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Thanks :) A lot of work goes into lessons, especially complex ones like this. Stay tuned, new lessons in work. Currently we managed to hold the weekly release cycle as promised and are already at 20 classes.

Rubik cube interactive rig part 2 (final) done and uploaded - enjoy!

Rubik cube part 2 is in the works and will be available this week :)

@Cutman Good luck in Houdini-Land!

Folks, new lesson is available, this one is split into two parts. Since the project involved (Rubik cube) is demanding we opted for splitting in order to reduce information overload in single long lesson. This is very advanced lesson even by TDMS standards :)

Folks, new lesson is in works, this time we will build a Xpresso&Python Rubik cube. Since this lesson will be a bit lengthy it will be available in next few days :)

Folks, new lesson is in the works and will be available this weel. This time we will do a python script to create custom selection tool :)

You can use simple python to print iteration results to result node as a string. Not ideal but you can read out values. Here is quickie, simply enable on checkbox in Python node when you need the values otherwise it will accumulate them all the time on any action. Hope that helps :) IterationResult.c4d

Folks, new lesson is in works and will be available this week - this time we will build a nice fish school rig :)

Hi TD folks :) New lesson is in works, this time we will tackle a creation of custom workflow script with Python. Lesson will be available this week. Many of you probably noticed that each week new lesson is released - that is the rate we will try to maintain and even surpass in future.

cool :)

Deja vu - new lesson in works, will be released this week :) This time we will build a MoGraph&Fracturing rig with some Xpresso and Python

Folks, new lesson is in works and will be available this week :)

Hi Al Sorry to hear about this, I made a small donation, hope it helps reach the goal.

There are a lot of speedups which are not really advertised, or the explanation in release doesn't really reflect true benefit for users. For example, in R19 we got media sessions which may not seem like a big deal and most of the people won't notice it. Here is one example with animated material: - Open the scene in R19 and press play -> it flies - Open the scene in R18 - it crawls for first playback until it caches Unfortunately I don't have any scenes which show speedups for standard renderer but simply take few of yours which fit the description of speedup and render them out :) animated_mat.zip

You can use two effectors which would be a simpler solution, or you are looking into creating more complex logic. If complete block + gap is 3 items that is still on simpler side, however, if you require even more than that, that would be quite complex I presume. Haven't tried, but will :)

Folks, new lesson is in the works and will be available this week, this time we will build a nifty Python effector :)

That is potentially good topic, but it would probably be too long for single lesson unless you have specific issue that could be dissected. Folks - new lessons are in works and will be available this week, we opted to skip last week due to R19 release :) Cheers

New lesson in works and will be available this week. We will tackle some MoGraph and Xpresso this time :)

New lesson, Class 10 is available, check it out in TD Master section :)

It is true but it is not MAXON fault, issue is in drivers which is something nVidia or Apple have to address.

Folks, new lesson is in works and will be available this week. This time we will tackle a bit more advanced MoGraph/ Python rig :)

Both :) Multi core is used effectively plus decoders benefit from higher clocks

Don't know at this point

Unfortunately I can't answer that one, but from logical standpoint that would make sense Unfortunately I can't comment on SDK, I believe this was already answered in some other thread. What I do know is that SDK is constantly refined and improved. If MAXON decides to disclose info on R20, I will be glad to comment or clarify within boundaries of what is publicly known I was passionate advocate even before I joined the team :) My reasoning came from knowing German mindset, work ethics and discipline. My Dad worked in German speaking part of Switzerland for many years. There was simply no way that they were oblivious and indifferent to product state, community that surrounds it and industry developments. There simply had to be long term, carefully developed plan and agenda, which is not something unique to MAXON, rather a part of general German approach.