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@AlexisB yeah, the prices for helmet mounts are ridiculous!! I have no idea why - I guess because there just isn't very much demand and it's super specialized? the chest mount we sell can work, and some people love it - but personally I would recommend just ziptie-ing a selfie stick to a bike helmet hahaha - no joke, it's what I personally do and it works the best for me. I go over what I do in this video here: oh dearie the embedded video is VERY LARGE i DON'T KNOW WHY in terms of clean up, I cover ONE way to do that in C4D in this video (i'll put it below so the massive embed is down there). there are a bunch of different ways to do clean up - the honest truth is that usually, even for large volume mocap that they do for marvel movies and stuff, there is always clean up, just the nature of mocap. you can get good raw data from our suit, and I don't do clean up often, but it depends on what you need exactly - need to scratch your character's chin? oh yeah, that's some clean up. need to just do a little dance for an insta video? usually good just raw and no clean up. just depends. this is my preferred method for clean up in c4d using the take system, but again, like all things cg, there are a million ways to do it in the end. and yeah, the bookings with our team can be a bit long, we're trying to hire up and so there should be more slots available soooonish. hope this helps - imo, our suit is the absolute best at the price point, but there are limitations and you just have to play within the sandbox and know those limitations to get the best results - it definitely isn't perfect. good luck!!! edit** also! if you get any inertial mocap system that works over wifi - get a dedicated wifi router! key to have a router in the same room that you're doing mocap that isn't connected to the internet so that a. no one is streaming 4k videos while you're trying to use the bandwidth for mocap and b. there aren't walls in between your router and suit. just works better. makes it tricky if you want to be livestreaming to the internet simultaneously, but that's how you get the best results

I just finished a Redshift-Ocean-shader, that might work well your plugins (and xpOcean): Redshift OceanShader - Materials - Core 4D Community

Thank you

looks awesome... with all those additions lately xp is starting to look pretty attractive again.... might re-activate my maintenance again.

oookay, now the sneak peeks officially have arrived in "whoa"-country: INSYDIUM LTD | Coming Soon The xpBullet-Preview looks really nice! Of course, performance is key with a feature like this, so let's hope that the hype-finale will be "GPU everything!" All in all, the sum of the sneek peaks already amounts to quite an impressive update.

you need to scale the elbow/knee controllers and advanced bend controls in local z (object mode, don‘t use model mode to scale anything in a rig)) to get the tangents for the bends, then you rotate for the angle... don‘t unlock the positions for the advanced bend controls , there‘s a reason i‘ve locked them 😉 i recommend watching the tutorials to save you trouble like this.

Hello; I finally finished work on a new plugin to support symmetry, which can be purchased here (currently Windows only): https://gumroad.com/l/colliesymmetryhelper Q&A... Why did you feel the need to write it? -- Constructing a symmetrical object is easy enough with a symmetry object. However, once you intend to weight, rig, and texture the object, you need to dissolve the symmetry object, which makes it difficult to change point positions afterwards while keeping it symmetric. There used to be tools around for symmetry handling, but several of those are no longer compatible with newer C4D versions and / or have disappeared from the market. How does it work? -- CollieSymmetryHelper creates a mapping of "right" and "left" points internally by comparing the geometric positions at initialization, and then applies positional changes from one side to the other. This allows me to correct points after the symmetry object itself is gone. I can swap the active side, and work with selections and even UV maps in a symmetric way. The plugin can work in realtime, automatically applying all changes to the reverse side for a better view of the whole object, or it can delay the symmetricization until you press a button, for better comparison of old/new look. How is it limited? -- Due to the mapping approach, currently the plugin doesn't support adding or removing points through tools - this destroys the mapping, since Cinema re-numbers all the points. You can still switch the tag off, modify the object on both sides, and re-initialize, though. Added points can be symmetrized after that, so you don't need to work numerically perfect. However, this form of implementation also ensures that you can apply any tool and script that changes point positions, with no need for special messaging or more administrative layers. So it's not a complete symmetry system? -- No, as the name says, it's a helper. A full-scale symmetry system with all the bells and whistles as I imagine it would need to be implemented at the core level of Cinema 4D and must be supported by all tools. While I am investigating possibilities to expand the functionalities, there is no guarantee that an implementation on plugin level is even possible (talking with Maxon developers revealed that internal messages that I used back in release 8(!) for similar purposes are no longer supported). Why should I buy it then? -- Imagine the last time you were doing character work, and you just had to adapt a few points at the elbow to improve on the deformation... and when you just finished the right elbow, you remember that you have to do it all over again on the left... what a waste of time. Does it work with render farms? -- You can just delete the tag before sending the scene to the render farm; it is not required for rendering. Does it work in creating pose morphs? -- My beta tester says it does. Does it slow down the scene a lot? -- I didn't notice, but when you experience delays, you can always switch off the tag while you are not working on the object. What about the UVs, I have maps where I split the object in the middle... -- UVs require some care in setup, because in general the geometric symmetry is not necessarily also the UV symmetry, but if you set up symmetric UVs with this tag, it needs to be. The plugin provides a center functionality for UV islands and a special handling for middle points that allows splitting or centering or ignoring. Can I symmetrize a spline? -- Yes. (Obviously, no UVs are possible here.) Also FFDs, since these are internally also point objects. Do I need to subscribe? -- NO! 🦊 One-time buy only.