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They haven't even put a team of developers together or know the makeup of that team yet. This sounds like a total pipedream to me. As others have said it would probably be easier to build a completely new system from scratch than resurrect an aged codebase.

Hey. I have an old project I am trying to finish and it needs R21 and I am wondering if you still have it for sale. If so I am interested. Thanks. Michael

Come to think of it I too briefly also owned Poser, Hash Animation Master and Lightwave. I don't know why I bought Lightwave. Had the dongle hang around my computer drawer for years but never even got around to installing it as far as I remember.

I don't doubt your experience with it being very useful in Maya, but I am curious how you use this exactly and what are some of the things or actions that you find yourself needing to repeat over and over again?

And there is one more: Toggle Last Two Tools does what it says and can be found in the Command Manager and placed in layout, though it has no icon assigned to it unfortunately.

And here is an older video explaining the various options. https://www.cineversity.com/vidplaytut/4_ways_to_quickly_toggle_between_recent_tools_in_cinema_4d

Yes, here it is if anyone is interested. I pulled it from R20 standard layout and tested it in latest version and it works fine. If you fold the pallet after import you can place it directly into any tool palette. recenttoolspaletteMV.l4d

I would guess the functionality should still be there. Maybe it could be pulled from an old layout? Otherwise, this video shows two other ways to call up recently used tools.

I started with Strata 3D to Bryce to Infini-D to C4D and later Softimage. Of those only C4D is still being developed. No small testament I guess to the original developers and all those who worked for them and those who carry it on today.

You can see some of it here: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/whats-new.html Notice there isn't now even a box telling you at what magnification level you are viewing at.

Sorry for the off topic discussion, but Adobe has a new interface for Acrobat and I'm just floored at how bad it is. Luckily you can turn it off. Imagine a software company building a new interface that is so horrible that they decided people should be able to turn if off and go back to the old one. Also what's with Adobe's proprietary dialogs. It's like they felt determined to make those as unfriendly as possible as well.

Do you seriously expect a response with that level of detail in your question?

Xpresso is hands down the single most important tool in all of Cinema 4D. Take it away and Cinema is nothing. There was talk of the new nodes eventually replacing it and Maxon considering Xpresso to be archaic and unworthy of further development efforts beyond basic maintenance, but that has since proved to be fantasy. Nodes are languishing and stuck in a perpetual technology preview stage with barely anyone enthralled by or enthusiastic about their future. That leaves Xpresso as the still undisputed king of Cinema, but since it isn't being actively developed there isn't much incentive for people to write about or promote it beyond the substantial and already available content on YouTube and elsewhere.

AE can do that but unless you're doing lots of compositing and special post effects then Premiere might be a better choice. AE is the world's worst software for video editing. For general reconstruction of image sequences and editing of video and audio then Premiere or another editing software is a better choice.

It seems like Maxon has already abondoned Scene Nodes, unless they have some twenty year plan for it that I'm not aware of and it's actually right on schedule.

Displacement would be the easiest method.

Been awhile since I posted this link, but if anyone here hasn't seen this yet please give it a watch. AI is basically the Borg of Star Trek lore coming for us in the here and now. "Resistance is futile."

Cool idea!

No.

See the triangle to the left of the word Format in last screen shot and toggle it.

So I posted my question to Otoy's Octane forum. Let's see if it gets an answer. https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=81341&p=422523#p422523

So I tested that and guess what? No free lunch on subdivision in terms of time it takes to render. I thought there was a slight hope in that my previous findings with Octane material sds found it is more efficient in terms of allowing subdividing more objects while still rendering than Cinema SDS, but in the end it seems there is no measurable render time difference.

If all that doesn't work then use radiant geometry instead.

Thanks for the suggestion. I will test that and report back. 👍

I have a complex scene that uses conditions and dependencies that determine how objects display and subdivide. For example objects closer to the camera subdivide more heavily than objects further away. Everything is controlled via Xpresso and rebuilding the scene is out if the question for such a minor accommodation.