simulation, Pyro...

Maxon does not have a good track record of continuing the development of any new feature of C4D. So whatever we get in the new version will probably be what we will have for the next 10 or 20 years. See Sculpting, BodyPaint3D, Xpresso, etc...

Here is a nice setup I spent too much time on - Lorenz attractor! There is some fancy math inside and controls are available. If you want more performance turn the capsule into spline one without geometry and vertex color generation 210_Lorenz.c4d

AHA ! I knew I could crack your NDA with erroneous unfounded assumptions ! (kidding) There you have it people, it's a new shiny system 😆

Yeah. No offence but Tbh a real-time renderer is the last thing I'm personally thinking of when I consider the fat list of stuff Maxon need to fix, tidy up, add or redo with C4D to sort out the years of inattention certain areas of the program have suffered from. But they're clearly on the way finally.

I didn't even began to try breaking the next NDA and you've already spilled the beans ! (kidding) Liquid sims for September's release everyone !!! hahhaahahaahahaha ok, enough... Personally I'm good without the liquid sims because with particles and volume displacement I can now fake visualizations like these:

*cough* liquid sim ?? That's one big area we are still 'missing'... CBR

This is an awesome release and I'll be re-subbing after the September release comes out.

Try implementing it. And make sure it runs on CPU, GPU (not just on NVIDIA), ARM processors, all operating system, correctly deals with ACEs,...

we use a spline field under a force field for that. I expect emitting from textures will come in the next release. for now I think this is doable via Thinking Particles. You can inherit color from a texture to particles, just not part of textures. Just pass the texture to a vertex color map via fields.

This latest Particle addition is a welcomed update. Pretty sure Maxon have probably been working on this for a while , I applaud them for their persistent and hard work. The particle capabilities are very thorough. Though after watching Chris Schmidt's 4hr preview, I noticed a few important aspects were 'missing' so to speak. Maybe I missed them or maybe the functionality is there but not as obvious as it is in X-particles for example. One aspect was the ability to emit from a texture, this is something I'd imagine is easy to implement and also something I use a lot. Very surprised this functionality isn't there from the start. Secondly was the ability for particles to follow a 'flow path'. I'm amazed this wasn't included and I do hope that this functionality will be available in a recent update. While I will use the new particle system wherever I can, I don't think I'll give up on X-particles just yet unfortunately.

it is completely possible to build ur own particle system using scene nodes. however, this current particle system is built to work with the unified simulation system that cinema4d has built. this allows the particles to interact with cloth, pyro, rigid and soft bodies. these use a system known as position based dynamics, which if it were a node, would have everything connected to it. bifrost in maya has a node that does pbd. right now the philosophy of cinema4d is to provide the intuitive tools in the object manager, and allow for more custom systems built by technical artists in scene nodes. c4d users are used to object manager so it is still valuable for alot of these things to be implemented in object manager. but if the user requires more advanced setup, scene nodes is available and works really well with the overall c4d architecture.

just finished watching the 4 hour vid by chris. just amazing! congratulations devs and thank you for this amazing release! keep it up maxon!

SOM too:

That looks like a splendid release! Particles! Volumes! Toon Shader! I hope Chris Schmidt will make another one of his in-depth-videos for this one.

Maxon feature iterates these days with releases due to subscription. Cloth, Sim, Pyro etc all where updated after release frequently over 2-4 releases.

