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That's a cool little model you got there - I'm guessing you are doing him from S3-4 when he was still quite youthful... I guess your biggest challenge is getting those back-pointing scales that cover pretty much his entire body...

Just checking you've all seen and appreciated some really cool lighting, sculpting and destruction in the new Game Of Thrones S7 Teaser Trailer. CBR

Yes, every time I get hopelessly frustrated that the new knife tool doesn't work, and think about abandoning C4D for Max, I get as far as their web site, before I am reminded of their mental profiteering rental only bullshit, and I close the page, and go back to lovely perpetual Cinema, where eventually, they WILL fix Line Cut :)

I'll be honest, if you installed it correctly, and it doesn't work, that is a very good indication that it just doesn't work (and maybe can't work) with your version. And if that is the case I'm afraid I can't see any way round that other than upgrading Cinema to a version it does support... I wonder if anyone else has any other ideas ? CBR

Ha ! That's been on my 'must do one day' list for quite some time ! Nice to see it done, and done well :)

Oh that's a shame. I was hoping the first security robots we built would look like ED-209. CBI

That should be fine, but one difficulty with boots is avoiding collisions / contrary movement and weighting with the foot inside them. For that reason, you may find it easier to make the boots part of the body mesh, and delete the lower leg and foot that is covered by the boot - that will avoid all those problems. The skirt on the other hand, is arguably best left as a separate mesh so it can move independently from the body... CBR

It's a good idea if the community can build it, otherwise that's even more work for poor @SIgor, who is already very busy admining the main site ! I have to say I don't notice a problem browsing the cafe from my old ipad 2, but I can see how it might be more awkward on a phone... CBR

SDS polycount is irrelevant. You only need to worry about the base mesh. 5000 polys seems high, and would be too high if your model was a body alone, but if that includes the hair, helmet breastplate and skirt then that is more reasonable. In your model you actually have not enough loop density around key joints like knees and elbows (these areas should have 3 defining edge loops). Otherwise, I would say, across the main body at least, polygon density is about right. CBR

Yeah, I hardly dare say it, but my hopes are pretty high for this one...

No, I'm hoping I'll be happy at regular speed. It's always a bit dodgy overclocking current AMD's unless your cooling is spectacular, but don't know if that applies to these new ones...

Yep - I'm in the queue for one of those, and will do a new build with it when it gets here... CBR

No - you'd have to animate its properties to make it behave like a magnet at all...

I think you're never going to find that, and if you do it won't be a script ! Can you not make this with 2 attractors per mesh, one set to negative attraction, and blend their fall-offs ? Perhaps not, if you are in a version older than 12... CBR

Great idea for a project. Looks like you got Extrudifier just in time ! CBR

This is already my favourite thing you've ever done :) Gold Star.

Great use of camera mapping there :)

Ah, yeah, if that's what you're aiming for, as opposed to water actually lapping up and down against the camera, then that is soo much easier and less hassle :)

That's a shame - I just had another go at this with Hot4D, and am getting much better results now on a cube ! Or rather I was, until you said that you'd have to fly over a ton of ocean first :) But, in case it helps this is what you get if you apply Hot4D to a cube, and give it tons of resolution on X and Z, and none on Y.... it animates perfectly, as long as you can't see the bottom face of the cube, which is also moving. You could probably lose that by making the cube very tall and putting the ocean floor above the lower movement, or at the risk of slowing things down unbearably, you could chop it off with a boole. The problem still remains as to how you would transition from a wide open ocean shot to this, but at least it is a viable solution for seeing above and below water, and should allow you to have light beams in the water below that are actually related to the movement of the ocean surface.

The only way I have ever got this to work with animated ocean cannot use either infinite ocean or HOT4D ocean. The reason for this is that none of those things offer a way to apply the effect to anything other than a plane, which is not very helpful for what you are trying to achieve. Instead you need to displace just the top side of a very high res square box with axial noise displacement on Y. That is the only way I have found to do this without booles, which cause endless problems in animations like this. CBR

Is this for a still shot or an animation ?

The extrudifier is much more important now that Greebler is no longer available. Personally, I would be delighted if the features in that tool got refined, expanded and made it into the software proper...

Well that's in the top 3 best things I've seen done in C4D this year :) Sound design also spot-on. Great job all round really ! :)

Lots of good points in this one. It's a really good idea for a tut. It's very well explained, and your tone of voice really lends itself to this. Your renders are very rewarding too. It's at an especially good speed for beginners I would have thought... If I had to pick one thing I would prefer was done differently, it would be to not encourage the use of booleans, or at least if you do, to explain why they are not proper modelling, and why they will break any bevelling or subdivision that your students may later try to apply to them ! CBR

No, no, maximum 3D violence ! Peace in the real world ! :)