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Sounds trivial but it’s something that continues to erk me, so I hope it gets addressed in the latest release and it’s the symmetry system. Still having to cut everything in half to mirror the other side and still be limited to only being able to modify one side of the mesh is more than tiresome for me, functionality similar to the true symmetry plug-in would be very welcome.

I'm another one currently on R21. I really hope Maxon deliver enough in R27 to tempt me to upgrade, but having got reasonably comfortable with the basics of Houdini over the last few months, I think that will be a tough call. £2K for a C4D upgrade vs sticking with R21 and Houdini Indie at £165 /year - what would you do?

No idea how it works but this is what I was able to do in Blender: Simple shape key (pose morph equiv) Then I absolutely destroyed the mesh, removing vertices and faces, and adding multiple edge loops, knife cuts and extrusions And the morph still works!

I'm not familiar with the car rig, but back in the day align to spline etc only went up to 100%. To make your object loop past 100%, you used modulo 1. Modulo means count up to, but never actually reach the max - resets to 0%. might work... [ nowadays, align goes past 100% ]

Having some trouble visualising that without pictures I'm afraid, but if I get the general idea right I still think you'd be better using something like pose morph rather than trying actual cloth or softbody sims. I suspect it is unlikely you will be able to get exactly the precision joins you require using sims - they are too 'floaty' and hard to control in a way that non-sim approaches aren't. CBR

I don't have any hopes for R27

Its not that I don't like the new versions. It is obvious that there was done quite somthing under the hood. The features of the last updates stack up and capules is a thing, but also the price stacks up. Its been 3 Years since R21 and therefor 3 times 800€ = 2400€, they don't seem to give discount to get older perpetual users back. I don't need the update but would consider it If they had a good offer, thats what I wanted to express.

Personally, I don't need a single new feature -- only speeeeeeeeeeeeeed!

There is always a bit of heat in the forum every September over a new release and I have added to some of that heat in the past. But actions speak louder than words and therefore, I would like to provide some balance to the discussions that may follow in this thread. For those with perpetual licenses, do NOT just look at what is in R27. IHMO, R26 was an amazing game changer with all the modeling improvements and RS. So R27 will be the first-time perpetual license holders will be able to get their hands on those improvements as well. Now, from that perspective, my long-standing concerns since R21 with Maxon milking their user base in a subscription model and NOT providing meaningful updates are being proven to be completely UNFOUNDED. Again, actions speak louder than words and in the interest of fairly calling balls and strikes, let's look at the actions. Now R25 was a dark chapter but when you get through the hurdles of learning the new icons, the UI is a welcome addition, and R25 overall becomes more acceptable particularly against what came before and after that release (e.g. both R24 and R26 had some neat additions - they just weren't perpetually licensed releases and could not be fully enjoyed until R25 and the forthcoming R27). In whole this has caused R25 to fade from memory (though I would like to see more work done to replace missing icons). It also shows that while some releases may be lackluster, they are only lackluster for a time. R26 made up for it so I am willing to cut them a break should not all our expectations get met with each and every release. Maxon's actions have earned that trust (IMHO). More importantly and what should NOT go unnoticed is that the benefits of their acquisitions such as RS and Z-Brush are NOT only going to be felt by a Maxon One license holder. They are being integrated into C4D as well. To me that is huge as Maxon could easily have said NO to RS CPU or required you to export from C4D to Z-Brush for remeshing thus forcing you into the more expensive Maxon One plan. But they did not. They used those acquisition to make C4D better. You have to respect that. Now, is C4D perfect? Not yet. Will it become perfect with R27? Probably not. But I like the trajectory I have seen so far, and credit should be given where credit is due. Actions do speak louder than words after all. Dave

That won't work. Object is imported into graph and new object is output from it.

I too, am enormously looking forward to this release 🙂 CBR