HappyPolygon

Yes that's what i'm telling you.
Make your HUD of preference and in order to maintain it or to "transfer it" to an other scene just load the old scene using the Merge Object.

Keep your template empty project of the HUD but after you merge an other scene to it don't forget to overwrite the older scene with the template.

This is how I perceive your problem...

First of all your mesh and skin objects are lost in another universe... how did you do that ?


 
After that I had to think like a game dev... so what do they do ? They put their animation meshes inside an invisible box and have the box just move, no bones no deformations. I did the same thing with just a Connect

Is this OK ? character_path HP.c4d

Ah ! sorry, didn't see the scene file and assumed the deformed thing was the plane ...

Umm... you've mixed two different simulation methods.
The Sphere has a tag from the Bullet system while the Plane has a Collider tag from the newer system. You'll never see the sphere collide with the floor this way

But the weird deformation wasn't attributed to that. You had the "Self Collisions" enabled.

have you updated to 2024.2 ?

Control the weightmap of the objects using the field and then use the weightmap to control the transparency as a Vertex Map Shader

Wrong approach on distributing instances.
 
You should have used the Spline Effector 
 
Notice the order of Effectors applied on the Text 
 

 
Untitled 4.c4d

For me the simplest/fastest way is this.
I've never used Cineware though so I don't know if it really helps you in AE
 
hp.c4d

Now that I think of it I might not need this... We have the Mesh Deformer which is the same thing but with polygonal objects on which I have access to points.

I wouldn't be surprised if that ad was revealed to be done with C4D...
 
None of the rocks or any other element interacts with the ground or the sand.
Sand look very simple. They used the exact same radius for their spherical particles with the water scene and made them bubbles instead. I don't think they used X-Particles or even Thinking particles... simple perfect Sphere MoGraph dynamics should do the trick...
 
For nice textures you should look at CG axis. I'm very satisficed with their work. 
 
adv.c4d
 
I used a lot in this example. You have RedShift, you should use it on the Pyro.
Disable particles for faster preview.

I don't think this is possible without Scene Nodes or plugin.
The closest to a variable length is this but it's not random and very slow 
tracerPath2.c4d
 
I think Mesh-to-Spline can help you here https://rocketlasso.gumroad.com/l/mesh-to-spline-from-rocketlasso?layout=profile
But I'm not 100% it will work on splines. You might need to contact Chris for that first and ask him.

Chladni patterns.c4d

OK I'm just stupid. I didn't know you could change the Output ports' data type ...
 
That M though is weird... maybe a bug of the interpreter

What about PolyFX ?
Use it like a deformer on your spline. (Partial Polys Mode)

Make a huge sphere and distribute nulls randomly on its surface.
Put the Cloner under the Tracer.
Make a Sketch&Toon Material, and assign it to the Tracer.
Go to Render Settings -> S&T -> Lines and checl Splines.
Render -> Mode -> Include and put the Tracer in there. Disable Background Blend.
Animate the Sphere (simple rotate) to reveal star trails.
Go to the material and set color to white and enable Opacity with Along Stroke. Render. If the opacity does not follow movement disable Invert from Along Stroke.
 
star trails.c4d
 

Somehow the Connect object was responsible.
I broke it to two sweeps and the material stays fine. But broke the dynamic connections in the process.
 
c4d_core_ material_issue.c4d

Something like that
 
rotating steps HP.c4d

1) Move the scene "bit away from the" camera (can't be done if the animation path is not close to a straight line but contains turns)
2) Change "a bit" the camera Field of View (expect some slight differences)
3) You can edit the animation path on viewport by selecting the Object Mode or Animation Mode.
   
4) You can change an Animation Path to a Spline and vice-versa from the TimeLine window Menu. With a Follow Spline Tag you assign the spline to a new Camera as an animation Path.

While writing the previous one I had a better idea.
I hacked a bit the procedure to make it compatible to R21's capabilities.
go 2.c4d
 
You won't have to manually keyframe every move but you will have to manually draw the paths.
 
Procedural angular movement was an old problem I've been asking around here even to Rocket Lasso. For unknown reasons the Cell Noise in a Shader Field used under the Force Field won't do the trick.
 
Someone (I think Srek) had written a Python Script for this Py Random Walker.c4d but it won't help you much in this case.

If the Displacer Deformer does not work for you try the SubPolygon Displacement Channel from a Material. The only dissadvantage is that you won't have a viewport preview, but that's also an advantage. You can use a non-rendered proxy of the object using the Displacement Deformer if you need to take close-ups and always have a general awareness of the volume.
 

What ?
You want to screen record C4D using C4D ?
No C4D does not provide any screen capturing capabilities other than color picking.
I think here is a way to record user actions but for animation purposes not screen recording.
There's probably some good screen recording app that will record only when pressing mouse buttons or keys but I'm not aware of any.

Yes, just enable bump and add a white color. It will automatically use it to cover the entire texture.

I had an other type of spline in mind ...
This is called a Spline Graph


 
As you can see when I do that I get only one side to get a Tangent Control Point. That's because in order to have a soft Point Type the neighboring points have to be also Soft.

Have you tried to use the Displacer with an animated noise on the splines ?
 

I cleaned it as much as possible.
The steps I took are hidden. The order is in reverse (from bottom-to-top). If you have any questions don't hesitate asking.
 
grass-front-03 happy polygon.c4d
 
You should test some extra parameters from the export menu of Rhino. Here there is an option about exporting Ngons. It might help for future cleaner geometries. I assume the file was obj.
 

 
@Fritz please take a look of a buggy behavior I found. At the final reconstruction step, in the Extrude Attributes, any value above 29.98 at the Grid Spacing results in an unimaginable dense grid. For some reason instead of getting bigger polygons it looks like it reverts to 0.1. Could be just R23, or a perpetuating bug.

You just need to pay attention where each object's Z axis is oriented to. You don't even need Fields.
But there isn't a 1-click solution. You will still need to group objects according to their final position timestamp.
 
assembly.c4d