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I reckon someone just didn't notice it was 2 years old, and replied as if it were current, and that started everyone off again :) We could probably just close it, but in the meantime, here's some positivity; I still really really like C4D, and remain, for the most part, very happy with it.

Once you have made changes to tool defaults you need to save the layout, which saves some things about the scene, AND the scene itself as new.c4d in the folder MAXON installs to. However there are some settings that are not preserved even doing this (IPR settings for example). CBR

3D has always been a hobby for me (15 years+), and I was a web designer for a living, so already had the 2D sh*t down, but when I realised I enjoyed 3D more than web design I began working doubly hard to fill the gaps in my 3D knowledge, and to specialise in at least one field (modelling in my case). I waited 5 years before I went part-time commercial, and 7 years to go full -time, mainly to ensure that I was at least approaching expert is most areas of the program, and could solve 98% of problems on my own. Some people say I waited too long, but I disagree. Rather too often on this forum we get people who are patently unqualified to be doing commercial work, and yet still they try, before coming on here and pleading for deadline-based help when they come unstuck at the first client hurdle ! :) But we're all different, and learn at different rates - I have also seen people who are producing astonishing work within 6 months to a year, but they are few and far between, and tend to be able to spend all day every day learning their toolset, so are putting in the same huge amount of effort, but getting through it faster. CBR

Yep, that's... not bad - you've obviously got a decent grasp of the software :) But to be fair and honest, and in the spirit of constructive criticism I would have to let you know that it is a little 'generic', ie the sort of thing everyone does when they first learn the software. And if it's just a little test for your own amusement that is totally fine. But if it's a serious bit of art for potential inclusion in a showreel for example, then you probably need to do something a bit more unique and impressive that hasn't already been done 1000 times before. Honestly I can't tell you how many pulsing blobs I have seen from C4D over the years - but it's in the thousands ! You need to show how you apply these sort of techniques in your own unique and original way. Hope that helps, and is encouraging rather than the opposite... CBR

Yeah, you can't change the point count afterwards...

Yeah it's a nice little technique that, if I'm not much mistaken, first demoed by Chris Schmidt in Season 2 of Ask GSG when he used it on an ocean diorama... CBR

You mean the Correction Deformer ? That's what I use for primitive selections... CBR

All tutorials from Daniel Danielsson on Youtube are excellent, useful to even the most advanced of us, and amongst the most well-made of any I have ever seen, but this one is particularly clever and rewarding, so thought I'd share it here for those of you who haven't seen it yet. We're using Xpresso as a shader network to mask some puddles onto asphalt, and not letting the kittens get wet, so it's all good. Enjoy. CBR

Yep, that's not too bad. Lighting is most successful of the elements so far. Still, some areas could stand some improvement, if you don't mind some constructive criticism ? There is not enough randomness in this scene so far. Especially with the curtains, which never look uniform like that in real life, and we can tell that bar is passing through them wrongly. We're also missing some bevelled edges around the scene - nothing in life has a dead straight edge, so you should be eliminating those wherever they occur. Not convinced about the sofa/ chair texture either - looks too large scale; not detailed enough, unpleasant colour (I'd go darker personally). Some blurring on the table edge texture - that could do with better mapping / better texture. Cables going into walls can't just be left like that - you need to model the attachment into the wall as well if you are going for realism. There is some issue with room design as well - it is quite odd to have that splat-artwork thing on the floor under the table where nobody can see it, for example.... Lastly, you seem to be lacking contact shadows, which suggests you are not using Ambient Occlusion in this scene? If not, you should be ! :) Hope that helps CBR

I have no idea how you'd control that with a script. I'm not sure you can. But if you add your edges with edge cut and use the modifier keys, then pinch and slide works exactly like Max's Connect tool - ie they ALWAYS go in opposite directions unless your modifiers tell them not to. Perhaps you could exploit that to your advantage... CBR

Ooh - that may finally tempt me over the XParticles threshold :) In fact it has ! :) Just ordered - thanks guys !

I can't help you with going rates, or upgrade costs (contact MAXON NZ about those), but here, or on the other 3D forums is just about the best place to sell it I would have thought - just do a thread titled 'R17 Studio for sale' in the lounge, and state what you want for it / who will pay any license transfer fees / discounts for both bought together etc... maybe run it past MAXON that is Ok to transfer a license cross territories if you are xfrerring outside NZ. CBR

Have you watched @Rectro's excellent and thorough tutorial on C4D hair ? I can see the segmentation on your hair, so that needs to be increased, and it's also too intersecty and fluffy at the moment. CBR

Good Herringbone too ! :)

For all our purist modelling snobbery, there is no need to do this again if it renders like that, which is obviously fine. Just make your next one out of quads / Sub D and everyone will like you for it :) CBR

Ewww. Why you have made it all out of triangles ? I was hoping for 100% quads. Oh well, can't win 'em all, eh @VECTOR ? ;)

Is this not how we all feel ? :)

Oh yeah :) That, I did.

???! I didn't what ?

Looks pretty good to me ! Although we'll never know without the wireframes ;) CBR

Genius ! I'd never have thought of that :)

Very cool :)

I think I'd have a go at that with pose morphs. You'd just start with the first shape, add a new point morph, then change the points, repeat. Then you have keyframe-able sliders for each new shape it needs to go into, and can edit the curves. if you do wanna go that way, then this will help. CBR

Fair play. I stayed up and did it again from scratch, because it annoyed me that I hadn't built it myself, but your strategy for tackling it was damn helpful and produced a really nice result once I'd rebuilt the inside slightly differently so the folding sections weren't causing thickness problems. Anyway - I'll stop banging on about it here - we're hijacking the thread ! :)

Indeed. Talking of which, I may have fallen asleep in the middle of that conversation - apologies if I went awol :)