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Mmm the problem with the with Matrix object + tracer is that when I put rope dynamics on the tracer, it just glitches out and breaks. I tried attaching the clip with the cloner again, but the problem there is that the rope belt won't connect to the clip it generates. I tried putting the cloner into a Connect object, but the rope belt still won't recognise the geometry.

Thanks for your reply HappyPolygon! I did try stitching with the Cloner initally but that caused other issues. Nice idea with the Matrix object & tracer though, I'll give that a go!

Hi all, I'm having an issue with the rope belt which I'm struggling to solve and I believe is down to a priorities issue. I have this tent model which I am inflating with dynamics. I have four clips which are attached to the tent via Xpresso (it was easier and more stable to attach them that way rather than making them rigid bodies) and then the guy ropes are attached to the clips with the rope belt. When I run the sim there is always a small gap (see screenshot). If I cache the rope simulation and offset the resulting animation by 1 frame, the end of the rope lines up perfectly, hence why I think it's a priorities thing. I've tried changing the priority numbers in the dynamics & rope tags, I tried the Shift Priorities tag and I've tried reording the object manager evey which way but nothing seems to correct it. Does anyone know if I'm doing something wrong? TentSim.c4d

Thank you so much for the crash course on polypen snapping Smolak! From watching your video I'm thinking that maybe I need to get a bit more familiar with the snap tool. Maybe I'm not fully utilising it in the way Maxon intended!

I think it’s a good tool and I appreciate that the modifier keys are taken up. But could we not have some kind of constrain to x / y / z in the tool settings? Would certainly be helpful. Anyway I’ll try the dynamic guides! Maybe that’s the solution. I don’t think I’ve ever bothered to use them before.

Hi all, I'm currently working through Toby Pitman's Hard Surface Modelling course on GSG+, which I can highly recommend! In it he uses the polygon pen a lot to draw out the mesh for flat surfaces before extruding them. One thing that is driving me crazy though, is that I can't find a way to draw a straight line with the polygon pen (i.e. fixed to 90 degree angles), like how you would in Photoshop or Illustrator with the pen tool by holding Shift. Everytime I have to select all the points and do the old scale down on one axis trick. Does anyone know a quick way to solve this? Am I missing something in the tool or is there a plugin that can do this more easily? It seems crazy there isn't a simple way to do this. Thanks!

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Cool set up Hrvoje! Do you have an idea on how you could have variations on the droplet geometry?

I'm wondering if any nodes wizards out there could give me some tips on how I might be able to improve this condensation rig I've started? I don't know much about nodes, but I saw this tutorial by Mikhail Sedov and thought his Surface Scaled Blue-Noise node set up could apply nicely to a cold can condensation rig. I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on how I could improve this? For example, I think it might be good if it were possible to input a variety of different droplet shapes. Currently I just have one squished sphere. If anyone knows how to adapt this to have a multitude of different droplet shapes, that would certainly look a lot better! Droplets_Nodes_v1.c4d

Just objects. I do have x-particles. Not sure if there's anything in there which might help?

Yeah I get what you mean Cerbera. This is normally how I'd approach that kind of thing, I just wanted to field for any other solutions. One problem I'm having is a kind of jitteriness, which isn't coming from steps or scene scale, but coming from the objects bouncing between the front and back planes. I did see another post where people were talking about removing velocity from an axis using expresso? Any chance that might work? Or using a box connector? Not sure how either of these would work though.

Does anyone know a way that you can restrict a soft body simulation (preferably with the new engine) to 2 axis so it appears to be moving in 2D? I know you can fake it by putting the whole sim in between 2 planes, but I’m running into some limitations with that set up.

Great advice. Thanks Dan!

I need to create some steam coming from a coffee cup for a render. I'm hoping to use C4D's Pyro system, which I've had a little play with and seems promising. Can anyone who knows the system better give me any tips on how to make something that looks like whispy steam? Obviously making thick smoke is pretty easy, but I'm not quite sure which parameters to experiment with to get something that looks lighter and more steamy.

YES! I think this might work! Thanks MJV, I had sort of forgotten about the Instance Object. I'm going to give this a try and if not then I'll try the Mesh Object like others suggested. The only reason I was avoiding that was because Mesh Deformer operating on the high-poly model will likely still be very slow anyway, so probably not the best solution. Thanks everyone for your suggestions! The help is very much appreciated!!