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Well this looks like a lot of fun to play with, Key Mesh for Blender Proof of concept anim test. "KeyMesh" is a Experimental Feature to create ifferent meshes per frame in the same object. Dev:Pablo Dobarro Test and Anim by Daniel Martinez Lara

more like this?

Aha i see i took a wrong turn there placing the files under C:/program files, thanks for that cerbera. My path is with the roaming dir slightly different: C:\Users\#me#\AppData\Roaming\MAXON\MAXON Cinema 4D R21\plugins\LWcad R21 All is well here too, Go Viktor go and finish the nurb part too.

As of january 4th lwcad is compatible with R21. So I downloaded lwcad 2018.31 and cannot get it to show up in c4d after copying the files to the directories the manual mentions. Dis anyone manage to get lwcad running under R21? here's the roiginal post by Viktor: Dear LWCAD Cinema 4D users. I want to inform you about the status of LWCAD Cinema 4D for 2020. LWCAD Cinema 4D is currently updated to version 2018.31 which is fully compatible with R20-R21. You can download the latest version in http://www.lwcad.com/html/download/download.php The new Mesh TR engine which is currently under development is specially designed for LightWave and Cinema 4D. Mesh TR is a new universal parametric modeling engine based on NURBS. It will replace the current engine which was designed for the very early version of LightWave and then updated several times with patches for C4d and 3dsMax. The new system eliminates all previous problems. Porting new MeshTR tools to Cinema 4D will be done after all significant NURBS tools in LightWave will be updated. Then you get a complete package of NURBS toolkit in Cinema 4D in very short time. Until this big update comes to the Cinema version, LWCAD will be updated regularly to maintain compatibility with the latest C4D Rxx.

Over at redshift Darby Edelen wrote this procedure about vector displacement: https://www.redshift3d.com/forums/viewthread/24170/#153335 I’ve spent some time exploring this. It turns out that the vector displacement maps that C4D bakes out can be used, but they require precise settings and some manipulation of the resulting data. First the bake settings. When using Bake Sculpt Objects make sure that you disable Include Top Levels on the Options tab and choose Level 0 for your Target Object. You’ll want to use the RGB (XYZ Tangent) method on the Settings tab and also enable Round Geometry. After you bake with these settings you’ll get a standard C4D material in the scene. Make note of the Height value on the Displacement tab in this material, this will be your displacement scale later on. The RGB values do not map properly for Redshift. You’ll need to swap the Green and Blue channels and then invert the resulting (new) Blue channel. You can either do this in the shader graph using Color Splitter, Color Maker and Color Change Range nodes or in an external application (After Effects or Nuke are good options). Enter 1/2 of the Height value you noted before on the Displacement node and set the Output Range to -1 to 1 (the change to the output range effectively multiplies the scale by 2 which is why you use 1/2 the height value). In the Redshift Object tag you’ll first want to disable auto bump mapping (which gives really weird results). Then you need to make sure that your Maximum Displacement is greater than or equal to the height value (i.e. >= 2x the displacement node scale). Lastly if you change the UV tiling of the material or apply the material to an object with UV tiles that are smaller in world space you’ll need to reduce the Displacement Scale in the Redshift Object tag. If you tile the displacement 4 times on the original base sculpt geometry you’d want to set the displacement scale to 0.25 (1/4). If you want more detail without the high levels of subdivision you can also bake out a normal map from the sculpt object. This is covered in one of the C4D documentation links I provided before, but the gist of it is that if you had a sculpt object with 7 levels you’d export the vector displacement using level 5 as the source and 0 as the target, then separately export the normals using level 7 as the source and 5 as the target. In that way the first 5 levels should be covered by displacement and the last 2 by normals. I haven’t tested that workflow with Redshift though.

Thank you Dan this clarifies a lot, especially the settings bit. Didn't know tiff was causing problems and didn't realise the uv might be crooked. Posted your video on the redshift forum too.

Ah murphy's law in action. I do appreciate the effort though.

