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Hi If your using the standard renderer it should be very fast. Physical will be much slower with more noise. Corona is by far the fastest I seen hair in C4D renderer and is currently free while in beta. Your CPU is rather old now so such a task just may be pushing it a bit but there are some tricks you can use such as culling. In the hair settings you can use the backface, distance and off screen culling, this can help. Just turning on back face culling will shave some time off. Dan

Some good advice there from everfresh. Not much to add but to tell you that tutorials are streamlined, they iron out all the problems, the problems that always come up that will help the viewer follow the tutorials refined workflow. Just remember that in reality this is not how it works. The better you become at problem solving the more productive your be. When I follow any tutorial I watch it, then watch it back again taking a section of it, then I go off and do it. The way I learn is to teach. This may sound strange but in my mind if I can't teach it I really did'nt get it. I would test myself even if im not teaching it. Id ask myself could I teach it, could I show it, and id simulate that? I would shut down the tutorial, and start what iv been learning from scratch. I did this with Brets rigging tutorials. Watch it, watch i again, do it, and do it several times. Repetition will set it in there because doing it is what helps retain more than using any other senses. Reading is the lowest retention, then seeing, then seeing and hearing is what he get from tutorials. Doing it is the highest way to retain it. If your doing it while simulating teaching it your talking your self through it, try it, it works for me very well. See if you can do it as if your showing someone else, this really helps me retain it. I found this out years ago when I started making videos for myself in case I forgot how to do it later on, but by doing this I never returned to the videos. I Kept doing this as it helps others but I never end up watching my own videos. Im not suggesting you make videos but follow a kind of workflow that makes you repeat a task as if you were projecting your knowledge away from you. You need to have a think what area is of the highest interest. Modelling is always a good place to start, this naturally leads to learning Uv mapping, then texturing, then surfacing, lighting, and before you know it you would have learnt something in many areas. Keep at it ,good luck. Dan

Old, yea getting there lol. Im just grateful that I can own what Iv got, its not ideal the way the cost of living is and software pricing, but Iv got there to the point that there is plenty to get on with and master. Dan

3000? Sounds like a beast of a machine for them days. I got my 1200 power tower second hand but they was crazy expensive new. I think its time to sell mine look how much someone is selling one for. Iv got about 200 disks, Midi adaptor, Music X2 boxed music production software, monitor, keyboard and mouse, my tower is still white. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223198288170

Same here in fact I still got mine but I was doing 2d stuff and music production back then. Iv got a Amiga 1200 power tower with a huge 33mhz blizzard upgrade. Dan

Here is a video that I found interesting in that the presenter Perry Harovas has been a long time Maya user so can shed some light on some comparisons between the two. He didn't mentioned Mayas Rigging but either still its gives C4D users some perspective when we think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Dan

They have a big sale on at the moment. https://www.marvelousdesigner.com/

Downloaded the demo to test it. I used the polygon pen to create a single side of a dress, one big ngon. I did a front UV projection, imported it as a garment into MD and unfolded it. It automatically sub divided it ready for simulation. I used the new remesh to quads, and draped it. All took less than 2 min to do.

Hi all For thoes of you who use Marvelouse Designer in your pipeline with C4D a new version is out, and this one is in my opinion the biggie one. When I first got MD it didnt feel like a tool designed for traditional 3d artists in the way its workflow was too directed at the clothing designer, it was mainly about 2D pattern making at its core which I hated. I expected to be able to sew my designed in the 3d view port, but it just wasn't there yet, but now it is. Full 3D sewing is finally here. Talk about speeding things up. Next issue was triangulated meshes. Yes they do simulate well, but they are not ideal if you like to keep a quad workflow, now it has a quad remesher, and it looks sweet even at its beta stages in this release. MD always worked at its best when working with Zbrush for that extra detail from sculpting, now MD has its own sculpting tools, how cool is that. Making garments was one thing, but getting them in the correct place to simulate around the character was not a easy task. There where methods put in place to place markers around the body, so that parts of the pattern could snap to these areas but that took too long to set up so I just kept moving, rotating each part till it was in place, that too can take some time. Now the markers are automatic, this will speed things up a great deal. Also now zips, buttons and other accessories can play their roll in effecting the simulation by adding weight to them, nice addition. In the last update smooth imported meshes was finally added which saves so much time in producing two meshes with the same animation on just to get a decent simulation. Anyways, not trying to sell it lol, just thought this update was significant and could be the version that gets around all the issues I once faced in the pipeline. Dan

Hi guys. A new plugin is coming this month called IKMax. Its a auto rigging plugin that looks to work much like Mixamo meaning its super easy. If C4D gets the same features as the Max version It has the advantage of shrink wrapping clothes, attaching objects and accessories, and import/export of Mocap. Its costs looks to be very cheap indeed, very welcome for non Studio owners. http://www.3dtoall.com/products/ikmax/ Dan

Hi I shall point you in this thread direction as its covered here. Dan

Thanks for the share, looks nice, and iv seen some nice renders come from this render engine, how long did that take, what are your specs? iIt looks very close to Vray hair. ts shame its rent only engine as for me this method dont work out well. I would assume this will be the case for C4D version when its released too? Still its priced very well against Arnold which gives you one single licence at £72 per month as apposed to Corona £26.65 with 3 render nodes. Dan

Also please correct me If Im wrong but the last time I looked the $399 maintenance was only given as a incentive discount for users who owned Modo before the new licences where put in place such as me as I own v901. But if the maintenance at $399 has any break what so ever it jumps up to $599 for life there on. If the OP is on the standard rate of $599 then so will the new owner. Dan

You didnt specify what version of Modo you have, what version of C4D you want, and who will cover the transfer costs? Dan

Look forward to watching this later on. I have a question. Being that fields are now replacing standard falloffs and have significantly more abilities, can you show how one would use fields for helping, or enhancing deformation when animating, or used within the muscle system. I would imagine it would be helpful for pose (position )correction for instance when a shoulder moves into a field the front Deltoid shows a correctional form, rather than PSD morphs which I assume works more off the basis or rotational correction. It would also be good if fields could be used with PSD morphs for that little extra control maybe? Maybe it would help with the tention tag for facial deformation or to grow hair using fields instead of standard selection sets? Thanks, Dan

Looks very interesting indeed, I will keep a eye on this. Dan

The following images are from my recent study not using C4D base. Here are some study images I constructed if anyone should find them of use.

Hi Iv done a few skulls now, practice makes perfect as they say so here is another take on one. Base mesh modeled in C4D, Sculpted in C4D, details in Zbrush, rendered with Vray4C4D. Hope you like it. Dan

PSD morphs have been fixed, Thanks, MAXON. Dan

Funny you say that it was last night that I was showing a friend what steps it takes to manually rig a leg and foot with controllers. He was shocked how much had to be set up and thats before I created a 3 rig ik/fk blend. However as Studio has 2 nicely pre made rigs I dont think it will be that much of a task being your careful with topology. If you ever want me to rig a character in my spare time Id be happy to do so while recording the process. Dan