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Hi all. Nice to see forum is back 🙂 I've stumbled upon an issue that makes no sense to me. Ive got very simple setup here. An arrow following a spline and sweep object turning that said spline into a mesh. Ive animated the End Growth of the Sweep nurb. 0-50 frame : 0-100% Same goes for the Align to Spline for the arrow. The arrow seems to be starting at frame 1 or 2 not at 0. there is some sort of delay. But also through out the rest of the path it slows down and speed up randomly. But even at the last frame they don't mach. Arrow finishes frame to late. When i go frame by frame the arrow sometimes will forgot to move. Why on earth they don't match up ? I've tried with a Morgraph Cloner, same results. Brand new spline works to sometimes Tested on C4D R25 and it works like it should. C4d file included. ArrowOnSpline.c4d

Thank you 🙂 I wanted more smokie inside but it made everything too pale and bright.

Hello. My first personal anim that I've actually had time to finish. 🙂 Very short, very simple. Started as a fun particles study. More info under the video on YT or my Behance. ( Behance) All the work done in C4D+RS. Xparticles for the web stuff. Comp in Fusion, edit, grade and sound in DaVinci. Oh and the model of the doors/frame modelled in c4d, textured in Quixel Mixer... That was a first. Good tool but for simple work. Aspect ratio 4:3 to frame it that exact way. Any other ratio just didn't work for me. Also i would have to create a lot more stuff of screen I'll drop few more anims in a while. just need to tidy them up. 'End credits' if you can call it like that was my first ever attempt on more creative title/text creation. Designing that kind of stuff is not my thing. Same goes for sounds fx. But i did enjoy creating both I would love to hear some thoughts about it. I know there isn't much too it but feedback is always useful. Thank for watching. Quick breakdowns: The splitting/ghosting effect was a 'creative' fix for a mismatching renders... It was easier than to rerender. And it adds a bit to the story.

Thank you for the command. Ill report the bug later. Btw, is there a list of all CallCommands somewhere ?

Hello. I just wanted to see the command for creating new standard RS Material, but for some reason my script log doesn't record anything anymore. Any idea why ? Latest version of C4d 2024.3.2

I shall. Thanks for the info.

Oh that's a news a didn't wanted to hear 😄 I use only custom layouts... i don't think i would know how to use the default ones anymore. so limiting ;D Although Maxon got back to me actually, after i send like 30 crash reports in 3 days. They said it has something to do with 3rd party plugins, so i tested it briefly last night. I removed all the Cinevercity plugins ( which i would expect to be part of maxon stuff so not 3rd party) and Xparticles. Only redshift was left but i wont removed this one. Still crashed like crazy. I had maybe 20 min of constant crashes. Even worse than with the plugins. But ill test the layouts as well. That would really suck if that's the case...

Hi, I mean if there is a reason for the crashes and it is something on my pc or with C4d specifically on my pc than i would like to know that of course. But these seems like what you are saying - some c4d core stuff that didn't like the change. So i doubt that Maxon will get back with anything specific. Crashes are happening mostly when i start a file. It won't even fully open. it will just crash maybe 2 seconds after i click OPEN. I do get random crashed while working on a file ( after it opened ) but those are rare to be fair and often i can tell what caused them so I'm not concerned about those. Even more rare are crashes after i select an object on the list, or a material and even when i hover my mouse pointer over some objects. Those are weird, i wont even click anything and it crashes. This might be some gpu driver issues as well. Ive read about Nvidia drivers not liking some recent updates but who knows. One more thing is that i work on some old files for the past few months ( like 5-10years old) Updating old models. Maybe there is something in them that doiesnt like new core. They all run fine and i haven't had any obvious issues with them apart these crashes. Im really Just wondering what is going on with C4D in general. But im glad you mentioned this core shift. i forgot about that for a moment. That might be a the reason for it all. Ill keep updating it when it out and we will see. I think last stable was around 2023 for me too. Definitely a lot less crashy than current one.

Hi. Has anyone else experience unreasonable amount of crashes recently ? Since 2024 update ? Every file i open for the first time will crash instantly. It will reopen fine and will work for a while. But then at some point it will crash again. Then reopen it and one more crash instantly. Almost every single time. Not looking for a fix or anything just trying to find out is it just mine C4d or is it a common issue and we are waiting for a fix or something ? Ive sent the crash reports to maxon but i doubt that ill get any response from them. Currently on latest update 2024.2.0

Nice one. Thank you guys. Ill do that.

