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Well, as these hallowed halls, and human-powered 3D in general seems to be dying on its arse, and my 'career A' with it, better gracefully exit right into the B plan, which'll have to be the music then. For anyone nice enough to help a broke and lowly piano and strings guy, go See Lucubratory Ablaze, over here. https://lucubratoryablaze.bandcamp.com/music And I'll be on DeviantArt and Discord if anyone still wants me for 3D stuff. Or email. Luminetrics@gmail.com Thank you, and may your artistry endure ! (gazes fixedly at the middle distance and salutes the sea.) Thinks about whether to jump in. CBR

Taking advantage of forums last days to call community members for assistance regarding very product this community helped so much is, well... This kind of complacency or, shall I rather say disinterest from MAXON is quite telling. Corporate greed and blindness to value it provides is stunning. It is easy to brand yourself as not caring as Autodesk, you are almost all the way there. Once that happens there is no way back to regain trust. No wonder people are leaving for Blender or Houdini...

Blimey, what sad news, just logged in to get my latest C4D issue solved at the core as I usually do and find its all going away. Dunno what I will do now, the cafe and lately core has held my hand through my entire 3d journey and its not an underestimation to say it was my main source of learning in the early days. I think I watched all of Nigels tutorials as well as many others. Ive had hundreds of problems solved and often with multiple solutions from various super knowledgable and highly skilled members. Its always been my goto spot to stop me pulling my hair out when all my own stumbling efforts have failed. I also learned so much following other peoples issues and downloading and disecting all the different files as well as trying to solve a few myself. Its been a lot like having my own tech support that I could rely on when all else failed, 3D isn’t my primary gig so Im no expert and I hit the wall a lot, I dont really earn much from it but was happy to pay a fiver for the subs, 60 bucks a year aint much in the grand scheme of things. I will take this opportunity to offer a huge thank you to all the members that have helped me out over the years with problems both complex and also very simple. I was always surprised at how super skilled and talented people were happy to take time out from there own projects and work to help with what probably seemed quite simple issues to them, when they could be off building wonderful creations for themselves. Any billionaire C4D users out there to save the day ? Was great while it lasted, thanks everyone.

I am so sad to read this. Thank you to Igor, Hrvoje, Nigel and everyone else who was involved over the years in this forum 😟 I had been a silent reader for years and gained so much knowledge from this forum (especially from many posts from @Cerbera). I hope there is a way to preserve the forum as an archive, as others have already expressed as their wish too. However, I fully understand the cost factor and that you need to pull the plug at some point. I joined @HappyPolygon's Discord server (thanks for setting this up), but I also much prefer traditional forums when it comes to proper discussions and learning material. Slack, Discord, Teams... they're all geared towards real-time collaboration and discussion, but are no replacements for traditional forums. Call me old-fashioned, but I dislike how the internet has evolved in the communcation aspect. I guess I still have time this month to go through the forums and save out some valuable knowledge. So sad.

Ah very sad times indeed.. Im incredibly greatful to this place. The c4dcafe was a place i spent so much time in.. it's a shame that so much knowledge will evaporate.. but as many have said, hardly surprising. everyone wants instant chat answers.. discords, slacks etc.. Managing communities has only become more and more difficult i think in recent years, with bots, lazy people, people posting answers from ai.. spam.. etc.. It is very sad to see what the internet has become.. it had so much potential.. Well much love to you all, and thanks to everyone who tried to keep this place going. It was a Sisyphusian task. --- I did a quick search for forum hosting options and found this place.. my god the retro vibes just got to me.. Maybe it can be a place the c4d cafe / corec4d refugees.. the last c4d forum 😄 https://retroc4d.freeforums.net/ maybe it's a bit too pink.. ---

I feared this day would come. This is really sad to hear, but not unexpected if I'm honest. I'm not good at this stuff, but I still want to try: Thank you to everyone who has been running this forum in some form or another, be it via moderation or paying the servers out of their own pockets. Thank you for the invaluable help on the many questions over the years, as dumb as they sometimes maybe were. I would NOT be in the same position as I am right now if it wasn't for this forum. Not even close. And I am sure I am not the only one with this experience. This forum always was a positive energy in my life and I am sad to see it go. I came back here regularly even when I switched to Blender for two years, that should tell you everything you need to know about this community. The internet as we know it is unfortunately changing, and has been for years. And it is not for the better. Corporate got it's greedy grip around it at this point, and way too tightly. Everything is centralized now. Giant tech companies are able to build userbases with free access to their services while bleeding out competition, until they suddenly remove free tiers and / or increase pricing after years and years of running on a loss. This will happen to all these AI tools too, the moment investor money dries up (and it's already drying up, after the devastating news about AI investments recently). Comparatively small ventures like this forum are simply not able to do that, and I fear the time of forums in general is just over. They were already down years ago, and then Discord arrived started kicking the corpse. How ANYONE can think Discord is a legit replacement for old-style forums really has no idea what they're getting into. Just to make it clear, I think creating a Core4D Discord just to keep in contact with each other is a really cool idea that I support. So I'm not specifically talking about the people here with this post. But 10-15 years from now people will mourn "the great loss of information" because Discord WILL shut down / restrict access at some point and all that knowledge collected on these Discord servers will vanish. Not to mention the many people we will simply "lose in translation", especially probably many of the old guard how simply can't be bothered to switch to yet another platform. Discord servers can't really be found via Search Engines either. I'm not even sure Discord is even going to make it another 10 years, judging by how much it has already been enshittifed in the last year. As far as I know, they're prepping to go public. We all know what that means in the long term.