Petematul
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Thanks! Much appreciated! Having another mental lapse this morning.
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Isn't it possible to change the viewport views, like changing the right view to left, or the top view to bottom, etc?
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One quick question, what does the attractor do? I deleted it and nothing seemed to change.
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Very cool, HAPPYPOLYGON! It's going to take some time to wrap my head around this. Amazing you could knock this out so quickly. Thanks!
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Hadn't thought of Mograph. I was only using particles because it was quick to create a sphere randomly filled with balls. I need to create a nucleus in two parts, so that it will break apart when it is struck by a loose neutron. With the particle approach I was using two emitters, one emitting red balls, and the other emitting white balls. Those two emitters would fill a hemisphere. Another two would fill the other hemisphere. Would MoGraph work better? Can you give me a tip on how to start?
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Duh, well there it is, right in front of my nose, "Bake Particles" at the bottom of the simulation menu. Sorry.
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I created an atom nucleus by emitting a bunch of red and white balls into a larger invisible sphere. I now want to delete the large invisible sphere so that I can manipulate the individual balls like, jiggling them and having a few fly off into space. I know you can bake deformers by using the Current State to Object Command under Mesh/Conversions, but what about particles? Can they be "baked" in a similar way? Otherwise, I'm stuck building the atom, ball by ball. Doable, but a lot trickier than it looks. Thoughts?
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Thanks, guys! I see, now. The trick is NOT to click ON the keyframe (which is what I kept doing) but the area before the first one and the area after the last one. Actually I had tried that, too, but when the keyframes didn't highlight at first, I gave up too soon.
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Isn't there a way to select multiple keyframes in the C4D timeline? I've tried multiple keys with no luck. I'm talking about the main timeline under the viewport.
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You might be right. The second file saved has an A in front of its name. That is, if one is titled "Test", the second file will be called "A_Test". I assume the A is for Alpha, and I think C4D keeps wanting to make a Separate Alpha, even though I don't tick "Separate Alpha" as an option. I think it's a bug. In fact, I can't even select "Separate Alpha" in the options. It's permanently grayed out. C4d insists on giving it to me whether I want it or not. No I don't see it rendering twice, and, yes, I can just delete it, so not a huge issue, just a nuisance.
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Thanks! Much appreciated. And good to know about the Insydium Bridge. I wonder if this will enable me to use early versions of X-Particles on R20.
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Thanks, but not on R25.
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Thanks, JED, I'll give that a try!
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Anyone got any leads on a plugin or preset that will make arrows and arrowheads? The Arrowmaker plug-in appears to have ended with R19 and Arrow Tool Kit doesn't seem to be around anymore.
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I'm wondering that myself. Would someone mind rendering out a simple ProRes 4444 file with alpha ticked but SEPARATE ALPHA UNTICKED) and let me know if they end up with two movies.
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ProRes 4444
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Anyone have an idea why C4D is generating two movies when I render with an alpha? If I render a movie of a red sphere and check alpha in the settings, I will end up with two movies : the red sphere (with its own alpha) and a separate alpha only movie of the red sphere. "Separate Alpha" is NOT checked in my render settings. I'm including a pic of my render setting.
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I KNEW THAT!!! Duh! How could I have missed it! I knew they put a toggle there somewhere recently but for some reason I forgot where, and I spent an hour searching for it. I attribute this to either senility or 15 years ingrained habit. I'll take the latter. Regardless, thank for you timely response MJV! Much appreciated!!!
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For some reason the option settings button has gone missing from my R20 render settings. This is the button I used to use to change to various Quicktime codecs, like ProRes 4444, etc. Without access to this button I am now stuck rendering out to ProRes 422 (the apparent default) and I have limited Alpha options as well. Anyone know why this is gone? Or, am I just confused? I had to re-install R20 from the Maxon website a while back and it's possible the option button disappeared after the re-install, but I could be wrong. The first attached image shows the interface as I believe it used to be, with a red arrow pointing to the options button. The second image shows my interface now with a missing options button.
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I'm experimenting with TFD and a problem I keep running into is that my explosions keep running into the walls of the TurbulenceFD container creating a cube effect. If I increase the size of the container, the caches take forever to build. If I increase the size of voxels the effect is not what I want. If I reduce the particle speed the simulation is not as dramatic. I'm new to TFD so any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Finally found it. Under Tools in R20. I think it's somewhere else in later releases.
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Can anyone tell me where I can find Reset PSR in R20. In earlier releases it was under Character/Commands, but not there now. Again, I'm asking about R20.
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Thanks, Dave. Really good info! Very helpful.
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Thanks for your valuable input LONCHANEY and 3D-PANGEL! A lot of great information there, Dave! If I understand you correctly, you're saying I will need a 3rd party renderer if I were to go with Fused, right? That would kill the deal for me as that would drive the cost more than I want to spend. Explosions and pyro stuff make up just a small percentage of what I do and it doesn't make sense for me to spend much. I'm still trying to make sense of spending the $370 (with discount) for TFD.
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Thanks JEFF H1 for that workflow tut for EmberGen! So, it looks like I will need to purchase a renderer as well for this. And thanks, FRITZ, for the Pyro link. This appears to require a subscription which I am strongly adverse to. At this point, I am leaning toward Turbulence FD for the following reasons: 1. Good results. 2. No subscription required. 3. Lowest price. 4. Third-party renderer not required. 5. Don't mind long renders. 6. I like that it's a C4D plug-in and doesn't require the importing of VDB files. Would you all agree to the above? Am I missing something? (FumeFX would be a consideration as well, but it costs twice as much as TFD.)