I've been asked to produce some models in a web ready format, so that they can be uploaded to our web viewer in either GLB or glTF. Cinema 4D is the program I know and enjoy - I don't really have experience in any other 3D modelling programs, so I'm a bit tied to it.

I've been struggling with this for a while now. I had to recreate all my redshift materials as PBR materials, and after a lot of tweaking I've got this looking really good. I have spent weeks on this getting the workflow right - exporting the Cinema 4d model as a GLB model and optimising it, without losing textures or breaking the model.

Having got that perfected, I'm now trying the process on another model, and this model needs to have named animation tracks. But this seems to be unsupported?

After some research I found this post: https://cineversity.forums.maxon.net/topic/375/name-animations-glb/4 - and also a youtube tutorial which involves exporting to FBX and then converting to GLB. This method creates named animation tracks from the take system perfectly.... But it breaks all the materials I spent so long working on.

Is there anyway to export to GLB or glTF from C4D, with both materials and animation tracks intact, or do I need to start learning blender or something?

unfortunately this is not the place for feature requests. Please use the "Report Bug/idea" from the C4D Help Menu

It appears you have a lot of "Non Manifold" topology in the model causing this. This means that some edges belong to more than 2 polygons and this is not considered "good" topology.
Select all your polygons, go to Mesh menu - Clone - Resolve Non Manifold and everything should look good...

When working with Redshift Proxies, it is helpful to follow these guidelines:

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So unless you have the original project file you cannot retrieve the data from the proxy file.

Make the "End Angle" a Negative number and the Helix goes the other way around

Kind Regards
David

At 0 degrees Y rotation (same for both base form or world rotation)
(Close to being correctly oriented around the torus but still not 100% correct):

By the time it reaches degrees 150 degrees rotation (same for both base form or world rotation)
By this time the particles have completely started rotating weirdly not what I want:

It's tricky to tell but the particles themselves seem to be rotating individually in their y axis which is not what I want to achieve..... I have baked the torus and aligned the normals. This happens when both when the 3d object is 'Normalized' in the Form 3D Model settings and also when it when it is not. It happens when particles are set to face, vertices or edges and volume....
I am not sure what I am doing wrong but have spent a full day trying to get these particles to align properly.

I would really appreciate any help getting to the bottom of this issue...

For a current project I'm using animations from Mixamo on some characters in my scene.
I watched every available tutorial on C4D and Mixamo but one thing I simply cannot wrap my head around is this:

How can I make a character with a Mixamo walkcycle "applied" follow a custom spline or path?
Imagine a room where the character walks to a certain point, avoiding chairs and tables then comes to a stop pose, and then stands idle, starts talking etc.

I'm quite the C4D character n00b so any help is greatly appreciated!

Cheers!