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@Jops Ah rats. There goes that plan I'll reach out to Maxon Thanks jops Alex

Hey Cafe Anyone got a perpetual r20 licence that you'd sell for something reasonable? I need a few to run on some old machines for teaching. I don't need all the bells and whistles of r25 etc I've seen a few on here for £1000's, can't really justify that, but if it was £100's then perhaps we could chat. Long shot, but can't blame me for trying... Thanks Alex

Ah... that's the ticket. Cheers @deck

morning @Cerbera very true, i've added a stripped back file to use as a demo. The end goal is the have the text deformed across a surface using a z-depth grayscale created separately. I'm using the gradient as a way to visualise that the gradient displacer is effecting each letter individually, rather that across the whole word. I could I suppose use texture displacement, but I feel there must be a way to do it this way too? Any pointers most welcome Thanks simple displacer problem.c4d

I have a text object i want to effect with a displacer (gradient). All fine if i want to effect each letter with the same gradient, but how to I effect the whole word with a single gradient? Pretty sure it's because i'm tired.. is the answer staring me right in the face? Thanks

@deck I tried your latest suggestion, but couldn't get my head around it... however. Incase anyone has this problem in the future, i found another work-around that was more in my comfort zone and allowed a fully editable workflow. Each jigsaw piece was an extruded spline which was then cloned in various ways to create the middle section, edges and corners of the jigsaw. To get the semi-broken up look, i used small plain effectors with sphere FIELDS which control individual jigsaw pieces all of which were in a clone of some sort. About 12 looked right, so not too bad. I could then positions these 12 scatted pieces as i wished, whilst still having fully editable geometry. Changing the texture changed the image and 'art directing' the scattering was simple The extrudes allowed some nice detailed control too with the jigsaw photo textures on R1 and C1 and a third on the rest for the grey paper edges.

Hi @deck Ah I see! this does work... i've added in a 'push-apart and random' effector and get pretty good results. If i want to arrange the fragmented pieces one by one to give it a natural feel? Is there a click and drag approach? I saw something about using the cloner ID and Formula, but that seemed long winded... thanks Alex

@cerbera - I've just done 5 min on the naughty step. I won't do it again and i'll eat my greens too! Shame there isn't a non-editable way... I'll have a play later Thanks

Hi New style cafe! I have a jigsaw model, currently built with a series of clones although it can be made editable if that's easier. I'd like to apply a texture, but then fragment the puzzle and move the pieces around so it looks kinda half done. Obviously the texture needs to follow this movement. I then would like to be able to swap out the image and for the texture to be mapped appropraitely. kinda thought id be able to work this out but a few hours in, i'm turning to the cafe Any pointers? Thanks

Awesome It was a close race! @bezo@jed Sorted with a back-up plan to boot! Cheers Alex

@CerberaLike an eagle pouncing on a typo! ... very good I feared that might be the way... no biggie, thought i'd ask. Thanks Alex night night

Hi cafe'er I have a sequence of fonts which degrade in a really lovely way, that i'd like to use in C4D. So there are 10 different separate fonts. I'd like to have the 10 fonts change over 10 frames in the timeline to show the same word degrade over time. I was surprised that there is no radio 'animate' button on the font selection box in Motext or Spline Text. Any thoughts how this night be possible? Mucho appreciated Alex

@jed The link for your repaired arrow-maker is down? Any chance you can repost? Keen to have a play cheers

Evening. I'm trying to create or translate the built in C4D Multi-shader with Index Ratio mode in Redshift. The goal is to have text from Motext that always has individually coloured letters in the same order. So let's say the colour sequence is Red, Green, Yellow, Blue. The word Yes would be Y, Blue, E, Green, S, Yellow The word Nope would be N, Red, O, Green, P, Yellow, E, Blue Seems like it should be simple but all i've found so far either rely of editable elements (which i don't want to do) or some very complex mapping of rays Any thoughts ? File of the C4D Multi-shader attached Tah Alex colouredletters_cafe.c4d

ha! r23 released a few days earlier would have really helped!

Morning The r22 content manger People stuff is a great resource - would never have found it -so thanks @Cerbera However i'm finding most success with your suggestion @FLima Using Mixamo, with my character upload, finding a pose within an animation which is almost right, then tweaking it in C4D having removed the redundant animation. Quick and good enough for my needs! Thanks everyone Alex

@Cerbera - On r21, just updated my profile Can't see them on R21, downloading 22 now! Back shortly... A

Hi @FLima thanks for your message. Looks pretty ace - thanks. I can't immediately see static poses? Is it a matter of finding an animation that looks about right and taking a frame from that? Cheers A

I know my way reasonably well around c4d, but i've never done any character animation stuff. I have a need to take a generic silhouette of a man and position him into some fixed positions for an instruction manual. Arms in the air, kneeling down, holding a powertool. etc. I've fumbled with some positioning of limbs and hands etc, but to be honest it looks like this guy has some serious double jointed issues. Are there any presets of rigged stances built in or available free or for a small price? Any pointers very welcome Cheers Alex

Hi I need some help. Looking for some C4D + redshift support for a day or two in North London, UK, (seven sisters tube) I need a good generalist for creating a series of sample scenes for a pitch. Must be a good generalist. C4D PC and software here, I just need a person. Ideally next week 16th/17th October if possible. please message if interested with availability and day rate Cheers Alex

@danijelk Thanks - That's pretty smooth, but your computer is beefier than mine... @Arte I'll look into layers, see if that help Thanks Cafe

Hi @CApruzzese, @Cerbera @danijelk Thanks for your comments. The scene is heavy, lots of particles via a fracture object with lots of deformers etc. There is no doubt that the scene and effect could be build more efficiently, the job is now done and so if I had time i should try rebuilding it, but to be honest that's unlikely to happen. Today i'm on my 13inch MBP with the same file, which still gets a useable 10fps. Without wanting to get involved in a PC v MAC debate, I can't help feeling something on the PC just isn't working right? MAXON drew a blank and all other pointers suggest the PC is running well? Incase anyone fancies it the file it here, it's 400mb+ so please don't feel obliged, but it you fancy can you tell me what FPS you are getting? I've stripped out all materials but it was setup for Redshift Thanks Alex https://www.dropbox.com/s/fpgqc8qxhluv0d7/Lag Scene.c4d?dl=0

Hi I have a medium weight scene which really lags on my PC (decent i7 6800 processor + 2 x 1080ti's) - it drags along at about 4FPS The same scene on a 7 year old imac gets 15+ FPS. The Pc renders well, clearly using both GPUs. Any ideas anyone? I've tried playing with the Open GL tickbox, but that doesn't change anything... Suggestions? Thanks Alex

@hrvoje Thanks, i realised i was a long way out of my depth and given it to someone far more skilled! (pretty good reputation score you have there!!) A

Hi Everyone I've stumbled across the adobe Mixamo resource and now want to play with that character animation acting as an effector within a clone of spheres Any pointers? I can add the standard C4d Figure as 'figure' falloff within the plain effector - is there a way to add the animated Mixamo man? Thanks Alex