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I love your tiny stylized skateboard, but it's killing my OCD that his feet look fractionally too widely spaced to fit on it !! Lols 🙂 Anyway, lovely clean render... CBR

If faces are deleted, any points not shared by remaining polys will go too, and hence point order changes, so I reckon that's still a no... CBR

That's a no I think... CBR

Yeah you have to charge something for this time - your (presumably) massively expensive electricity is still going on during rendering is it not, and probably moreso cos your GPU is working so hard ?! But perhaps not your full hourly rate.... CBR

Delphis, we do not hide or remove posts when we have found the answer - that's not how forum-ing works - we post the answer so everyone can learn from your success !! if you could explain how you used that mesh deformer to solve this that would be even better ! CBR

What res is your displacement map ? 8k should be enough for this level of detail. And are you using a 32 bit map ? Cos that'll help if you're not. CBR

Lols yes - Mash beat me to it, but indeed you can't change coordinates in CM if those same coordinates are keyframed. I am guessing Autokeying must have been left on at some point if any of these are unintentional ? CBR

Without any of the information we need - Cinema version / file etc we can only speculate, and if I had to guess, as I do, I would guess you might have Axis mode inadvertently left on in the problem scene ? CBR

You could delete half the mesh, and add symmetry, so the current poly selection is transferred to the other side ? CBR

Here's my working scene file.. test-inheritance CBR.c4d CBR

You got inheritance effector on wrong matrix. CBR

Could we see a wireframe, and ideally have the file to play with ? Some of that (the inside) looks like displacement, and some like it might be topology (outside). My first instinct would be try the mesh deformer and to try and work with a low res proxy. Can we find a deformer that will do a cylindrical peel action though ? If not we might need some Pose Morph action as well. CBR

I nearly gave exactly that advice yesterday, but I tried it, and for some reason, with Unused Points unticked It doesn't matter how high you turn the threshold, optimize will not remove or thin out those points, or at least it wouldn't for me ! CBR

Please update your profile so we know which version you are working with. Answers sometimes depend on us knowing that. Let's get our terms right before we start - By 'skin tool' you mean 'Loft'. However the loft generator ONLY accepts splines as inputs so what you are doing in that file is incorrect because your extrusion object is a polygon mesh, not a spline. So first thing is to get the spline that made that star and that text, and use them directly in the Loft. However, big problem: The text is multi segment spline, and the star is not, and that, I am afraid, is going to ruin this plan completely. So, no, this cannot be done, or at least not using that method. CBR

Indeed - most interesting that the export file size is so drastically smaller - wasn't expecting that ! CBR

Aha ! That was what I was doing wrong - I was creating a new pose and dragging the ref object directly into the target field, rather than not adding a new pose and dragging the object directly into the pose list to create one ! Excellent - that's that mystery solved, my own databanks updated, and everything working as it should be... 🙂 MJV's point still stands though - the memory used is about the same ! CBR

Yes I thought that too initially, but I tried it, and even if mixing mode is set to relative, the A icon that appears next to Pose.0 remains, and does not change back to the target that would indicate Relative mode, and indeed deleting the referenced objects from the scene still breaks the morphs for me in the versions I tested in. I am in the process of trying to find out if that should work. In latest S26 when I drag my test target mesh into Pose.0 target I don't get asked any more whether it should be relative or absolute - it chooses Absolute automatically, and that remains regardless of what the mixing setting is doing in the panel, as shown below... CBR

That should be fabulously easy to sort out in UV Edit, but we have to make some allowances for the fact that your image isn't square, which means we have to manually stretch the UVs Cinema auto-generates to fill the square UV canvas, so that ALL the image fits on all the object if you see what I mean. I don't know if you want to fix the mesh to get rid of all the unnecessary triangles, but if you do, you should do so BEFORE you do UV unwrapping. When finished your UV should look like this... 1. Go into UV Edit and select both the object AND its UV tag, then Poly Mode, and Ctrl-A to select all of them. 2. Find the UV Unwrap button in the middle column and press it once, which will give you a narrow strip of polys at a weird angle like so... 3. Go to UV packing, turn off preserve orientation, turn on stretch to fit and hit apply, which should align that strip to the top of the UV canvas and make it (almost) fill it. If it guesses this wrong and the lines are going horizontally across the canvas instead of up and down it like they should be, then you can use the Transform tab / rotation settings in the UV panel to rotate it 90 degrees so it looks like my example above (top) 4. Lastly, apply a material to the object and make sure it is using UV mapping as the mapping type. CBR

Oh that's nice - some AI that doesn't also come with the threat of imminently replacing us 🙂 That's a genuinely really useful way to utilise it and a lot of fun to play with... CBR

I am trying to help with this, but waiting on a few colleagues to confirm or deny some stuff before I say anything definite ! My initial thought is that's a 'no', but I'd hate to definitively say that and then find there was a way I didn't know about. What you should be able to do is use external references so the extra objects in theory don't have to exist in the same file, but I had some issues with my tests of it so hesitant to recommend that either ! CBR

Occasionally, but when I do the main focus is mainly on the modelling, and I tend to pass stuff on for rigging and animating, so not so much experience in that area. CBR

S26 is radically better than S24 (modelling features alone), and most of the bugs in the former are fixed in the latter, so you may be better off with the more recent version. Of course the corollary also applies in that there will usually be different bugs in the newer version, but such is the way of things in the quest to incorporate new stuff... Well that's just mental and I don't understand it. 🙂 The amount of memory allocated to PV shouldn't have any affect at all on render time, and if it does, surely that is bug right ? It should ONLY affect how many frames are cached ! CBR

Most of it's in the r-click menu for any node. Here you can align to grid, centre and arrange the nodes and a whole lot more besides. Changing the colour of a node is as easy as selecting it and changing its colour in the basic tab of the attributes... We can add annotations via the remark node. Conduits for node wires might be expecting a bit much though ! CBR

I presume your use of the term 'connect' is a language thing, and you actually just want to align them ? You can use the Place Tool to just pick stuff up and align it to other objects. Lots of other ways as well, but that is the easiest. CBR

Let's clear up some confusion here: This is NOT a palette - it is a HUD element, so can't be undocked. All functionality pertaining to it is only gettable-to using the right-click menu. I will change the title of this post to make things less confusing. CBR