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This comprehensive course is a year or more old but uses the new interface and is pretty highly regarded, certainly better than grabbing at random Youtube courses for each topic. https://www.cgboost.com/courses/blender-launch-pad

Yep, the pace of updates has really gone bananas.

The re-done Cineversity site is pretty cool. https://cineversity.maxon.net/en Redshift trailer below. I do not like the music, please stop using that track Maxon, but looks like a very solid update.

Zzzzz. No need to apologise. I don't know who you are, don't care what you think of my posts, and am not really bothered by the opinion of others. I currently subscribe to C4D and am happy doing so. Your guess Sherlock if this explains why I jump into C4D threads on a forum that mostly discusses C4D, or if there's a nefarious plot organised by a German company utilising a poster based in Melbourne. I posted earlier that I would be happier if the forum reopened again. That not good enough? I also posted that all of us are here and are currently subscribing. Am I wrong? I like this forum and I like Igor but if there are 'rumours' floating around, that's presumably on Igor, not McGavran, and if anyone needs them 'cleared up' then Igor can quite easily do that too, since you'd assume he knows what happened. Likewise if posters above are deeply curious and what to know exactly what went down - and if there are privacy concerns or whatever - they may as well PM Igor privately and ask "What happened Igor, tell me privately", and if he wants he can tell them. That should give you enough info. And if Igor can't or won't clear it up, why does Dave have to clear it up? Dave didn't start the rumours. If I'm wrong with any of the above then feel free to point out why. If I'm not wrong, then FFS stop whining about this topic. Dave and Igor are great people, the forum is here, and if there's a sneaky secret behind the scenes presumably Igor can spill the beans privately to anyone curious if he wants. If he can do that then Dave shouldn't have to write a long essay publicly about it. And if he can't do that then Dave shouldn't have to write a long essay publicly about it. I'm happy to hear that new posters continue to join because some of the regulars are starting to behave like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, spending too long locked in the same room staring at the walls.

Because it's being already paid for by members? Shrug. Realistically we're all here and can post, maybe that's enough.

Quite logical decision and hope things work well for you there, let us know your Blender forum user name if you're posting much there. Blender has quite a lively and fun community, mostly.

I didn't mind the ads at all. The ones I saw were all C4D related, unless there were minor ones on the side for sunglasses or fun trips to Thailand. I don't recall them. As a still-learning user the regular newbie questions gave me an insight into what others were struggling with, and the answers gave me an insight into various solutions. That's still here, but maybe less than before. Shrug, I get the feeling the site would be better off if the paywall were gone, and also that this probably won't happen.

Really useful info, thanks.

Same here. 2021 iMac, 16Gb Ram, M1. A simple Pyro effect in the viewport is ridiculously slow - probably not even one frame per second - and unusable to test or play with. I'm inclined to leave Pyro till my next computer a year or more from now, unless there's a setting adjustment I can make which will enable me to play with it the same way others are currently doing. No big deal, the rest of C4D is working ok.

The main thing that seems weird is this comment, as Redshift integration has been improving with each release, and the people responsible for that are the Maxon devs.

Magazine racks are going the way of the dodo. I'm not sure how many new magazines are coming out, but I keep hearing of magazines closing. Meanwhile, thousands of people are uploading their own books to be printed on Amazon Createspace / Kindle - way more I'm guessing than the number of new monthly magazines coming out. Also if someone is working for a magazine publisher I'm assuming the publisher can afford InDesign and claim it back on tax. Whereas self publishers should find the Affinity app and price very attractive. Nice they added this feature anyway, I'll give the bundle a try soon.

Nice stuff. The VFX and Chill guys just had a play with Pyro.

I had also seen the Redshift material bug, when I tried follow Chris Schmidt's walkthrough, and he was able to create a new Redshift standard material, but me doing the same thing just made a normal standard material. Like most C4D bugs I usually think it's something I've done wrong, so I appreciate you pointing it out. A simple thing but happy it now works as it should for me. I'm getting the smoke ok. TBH though still poor I think the FPS on my simple sphere with some flame on it is now better than it was before I reinstalled C4D. I might fiddle with the settings over the coming days to see what changes improve FPS with this.

This guy knows Redshift very well and shows off some bits and pieces about using it with Pyro.

Dave, your point seems logical enough to me. Adjusting how things look from viewport to final render seems to be a thing in the 3D world I've noticed.

Chris's demo of the smoke changing colour is pretty great. will be cool to see what others come up with this week.

LOL. Fair point I reckon.

I'm assuming they'll add gradual updates and improvements to what they have. All the examples I've seen look cool but if I was burning a house in a feature film rather than burning a cube in a Mograph setup I'd be checking how real looking (or not) the current setup can currently go.

Chris and Rick also show off features here together, steaming live as I pos this.

GSG's Shaun Asrtom with a quick demo. I might lower the voxel count like he did and see what changes.

I'm on an M1 iMac 16GB Ram, Pyro is certainly working but my viewport speed when following Chris's initial simple example is way slower than his, Cinema is chugging along at just a couple of frames a second and the beach ball is spinning a bit. This is doing a live preview and TBH I didn't expect a lot more than this in the viewport, I'm sure rendering things will be fine.

Chris is in the house.

Really good long discussion of the Pyro tag and system in the updated help file. Looks like solid reading, will try and grab a spare minute to check it out tonight. Maxon have also done further symmetry updates for the modeling tools and there are a few nice Redshift enhancements with the interface and camera and material layout. Pretty decent update I think.

Re After Effects, Left Angle's Autograph launches very soon and numerous Reddit folk posting in the After Effects "Why is AE so crashy?" threads are waiting for it. Does a lot of the same stuff, newly written code.

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