This post is a list to contain all plugins I've encountered across the web. I will be updating this post regularly so keep visiting it every month or so... I will only provide links to the plugins/scripts, not the plugins/scripts themselves unless the author gives permission. You can p.m. me to add things to make the list grow faster. Scripts : Gabriel Smetzer Callout Rig Bounding Box Vidar Nelson Fake Diffusion Limited Aggregation Effector (R16-R19, Read comment for R20-2023) Lightning Generator (R19-2023) Frank Willeke/fwilleke80/C4D-Jack Oscillator FlockModifier TrainDriver 1.2.1 (R20 - R23) PointProjector 1.4.4 (R20-R23) SplineDataVisualizer (R20) GearBuilder (R16,R18) SceneDocumentor (R16) CanStack (R18) RotaryKnob CustomGUI (R18) SwitchObject (R18) Sidewalk (R18) Maksim Bitiukov Ihor Dmytrenko Quick Copy Paste (R24-Present) iDTools (R22-Present) Free Plugins : fwilleke80 PointProjector(R20) SwitchObject (R18) RotaryKnob 0.4 (R18) SplineDataVisualizer (R18) Oscillator (R23, S24) SceneDocumentor(18) GearBuilder (R16) TrainDriver(R20 - R23) FlockModifier(R23,S24) Valkaari Py-Timer (R12-R13) Easy Light (R13-R16) hot4D (R14-R21) Spider Web (R15-R18) Uniform Resizer (R16-R21) Safina NES EMULATION Torus Knot (R20-2024) L - OBJECT (R20-2024) SELECTIONS TO OBJECTS (R20) OBJECT SWITCHER (R21-2023) RANDOM COLOR (R20-R23) ZARABIC (R14-R23) FLAPPYBIRD (R19-R21) SNAKE (R19-R21) SPACE SHOOTER (R19-R21) TETRIS (R19-R21) Lasse Clausen Import Adobe Color CC Swatches (R18) PickFocusDistance (R18) Toggle Deformer, Effectors & Forces (R18) Instance Renamer (R18) C4D_Renamer-Pack (R18) Add Null to Selection (R18) Group Objects / PSR-Zero (R18) Transfer all Objects to last selected (R18) A_Simple-Spline (R18) Delete All Tracks (R18) Toggle Visibility of selected Objects (R18) Welters Site All are compatible up to R25 with Insidiums' Bridge UVtoObject CopyPastePolys Smooth Point Collapse Tool Transform Duplicate Object Noise Deformer SplineConnector SplineNoiseDeformer UV Deformer Atmosphere Shader Cellular Shader Extended Starfield ThingsOnSurface Shader Time Shift Simple Colormap Vidar Nelson Color4D (R15) Softbox shader (R14) Ola Sikström Ocean Wave Effector (R13) Microbion About Object (R19 - R2023, S22 not compatible) ArrowMaker (R19 - R2023, S22 not compatible) ChemLoader (R26, 2023) LightShade (R23 - R2023, S22 not compatible) Mirror, Mirror (R14-2023, S22 not compatible) Nudge-It (R19 - R2023, S22 not compatible) Plotter3D (R23-2023) Quick Render (R16-2023, S22 not compatible) sIBL Loader (R26, 2023) AutoRename (R14-R19) DarkTree simbiont (R14-R21) Insydium INSYDIUM Bridge (R20-S26) Cactus Dan's CD Tools (R14-S24) Curious Animal Cluster Effector (R15-R21) Difference Map (R15-R21) Super Source Falloff (R15-R19) Boole Falloff (R15-R19) Noise Falloff (R15-R19) Grid (R14-R19) Membrane Deformer (R15-R21) Rebend (R15-R21) Motion Stretch (R15-R21) Seam (R15-R21) Expand (R15-R21) Poly Edge Spline (R15-R21) Populate (R15-R21) Shadow Falloff (R15-R19) Spline Faoff (R15-R19) Snap Deformer (R15-R21) Impact (R15-R19) Sphere Wrap (R15-R19) Scroll Roll (R15-R19) Twirl deformer (R15-R19) Velocity Effector (R15-R21) Robert Hitzer InstanceMan (R18-2023) Eggtion egg object . 