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You're very welcome, smckenzie.

I'm glad it works for you.

My best wishes

Thank you very much for the reply, Dutchbird.

I'm glad you have your file.

Cheers

Hi page-cup,

This is not ironic; that is on purpose; we left this forum open as otherwise, no one would be able to post a question about not being able to access this forum.

The first year, we allowed it to be used as a backdoor for first-time questions. But now it would fragment the content, as each question should also help others. If answered here, it would be harder to find.

With this being said, I will move it to the Q&A Forum

If you want to clear your access problems, please use this Site Issue forum.

Cheers

Sounds like a great suggestion, Gemini.

I'm a big fan of "learning once - apply often". This idea fits perfectly.

Thanks for taking the time to share that; I'm happy to support this.

All the best

Thank you, _carsonjones.

It will support similar requests, but I have to mention that we do not copy from other apps. If one likes to work with Modo, then Modo is the app to use. None of the major 3D apps go shopping by the other vendor. I just do some expectation management here.

Otherwise, we end up emulating Maya, 3DMax, Houdini, etc, which is not the target. I assume other apps have the same idea about their architecture and strategy.

Cheers

I'm glad you have what you need, external-competition.

My best wishes for your project.

You're very welcome, MaverickMongoose.

Thank you for the feedback

Cheers

Thanks for the reply; highlight size.

Perhaps explore if a single Spline between two "ports" might give you more options. You can also set up single splines, merge them into one, and explore the segment options of the catenary spline modifier.

Enjoy your project

Hi Gabe,

Thanks for the file.

The bottleneck is in the Multi-Group. See the analytics below with 15 million particles, which are an added workload. I'm unclear if the Multi Group pulls the data from the GPU back into the CPU here. Perhaps test your scene to see if Caching will help. My laptop here will not show your performance, I assume.

Screenshot 2024-11-02 at 10.27.58 PM.jpg

I have copied the Color Mapper and the Advection to each Group. Please take a look. I do not have the capacity here to render many tests. Sorry.

CV4_2025_drs_24_PApy_21.c4d

Enjoy your weekend

Thank you very much, black-internet, for your reply.

My best wishes for your project, and yes, enjoy Halloween and have a relaxed weekend.

Hi RemoGambacciani,

Yes, there is an option, and I had hoped to get it working for you with the option above.
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The setup is simple, and at the same time, it requires some steps to get there.
The problem is that those setups typically produce a blend among stages, meaning it would ask for a Vdb from frame 23.45678…. Well, I haven't seen a cache with that. We need integer numbers, not "fractions here'
.

So, we must produce a single volume loader for each VDB file.
This is rather simple: create a Cloner and produce the amount while all of them are in the same position. So, for 0-72 frames, we need 73.

When the cloner is set up with the Volume Loader and the file name in the single Volume Loader (not set to Animation!), make it editable.

Select all Volume Loaders and place the three letters num in the Frame field. That is all. Now move all selected Volume Loaders under a Cloner set to Clone Amount of one!
The Mode is "Sort".

Apply the plain Effector set only to Modify Clone, and use whatever Field you like.

Now, place that Cloner under the Cloner. It would help if you produced your clones for the scene.

The Falloff of the Field will now give you a VDB of 0-72, while the falloff value of 0-1.
.

Your scene might be different, but I guess that is not a problem to adjust.

The file has no VDBs attached. You need your own. Use the Project Asset Manager to fix that.
Test this before going into production.
CV4_2025_drs_24_PYmg_01.c4d

My best wishes

Hi cyrilueg,

There is no Ramp Offset, AFAIK.

A simple way would be to use a flat projection and offset this. How does it affect anything else in the object? This needs to be explored in the target scene.
CV4_2025_drs_24_RSol_21.c4d
(Press play while the RS Render view is active.)
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The Gradients of the Ramp can be animated with the Color Knot, which is rather laborious.

More complex would be using Pose Morph and animating the UV, which also needs to be seen in how it will affect other parts.

All the best

Thanks for the feedback, MaverickMongoose.

My best wishes for your project

You're very welcome, shot-alcohol.

It is always a pleasure to share.

Have a great day

Hi black-internet,

You are very welcome; I'm sure there are innumerable files on many artist's drives. Hence, I hesitate to offer that, as I like to provide for everyone similarly. Which might test my capacity a lot when converting those ;-). But yes, I know the feeling of having content and trouble accessing it.

Yes, tech support is the way to go, and then you have the direct control over it.

Enjoy your Sunday.

Thank you very much, Dutchbird, for your reply.

I'm glad you got what you needed.

It isn't easy to see exactly what happens in an image. What you see in your image is also based on what you know, details I retrieve from the image alone.
Please share a scene file for future questions so I can answer them faster and in more detail.

Enjoy your project

Hi Gemini,

I do not know the project setup, so what do I look at?

There is an option in the
Main Menu> Modes> Viewport Solo (which affects the active object.

Besides that:
Can you place it on a layer and set the layer to Solo? What do you see then?

Is this helping?

If not, can you copy that object and paste it into a new file? What will be the result?

All the best

Hi _carsonjones,

I will forward this; if there is anything possible regarding Ai, I will update the thread here.

I'm not aware that any of our content is allowed in any way or form for any AI training content.

Please check with Maxon about it. This would need a C-Level approval.

Open a tech support ticket to get the needed information.
https://www.maxon.net/en/support-center

Besides, there is no PDF; the idea is to keep things updated, which is impossible with downloaded PDFs.

All the best

Hi Ondrej,

The main Take has no animation.

Creating a new [+] Take and drag all the elements into the right-sided field that you would like to have changed (animated) in a certain way. If you add animation in a Child Take, it is only in this specific Take.

A copy and paste might require RMC (right mouse click) on the parameters while the Take in question is selected (name is active - to see the content in the right field, plus, the square on the left to see it in the editor view), which this RMC the OVerwrite option is given for any grayed out parameter. Now it can be overwritten, or if it has unwanted animation, the red Dots on the parameters can be cleared for that taking.

Tip: Explore this using a simple example first. Often, learning something new and having a huge project, like your machine, doesn't provide the feeling of being able to explore (i.e., mess it up and see what happens).

Example

CV4_2025_drs_24_TAan_01.c4d

Screenshot 2024-11-17 at 11.13.31 AM.jpg

Enjoy your Sunday

Hi inspection-duty,

There are two presets in the Asset Browser. Are they working for you?

Screenshot 2024-11-16 at 9.48.29 PM.jpg

"Emitter based On Texture" and "Emitter based on Vertex Color" (Both use Vertex Color for the field in the Surface Emitter. That might be a limitation if the mesh is not producing enough Vertex points.

I have tested both with the current version, just in case.

Let me know if you have a question. I'm happy to look into it.

Enjoy your weekend