CINEVERSITY

Thanks for the reply, Cit,

Yes, the Field Driver is very useful and versatile.
Please let me know if you have any questions about Joints, Fields, and Field Driver.
Please feel free to open a new thread at any time when the subject changes so it is easier to search and find.

My best wishes

Hi resort-sand,

Thanks for the files, and for using WeTransfer.

To get it smaller and smaller requires that the Length and the height of the words shrink equally. Which would also move them. This is not an option with MoGraph.

My suggestion would be to solve this with 3D and perspective.

https://projectfiles.maxon.net/Cineversity_Forum_Support/2025_PROJECTS_DRS/20250120_CV4_2025_drs_25_TXnf_01.c4d.zip

The setup has a little "cheat" with a Taper Deformer to improve the flow.

Screenshot 2025-01-20 at 11.49.00 AM.jpg

To see the full text, it needs to be rendered. The small text on the end requires at least a 16K render, I assume more.

The setup is a balance of camera distance, the field of view, and the Length of the Helix. The light on the camera has no falloff!

My best wishes for the project

Hi philosophy-chemical,

Thanks for your care. Yes, that is reported since a while and I have no idea why this not fixed. Sorry.

Typically, there is a strong connection between Apple and Maxon. If I have a chance to find someone who is not aware of that, I will make sure this is known.

If you have the impression that the developers need an extra nudge, please use the "Share Your Ideas" option here:
https://www.maxon.net/en/support-center

Or open a Tech Support ticket, which might be the better way. This is the official way to report technical problems and get help if possible.

Cineversity is more of a how-to or creative problem-solving platform; I cannot fix code here. Hence, we have the feature request or tech support option.

Thanks for understanding.

Enjoy your Sunday Evening.

Hi piece-quality,

One favor: If the theme changes, use a new thread for the next questions. Thank you.

Otherwise, any search in the forum is difficult, as threads are mixed, and finding the information people like to have is hard.

The Volume System does not have a UV system that follows changes. UV is based on the Polygons of the Mesh as the initial source; if the mesh changes, the UV information from the previous state is not the same.

If the texture is more about colors, perhaps a Vertex map might help. However, since the changes are not connected (frame-wise), there is typically no option to produce any default motion blur.

If you open a new thread, please share a simple Project file with your idea. (Images typically do not tell as much as a project file)

The Triplanar Node might help, even though I doubt it's useful here. However, this is a wild guess since I don't know much about your setup.

Enjoy your weekend

You're very welcome, guarantee-topic.

Have a great weekend.

Sounds good, leininger609.

My best wishes for your project

Hi camera-reply,

Yes, the QT VR gave an option like that, but it was just a series of images with a specific link to a position in the viewer. I bought the Studion Pro version in the late '90s, and I remember it vividly.
Screenshot 2025-01-16 at 11.42.23 AM.jpg
When you are familiar with the QT VR Studio, you might remember how to import all the single images and create the VR experience; Cinema 4D later simplified that process for everyone by rendering that sequence. As a result, QT VR had all qualities backed in, and only a specific number of images represented this—no real-time rendering.

Very different is the glTF approach, which is pretty much the common way to get 3D "interactive" into a website :

https://cineversity.maxon.net/en/series/gltf_exporter?tutorial=gltf_exporter

https://cineversity.maxon.net/en/series/exporting_ar_game_ready_models_using_gltf?tutorial=exporting_ar_game_ready_models_using_gltf

The current version of the documentation is here:

https://help.maxon.net/c4d/2025/en-us/Default.htm#html/FGLTFEXPORTER.html?TocPath=Configuration%257CPreferences%257CImport%252FExport%257CglTF%257CglTF%2520Export%2520Settings%257C_____0

Google glTF viewer, or use one of the iPad apps to test if the export works to your specifications.

Enjoy

Hi tie-version,

Please have a look here:
CV4_2025_drs_25_MGem_01.c4d

Screenshot 2025-01-16 at 11.29.07 AM.jpg

I created a little gap, inverted it, and used the Thicken generator to create good visibility.
As you mentioned, it is a background object, so the view is from the side rather than the top.

All the best

Thanks for the reply, Tanmir8r.

