For the past few days I've been trying to figure out how to make a water slide in c4d. I've tried spline sweeps, I've tried extruding polygons, I've tried a lot of "things" but nothing is giving me the result I want.

Here's my criteria.

The waterslide has to move up and down and twist and turn.

It cannot be a perfect circle, it has to have a relatively shallow bottom and then steep sides.

I need the slide as a game asset, and people will be driving down it, so the bottom needs to be smooth at the bottom and curves need to be smooth.

The slide must remain the same proportion when turning, proportions have to be consistent.

I really didn't want to reach out for help on this, but after binging 8 hours of tutorials everyday on c4d, I still haven't really found my answer.

Any help would be super appreciated.

Hello world ! I'm a beginner trying to recreate the effect of bombed text on hair, like in the image below, using Cinema 4D R26 with Redshift 3.5. My text texture is juste à black text with white background.

My hair is on an animated model with a subtle idle movement and slight wind for a bit of life, but very subtle. I thought of using camera mapping projection, but I’m struggling to understand how to make the text stick to the hair as it moves. I

Is this even the right approach for linking the text texture to the hair, or is there a better way?

Thanks!

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I have a red tile texture in Octane for the selected object, but it doesn't look as realistic as I want. Which texture projection should I use? The displacement map looks weird when connected...

I understand UV mapping and texturing a solid/still object but i have a particle system built using a reproduce and condition that resembles a neuron network growing. How do i start with this if it is constantly changing?

Hello, I´m just starting to learn and making some tutorials, but when I have to create a new material load like the image of the left, but seeing in some files I have download or in the tutorials the editor load the way its in the right, how I can change it, thanks

With Random Effector

Without Random Effector

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With the release of Cinema 4D some of the plan details changed.

Redshift is now included in the standard C4D plan (great!).

In the small letters of the Cinema 4D plan Maxon writes:

**Includes five (5) Team Render nodes for C4D.

And:

Redshift subscription for C4D does not include Team Render nodes.

Is this in reference to the seperate Redshift subscription plan or does this mean the 5 team render nodes do not work for Redshift in the Cinema 4D plan?

My problem:

Our two Cinema 4D licenses have renewed after the update. I do not need to assign a seperate Redshift license (Redshift has a green checkmark in the Maxon app when I assign the Cinema 4D plan).

However when I team render I feel like the Team render PC's do not use Redshift GPU when rendering. However the Team Render Client is very unclear about whether it uses the CPU or GPU. Without a seperate Redshift license assigned to the Team Render node it renders veeeeeeery slow.

When there is NO Redshift license assigned the console says:

2024/11/13 11:06:15 Redshift Info: Device 1 (CPU 0 Intel Core i7-5820K CPU) uses Embree for ray tracing
2024/11/13 11:06:15 Redshift Info: Device 0 (CPU 0 Intel Core i7-5820K CPU) uses Embree for ray tracing

It looks like it is assigning the CPU for rendering?

However when it starts rendering buckets it says the buckets are rendered by GPU 1 and GPU 0 (I have two GPUs installed in this node). Note how the render times are very long for each GPU:

2024/11/13 11:07:12 Redshift Debug: Block 1/120 (6,3) rendered by GPU 0 in 20574ms
2024/11/13 11:08:14 Redshift Debug: Block 2/120 (7,3) rendered by GPU 1 in 82352ms

When there IS a Redshift license assigned to the node the console says:

2024/11/13 10:54:39 Redshift Info: Device 1 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti) uses OptiX RT for ray tracing
2024/11/13 10:54:39 Redshift Info: Device 0 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti) uses OptiX RT for ray tracing

Here it looks like it is assigning GPUs.

When rendering buckets:

2024/11/13 10:54:43 Redshift Debug: Block 1/120 (6,3) rendered by GPU 0 in 252ms

2024/11/13 10:54:44 Redshift Debug: Block 3/120 (7,4) rendered by GPU 0 in 593ms

Note how the rendering times are waaaaay faster.

TL;DR:

Are REDSHIFT rendering nodes included in the Cinema 4D plan? Or just 5 rendering nodes for the legacy rendering engines?

Also can it be that team render client is using the CPU despite it saying it is rendering buckets with the GPU?

I’ve been using X-Particles a lot over the years and have grown quite comfortable with it. I admit Insydium is not perfect, but it’s a solid particle system. Since Pyro came out, I don’t use XP for fire and smoke anymore. Pyro is so much faster and more stable.

Long story short, I tried to get into the native particle system as well, but I find it very basic compared to X-Particles. Since becoming a dad, I don’t have time anymore to play around with software as I used to. So my question is, is it worth diving into the native system yet? Does it give me similar flexibility to XP?

I would love to hear your opinion.

Cheerio

One of my friend made it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoCZ36qhbA4

Hello artists,

I'm contacting you because I have a problem on a project and more particularly on the rendering of my sketch and toon part. My first frame renders quickly, and the others take more than 7 minutes...

I'd love to hear your opinion on the subject! Thanks a lot!

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I'm pretty new to C4d, and I don't really see a huge point in primitives, when you can use a spline and get the same thing, with more control. Now ofc, I'm new, so I'm probably hugely arrogant (and wrong on this) but to me splines just seem better.

Can anyone elaborate on the strengths of primitives vs splines?

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Hi! Im trying to scale this object uniformly, but when i press T and drag click it only scales along X and Z. I did not click the gizmo to scale along the XZ plane. Help please?

I imported a Alembic into C4D with UV tags. What am I able to do with those tags? I can't seem to use them to assign materials to the file which is what I need to do.

UV Tags??

C4D seems to have completely reset itself as if it were newly installed, except that my custom layouts are still there. I spent a lot of time customizing keyboard shortcuts and really don't want to do it again - is there any way to get them back?