Ok. And what node to use to transform the points ? Ive never used it before (scene nodes). Its all new to me.

Hi all. Ive got a simple setup here. Scatter cubes on a Landscape mesh but with this Blue-Noise Node so they wont intersect. But i cant figure out how to scatter it on the mesh that is not in the center of the scene, or so when i move that mesh clones will follow. Screenshot attached. I tried attaching Local or Global Translation to the Matrix Translation but that didn't work. Cubes were scattered under the mesh in one single point. I've never used nodes before, this is first time, so Im just guessing everything. this setup is based on a simple tutorial. Any tips would be appreciated. Thank you.

Yeah i just found about this 😄 good to know 😉 Thanks anyway

Hi all, just a quick tip/tutorial on how to resize VBDs objects (nothing to do with the voxel size/quality of VDB) It was bugging me for a while not to be able simply hit T and scale the bloody vdb up or down. So here's a simple setup for a rig that will let you resize it as you would normally do. I've never seen any similar tutorial or any other way of doing it, but please let me know if there is a simpler way 🙂 In just few words - linking Size parameters of a cube to control Scale parameters of RS VDB.

the lag happened only during rendering that impossibly difficult to render single cube. My Cpu was dying rendering it and the rest of the system was unusable. That was the reason for the mouse lag. Im ok with that casue the whole render took about 10 sec. i can live with that . And its not like im rendering single cubes using standard render everyday 😄 I had zero issues rendering 8k with redsfhit and GPU, no lag whatsoever.

That is very sad but true.

Bios updated helped after all. I tested few times with default OC settings before updating bios and it didn't die, no BSODs, but the temperatures reached 100* instantly. So I've finally updated bios and it doesn't BSOD, temps are around 80* , renders fine. PC is unusable at the time. Mouse responds to movement after 10 sec. not ideal but i don't mind that , as long as no BSODs will happen. Thanks for suggesting this MASH.

It was picture viewer cache. I checked it when i was rendring and it did fill up. But when c4d is closed i think it deletes that folder. Thanks for answers.

Strange behaviour. Technology will destroy itself someday. I haven't had a chance to look into driver updates yet, but im hoping ill do that today. Ill reset the OC to default settings and test it first. I'm very keen to see what its wrong with that CPU.

Thanks for explaining. Kind of makes sense, but its also hard to believe that something so basic could cause such an error. OC is not extreme, just a bit more than the stock settings. Had no major issues with it so far. CPU is i9 11900K - 5.3 and 5.2 ghz on top 2 cores. rest 5.0-5.1 - maybe not even higher than the stock to be fair. Temps are ok. Ive run some AVX tests before, it got hot but no BSODs. Especially not after 1-2 seconds of rendering. Just a bizarre BSOD to me. Ill double check all the settings again. and keep testing. After some mobo driver updates. Thanks again MASH.

You saying that simple cube is so extreme to render that my pc can't handle it 😄 ? it sound like C4D's issue with the settings I had, But ill do some updates like you said. Nothing so simple was causing any bsod before.

Hi folks, I've stumbled upon something i thought would be impossible to achieve - bsod while rendering a single cube with standard render engine. The only settings i've changed were: res to 8192x8192 and the AA set to best and min and max to 4x4. No lights, no materials. Just a plain old cube in the scene... Could someone test it please so ill know if its my CPU dying or hopefully just some kind of bug. BSOD i'm getting is Clock Watchdog Timeout . CPU is overclocked but its just cube, I've been simulating heavy stuff and usually nothing happened. Cheers.

Ahh make sense, didn't know what pv stands for in this case. ill check it and most likely delete. loads of space wasted. Thanks again.

Hello, I'm tidying up my drive and i found a folder that was created with the latest update (2023.2.1) in this dir: C:\Users\######\AppData\Roaming\MAXON\Cinema 4D 2023_BF683D7D\prefs\pv Thats almost 40gb. Anyone one knows if that is needed for anything ? I can't remember downloading that much when it was updating.

not saying it did happened. but i wouldn't be surprised if it did one day.