CINEVERSITY

P.S.: The train is tricky, but I had to try again.
The train is partially based on object trackers, and partially on a quick Roto

To run lights around it might be enough…

https://projectfiles.maxon.net/Cineversity_Forum_Support/2025_PROJECTS_DRS/20251121_CV4_20226_drs_25_TRws_21.c4d.zip

Or another exploration

https://projectfiles.maxon.net/Cineversity_Forum_Support/2025_PROJECTS_DRS/20251121_CV4_20226_drs_25_TRws_31.c4d.zip

As mentioned, the nearly lock-off shot has problems seeing "distance".
Think of the movement of the camera, while having a target point, which will create a "V" like viewing axis of the start and end point. This allows us to calculate the distance. If these two viewing axes are on top of each other, no distance can be calculated.

When I "manually roto" the train, the distance that it travels and the tracking points describing the context are in a very different world. "A full lock-off pan around the nodal point" creates in most tracking apps just a sphere." Yes, I tossed it for a test also in Syntheyes. I got a perfect pan of the camera, but that was it. To set a lot of manual tracker for teh train will surely improve the results, but I am as before concerned about phone based problems.

Hi Dani Fuchs,

Please share your file, as any A/B test I have done doesn't show that result. I have rendered different setups in the past hours.
If the file is below 1MB, it can be shared here as a C4D file.

Screenshot 2025-11-21 at 11.32.07 AM.jpg
For security reasons, please use only Wetransfer, Dropbox, Google, Apple, or Adobe cloud services. Upload uncompressed and share the full URL as text (no HTML wrapper). Thank you.

Alternative, since this sounds more like a technical problem, please check with Tech Support:
https://www.maxon.net/en/support-center

All the best

P.S.: may I ask for a favor?
Please report the Pin Material problem with Redshift to Tech Support.
https://www.maxon.net/en/support-center
I have delivered a report a while ago, but more input would be great to have, thank you

Hi OlcayKayihan,

I can't find any mentioning of the one you mentioned. I do not have a 4090 card, nor did Adobe extend my Substance license to support anyone here. Sorry, I have no firsthand data, and that leaves me to ask you you check with Tech Support:
https://www.maxon.net/en/support-center

Sidenote:
This is the latest I found
https://redshift.maxon.net/topic/53757/version-2026.1.1-is-now-available-2025.10

Useful, but perhaps not helpful links for your question. Why do I leave them here? As I will suggest to include in one or the other a driver suggestion.
https://support.maxon.net/hc/en-us/articles/20808876151452-How-to-Perform-a-Clean-Installation-of-the-NVIDIA-GPU-Driver
https://support.maxon.net/hc/en-us/articles/16797414314012-System-Requirements-for-Maxon-Products

My best wishes

Thank you so much, Cit, for taking the time to reply, as well as for the kind feedback!

Thinking back, when I explored XPresso, it was perhaps without a target, besides the feeling that I wanted to know. So little by little, I explored a few nodes.
The key part, from my point of view, is simple: knowing what one node provides and what another expects. Like is it a single number or a three-axis Vector, etc? This core knowledge often helps to unlock a problem.

Please ask if you hit any roadblocks. I'm happy to help.

Nodes, in any way, always feel overwhelming at first. It gets better with time. … and perhaps, at one point, the "thinking in nodes" kicks in. Then the fun starts, and I hope that everyone can experience that soon or later.

I learn constantly as well. Nodes open a huge new toolbox with nearly endless options.

Cheers

Thank you very much for the reply, Pitchi.

My best wishes for your project!

OFF-TOPIC

Please get in touch with Maxon directly.

Please note, constructive feels different to me. Telling how far someone else is behind with wishes one has for themself is not constructive. While I can understand your reasons and ideas, that doesn't mean that they make them mainstream requests.

I think you use complaining as a vehicle for something else, and that is not the theme of this forum. However, I understand the frustration when things do not move in the way one can envision. On the other hand, the wonderful and creative results so many people showcase speaks volumes of what can be done.

I checked the Share Your Ideas options with a private email, as I have never seen a Forum there. I couldn't find one. No idea what you are talking about.