Yes, my impression is that if two or more conflicting settings collide, things get a little bit more complex to "tame". Since we have no analytic tools for Hair like we have with Simulation to a certain degree, the though below is more an opinion than a fact:

Keeping the beard's shape while colliding and not losing a natural "reaction" to the collision is not an easy task to solve, if at all.
Hence, my suggestion is to lower the value of one influence.

My best wishes for the project

Hi diet-commision,

Please have a look for Displacement and Normal in this file
CV4_2025_drs_25_STbd_01.c4d

While AO can't work for this process, given the flat plane, you can explore this here, baked to the original object, but where would the AO information sit for the "vertical" part in the "A" (see model)?
CV4_2025_drs_25_STbd_02.c4d

I use OpenEXR files in linear and 32bit-float per channel. Baking here is done using the Standard Render Mode!

Please compare the settings you have with the provided files. Will that help? Otherwise, take that as a step one, and I move on with more data from your side until you get what you need as far as possible. Having said that here are a few notes:

AO was a fake to get a sense of Global Illumination way back in time. It responds only to geometry. Even if you place a bright light in a corner of the object, it will show dark AO effects. Global Illumination renders this more naturally, and adding AO to a Global Illumination render is like adding most of those effects twice to the visuals, which might defeat the intention of the whole aesthetic.

I'm strongly biased here (I know 😉 ); if we talk about anything towards photorealistic, whatever that might be (realistic, photorealistic, Hyperrealistic, the bandwidth is rather wide. But of course, if your work needs it, then it needs to be calculated after the displacement of the baked object; it can be stored like an XYZ Displacement can.

I would suggest baking to avoid low-level image formats like in the youTube source you shared; thanks for the timeshare, so I do not have to go through this.

I like to help based on project files, which usually give a clear problem, and then, in return, I can hopefully share a working file and, if needed, an explanation. This has proven over more than two decades the best working way. In the end, I would like you to feel savvy about this.

Cheers

Hi hang-single,

To my knowledge, the options are R25 and up.
https://www.maxon.net/en/requirements/redshift-requirements?srsltid=AfmBOopeOaulqhrmPdrk7Abvwp0Ex89LOJNc50RVZ_ZUs-RHLP4n0WZb
or here
https://help.maxon.net/r3d/cinema/en-us/#html/System+Requirements.html?TocPath=_____3

There was a version for R21, but since that was around 6 years ago, I'm not aware if that is available as a new license or if support is given for the current OS.
If it is available, make sure to know what version of Redshift 3D it is.

Please get in touch with Sales:
https://www.maxon.net/en/about-maxon/sales

All the best

You're very welcome, Mark.

My best wishes for your project.

Perfect, thank you, Dutchbrid, for the reply.

My best wishes for the project.

Thank you, Dutchbird,

Please let me know how that worked for you.

My best wishes

You're very welcome, charge-pot!

I'm glad you got what you wanted and created it on your own, meaning that it is something that you can expand for other projects. Perfect.

Thank you for the reply.

All the best

Hi brilliant-boy,

Sorry for your trouble.

Please check with tech support:
https://www.maxon.net/en/support-center

All the best

Hi confidence-room,

Thanks for understanding and your patience with this.
In the Developer Forum, you will join a group of great specialists, and that is way more fun to learn from them! I hope you have a lot of progress with it.

Cheers

Hi anywhere-final,

This is a question for tech support
https://www.maxon.net/en/support-center

I'm not supposed to do tech support, but I can share problem analytics here. In other words, for any findings, please go directly to tech support, not to me.

I assume you have installed the newest version of Redshift 3D.

If it shows up with only one project, copy the whole scene for a test into a new one.

Deleting preferences might help.

Disable half of the scene and render; if no error shows up, something in the other half is causing it.
Perhaps it is in both. However, split each half again and render. Typically, even large scenes are explored in a few iterations of it.
This might help you, but such information will eventually be useful for tech support.

Anyway, sorry for your trouble.

My best wishes

Thank you for the feedback, Hoi. 🙂

Doing it in the node editor is nicer than moving in and out of the app.

I'm sure after you have this as a muscle memory, you will expand this.

I'm glad it was useful.

Enjoy