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Hi Craig,

Thanks, I'm fine, I hope you have a good time as well.

Here is a quick example, so you can tell me what works and what needs to be changed.
CV4_2025_drs_25_HAds_01.c4d

Of course, I can encourage you to check out the documentation, as Hair Dynamic has some options.
https://help.maxon.net/c4d/2025/en-us/Default.htm#html/OHAIR-HAIRSTYLE_GROUP_DYNAMICS.html?TocPath=Hair%257CHair%2520Object%257C_____7

Have a great start to your week.

Thanks for your reply.

The file 03Fracture.c4d has no keyframes, and I cannot see any changes. So I focused on a single segment.
Exploring it in that small way allowed me to see some parts that could be improved, which is why I sent back the file.
The Thickness option is part of the Collider.

Please take a look here; it might be more aligned with your goals.
CV4_2025_drs_25_PArd_22.c4d

Enjoy your weekend

Thank you very much, AlexC.,

Enjoy your trip, and please let me know if you have any other questions.
I'm happy to look into it.

My best wishes

You're very welcome, atg.

Have a great weekend

Hi grass-battle,

When this process works for you, feel free to ask anytime. Often, communicating the problem to someone new to the project specifics is already half the solution, as you mentioned.

You didn't take my time, but the outcome makes it all worth it.

Thanks for taking your time to update the discussion here.

My best wishes for your project.

Hi Dutchbird,

I can't find any mentioning of a problem where the settings change randomly.

I can't reproduce it here.

Sounds like a problem with the Preference File, but that is a wild guess.

Fingers crossed it will be fixed for you in no time.

Cheers

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

New topic moved
https://cineversity.forums.maxon.net/topic/2030/camera-from-scan
Please one theme per topic.

You're very welcome, Mark.

Cheers

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the Project file.

I would suggest using the Shader Effector and a Cloner here.

I have set the Clones to Instances, so they are fast even in large numbers.

The Scale of the clones is set in the Cloner> Transform to five. For the demo, set it back to 1 or what feels right.

The Shader Effector has a Noise as driving Force, set to Global, and with a higher contrast.

The Animation Speed is crucial, but also the Noise Scale. Both contribute to how the Noise is changing in spaces, and how that allows for the change in color.

Smaller Scale equals faster change, since the Noise is smaller.
The animation speed will drive the Algorithm to "revolve" the Noise in itself. (There is also a Movement, but chances are that it moves as fast as the particles, or in the opposite direction, each time leaving a "blurry idea of flickering.)

The black and while of the Noise can be animate as well
1st black and 2nd white: visible and color
both white invisible
both Black, all particles white

Example:
CV4_2025_drs_25_PAcf_01.c4d

Cheers

Hi MV,

Sorry, that you can't get it in the way you want it.

I can't see any option to overcome the widely discussed problems via the Interactive Tag.

Yes, there are formulas, as mentioned above, but there is no option to use them, except perhaps via coding. Since code is not allowed in this forum, based on security, that would be a case for the Developer Forum. But the Developer forum is not a "request-code-delivery-forum", AFAIK.

What you try to do will not work in the way you want it, from my point of view.

At this point, please contact tech support to get a second opinion.
https://www.maxon.net/en/support-center

All the best

Hi everyone,

Please note that any 3rd party app suggested here in the forum from members doesn't mean that we test the app for security.
This is at your own risk.

All the best

Hi Hani, you're very welcome.

I'm glad it helps. Please note that if the car is running along a different spline, that is not part of the data in the Animation Clips.
I filed a report, that this theme needs to be addressed a little bit more. Thanks for the question.

Have a great start to your week.

Hi Mia,

To get the "fluid" right is the main part, and Elly goes through the whole process.
Instead having the source (Emitter) just move a little bit, animated it in a rotation.
https://www.youtube.com/live/a16LNj0irKs?feature=shared&t=147

What was missing was the knife to spread the syrup over the waffle. 😉

Here is a little example how to do that. Please note that the "scraper" used is not visible, as it must be a little bit larger, and the visible one is just for the rendering.
CV4_2025_drs_25_LIcr_01.c4d

Think of the particles and their radius to create volume. We need to collider the particle core, to get the "Fluid Sphere" The Radius in teh Scene Settings, that it creates moved. I hope that makes sense.

Enjoy your project and your weekend

Is this helping?

Thank you for your reply, entry-newspaper.

If you render something out, either and B&W image or an alpha/mask image of that anyway, please try the Vectorizer. It is in the Menu that leads with the green SDS icon.

Example
CV4_2025_drs_25_STai_11.c4d
BW_vectorizer.jpg

Sadly there is no direct way.

My best wishes for your project and enjoy your weekend

P.S.:

A workaround would be:
CV4_2025_drs_25_RSgm_02.c4d

Please use the Site Issue forum in case you have problems accessing this forum.

Glass is tinted for preview/demo reasons.

You're very welcome, AlexC.

Yes, selections are like switches.

Enjoy your weekend

Hi Max,

Thanks for the update.

My best wishes for your project.

Thank you very much, philosophy-chemical, for the feedback and reply.

It was a pleasure to look into it and to see how much you have established.

My best wishes for your project

Thank you very much, Harry, for the ticket.
I'm not running the Site Issue forum, and I have no access to customer data. We take privacy here pretty seriously, way above what the law asks us to do. I wouldn't want to have access even.
So, I do not check here often in the Site issue forum.

The simple answer is that generators, like the SDD, generate new Geometry, and that doesn't include any MoGraph ID.

An alternative could be: (color or ID, both works.)
CV4_2025_drs_25_RSci_01.c4d
Enjoy your weekend

Hi high-spite,

Thanks for the feedback. Like with textures, where the suggestion is to have, at least, 1.5 times the resolution, to not noticeably lower the quality if the render (the 1.5 here means if the camera comes close, that this ratio is given, as it is nearly impossible with shaped objects to match each pixel from texture to render. Similar to that is the size of an object, since we have a very small one, typically with Particles. Here, the particle has a shape, which needs to "translated into the final pixel raster.

Like with any pixel movement that deviates from the next pixel position, changes that are longer or shorter will lower the quality. Lens distortion correction is a type of movement that affects quality.

The post effects can only "see" the scene through the rendering (the raster of the resolution), without any knowledge of the actual scene.

The Nyquist Frequency is a good way to explain it. Living in a cave and emerging only every 24 hours will give the impression that it is always night (or day, etc.).

Another point is that objects, especially particles, move, plus the camera might add screen movement for them as well. So they move through that raster of the final image. A typical example is Analog audio sampled into digital, which can lead to many problems if the resolution is not high enough.

But I get carried away here. I think the idea is clear, and I apologize for going on about it, but perhaps a few readers might find this supportive to know.

Cheers