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Hi MaverickMongoose,

Thanks for the reply

Yes, from your perspective, but sometimes it might be useful to have the initial state as well.
I agree that the decision should be a checkbox and not require extra steps.

Enjoy your project

Hi David,

There are no mistakes, only gained experience. 🙂

Enjoy!

Hi David,

You're very welcome, and thanks for the reply.

A lot of information about Polygons are here:
https://help.maxon.net/c4d/2025/en-us/Default.htm#html/DMODELING-MESH_CHECK.html#MESH_CHECK_POLY

Call up a Polygon Object, set one side to 0cm, press "c", and check it. That is a bad polygon 😉 , often they are just produced with no influence to the visual results. IF so, you can select those with the Mesh Checker, and delete them.

Since there is typically no scene information on how they should be done correctly, repairing is a artist decision, not based on rules (DTDT, do-this-do-that).

I hope that helps a little.

Enjoy your weekend

Hi williambillcard,

Thank you for taking the time.

After you have had some time to explore it, please let me know if there are any questions.
I'm happy to look into it.

Cheers

Hi Mark,

Thank you for that. Doing that for a while now - Yes, I understand the time constrain. The idea of using a tool to create visuals for many purposes should be fun and easy, yet there is a certain amount of time spent dealing with technicalities.

As an artist, I know: Those things cost time, and if I may say so, Cinema 4D is designed to provide solid technology, while aiming to keep the time to become fluent with it those more conceptual items short.

As an educator, I try to provide Mental Models (ideally have those grow and connect, blended) or at least hope to activate existing models, which is not simple with text, as the dominant skill is visual. However, the dual coding of text and visuals (project files, for example) is a good option to keep what is learned (retention). In short, thanks for your lines above.

Enjoy the exploration and the final result!

You're very welcome, MaverickMongoose.

If you find a problem, please mention it in a ticket, so it can be worked on.
https://www.maxon.net/en/support-center

Thanks for sharing your findings.

Cheers

All the best

Hi bet-beach,

Here is an idea: to take the Vertex (Vertex Color Give) information from a small portion (Vertex. Color Share) and provide it back with a "blur" to a new one (Vertex Color Get).

The Broom (Vertex Color Share) has a lower Decay setting, to update its information as the broom (Vertex Color Share) moves, while the Vertex Color Get has a 100% decay setting, to keep the changes.

Ideally, the source would be separate, to follow a top-down process in the Object Manager, but I assume it works just fine here.
Example
https://projectfiles.maxon.net/Cineversity_Forum_Support/2025_PROJECTS_DRS/20250912_CV4_2025_drs_25_PAcm_41.c4d.zip

Screenshot 2025-09-12 at 11.50.55 AM.jpg

Enjoy

Thank you for your input and reply, atomician.
Enjoy your project.

My best wishes

Thanks for taking the time to reply, lawyer-platform.

If there is anything else, I'm happy to look into it.
If it is a new theme, please open a new thread. Thank you.

Have a great day!

Thanks for the reply, working-long.

I'm glad it works for you.

If I get no other detail or a scene file where I can check the version, I assume the current version is used. I should have asked to get a file, which I usually do, sorry for that. I'm glad I pointed to 2025.3.3.

Enjoy your project.

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the reply, and you're very welcome.

This is good to know. I can't find an entry for this problem, or perhaps I searched not well enough.

Either way, I'm glad there is awareness and progress.

Have a great weekend.

P.S.: I would like to share the next step of exploration.

I'm not sure if you need this now or if I overshare here; my only indicator was the file, which is from a Learning version. If that is too much right now, back it up and consider visiting it later.

Please note, I left the Outer Controller out of this file, to have a clear view to the inner Controller only.

Please have a look at the file below:
CV4_2025_drs_25_CAik_21.c4d
This is the underlying tech of the inner Controllers (FK_Neck_IK_01_con+ to FK_Neck_IK_03_con+; while FK_Neck_04_con+ is more for the next step) #Spline IK Tag.
More in detail:
https://help.maxon.net/c4d/2025/en-us/Default.htm#html/TCAIKSPLINE-ID_TAGPROPERTIES.html#ID_CA_IKSPLINE_TAG_TWIST_CURVE

When you change one of the 01-03 controllers, you define the "Spline", which I have set to red here.

Feel free to move things around as you like, since I have frozen all coordinates. This means the Reset Transform will restore them to their original state when I froze them. Just pull one far away until you see the spline.
Screenshot 2025-08-22 at 2.18.41 PM.jpg
https://help.maxon.net/c4d/2025/en-us/Default.htm#html/43760.html

The outer Controller defines a kind of Forward Kinematic, while the inner Controller defines the flow or smoothness. Both in concert create either chaos or a smooth natural result.

All the best

Great, thank you, MaverickMongoose, for your reply!

I'm glad this works for your project!

Enjoy!

Thank you, Dutchbird,

There is a vast number of things that can be customized directly or in cobination, and I'm not aware what will survive and what not. How stable the app is after loading old files in, I can't tell.
I hope you have no problems.

My best wishes

Hi ASeifried,
Access request send.
Cheers

Thank you very much, Balakay612!

Yes, first of all, thanks for providing an image, and for understanding that the variety of the sources creating the problem can be rather large. Not that I know all the answers, who does (?), but I'm aware that each problem has that individual mix.

I try to avoid exposing you to a guessing marathon, which can go on forever with no results, perhaps.

My best wishes for your project

Hi Mars,

One idea would be to bake the RS Material and use the image (still or sequence) to drive this with a Displacer.
The Information that feeds into the RS Displacement (Like Maxon Noise) is fed into the Emission channel.
An AOV is set (direct output).

As usual, I checked the current version and practically recreated the idea.

Screenshot 2025-08-30 at 11.33.40 AM.jpg
Orange RS set up; Red Displacer based on OpenEXR image

It is not a one-button push action, but I hope faster than recreating a whole Material.

All the best

Thank you very much for your tremendous patience and understanding, draft-buddy.

Your input has lead to a report, and I hope it is solved quickly, without your input… So, thank you.

My best wishes for your project.
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Thanks for the reply, Hady.

You're very welcome. 🙂

Please note that we have a forum especially for developers:
https://developers.maxon.net/?_gl=11xspa4x_gcl_au*MTcyOTk1NjE0My4xNzU1ODg1Nzcw
I hope you find some inspiring content and contacts there.

This also allows us to keep any code out of this forum (for security reasons).

Have a great weekend.

Thank you very much, entry-newspaper.

Have a pleasant weekend as well! 🙂