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Usually 3DWorld mag doesn't feature much C4D but the latest issue was unexpectedly packed with it. Feature - Kitbashing - Character Development (page 36) 3D visual artist Florian Renaux delivers a guide to kitbashing compelling CG characters The Pipeline - Get started with the Cinema 4D camera (page 50) This tutorial, designed for users unfamiliar with Cinema 4D, will teach the starting points for camera control, enabling artists to show off their scene to the best of their ability The Pipeline - Model a mech with Cinema 4D (page 68) Learn the stages to building a VFX shot with our new series; in Part One, we focus on developing the CG hero character Artists Q&A - Your CG problems solved (page 73) How do I manage separate x-particles emitters in a single system? - Mike Griggs replies

Yeah that was pleasantly unexpected...

The dark parts of an object usually referred to as diffusion but also any other shadows the object can cast on itself when lit from a light source, for example the head casting a shadow on the solder. Usually in non-photorealistic renderings we don't want shadows from lights in order to illustrate the form without obstructions that's why the manual suggests using the shader in the Luminance Channel. Using the Luminance channel it's like having the object emitting any textures and features as if they where painted on a lightbulb, that prevents shadows from appearing on the surface. What the Hatch does is "paint" strokes in places where diffusion shadows would appear overriding the feature of Luminance to cancel any shadows.

Is this how you generally feel about the next release or are you an alpha/beta tester ?

Must have confuse it with Rhinoceros 3D...

Isn't MODO a Nurbs-based modeling software ?

The polygons protruding the microwave oven are the flowers themselves not the rest of the plant. It has to do with the flower model spreading too much. Try limiting the area of flower spawning away from the oven walls. Or just delete those that clip out. Wait.... the chamber is that big to take up space behind the settings panel ?

Actually the image resolution in AI output is a painful subject*. To get an image 700px - 1000px you need a 16GB GPU, greater images need GPUs not available in the market. Generally just because the whole AI thing is a monopoly of NVidia and hardware dependent software, companies are not in direct danger. But as for the concept art thing .... I think it already is quite useful as it is right now. AI can help enlarge an image up to 16x but still need a very powerful GPU. Anyway, any AI involvement requires a lot of time to calculate (not talking about the training of the neural network that takes weeks) for a single frame on a typical PC. Most people want to be independent and will use free AI software rather a company (not only Nvidia) that charges per parameter for a single image. Taking all these into account plus the high price of chips in the market I think we are fine. If an AI system needs 9GB of assets to run to produce a 500px face in 1 minute on a 16GB GPU it would need TBs of data and hours of calculations to produce a 500-polygon object with textures. Actually AI is already making animations. They train an AI into using a body (biped, quadruped whatever) and tell it to find a way to a goal avoiding obstacles (jumping gaps, climbing stairs, not tripping over floor obstacles, even using fighting moves to defend against enemies)

I think I like it more this way. The centralized online nature of it makes it better on the fact that I don't have to use space for a ton of things I don't need. And the fact that it updates like the last Rocket Lasso entry, makes it even more appealing. There are downsides but not for my use cases. No, you also miss Vector Import from SVG files, USD imports and a USD Bridge (never used it but the whole industry uses it more and more). This isn't a good argument since those apps are specialized in the area of UV texturing while C4D is not. It's like arguing that C4D has better animation tools than Rizom... Anyway the new UV tools (I don't use them 'cause I'm not into model texturing) can be seen below, and support with Forger if you sculpt with it. The Bend, Twist, Bulge, Shear, Taper deformers have an Alignment parameter The Push Apart Effector for MoGraph. And those were since S22, I don't remember what was introduced between R20 and S22. Was Spline Mask introduced after R20 ? Arc Spline Tool ? I don't remember when Material Nodes were introduced but it can substitute some shader plugins like NoiceScape. For me the next best things that came after the Voronoi Fracture (no need for Toporizer and NitroBlast plugins) and use them very often are : Volume Builder (no need for the Proc3Durale plugin, also helps with liquid/melt forms) Remesher (no need for the Exoside Quad Remesher) Field Improvements (reaction-diffusion effect, works with Volume Builder, plenty of uses all over C4D) Push Apart Effector (so better not having those instances collide with each other) Bevel Deformer (I think nested Bevels did not work under R21, no need for the MoFractal plugin) SceneNodes (DualMesh and Greebler make some plugins like Trypogen obsolete) I also like to use the Solidify node instead of the Cloth generator to add thickness. Capsules are a big + Changes from last release to latter release are few but they will add up significantly if you don't upgrade to R27.

