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I can believe the 2 and 54 numbers, its a whole new experience at the moment, I always figured it was my internet / browser combo that made it so slow. So really great work on all that. Alas I do have one small issue which has been both funny and annoying on different occasions, and that is, if I click on "my activity streams" and then go to the bottom "content I posted in" it actually disappears just before I get there, which as I said is quite funny but gets a bit tired on the 4th or 5th attempt. Is it just me, I aint no spring chicken any more but didn't think I was that slow. Deck

Cafe is all bright and blue at the moment. It all seems to be redrawing nicely and generally behaving as you would expect. Deck

Mine still the same in terms of redraw, much same as Dasfrodo said Deck

I get a similar thing with different parts taking a while to load, also if I change the window size it takes for ever to sort itself out, and I always get the ads behind the boxes like grab below, think it was same on previous version for that. I won't mention the latest comments section, which isn't / wasnt the same as either the "all activity section" or any other page that I can see, apologies if I have missed it. Deck Im on Catalina 10.15.6 in safari.

I seem to remember the size issue is all down to illustrate storing its measurements as "points" which again from memory are 72 to the inch, and then inches to cm, so when you import you set the scale to ( 1 / 72 x 2.54 ) you can type that in but easier to just put in the result 0.035 and your splines should come in at same size. Just gave it a try and seems fine. Deck

Latest Comments, my latest rant ! What can I say, I still believe the cafe has suffered with the lack of latest comments section. This had already suffered when that section was cut down to just about 6 or 8 recent comments and now there is none. Im not just wishing for old times or against change but for me the comments went hand in hand with the questions and outlined the ongoing story of that particular issue, often with comments popping up days weeks or months later. You can also see who's contributing, or at least you could with the original system. If it is a matter of space, then for my money you could drop the plug in development panel which barely changes from day to day anyway, and how often does a person need to check on plug in development ? Maybe its just me being a non / semi pro user. Downloads and video panels don't change much either, I could live without both of those. Its nice to see peoples work tho so I would keep that. Currently the only way to keep up with things seems to be to view all activities which means trawling thru lots of other stuff. Cafe is all about the conversation and back and forth of the problems and subjects, but we are only really seeing one side of things at the mo. The Questions and latest comments together create something greater than the two parts and for me are the most important / interesting things here and yet one doesn't even have a home at all unless Ive missed it. Latest comments on another page would be better than nothing, posting times on those were useful too, as opposed to time of original post as it seemed to be recently. I think Ive got that off my chest for now. Deck As always I am appreciative of all the hard work you admin guys do, just having issues with this issue 🙂

Are you dropping the "latest comments" section ? that kind of goes hand in hand with the questions for me. I would have that with even more comments than before. I do appreciate all the work tho, ya cant please all the people all the time. Deck

Hi Bezo I did have a lot at that one, but I think it may be based on a deflector as when you look close they just seem to bounce along and eventually fall off the edge of the plain, so there is no actual constraint to surface it seems. Cheers Deck

Hi Cafe I watched the tutorial below the other day, and it solved a problem I have long pondered, which is that of having objects on a surface and yet still reacting to dynamics and forces whilst being constrained to said surface. However at 11mins they were using xparticles follow surface widget. So is this follow surface option available in regular TP, I followed another tutorial which made it work on a sphere, but that was using a collider with particles held back from the centre and so didn't work on a more abstract object. So my goal is to make a TP Xpresso rig where I can just drop any object into the required fields and have things on the surface but also dynamically moving upon the surface. Hope Im making sense. Very much Xpresso beginner too. Cheers Deck XP at 11 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7YRlTPGknM&feature=youtu.be on sphere surface https://lesterbanks.com/2018/02/create-particle-flow-surface-cinema-4d/ file for sphere surface On surface 03.c4d

Thanks for sharing, very generous, I feel your pain re the deselection process. look forward to using it. Deck

Surprised nobody has mentioned the summer sale yet or have I missed the post. Deck https://www.MAXON.net/en/news/MAXON-news/article/coming-soon-our-30-off-blowout-summer-sale/

