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I am 62. I have no use for any social media outside of the Core4D. Now....get off my lawn!!!! 😀 Dave

I'm not sure, about how effective this move will be with the new sub. but i subscribed for old times sake 🙂 I generally never really like the ad supported nature of the internet, always thought it'd be better if people paid for things they liked. ( personally loving ad free youtube experience, just wish their algorithm also changed away from ad generating content). I see the younger generation no longer really wants to search for answers, they just want to ask on discord/slack/chatgpt and get an instant personalized answer. But i'm looking forward to see what can be built here, i'll try be more active. What are the rules about spamming my c4d related products? :))

Everyone is using multiple apps nowadays across most of film, TV & commercials. Z-Brush, Substance, Unreal etc, etc. All of the programs you mention are also going to need supplementing with other software too. That's just how things are now., doesn't matter what program you're using.

That's nice for hobbyists or certain freelancers in certain industries. But I'll never work on a project that qualifies for the indie licence, nor will anyone else at the company where I work. It's just not a like-for like comparison. Even then, the Cinema 4D full commercial is only about 50% more on this offer than Maya's Indie, which seems pretty good value.

Keep in mind that on modern windows versions a simple application can't crash to BOD. This is only possible for near hardware software (drivers, BIOS etc.) or hardware errors.

As expected. They want to tempt you through the door with one handle. Easy to get in, hard to get out.

Different tasks will be hitting your system physically in different ways. Your physics sims will be ramming 1 cpu core at 100%. Video editing will be hitting ram bandwidth, standard c4d renders will be loading up the FPU of the CPU across all cores. You can absolutely have a system that is stable for gaming and general system use which then falls over as soon as you start a c4d standard or gpu render. eg an overclocked gpu which fails during a game might manifest as a single pixel turning the wrong colour for a moment, but if it fails during a CUDA 3d render then it kills the entire app. Clock watchdog timing out is basically telling you that the cpu tripped over its own shoelaces whilst trying to juggle tasks across the cpu cores. This can happen if the chipset drivers arent installed and you just have the standard MS OS drivers, especially with newer high core count chips. Or it can be a more fundamental bios problem, again, most likely a newer cpu on an older motherboard bios. Or lets be honest, entirely likely overclocked too far. You havent said which cpu this is, but these days theres very little headroom for overclocking on most cpus and gpus. Most chips are already auto overclocking themselves under the guise of turbo boost anyway. Unless you have exotic cooling in your system, the heat generated will usually be your limiting factor even without overclocks.

There is no solution to the generation gap. Just keep in mind that you used to be annoyed when your parents or grand parents told you to stop wasting time on a computer and learn some proper job skills instead. Now it is our turn to believe the young generation is wrong, has no values and our civilisation is doomed 😄

I am - I hit 50 the other day, and I know I am old because Discord annoys me 🙂 Maybe we should have a 'Core Crusty's Corner' for all the people who value actual skills and proper learning ?! Nice to see some of the 'old' crowd back though, regardless of age ! CBR

Welcome back, I not been about much myself. I agree, we do live in a instant gratification generation which is not helpful for those who seek it often as they are missing out on the whole point of learning, you learn so much more by experiment and strive for answers, that's how I learn and then if that fails I ask chat GPT, although thats not been too helpful of recent.

The project assets inspector and the render queue annoyingly use different code to check for missing files. The asset inspector checks for which files are genuinely needed to render the project, whilst the render queue just does a dumb check for the mention of a material. So, if you have a node in a material that isnt linked to anything, the project asset inspector will say "yeah, not connected to anything, dont worry about it" whilst the render queue shits its pants, throws up a red light and tells you the world is about to end. Options: - hunt down the unused nodes and delete them - change the c4d prefs to ignore render queue errors and just render anyway - search your hdd and just copy the offending files into /tex so the render queue shuts up

Material > illumination > Generate GI Strength

Hey heyyyy are we old now?

I am not a old timer 👴 Nice to see you back!

Welcome back. Yes, searching for answers was a whole satisfying experience on its own, back in the days. But the fact that we're "noticing" (*) a difference with how the younger generation do their "research", should make us realize we're getting get-off-my-lawn old. (*) noticing, being annoyed by, ... whatever floats your goat.

A year's Cinema 4D commercial is less than 1/3 the cost of a year's Maya full commercial, even before the discount. I that so terrible ? £462 for a year with the discount seems pretty decent to me.