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The Volume Mesher object creates a polygonal object, your redshift object uses a volumetric material. You can't render polygonal objects with volumetric materials. Use only the Volume Builder on your cloud and use a Smooth effect on the volume builder to get rid that cubic effect. You might also want to decrease the Voxel Size of the Volume Builder. I don't have RedShift but I get the feeling you have to apply the RS material on the Volume Builder instead of the cloud object

Was the path the car follows made procedurally or manually ?

I thought I was getting somewhere but all turned to shit when I tried to finalize the render and save it. First of all I used fields in R25. I don't remember if R23 had a Variable Field tag for Vertex Weights. Everything looks fine in the viewport. The only issue is the Sweep caps. Now this is something @Cerbera has to see because it's the second bug I find involving hair. Cerbera when I render any frame in the viewport the result is the intended but when rendering in the Picture Viewer nothing works. Shot11_tick.c4d

What kind of modelling features do you think we are missing ? I have a couple in mind but I wonder what obstacles others face. If it's about sculpting, new features inside C4D are out of question since ZBrush and Forger are part of MAXON.

That's just his style. I always advance the video 15 seconds to miss the intro and stop the video before the "what a time to be alive" Well, that's science. It needs experimentation and replication of the results. And there are certain methods that deal with classification for intended results. In an other video he had shown an AI playing a game where the purpose was to reach the end of the level where a yellow orb was but they found out that the AI didn't consider the yellow orb as the definitive goal but some other elements that happened to be usually present at the end of the level. I never post such videos with the intend to make a hype or present the end of all our problems. I just inform about the advancements on our field which is Computer Graphics.

I still don't understand why they keep developing 2 separate apps with almost the same capabilities and they don't merge them in one with the benefits of both, Or at least start putting the same new features in both of them before merging them making it easier for users to end up using only one implementation of the basically the same app before stopping the development of one of them. I guess writing one from scratch is no copy n' past task, especially if the two are written in different languages.

Ah ! that one .... I was expecting a FUI pluging that helped you with the icon docking ... I'll try moving some capsules again.

Who cares... the highest processing time was 7 hours. I have waited longer than that for a render to complete. The authors don't mention what and how many GPUs the used. A few optimized training models later and with the help of NVIDIA's servers someone can bake a real-time radiosity model for his scene for a few bucks.

is this a free plugin ? google didn't return anything useful

I'm hopping for a material blend.

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A new paper takes the classic Raytrace algorithm and dopes it with AI. Guess who's gonna implement it first *cough*NVIDIA*cough* *cough*Omniverse*cough*

I've tried moving the New Node icon (it has a + icon) next to the rest of the primitives tab but it gets disabled if not in Node Layout. Is there a way to make a custom foldable pallet with capsules ?

😂 Maybe they don't speak English well. this really got me thinking... Did they ask for permission from MAXON to sell things with their logo on ? Usually these kind of merch are used to help funding of a remote brunch... but again... why sell things MAXON itself does not sell ? What kind of Certification Center is this ? It seems like an actual 3D Arts college. All I know is the certification comes directly from Maxon with the Trainers being the intermediary... @nosemando we have Certification Centers in USA and Europe or does the evaluation tests take place from the Trainer's place (home, studio, whatever...) during the meeting ?

The original file of Bentraje is already in Straight mode and doesn't work. How did you make it work ?

The Geometry Axis has a property that restricts it from making it a solution for all cases. You can't escape the pivot beyond the object's binding box. 😞

What character are you after ? The Boy or the Beaver ?

The Fracture and Voronoi Effectors generate new geometry and reposition the pivot on each object. What you need to do it to make a Cloner and use the Linear Mode. The cloner preserves the pivot of the original objects.

OK all we know is that the new heavy features are related to Volumes, MoGraph, Simulations, Character rigging and some minor to the Create, Render, Window menus plus some advanced Real Time RTX viewport capabilities.... So what. If you wanna leak some content better do it the right way and leak a full res screenshot, not a trimmed cellphone snapshot of a monitor... This is worse than knowing nothing.

I don't know what that's supposed to mean but that post account belongs to someone that is linked to an official Certification Center in China, I don't know about you but I'm mad for not having access to items like these in the official MAXON merch store

Your method uses the original linear object to arrange clones. You either have to use the new subdivided mesh making it editable or using the cloner on a Connect object parenting the Subdivision object. If you want to use a spline for greater control over the distribution along it then you can make one by selecting the edges along the subdivided object (has to be editable, make a copy and use that) and converting them to a spline from the Mesh -> Edge to Spline, or Right Click - Edge to Spline.