2.1(R20-Present) AL'EM . py 1.2 (R20-Present) roll it (R20-Present) Code Vonc Selections (R22-R23) Utils Deform (R22-R23) Tools (R22-R23) SVG Import (R22-S24) Proc3Durale (R18-R25) Point deformer (R20-Present) Gélatine (S22-R25) Spline Guide (S22-R25) Subdivision inverse (S22-R25) Aturtur CAMERA FRUSTUM OBJECT (R21-2023) SHOW INDICES GENERATOR (R21-2023) MIRROR GENERATOR (R21-2023) WIRES GENERATOR (R21-2023) RANDOM INDEX EFFECTOR (R21-2023) TEXT ANIMATOR (R21-2023) NODE TOOLS (R21-2023) COLOR DELAY EFFECTOR (R21-2023) SEPARATOR NULL (R21-2023) SELECTOR FIELD (R21, 2023) ALIGN OBJECT TO PLA POLYGON (R21-2023) AUTO ADD EFFECTORS TO GENERATOR (R21-2023) CINEMA 4D LOG VIEWER (BETA) MOGRAPH TO SPLINE DATA (2023) FIXED RANDOM PSR EFFECTOR (2023) QUANTIZE PSR EFFECTOR (2023) Master Slider 2 (2023) CUSTOM COLOR EFFECTOR (2023) FADE CLONES EFFECTOR (2023) INHERITANCE PYTHON TAG (2023) ZERO SCALE FIX EFFECTOR (2023) MIX GRADIENTS (2023) CINEMA 4D SPLINES TO AFTER EFFECTS MASKS (R19-R20) CONNECT X-PARTICLES EMITTERS (2023) TURBULENCE FD DIRECTION TOOL (2023) DELETE EFFECTOR (2023) COLORISE PLUG-IN (R20-2023) PILE UP EFFECTOR (2023) TAKE CONTROL EFFECTOR (2023) IMPORT AND PLAY OBJ SEQUENCES (2023) FOLDERLINK (2023) DISTRIBUTED SLICES WITH VORONOI FRACTURE (R23) DATA FROM PROCESSING TO CINEMA 4D (R21) BPM IN XPRESSO (R19) VERTEX MAPS AND PYTHON TAG (R19) DATA FROM MOGRAPH TO X-PARTICLES (2023) CONNECT SPHERES (2023) SOUNDFLOP – A MISSING PIECE OF THE SOUND EFFECTOR (2023) CLONE OFFSET WITH A PYTHON EFFECTOR (2023) X-PARTICLES COLORS TO OCTANE RENDER (2023) TURBULENCEFD (2023) Aturtur's Cinema 4D Scripts (R25-Present) kaktak Drop To Floor (R25-Present) Chain Effector (R25-Present) Organic Effector (R25-Present) MoTracer (R20-Present) Kengo Ito Motion Manager for Cinema 4D (S24-Present) mikeudin Advanced Instance (R12-R25) Duplicate with Materials (R12-2023) FastPinNulls (R16-R23) Images To Planes Importer (R16-R23) Import Colors Script (R20-R24) Merge Objects Script (R12-R21) Multi Spline Mask (R14-R21) Open Folder (R12-R23) Sequence tracks (R12-R20) Shuffler (R12-R23) Spline Flow (R12-R25) Step Offset (R12-R23) Commercial Plugins : Insydium X-Particles (R19-Present) NeXus (R19-Present) Taiao (R19-Present) TerraformFX (R19-Present) MeshTools (R19-Present) Cycles 4D (R19-Present) Code Vonc UV Projector (S22-R25) Unfolder (S22-R25) Alvéole (S22-R25) Influence Point (S22-R25) TexTerrain (S22-R25) kaktak CopyPoints (R25-Present) Legacy Bundle (R21-2023) MoConnections (R20-R26) Kengo Ito Gemgen (R23-2023) Matthäus Niedoba Spline from Edge (R19-Present) Spline Outline (R19-Present) Spline Chamfer (R19-Present) Selection to Object (R19-Present) Aturtur HAWKEYE (R25-2023) Redshift Proxy Exporter (R21-2023.2) VARIABLE TOKENS (R21-2023) florenoir Building Generator (R24-2023) CityBuilder Pro (R21) CameraRIG (R21-2023) RetroRIG 1.0 (R21-2023) CITY RIG 1.9 (2023) MANTIS (R20) mikeudin File Sequence Exporter (R17-2023) Batch Processor (R18-2023) Custom Buttons (R17-2023) PolyDivider (R20-R25) Target 4D (R17-2023) UV Colorizer (R14-S26) Terrain Builder (R17-S26) Fast Spline Connector (R17-2023) Flash Buffer (R17-S26) TakeMatPass (R17-2023) Valkaari Delta Mush (R20-R21) Prizrak_KD Terrain Builder Cinema 3 (R23-2023) 3dtools / Merk Plugins TILE-PRO GEO|Projector Spline|UV Mapper Rhino.IO Tile3d Soft|Patch v2.0 C4D Material Filter SnapShot INTERIOR|Mapper Topoformer 2.0 TopoFormer 1.1 (R15-R22) Trypogen 2.0 (R23-2023) Respline 1.3 (R23-2023) Poly Greeble 1.3 (R15-2023) Topowire 1.3 Toporizer 1.4 (R19-2023) Symex 1.3 (R15-2023) Snap To Floor 1.5 (R15-2023) Line Object 1.5 (R15-2023) Snowgen 1.0 (R20-2023) Trypo Lite Paracloth Cosmegen Differential Growth Fractal Polypedia RedShift OSL: RedshiftOSLShaders