Maxon is all over the place in here, I think they would have told us... And I'm surprised he (Chris) isn't around here (might be but never saw him). (There is no way we are trying to do the exact same thing) I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that. If I ask him and he confirms he works on something like this does it really matter if the project still proceeds ? I mean why should he be the only one know-it-all and the rest of us depending on him ? (rhetorical questions) I didn't suggest this project for its difficulty level or because we absolutely need it. I did it as an opportunity to involve in something (that has multiple levels of difficulty, repeated patterns and some innovation) to help our skills get better over the new system by collaborating with each other over the same problem. It's better to learn and understand a complex node tree incrementally as it progresses rather having all the mess land on your feet by once from Chris.

There is a texture missing, it's the one used for emulating the strokes. But this although making the problem from my side more pronounced could help solving it. this is what I see when I open the project Disabling the Normal channel we get this Now if you look closely to your shader in the Luminance channel you'll notice what the shader actually does with your texture. See the white background ? Couple that with the fact you use it in the Luminance channel it's not surprising you get this bright contrast. Try making the following adjustments : Move the shader to the Color or Reflectance channel Make a mask out of the texture layer and put a less bright background Increase the density of the scattered texture Disable the Normal Channel If you still have hard edges you should edit your texture, maybe it doesn't fade to background 100% near the edges of the image boarders. Although the location suggests it's a Maxon texture so you probably don't have to change that... Not all of these are necessary but since I don't have the texture I can't tell which is most pleasing or works best with the rest of the hidden layers in the shader. I know the manual suggests using the shader under the Luminance channel but that's to eliminate self shadows, maybe you don't want that. I have an example material called Hatch 06 with the following result and parameters. It might help you understand how to smooth out your light using the Cell shader under the Layer.

Space Jam 2 and The Matrix Resurrections were also not taking themselves seriously and they weren't meant to be taken seriously but the audience received it wrong burring their reputation deeper than the Mariana Trench. Even Don't Look Up was not successful. For some reason it's like people get offended for things they shouldn't. It's like they are being in denial when shown the reality through exaggeration lenses, they feel they are being mocked at. I think it's safe to state that a parody will never be as good as a comedy. The only successful parodies I can remember are The Disaster Artist, Kung Pow, Scary Movie (the 1st one), Space Balls and Monty Python, and none of those had a big budget. I'm not sure if it is a parody or a comedy but with so many references it does tip the scale towards parody. It's sad to see so much money thrown to make movies like this. Will children even understand it the way we do ? I don't think so. There is not a single frame in that trailer targeted to an audience below 27. I guess Disney knows too well it's clients. Kids don't pay for the stream, and adults will buy Disney+ more for themselves than for their kids.

That's very sad.

It's Space Jam 2 all over again...

This depends on how much on the look-out the companies owning the products are and how much they are willing to spend in R&D to implement the tech (hire the authors ? let their developers decipher the papers and write the code from scratch ?) There's also the implementation to the rest of the app headache. Most of these computational methods are like 4D puzzle pieces. You can't just throw the code in your app and expect it to work. There are so many factors that need modifications to make it compatible with your app: The language it was written in External dependences like language specific libraries Reference to other papers which could lead to more code 3rd party technologies like hardware and communication with it and most importantly will it be on par with how the rest of the app handles the data structures and representations ? (voxels for example, C4D can't render voxels, only polygons)

The most detailed VFX video of DUNE. Almost 2 hours.

