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I don't understand where MAXON is going. A lot of very basic things are not working, but instead of fixing it MAXON is presenting more advanced systems like nodes. And they don't work either. I doubt that Scene Nodes will change anything. What else to expect? Complete overhaul of rigging? Nah it won't happen. Integrated post-production with RedGiant plugins? Nope. Redshift integration? LoL. Painting, PBR, Sculpting? Nope, no and no again. "We are working on Core" so don't forget to buy another 1k license.

I ll be very honest only reason i upgraded from R20 to R23 is cause I have files from other people while freelancing. As a studio, we were not intending to. R21/s22 and R23 have next to 0 new features. Unless c4d turned into blender... and suddenly "bevels" is considered a new feature, or "unwrap" and "mixamo rigs".Also the idea of "looks" in the viewport, is... I will mention here the silent abandonment of ProRender. Clearly there isnt a solid plan last few years. Feels like c4d is not addressing to professionals anymore but tries to reach a much broader audience (business wise makes total sense). Same time, the price tag is definitely for people that earn and not for hobbyists or people that are just starting out. Therefore I expect MUCH MORE than a bevel improvement, sorry MAXON. Concluding, I dont understand the S22, R23 indexing in versions, while it should be R22. We are not going faster by adding numbers. It felt like a marketing trick. Same with scene nodes: since they are far from ready and they gonna change and they gonna be back end as well, keep em hidden and announce em due time. It reminds me of Octane where it comes with bells and whistles and years later the features are not even there. As c4d turned my cg carrier around in an extreme good way, I must admit now that it has brought me into a halt. Unfortunately, I am not that technical to jump into houdini, and same time c4d limits its own capabilities in the last 2 versions. IMO, c4d is not a modelling software, nor a char animation one. Its main thing is mograph and why people choose it over other ones. And its main competitor is houdini and not maya or max. I am not the person that speaks in public about software issues or requests, i just take things as they are and try to do my best with what I have. And I am extremely grateful for my switch from max to c4d 3-4 years ago. But, truth be told, I am pessimistic as well about the future of c4d 🙂 Cheers!

Wow, people are really pessimistic here. As a person who uses C4D a lot for character animation, I must say that I was really amazed by the improvements of R23, I had no hope whatsoever that any improvement would come to that in the software, but it actually happened. I feel that the combined features of S22 and R23 felt generally much more worthy as an update than say R21. So I am currently very excited to see what's coming next. Personally I would agree that a real animation layer system without any motion tags would be absolutely great to have, with procedural animation layers like noise etc, so that is number one on my wishlist. Number two would be a search function in the material manager

Hi Willem Good to see you again here. We already talked together on the Redshift forum and now I just found your possible solution here. Strange thing was that after talking to you in the other forum, my problems got worse again, means, more crashes and when it crashes, again like at the beginning, I had to wait up to 3 minutes to be able to open task manager and close C4D because my system was completely frozen. So, now I have new hope, I will try your solution and it hopefully helps as I soon have to start with the animation for my master project and I can't work well with the situation now. I'll let you know if it works... Just one question. Do you have Wacom drivers installed? Because in some posts I they write that also the Wacom drivers could cause the constant crashes... Do you have any experience regarding that? Thanks a lot for your research and for sharing your solution here!

Few days ago he post on twitter post about heart simulation... https://twitter.com/nitro4d But personally I have not problem wtih my account on his website. Everything work just fine...