Dan thanks for your eleborate reply, I think the problem for me lies in the exact settings of the baking process, object versus tangent to get the correct vector displacement. A few screenshots of the bake settings and the nodes would suffice but if you can manage a video that would be great too. Philip

I've posted this on the RS forum too with no answer yet. The problem is I cannot find the correct procedure to bake and connect textures of a C4D sculpt to RS. So I've scuplted this quad ball in C4D and it renders fine in RS but it has a large polycount. Bake to the rescue ... Only to find that I usually end up with something like this no matter what setting or procedure: I've baked out 8K textures and stored them on my server here It's a normal map and a displacement map. Any suggestions on what procedure to follow ? Philip It's a follow up on this post actually https://www.c4dcafe.com/ipb/forums/topic/105643-sculpt-displacement-to-redshift-problem/ sculpt c4d to rs.c4d

actually very relaxing to look at. Wouldn't these be nice to use in science class and find the flaws. As a vaccine against desinformation.... Oh wait, a vaccine, that wouldn't work on believers.

Hey thanks for the scene Jed, I guess they know it does not work. The video is cut three times in the first 2 minutes. Just to give the appearance op continuity. If you paid attention at school you'd know energy does not appear from nothing (only complete universes do) Philip

Ha, thank you Hrvoje. They look like atm's but the machines in the lobby ar check-in-stations for people coming to the hospital. You scan your patient-id card and the machine prints a card with the destination for your scheduled consult. But they look like atm's anyway or daleks.

WIP with a silent character. Had to be stylised and simple to fit the budget. I used a prerigged puppet and bound boolean splines with a posemorph for expression to the head. Tweaked the deformed splines to match the curve of the head with a FFD object. Simple xpresso to connect the sliders to the morphs.

And completely CO2 neutral too, just some noise ...

It's true, I suck at drawing perpsective. But a previz with C4D and a free rigged stick figure from ace5studios.com (thanks Aleksey) made drawing this A0 poster a lot easier. It's about the flow of information in a hospital.

Impressive everfresh, no particles were harmed with the making of this animation. Philip

Thank you for replying Rector, I can't send you a PM (blocked). I could share the scene with you if you're willing to take a look at it. It's too complicated to simplify the scene. edit: I think i just solved the updating problem, so only the freezing problem remains, back to R20 for now Philip

Lots of problems here with R21 and constraints not updating to a rig or keyed motion of a master null. No matter the order or priority i set the elements to. To top it of, on several random ocasions C4d froze on me moving it one frame forward or backward. Switched to R20 with the same scene and all problems were gone. Latest OGL 2x 2080 Ti RTX (driver 430.86, i7 7820x . Any suggestions in what direction I can look for a possible solution, apart from switching back to R20? Thanks Philip

Thank you bentraje, just what I wanted. Philip

Is there a function in R21 to remember the f curve, meananig it shows up ghosted beneath the active curve. I'd like to edit a 'track after' curve set to repeat and mimic the shape. I remember Modo having this feature. Thanks philip

And another one:

Thanks for these Jed. Philip

Here's a theory: Rizom has inside information MAXON will reveal a killer UV suite included with R21. So they drop their prize now to get you spending your Money on their product. You buy Rizom anyway. Result: kicking self. Or ... alternative theory: MAXON will leave the UV sadness for what it is in R21 (like in many past updates) but you do not take up the Rizom offer. Result: kicking self. On the other hand it's great to have good tools and people tend to overestimate a negative outcome and underestimate a positive one. I have Modo for UV but I think Rizom is a good deal. Go for it. Philip

And here's another part of the human abilities valley being filled up by ai. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have “developed an end-to-end deep learning algorithm that can take any speech signal as input – and realistically animate it in a wide range of adult faces. More info here: https://news.developer.nvidia.com/generating-character-animations-from-speech-with-ai/ The dataset and trained model are available for researchers on Github

So here's animation #2 made for people with kidney failure. In this one Aart and Annie illustrate the do's and dont's if you have a fluid limitation due to kidney failure. It's narrated in Dutch ... but hey it has an English cc. Annie is the green one with the dress and no beard. C4D R20, Redshift and a bit of the ubiquitous Adobe tools.