I watched the movie Free Guy. Seemed similar to movies like Wreck it Ralph, Ready Player One, Tron and Truman Show. Overall amusing. Movie Info: Plot: In the extremely popular video game, Free City, a NPC named Guy learns the true nature of his existence when he meets the girl of his dreams, a human player. This player's interactions with Guy has massive affects on him, the game, and real world as they play it. Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi Trivia: The fictional 'Free City' is based on Liberty City from Grand Theft Auto III (2001) and Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) games. In turn, Liberty City was inspired by the real-life New York. The high-end sports cars, tanks, helicopters, motorcycles, etc., in the various strongholds are all real and had to be carefully protected from typical film crew wear and tear. At the end of filming the helicopter flew away directly from the studio. This movie is heavily inspired by the science fiction novel Simulacron-3 (1964) by Daniel Francis Galouye. In the novel, the main character realizes that he lives in a simulated world inside a computer. A female admin enters the world, and with her help he can save his world from destruction. There have been several adaptations of this novel, a.o. the German 2-part TV-miniseries World on a Wire (1973) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Have you noticed C4D in the first scene at the Soonami offices ? Here's some VFX breakdowns and backstage videos And some unexpected C4D/Red Giant related tutorial

Could you share your file ? Just put a sphere in there. I'm mostly interested on the parameters of the shader.

I remember a Fireworks example that could help you but when I opened it (it's called Example 03) in R25 it was nothing like I remembered from R12. I've never seen a more complicated TP rig. Have you looked up your example from the Content Manager for help ?

That was unexpectedly frustrating ... I've checked the following: Hair type Used an other UV Projection Changed the Coordinate Space Linked Offset and Rotation of the Triplanar to the Scull and Hair object's Local Matrix, G.P, G.R, Position and Rotation Tried messing with the texture node I've looked it up on Arnold manual. I've googled the problem. Nothing. No one ever tried to use a texture map on a hair shader as you did. Three possible explanations for me: It's a bug - Arnold should be able to transform the projection mapping to follow the hair Projection mapping on hair is not supported (technically it is since you already rendered it, I mean they did not think of specifically implementing the algorithm for hair and what we see is the default script handling that just does not find all the appropriate attribute links but chooses to ignore in order to not crash) I'm a noob. Do they have a support page to report to them ? Have tried to recreate the scene in an other DCC like Maya or Max ? Have you posted your issue on an Arnold dedicated forum ?

Théo Thonat, François Beaune, Xin Sun, Nathan Carr and Tamy Boubekeur ACM Transactions on Graphics - SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 Technical Paper Abstract Displacement mapping is a powerful mechanism for adding fine to medium geometric details over a 3D surface using a 2D map encoding them. While GPU rasterization supports it through the hardware tessellation unit, ray tracing surface meshes textured with high quality displacement requires a significant amount of memory. More precisely, the input surface needs to be pre-tessellated at the displacement map resolution before being enriched with its mandatory acceleration data structure. Consequently, designing displacement maps interactively while enjoying a full physically-based rendering is often impossible, as simply tiling multiple times the map quickly saturates the graphics memory. In this work we introduce a new tessellation-free displacement mapping approach for ray tracing. Our key insight is to decouple the displacement from its base domain by mapping a displacement-specific acceleration structures directly on the mesh. As a result, our method shows low memory footprint and fast high resolution displacement rendering, making interactive displacement editing possible. The paper: https://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/boubek/papers/TFDM/TFDM_lowres.pdf

Hi everyone. I have an idea for a community driven project based on the SceneNodes system. The goal of this project is to merge all C4D basic primitives under a single node with more and improved features that will hopefully unlock more modeling and animation possibilities. The project will be open and free for all to modify and upgrade. Here is a first concept of how this Node could look in its final form: Primitives 2.0.pdf I have some concerns that some of these properties might not be possible with the current R25 system but it can still be a productive way to inspire future improvements on the node system. You can vote your support or opposition to this project at the top of this post. If this project gets enough supporting votes the administration will move this thread to a more fitting topic and we can start discussing the technicalities to bring it to life.

Remember this ? I think it was only featured in C4D R21. Has anyone used it ? Was it good ? Does it still work ? The home page has dead links https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/cloud-rendering-platform-zync-render-gets-a-major-update I think the project has been discontinued. Does anyone have any similar suggestions ? (cheap render farms)