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Hi folks This topic will be used to frequently showcase examples of capsules/nodes setups. Primary intent is to use them for learning purposes. You can also think of them in terms of examples, snippets and prototypes. All scenes will be commented to reasonable extent to describe what is going on in particular setup. Please do not reply in this topic! If you have a question regarding particular setup please post separately. Hope it will help you get familiar with nodes and start making your own stuff 🙂

Thanks CERBERA. You are correct, I really need to model in those ridges to get the best result. For the time being I have done a cheap fix by fading in the ridges near the hole edges in the displacement map so you can't see those faces as much. Thanks as always for your advice 👍

It isn't possible AFAIK, without 'save project with assets', which will put a copy of it in a tex folder in the root of the project directory. I don't think Maxon want people wholesale getting their download-only bitmaps out of there. CBR

Follow the path it gives you in that very window !! CBR

Went for my annual dental check up this morning. The first thing that went through my mind when leaving the dentist was: "How many polygons does it take to make a tooth?" I would have thought quite more than the 73 I ended up with. Cinema4D R20 scene file: Molar 73Polygons.c4d

I guess there must a better and cleaner way, either with a C4D script or an external application ( I think Deadline allow this kind of command ). But in the meantime I think your workaround should work. It's a bit convoluted and it seems easy to mess things up but I don't have a better solution to suggest. For the takes it's easy : - create a first take : the parent take where you setup your scene as you want - then create two child takes, one for the animation, the other for the last frame + remote post effect Then create two render settings with the parameters you've described, and assign each RS to it's take by cliking on the little clap icon. Like this : Let us know if it works or if you find a better solution.

Ok, that second scene makes it a lot clearer what the problems with the first one were. First of all - turn the subdivision down in the Cloth Surface - having L5 (or L7 like your first scene) in there is a completely ridiculous value and is the entire reason the scene is horribly slow and memory intensive. That should be no higher than L2, if it is needed at all, which it probably isn't. Also you should know that this subdivision is not doing anything good here, whatever level it's on, because the topology of the text is both uneven and triangulated because the intermediate points in the spline and caps settings in the Extrude are not optimal either. However all that aside, your animation IS doing what you told it to do. There are 2 keyframes on that object, and they work; text starts one thickness, and reduces from there until next keyframe. There are no additional keyframes, so it stays there. If I add another keyframe after that, inflating it again, that also works for me ! So, still a bit unclear about what you think isn't working here... CBR

https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/DontSleep I use Don't Sleep for several years, initially to prevent Windows from restarting the computer (after an update) in the middle of a job. Recently I discovered some neat features to put the computer to sleep / shutdown based on some conditions like CPU load or network activity. And don't be afraid by the cheap website, it's legit and the software works great.

If that is your choice you are a bit out of luck. Xeons make no sense anymore for CG, their single core speed is to low. HP and Lenovo mainly build Business systems and their definition of business somehow usually does not match with CG work, if anything they target CAD, but those systems are a waste of money for Cinema and co. Xeons and Quadro cards are expensive without extra gain. I would ignore DDR5, the speedup is not worth any compromise or additional money imo.

It's ironic that the MOUNTAIN node is probably the easiest node to use 🤣

Adding Fields support to the Smoke Solver. Here are a couple of renders. These are both using a radial field. smoke_sphere_vortex_render.mp4 smoke_sphere_vortex_2_render_i1.mp4

Yes me too. Whilst I don't mind chatting with friends and family on discord, it's not really the sort of place where I want to do real-time problem solving, where people expect answers at conversation speed, which doesn't allow any time for prep, or experimentation, or even thinking of alternatives to the first idea that comes along. But it is rather worrying that Google can't index new questions - how are new people ever going to find us if that doesn't continue ? CBR

At Greyscalegorilla we have a discord channel, it's free to join: Greyscalegorilla Discord - Greyscalegorilla And RocketLasso has a slack channel. Insydium / X-Particles, also has a discord. Even @Igorhas a discord: https://discord.gg/j6vfhYcN Probably loads of other discords and slacks out there. But for me personally I like forums because information can get lost on threads in discord and slack. Also forums get indexed by google. So you can search and find content. Meaning any long-form posts and information doesn't get lost. However that ability is now gone from Core4D because google won't be able to index any of these discussions. I prefer the community here as a place to hang out, and I also prefer the forum style interaction.

I have left the poll open for a month, so hopefully it will be visible to people when back from vacation. It does feel like there has been a drop off recently. The visibility of the forum being locked off to only those who have signed up will be a contributing factor. Since you can't even browse the forum now to see what it is about unless you sign up. So new users won't be here asking questions since they don't even know that this is a place where they can ask questions.