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Yep, this is where the UI focus from Maxon pays dividends, they don't want to make things a painful experience and they do want things to work smoothly and for the Ui to be a pleasant and engaging thing to use. The flip side though is the high focus on this occasionally makes it feel like you're being served by a waiter who wants to make sure you sit at the nicest table, lets get you a good seat sir, here is some really good cutlery, I'll make sure the view is good, volume too loud outside sir, let me adjust it, now let me adjust the air conditioning, this table will be nicer if I make it 5cm higher, now let me give you our cleanest menu, excuse me while I turn the light down to make your surroundings more pleasant, etc etc etc, and then you look through the window and over the street the folks who arrived at the restaurant just over the road are aiready through their first meal and starting on dessert. So there are ups and downs with all this. Blender has a ton of crazy geometry node stuff that maybe isn't covered by the C4D nodes yet, they have a big assortment of cool modelling tools, they have tons and tons of add-ons, and a fat marketplace full of endless goodies being thrown at you for free or for $20 or whatever. These are good points, it's all a matter if you can handle the slight clunkiness and Blender way of doing things. I've decided I'll be happier knowing Blender than not knowing it, so I am testing it out. Houdini I plan to watch Igor's first new video this weekend. I dunno where all these respective apps will be in 12 months time but even if it rockets forward C4D is still so far behind in some respects that a bit of a breather won't hurt, a bit like watching a long marathon on TV and deciding to return to it a few hours later as the racers are all slogging up a tall mountain and there are probably more important things to be doing outside, in the garden, or perhaps during a nice long stroll down the street to the shops to buy a coffee and a banana cake from the cafe where that cute chick works on Saturdays.

pm request - simple follow rig (sphere follows through time) Simple graph 35_Follow_rig.c4d

NAB this year is Saturday April 15th to Wednesday April 19th. Maxon is there for all those dates. Their ad copy says "this is where you'll find a renewed path to clarity and confidence that takes your work in bold new directions." https://www.maxon.net/en/event/nab-show-2023 And the headline at the top of the page says NOW GET READY FOR WHAT'S NEXT The only way they could make it any clearer that new features will be demoed there would be if Dave and Rick wrote the message on a baseball bat and Noseman then thumped readers over the head with it like Robert De Niro in The Untouchables. The April 2022 features last year were shown off just a few days before NAB, so my guess is late second week of April we'll see Maxon's new bits and pieces, I could be wrong though. Or we could get them even sooner. Maxon have a 'very special' @Ask the Trainer episode for March 30th, topic yet to be revealed. Hopefully it'll be more worthwhile than the very special episodes you usually get when you hear those words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_special_episode

Here's a thought: Layer enhancements allowing for the assignment of multiple layers to an object with overrides and perhaps some notion of property inheritance between ancestor/descendent layers.

Happypolygon this is perfect. Very simple and effective. Thank you! Bests Eudes.

Like this ? orbits.c4d

Amazing. I really need to get rid of my GTX 970. Can't even open the program 😂

I hope they don't mess with Object Manager. It is the best in the industry. Blender literaly copied it from C4D. There are room for im[provements but if they go too far away with the nodes stuff they will destroy what I see as one of the main features of Cinema 4D: the Object Manager. Every time I have to work with a complex scene in Maya I curse and wish Maya had C4D Object Manager and tag system.

Per clone target setup with python effector. Each clone looks at it's respective target 213_Target_per_clone(MG).c4d