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Solved it with the help of this tutorial. I am attaching the scene if anyone is gonna run in to the same problem. connect multiple cloners with splines.c4d

I am looking to connect two cloner clones with the splines. So for example: Cloner 1 has 3 clones and Cloner 2 has 3 clones. Clone 1.1 is connected with the spline to Clone 2.1, Clone 1.2 is connected to Clone 2.2, etc. I found a solution to connect 2 cloner objects here: https://mikeudin.net/2021/06/11/cinema-4d-xpresso-connect-clones-with-spline/#more-7268, but can't get it to work with more than two.

Could you share the script again?

If you spend half a day with the new UI you get used to it and won't be able to go back because how dumb UI used to be. There are some quirks, but I bet it will be polished down the road.

Well, this forum is under paywall now, sooo

I am trying to move the polygons of the object with a simple plain effector in deformation mode, but polygon mode effects the object the same way as point mode. I have restriction tag applied that effects only the top polygon of each cube. I know how to achieve this effect with different techniques, but this is just a test scene, In original scene I have a object with 10 000+ different buildings that are merged into the single object. I want them to all "grow up" individually instead of affecting the points of the object separately. Anyone knows a technique how I could solve this? Maybe a Plugin?

Honestly I would love to just have UI being customizable like in c4d. Shortcuts should be also customizable. It's such a pain to take on zbrush for a new user and maxon now has a big opportunity to provide that.

Ahhh, yeap, for that scenario it doesn't really work as intended. But I am sure there is plenty workarounds for that.

Agree on the Xrefs, but what about parent constraints doesn't work? Haven't they been fixed since R20 or R21?

I am C4D fanboy so no criticism should be taken personally, it's because I love the software and don't want to learn all the blender shortcuts anytime soon is why I am talking 'passionately'. There are two sections I expect every year but probably will be neglected for awhile: 1. Character workflows including - Xref update that actually work how you expect without going through entire myth of buttons and checkboxes to make it just stable enough that it wont corrupt your animators work when he accidentally does something. Just copy maya at this point. Also animation layers that work without being absolutely destructive like Motion systems is. And then some rigging stuff would help, for example IK chain templates could be cool, where you don't have to make your own systems and all the most popular IK chain setups would lay inside the one tag. Mechanical IK, Normal IK, Spine IK. Wings, quadruped, etc etc. 2. PBR Shader that would work as an default shader and would display in the viewport how it suppose to look. Entire world moved to the PBR and the Reflectance system is just not being used anywhere else outside of C4D and their own render engine, even Redshift doesn't display standard shaders properly...

Awesome! Thank you!!

That's what i meant by "almost comparable". A lot of cool stuff is there, realtime shadows, reflections, AO, Depth of field, volumetrics. Sure it's not Eevee, but I used it for sooo many previzes in the projects with great results. A few projects as a final render as well. There was some cool developments that tried to achieve PBR in the viewport. For example: http://frostsoft.blogspot.com/p/fssoftware.html but no R23 Support..

Invite link?

I wish they would go on overhauling aim-constraint like they did with parent constraint (which was pretty much un-usable to one of the best constraints in C4D).

Hello, since with the awesome viewport improvements in the most recent C4D versions, I would see C4D viewport being almost comparable with Eevee. There is one downside tho, PBR not being a standard. Anyone that has to work with more than a single software knows the pain when you want to bring in the PBR materials to Cinema's viewport. PLEASE correct me if I am dummy, but what is the advantage to have this Reflectance system over PBR? It's not only downright confusing, but also it's so hard to transfer anything to other render engines. If anyone has some tips on the workflow that would be very similar to Blenders Eevee -> Cycles, PLEASE let me know. Node material -> Redshift was suppose to be the solution, but as far as I tested and researched the node material doesn't work in Redshift...

It's a weird thing, but someone mentioned Wacom driver. So everytime I have my cintiq monitor off, I keep on getting these weird crashes, but if I keep my cintiq ON, the crashes magically disappear. Maybe it will help someone.

Hello, I've been using wonderful plugin from Cactus Dan Springy Keys, it would let user to apply simple tag on to any PSR animated object to add springiness/delay. When you have to animate huge amount of animation and add some subtle movement, it used to do wonders, but since I moved to S22 I can't get it to work anymore. I was wondering if anyone knows something similar or maybe someone would have a interest in developing some tools like that? I would gladly pay to ease my animation workload.

I have the same problem on S22 as well, R20 too ughh.... Still no workaround to fix it? It seem to happen when i have a lot of markers.

Hey guys, first of all, thank you for this plugin, I was sweeping the web to find something with this functionality and this is exactly what i was looking for!! Now for people that want to use this with deformed mesh (like example below) I realised that the plugin does not call the deformers to update when the spline itself is being updated, but it's easily fixable with the easy xpresso: Trick behind this is to call the deformer to update every frame by changing some irrelevant setting constantly.

Thank you 🙂

I want to costimize my ui to be more dark colorish and i ran into trouble of figuring out what element is what. Is there diagram somewhere on the internet that shows what elements in interface color scheme is representing what? In specific, i want to change this highlight edge (pic below) around the attribute manager and other managers around Cinema:

Great tips, thank you!

Yeah, i think you mean change to "Relative" to not have the explosion of the objects...I kind of made the mistake and started using it for production right now. So far the only two problems i found is overwriting of shaders/tags and relative linking. I wish it would work more as a take manager, which works flawlessly for overriding properties.