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OK bit more fun wanted to see how the character looked moving. I am wondering if the hands and arms are too long? Also I seem to have a black patch on the tummy area - more investigation is needed! BTW the sampling was low on this so that is why I have the white spots… I think… BB Catwalk HB v03.mp4

Started on the hairdo and eyelashes today. Think it is an improvement?

Thanks for the tip Kingcoma and Vector (I did know about density/length) maps - I will give that a try but I think I have found another workaround using RS Principled Hair. It was hard work trying to find a tut that is up to date with the new Principled Hair and I have yet to find a way to give the hair colour based on an image map. I mean if I wanted to have giraffe or cheetah fur on the character it just don't work using the SURFACE setting. You used to be able to do that but now it doesn't seem to work. So what I have done is create two sets of hair one for the body and one for the belly using density maps. It's getting there but there must be an easier way.

OK been working on this project today UVing all the meshes and painting away with BodyPaint (why do I feel I am using something that is dated?) I haven't added the hair on this render but now I am wondering if I should? I will do it anyway and also try doing some sub-surface scattering on the skin. I am liking what I have done so far - much more appealing that the origonal I think?

Agh! I thought someone would look at it and say straight away that’s cos you didn’t do this or that…

Hi Peeps I am in the process of reworking an old character I created back in the early 2000s - And why not! So I have finished the remodelling (it was originally done in Animation Master) and am working on the texturing and UVs. So I thought I would add the fur on the body, which looks teddy-bearish which is what I wanted, but I don't get those white lines? I am using principled hair since I am rendering in RS. Not sure what the white worms are though…

OK for anyone else who might be wondering I contacted Maxon Support. It seems that when rendering several frames a lot of the computing is initially done on the CPU and then sent to the GPU to render. So in my case the actual rendering of the frame on my PC using the GPUs was lightening fast. But because it had to do all the computing then that's what made it seem to be the same speed as my Mac mini. It wouldn't always be the case depending on the complexity of the scene. I was starting to wonder that Apple's Metal was getting A LOT better… Also when using Team Render you get several CPU nodes but not GPU nodes so any rendering on Team Render with my Mac would be done on the CPU which is pretty impressive speed wise anyway for a little computer.

This is really starting to seem weird… What I am finding weird about it is when I render my image in Redshift RenderView on my PC it takes on a couple of seconds to render but when I render the sequence it takes approx 20 per frame to render - don't make sense?

I know I posted this a while ago but I finally got around to pointing this out to Maxon Support and they told they are aware of this issue and it is a bug in Xrefs which will get fixed but they don't know when. It's probably not on the top of their list… Although for me it should be on the top of the list cos I have been waiting for this to be fixed since Xrefs first appeared back in R13? @JBatista Seems the only way to get this to work is to make the Xref editable but that is for Xrefs using the Character rig. I haven't actually tried it with other types of Xrefs. I think it works fine for geometry items and nothing too complicated like character rigs.

I don't get this… I have setup my PC to use my Mac mini as a Team Render machine using Redshift. Now my understanding from what I have read is that for a Team Render machine to use Redshift GPU you need another Redshift Licence. However when I push the 'Team Render to Picture Viewer' button it renders away quite happily on both my PC and Mac (I am not using hybrid node on either computer). Now another bit I really don't get is my PC has two RTX 2800Ti GPUs and my Mac mini only has it's 16 core M2Pro chip and yet it renders only a tiny bit slower than my two nVidia GPUs? I was somewhat stunned… Some please explain cos I am quite confused. Have Maxon done something in 2024.4.0 version of C4D?

@Bezo It rendered beautifully. I just didn't wait long enough for frame 20 when the particles actually enter view. It was me rushing and not using my noddle 🤣

Hi Cebera I did cache the particles but now I am looking at the project (Surface Flow) with more time on my hands I realised I was being a complete doughnut! When I was rendering the first few frames I saw no particles in the scene so thought something was wrong (why do I always suspect bugs?). Now I realised that's because the particles didn't enter the scene until about frame 20 and I was preview rendering frame 76 where the particles are half way down the blob object! I gotta learn to slow down a bit… I feel a complete particle now… BTW what do you mean by PV - Preview?

