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I have used Cinema since R5 and still rely on it for professional work and for keeping up with all my past projects. I have however always wanted to work in a node based environment and thus am learning Houdini after viewing with disappointment the direction and slow pace of development that Maxon has gone with Neutron. I'll probably never stop using Cinema but for node based work it seems silly to wait for or expect Cinema to reinvent the wheel that Houdini has been perfecting for years, so I hope to someday become as proficient in Houdini as I am in Cinema.

Here you can post your entry(s) https://www.core4d.com/ipb/forums/topic/117250-99-polygons/ (or you could click directly on image in first Igor´s post)

Some ideas to play with in the future

No. Layouts shouldn't go there - the layouts should be copied to the library / layout folder within your preferences folder (which can be opened directly from within Cinemas preferences; see button at the bottom), and then the program restarted, after which they should show up. CBR

Amazing video and captures perfectly my biggest issue: understanding the design aesthetic. EC Henry understand that aesthetic better than anyone (well....maybe not Doug Chiang....but you get my point). You need to think about function and the overall world that model lives in when coming up with the detailing. He made an excellent point in that because SW was set "a long time ago", to get that point across the ship designs actually drew inspiration from old military aircrafts in our own world. Very subtle and subliminal. Bravo! And this is where some procedural modeling techniques fail (IMHO), particularly if they try to be a full service solution with limited control other than population density. Now, RandomFlow is more of a tool than a procedural system and that is why I think it is probably the best plugin for this type of work. Still would like to get a sense of what its export to C4D looks like (hint..hint). Now, I do like the Divider plugin for C4D and have started to play around with it for surfacing the outside of the Death Star. But....I am not there yet. More work to do. Here is a small test for a bump out section of the DS equatorial trench: And how it will fit into the overall model. While in the background, it is still wrong. Unfortunately, no matter how much reference material I have, there is a bit of trial and error going on because I have yet to internalize the design aesthetic - so there is trial and error. Plugins will help, but only when you know EXACTLY what you are trying to achieve. Unfortunately, I only know what doesn't look right. Dave

Another overnight render just to see how a Level Set liquid would look like rendered as water. Using an HDRI for the dome light makes it end up looking more like glass, due to the mesh being treated like a solid object. Rendered using Redshift. water_fluid_redshift.mp4