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For a recent project I had to integrate a photographic environment with 3d characters. Having spent ages in previous projects getting the perspective right with camera calibration I decided to try using lidar scans (a Trimble X7 Laserscanner with sampling set to 1 cm and a very friendly operator named Paul from paul3d.nl). With the correct lens settings for my camera I found this to be much faster, compensating for the extra cost tinkering with the setting. If anyone is interested I'll post a more detailed report of my journey. Philip .

Whatever works! 😄 Also, sometimes it's just the time to walk a new path, even if the first walk isn't the fastest. New tech tends to pay off tremendously down the line, so props to you! Thanks for sharing 🙂

Just FYI, the DPI of an image will do literally nothing to the image/texture quality, its a meaningless value as far as computer graphics go, it only has context if you start printing artwork. All that matters here is that the bump has enough pixels of resolution (~4000 should be fine for what youre trying to do), that you dont mess it up with a lossy file format like jpg (png would be a better choice), and that the artwork has some softness to the edges (gaussian blur it)

Thank you @Igor and @keppnI think it is best to make a short video as i seem to be limited to 4 images in this post. As some chararcter said : I'll be back

I had become accustomed to attempting this sort of design using MoGraph... but that involves placing objects on another object's vertices or poly faces. This Corona pattern method seems to be simpler and less taxing upon one's computer resources...

Yes. This happen since R21 if i recall. I always thought it was some MS Windows 10 issue, but recently i changed OS and the problem persists. While the processor load goes to zero, the ram amount is still in use. Its even worse when c4d is using a lot of ram, it takes a lot of time to gradually end task. There are some third party apps that manage the ram in windows more agressivly. Perhaps one of these systems can help with this issue.

Hi, There's a Pose Morph Tag on your Mesh. It is in "Animate" Mode. It means that Cinema 4D will give priority to the poses from this tag (currently the "Default: Mesh" pose) and ignore your latest modifications. To make modification of your character, switch to the Pose Morph "Edit" Mode and create a new Pose with the "Add Pose" button. You could also delete the Pose Morph tag, if you don't need it during modeling....

@Igor My proposal is to keep the paywall but let people see the content of the website for free. Currently everything is behind closed doors, no one can see what exactly we are doing here. Only those who want to comment or post a topic should have to pay a membership. This way we keep unwanted firestarters and trolls away. I don't think there would be someone willing to pay just to have the ability to rant for anything. You will also have a worthy revenue because more people will be willing to pay the small annual subscription just to post their question having seen the quality of help in this site.