Finally got aroud to taking a lok at the new particle system in the latest update to C4D and it was looking good once I also update to the latest version Redshift. Now when I render to the Redshift RenderView it look lovely but when I want to render out an image sequence NO PARTICLES... What am I doing wrong? I have watch a few tuts but none of them show rendering out an image sequence. I am hoping that this feature is not restricted to a Maxon One subscription? I don't think so... Any quick tips appreciated :0)

I find this really annoying. I have a project that uses an Xref character and I want to use good old Team Renderer to render it. Believe it or not it is quicker to use for this project than Redshift. Problem is that when I setup my two machines to render one renders the character animation properly and the other just renders a T-Pose. Strangely the machine that renders the T-Pose is the host machine not the client. I know that I could make the character editable but it is a bit of a fag to keep doing this whenever I want to render something. I am wondering if I should approach Maxon about this conundrum?

Actually I wondered can you import hair from C4D into UE? Probably not…

Gee fanx for these links Alex I am now really getting my head around Unreal after watching these two tuts. The ones I started on where way too fast and more games orientated.

You said that you used a Mixamo character for the archer, what I would like to know is how did you get the character to plant his feet on the ground on an uneven surface? Did you have controllers to help plant the feet?

And having looked around on the net and some tuts can anyone make any recommendations? I always seem to pick the ones where the teacher is rabbiting on at 90 miles an hour…

Fanx for the link Jeff, mucho appreciated! I will watch them very soon. Been watching another of Winbush's videos converting and importing a C4D file into UE but that why I thought what's the point?

Gee fanx Mash. This kinda reminds me of a project I was trying to develop 20 years ago. The studio I worked for did a lot of work for a pharmacy and used to produce a catalogue with all their products in. I came up with the idea of creating a virtual shop where they could walk around it and pick up products, see the details and then add them to their shopping trolley. At the time I said it would probably need to be developed in a game engine but since we didn't have that capability we did the next best thing which was model it all in C4D, render out parts and stitch it altogether in Flash so that viewers could kinda jump from one place to the other in the shop and pick products. It never really took off… If we had UE like it is now I think it would have worked. Think I will start learning a bit more of this stuff as I am beginning to feel a bit left behind.

One more question on the UE front. I still cannot get my head around the need to use it. If you spend hours modelling, texturing, lighting and rendering in C4D to achieve your result why would you want to export it all to UE? Is it mainly to speed up the rendering. Obviously I can understand it if you are exporting models into it to create a game for which it was designed for but I don't quite get the rest…

Sorry I should have been a bit more precise! I am looking at creating a landscape which also has trees and other plants. I have put together a quickie fly-through using just elements from C4D using a landscape object and a plain as a sea which looks like it might do the job. It doesn't have to be super real (thank god) but reasonably good. I have done this before but I used World Creator and since I have Fused I was thinking Terraform but when I plonked a couple of the Taiao trees in it, it suddenly started to crawl. My C4D version was much quicker. I think the thing that phases me is generating a texture map for the landscape that doesn't tile with obvious seems and looks quite convincing. I don't mind paying, for yet another plug-in, but if I do I want to get the right one if that makes sense 🙂

Hi Peeps. I have a Insydium Fused licence which is about to expire and am in need of a landscape setting. Now I did have World Creator but that has expired too. So I am wondering if I should not bother with these two or go look at something from Unreal? I will be needing a scene where the camera flies through a country side full of trees and vegetation so am now sure what would be my best option. Trouble is with something like this is it will SLOW down any real-time movement when I start adding loads of stuff so I am open to suggestions.

Yup you need to add and extra edge loop on the elbows and knees for this to bend properly. So an edge loop either side of the elbow loop and the same for the knee. It will also help if those loops are angled. For the elbows when you look down they should be pointing inwards and for the knees when you look at them side ways they should be pointing to the knee. The mouth is not good. Whilst you will be able to create pose morphs for movements it will look a bit lumpy. you need those splines at the side to cut into the corners of the mouth and have another two edge loops going around the mouth. You might want to add another loop around the eye too. Hope this makes sense and helps.

@Zeden - thanks for the tip, I don't envy you having 8 rigged characters in a scene in any version before 2024 - been there done that 🙂 OK I am doing a little animation with a simple character in 2024 and I have noticed quite a speed up HOWEVER! I have noticed that when hitting the space bar the frame rate starts out at about 100 fps and when I repeatedly press the play bar to watch my animation each successive time the frame rate drops and after about four times hits 15 fps? Then I find that if I flick into another viewport and back to my main one the frame rate goes back up again… Something is wonky?