Awesome work Evan, and across so many genres too. How long does it take you to do one of those stadium shots, seems like a lifetime e of details in there. Deck

I think I would love fields and quite a few other things in later versions. Having said that, not being able to upgrade has led me to investigating my R18 even more. The whole Cmotion and character toolset was like a chapter I had never discovered. Thanks for the file. Deck

Hi Hrvoje Im looking into changing clone colours on collision ( which you have helped me with before in another post, but using fixed colours in effectors ) I was going to investigate your file 91_collision colour change but it doesn't appear to be working for me in R18, also there are no textures involved, i put one on the landscape object but that didn't work. Is this a file that doesn't work in R18 ? My goal is to change the clone colour to whatever might be on the surface under it. Deck Whilst Im here could you also tell me what the "CA" means in many of your file names. Finally, I recently watched your "Animation - mastering movement" tutorials on the cafe youtube channel, they were really fantastic, I had no idea of the flexibility of Cmotion and you explained it brilliantly. Then going on and using it to control mograph effectors was like opening up a whole new world of possibilities. The title doesn't do it justice, it should at least be "Animation - mastering movement and a Cmotion masterclass". I guess Cmotion is bread and butter for many C4D artists but it was a bit of a revelation for me. I highly recommend anyone watching it. So a big thanks for that as well as your free files here in the pit.

I understand your view, i guess peace of mind is priceless. You have certainly undersold it, not something that happens too often in this modern world of ours. I would never have known about it if not for being a member here at the cafe. Thanks again Deck

C4DS.....Thanks for the great offer I have just ordered your Dials plugin, Ive seen many of your posts about it but strangely have never worked out how to get it or found your website, or even new how much it was. Your website currently says 20 euros which I assumed was half price but when I got my invoice it was for just 10 euros, even at full price that would seem like great value to me. There must be a few people like me that didn't quite find out all the details and prices so maybe its worth putting the prices here in a post. Hoping after I get things set up I can cut down on all the layout switching I do. Many thanks Deck

Very nice, I have topo envy, still hacking away at my holes :) Deck

Ive seen a carpet roll up tutorial using the bend deformer, something similar here on the cafe too I think.........Cant imagine if that would work for a winch. maybe fake the winding part with a helix, and a sweep on a spline with dynamics for the pull out bit Deck

Hi Mathew Thats a very generous offer, i just gave it a try with the rigging tutorial but it said the congrats code wasn't valid, any ideas. Deck

Im not bothered about the name as I said previously but I do think some members such as Kiwi ( cafe founder I believe, could be wrong ) and many other members that give their time and knowledge so generously do deserve some recognition somehow, but you are all so modest that none of you want any recognition. Maybe if left to the members to bestow any accolades it may be easier for those recognised to accept such a title / award. So maybe we could have a yearly cafe award like a cafe bafta or something. No idea of how or what categories / titles may be, but might be a nice way for us mere mortals to be able to give the wizards a pat on the back. Just thinking out loud Deck

frequenter sounds a bit weird, thats just a harder way to say "regular". if it was a real world cafe or bar the people that came in alot would be described by staff etc as "regulars". I never really thought bout it myself till this post and am not overly bothered but frequenter strikes me as odd. Sorry if that bothers anyone. Deck

Adobe have C4D in AE as we know, and also illustrator. It seems a bit crazy that they don't have it in photoshop too, would be much better than the clumsy 3D thing that is there at the moment. I can't begin to get my head around that. Bit off topic but wanted to throw it in. Deck

Very generous Hrvoje, i can't wait to dig in. Many thanks Deck

If your on linked in, you can get 30 days trial of their premium service which comes with access to Lynda, similar to above. Deck Probably worth mentioning adobe TV here too, as well as all the complete documentation they have for everything.

Thanks Rick, thats really helpful. yes i paid up for my cinevercity after dropping my MSA as its a great resource and repository to cover almost any project that might come up. My memory is not quite up to all aspects of cinema so its comforting having the tutorials on call :) Cheers Deck