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They mentioned it should be released in a little over a week 🙂

I'm running r7 release candidate 3 so it can't be too long now. Still bugs, new and old. I love Corona, but frustrating there are this many issues on a released product. Just have to save a lot.

@Igor I'm using the physical render. (still waiting for Maxon to add redshift into their standard package 😉) @Cerbera I'll try adding some more imperfections and see how it goes 👍 I didn't think to use it on standard stainless steel. Actually, I recently finished some engine internals and near the end the client gave me some great reference shots. It was really interesting trying to mimic the machined hatching scratches along the surface. @clarenceOh I didn't think to do that, I just used a standard bland hospital room HDRI . https://polyhaven.com/a/hospital_room

Maxon is following the rules and laws of economics principles. In this world, «gratitude» is a foreign word. Financially, a company lives in the present and in the future, the past has no relevance. Faithful customers may be of interest, as long as they stay faithful and generate revenue. It is obvious that the subscription model is what counts now. All over the place. For me it is a tragedy. For several reasons. I am a C++ programmer and have developed several C4D Extensions (plug-ins) which enhances C4D a lot for me. Besides of that, I am a «hobbyist» and use C4D for nonprofit projects only. My profession is programming. The subscription model means that I cannot retire, and use what I already have paid for. It is money out of the window. I jumped the Adobe ship, when they started this, and am stuck with the Adobe Creative Suite CS 6. Almost ten years old now. Additional problems arise in the software world. I have purchased several versions of the Mocha Planar Tracker. Paid versions who I own. Now, Boris has acquired Mocha, and put it on the subscription wagon. This means that the license mechanism is broken, and that I cannot move my Mocha software to a new machine, when I upgrade my hardware. This is horrible, to put it mildly. One may wonder when this happens to my C4D versions, I have them all, C4D Studio full paid from R13 and on.. There are several reasons for this change to the subscription model. One of them, not often mentioned, is that software nowadays eventually has become mature. I can use a ten years old version of Photoshop, it works like magic, and has so many nice features that I will hardly explore and take advantage of more than a fraction of them. The same applies to C4D, and not the least to the aforementioned Mocha Planar Tracker. So the customers may want to skip a version or two. Or five. Which means revenue losses for the software houses. The only way for hem to keep money coming in, then, is to turn their customers into hostages. Also called subscribers. -Ingvar

@Teknow Thanks for the response! Cool solution, though my aim was ultimately to Break and Delete Nth points, rather than transform them. I guess I should have mentioned this in the first place 😳. I do wonder though if there's an Xpresso-based solution that would allow your node-network to select the actual points (or rather, see the actual points selected / yellow-highlighted in your viewport - not sure what the difference is, technically). I would have thought a 'Point Selection' tag could be dragged into the Xpresso window and would have some Input port that would allow you to feed the activated point id numbers into it so you could get a visual of it in your viewport, though this doesn't seem to be the case. In any event, I ended up finding a very simple but workable solution using the Point Selection tag in conjunction with Formula Field ( mod(id;x)=0 ). File attached. Thanks again! -NpF select-nth-point-on-spline.c4d