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If you put a Linear cloner in a null, and then add Spline Wrap as a child for that null, and feed it your helix, that should deal with the arrow wrap alignment issue.... and when pulled straight or helix radii reduced... You may have noticed I have also moved the axis of a parametric helix to its centre (geometry axis node as child) which helps in that we can also now key the height parameter of the helix instead of stretching it. Might take a fair bit of experimentation to get the settings that give you the right speed and transition though... CBR

Yes I too have distinct memories of Chris Schmidt doing something very similar, but unhelpfully can't even narrow it down to a season for you, let alone the exact episode ! 😕 CBR

Phew 🙂 CBR

I don't have Arnold, but as I said, and now confirmed by file, problem is not that, so I can probably still advise. Look at the mesh you start with, vs the mesh you get when VF is enabled... Your detailing settings therein are causing huge shifts and changes in the topography AND topology of the surface in such a way that your surface UVs are necessarily pushed apart, and cracks show in the geo. And if you must have your detailing doing that, then I can't see how you can avoid the texture moving. There are a number of options within the detailing tab that definitely improve this, these ones specifically... ...so you could try playing with those in various combinations until you get a contiguous surface again, or you could keyframe the detailing so that it fades in rather than just appears in a single frame ? CBR

Welcome to the Core 🙂 Please complete your profile to show which version of Cinema you are using, and which renderer you are working with. Also, uploading the scene file will usually get you helped faster, and would show us much more clearly what is going on in the scene than screenshots do. Trouble is, you are using Arnold, and I don't know how many people here use that, so it may take you a while to find people who can answer this if the problem is Arnold-specific. I suspect it isn't though. I suspect those cracks in your model may not be UV errors but a consequence of the parts subtly moving and deforming as VF activates. I can't know one way or the other without the scene file. CBR

No, I meant for the single big sphere they all sit inside, which is animated I believe, hence moving mesh. I did notice it worked with Static mesh also despite this ! CBR

Cloth is not a rigid body system, which is why the original bullet system remains as well, and why you should be using it here ! The reason for intersection when using that is probably incorrect collision settings. Large ball should be set to 'Static Mesh' (or 'Moving Mesh'), smaller balls to 'Ellipsoid' and then it works as expected and no small balls escape / nothing crashes... Hardballs3.c4d CBR

Actually I kinda prefer the new name now. Never could really think of this place as a cafe - it's kinda better than that, and it doesn't really work unless you're selling tea and cakes... perhaps we can do that for revenue ?! Oh wait - I haven't really thought this through... CBR

You are baking volume builder or volume mesher ? And has it been cached first ? Very hard to visualise and fully appreciate your setup without scene file. You can make it smaller by clearing any caches and turning VB off before saving file. CBR

I suspect the video cuts and when he cuts back, there is a displacer on that sphere driven by animated noise. We can't see what's under the SDS. Don't know why he doesn't mention it but I don't think RS is doing that. CBR

Ah - nearly posted that myself, and a tweet like it I stumbled across the other day - fascinating use of AI there. I bet Cinema will do something similar at some point. It is depressingly good for an early iteration. Even so I wonder how it holds up to client change requests... Nice to find a use for AI that helps the 3D effort rather than immediately threaten my job, but I can see texture artists being a bit miffed that what they used to be able to charge 6 hours for now takes 6 seconds. I bet game studios are all over this, and they can probably lose half the team because of it... CBR

Did you start with a helix spline and pose morph a horizontal stretch of that, which you could then play / key frame in reverse ? Or you could keep it more parametric by pose morphing an FFD deformer controlling the spline (points mode). Or even more parametrically by just keyframing the start and end radius of a procedural helix !? CBR

I have been UVing today, and no flickering over here (2023.1.2)... CBR

Can you not use a Cloner in Honeycomb Array Mode instead ? That is kinda designed for hexagons, and does a lot of what VF can. CBR

I could help better with this if I had the scene file and knew which version you were in ! But the process of adding object buffers should be painfully simple - add composting tag to object in question, and enable a buffer channel, and then add an Object Buffer Multipass layer for each buffer you used in Render / Multipass settings. If you are doing that and it doesn't work we'll need the file. CBR

I have not come across that before, but probably haven't used rope in that context either yet... Please upload scene file so we can look at all the things that might be affecting this. CBR

That's a bit harsh dude. Looking at our front page today, every post is marked solved, including yours I notice ! 😉 So there are some of us here and I'd say we were helping ! CBR

Your screenshot shows you in model mode, and Gouraud shading yet we still see highlighted orange polys, which should not be the case - those should only be possible to be seen and selected in polygon mode. Try saving, closing and restarting and see if it persists. When I load your scene I am not seeing the orange polys or anything else wrong... CBR

Hey Mina - welcome to the Core 🙂 Great work getting your profile done so quickly - that will help when asking questions. And you're in the right place for those ! If you are using latest Cinema then your renderer is probably Redshift unless you are still deciding on a 3rd party one... May your learnings be rewarding and your 3Ds suitably magnificent ! CBR

I don't think it is fine in his version, but because it's just a general brown you can't really tell. I would expect to have to redo UV mapping after any editable remesh operation because the whole point order and layout, upon which UVs rely, changes. CBR

OK, you'll be needing 2 dynamics tags and 1 dynamic connector, so that you can get hinge-like behaviour. Connector gets rotated to match orientation of Card and moved to hinge point. Object A is pelvis mesh and Object B is Card (with tab as child of that). Note you can't use a parent null here because it screws up the dynamics compound mesh thing, so just make the card a direct child of the part of the rig you want it attached to. Collision mode will be compound mesh / moving mesh on Rigid body tag on the card, and you'll need a collider tag on the pelvis mesh, also set to moving mesh collision mode. Sorry haven't had time to answer this earlier. Here's a simplified scene file if that helps... basic collisons 01.c4d CBR

Ahh the Bryce GUI 🙂 The program that got me into 3D... I look back at that with fond memories, including its uniquely beautiful but functionally unhelpful interface 🙂 Loved their terrain editor though. CBR

Filter / SDS Cage. Turn that off if it is on. Then make sure you are using Isoline editing in the Viewport menu. CBR

Mode / Workplane / Workplane to Y. CBR

Terragen has always been very promising but never quite delivered - I've always hated its GUI slightly more than I love its results - interesting that they now diversify into a separate sky system. Don't those controls look surprisingly similar to the ones in Standard Render / Physical Sky in C4D ?! Results look considerably more real though. CBR