thanks geoblob We found the culrpit in software we use. Audio is much louder now, yet the intro sound got boosted as well. Next video will have all leveled properly : )

https://x.com/MaxonVFX/status/1775232003094253643?s=20

Well we made it boys! C4D on the cover of 3D world magazine ! Was commissioned back in January to create a character for the cover , and an article with an over view of the modelling process. Brief was -Disco Astro naught, so I went with it, was changed quite a bit over the length of the process but quite happy how it ended up. This marks a significant miles stone for me as an artist, definitely something cool about seeing your work published!

: D You are seriously overestimating my capabilities. I found some pieces of obscure math paper and managed to convert it into nodes.

Someone get the Maxon guys drunk immediately, if one of them is spilling the beans, it shouldn't be hard to get the others to crack. Something new is coming and it's got particles in it somewhere! Hang on, I think we figured this out a couple of pages ago.

.max for a modern 3ds max file. .3ds is ancient. Its limited to 16,000 polys per model, 8 character long file names etc

Have you tried using the Collider Deformer ?

Well, you won't believe this. When trying some of the ideas you suggested, I got the spinning wheel of death. Might have come out of it, but after 5 min., I forced-quit. Now, I still had r19 open. Many models sold online are build with Max and provided in a couple of formats such as r11. I have r19 so I can open and save a scene to open in newer versions. Anyway, I thought, what the hell. I opened the same scene in r19. Broken textures as expected. I brought up the old Texture Manager, which for me anyway, used to be super slow to load fully. It loaded instantly and I tried Relink Assets and BOOM! It fixed all the links properly in 3 seconds. I reopened the scene in r25 and all is well. I have my workaround, but not explanation as to why the scene cannot be fixed in r25.

This is a very unwise move and it will kill Cinema 4D in the long run. No students = no future users. Cinema 4D is already dead in a lot of Universities and Colleges in the US. The absurd price and all the shenanigans with the student license made it a non-starter for most schools. Although this price hike won't change much the situation, because what happened last semester (Maxon canceling the student licenses MID SEMESTER!!!) already killed any good will schools had with the software. This is just the nail in the coffin. Keep in mind that Blender is not the competition here. Even though most of my students come to my classes (I teach around a hundred students per semester in a high ranked Animation program in the US) with Blender experience they are really interested in learning the industry standard software. And Maya student licenses are free and super easy to get. And after graduating they will have Maya Indie for U$305 bucks only. Meanwhile, Cinema4D charges a stupid high price for the student license, takes forever to get said license and has no indie version for former students. Considering this, Cinema4D is simply not an option anymore. Unfortunately, I understand why @DMcGavranis doing this. Even though this will kill Cinema4D in the long run, schools and students will keep paying for the Maxon One Student licenses not because Cinema4D but because Zbrush and, in some cases, Redshift. Zbrush is really the 3D cash-cow for Maxon now. Zbrush simply has no competition in the industry. 3D schools are hostage of Maxon in this case. And Redshift is the choice of schools without big budgets (like State schools) who need a faster renderer for students using Maya. It's cheaper to use Redshift than buying more powerful desktops or building a renderfarm for Arnold. And Octane's (the only other option) implementation in Maya sucks, while Redshift is super well integrated. Anyway, in the end I just feel really sad because Cinema4D is my favorite 3D software. It's pretty sad to see it going the way of Lightwave 3D.

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I found the solution with a little help from GPT-4 and some experimenting. Here is the solution for anyone searching for it in the future: An Xpresso setup that takes the rotation of a Null -> Dividing by 3 -> Floor-Formula -> Multiplying by 3 -> Output to the rotation of my Second_Hand