The idea of having the torrent of ideas/emails directly landing in the developer's email is so far from any practical option as I can think of; they never would get anything done with that workflow. Maxon is not a garage band, but your ideas seem to have that impression.

Yes, ask a hundred 3D artists and you might get a few dozen development plans about what is not the most important to everyone. Everyone might be right, but how to coordinate it? The typically generalization of "my" idea is right, and everyone needs this, well, that is not my impression doing 3D for over three decades, nor is that a reflection of 19 years+ running this forum.

In short, I take your input seriously, and I can't say nothing would overlaps with my thought, but the way to crash into another artist's thread and unload in a way you did is not the MO here. I have muted you for a while, and you are welcome to ask questions that need creative solutions or how a tool works. However, this is not a "sop box platform, as that would escalate very quickly.

Since May 2006, I have had three people walking in here that way, like crashing a party and complaining about the homeowner's taste in the first minutes.
This is not the way I see this forum, and I will not support this in any way. Perhaps this is not for you.

This was my day off, and I came here anyway to answer people's questions. Your complains/frustrations were on my mind, of course, and I surely didn't enjoy this. But I wanted to reply anyway, as I have been in those states as well. I switched on my first computer over four decades ago, and I'm familiar with a lot of perspectives and changes during that time.

Share Your Ideas, tell why it is important for your work and projects, find people who support you with a positive way of expressing it, and things work better that way.

Take care.

Hi regular-wine,

There is Cinebench as an orientation of what you might get from one or the other. Google about score lists.
https://www.maxon.net/en/downloads/cinebench-2024-downloads
https://www.maxon.net/en/tech-info-cinebench

I typically do not suggest hardware here, as that is quite difficult. But besides the cost, the Mini or the Studio seems to be quite different to me.

The models you mentioned are currently kind of mid-cycle. At the same time, the M5 seems to point to a new level of speed for all, just guessing.
https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#mac

My main tip would be to invest in screens that can perform HDR values. For a long time now, that is a critical production point, besides larger Gamuts.

If your MO is to squeeze a long-running time out of the hardware, make sure it stays relevant for a long time, stating the obvious, sorry about that, which means more of an M4 than an M3, and typically more power, etc.

That is already more than I'm comfortable sharing.

My best wishes

P.S.: …how about iMac24" and an extra Screen?

Hi way-smoke,

Please have a look at the example. I have set the shadow to yellow to see it more clearly. The sphere and the pole cast a shadow. Both are in the reflection of the sphere in the left upper corner.
CV4_2026_drs_25_RSsc_01.c4d

Screenshot 2025-11-11 at 2.12.41 PM.jpg
Screenshot 2025-11-11 at 2.12.53 PM.jpg

more about this:
https://help.maxon.net/c4d/2026/en-us/Default.htm#html/TRSOBJECT-REDSHIFT_OBJECT_TAB_MATTE.html?TocPath=Object%2520Manager%257CTags%2520Menu%257CRender%2520Tags%257CRedshift%2520Object%2520Tag%257C_____7

Is this answering your question?

All the best

Hi bike-disaster,

Thanks for pushing. If I see more options to support this, I will do so, of course.

I surely feel it as well, and it is not fun when searching through thousands of C4D files that I got since this problem occurred, especially when most people do not share with simple naming convention.

The problem is clear, and yes, the solution is eagerly wanted.
To toss out just something that works now and fails soon, with the next OS update again, is not how I would love to see it.

I do not see anything new in the AI report. Gemini is surely not my first choice in AI after testing it with a few hundred deep researches over a long time, comparing it to a few others, the fantasy it has, and its ignorance of preferences stands out in my selections of AI entities: I mention that, as I have written a lot of feedback to Google; I surely feel when a problem seems to make no progress.

I have reported all problems with the preview, shared where I can. Adding anything to this thread at this point will have little effect. What is effective is using the tech support! That is the most powerful option right now.
Please use the tech support options.
https://www.maxon.net/en/support-center

Cheers

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply 🙂 , Hoi.

You're very welcome!

Enjoy your project

Hi glas-force,

Would it be possible to use "Edge to Spline" and run it from there?

Example
CV4_2026_drs_25_HAli_01.c4d
Screenshot 2025-11-10 at 2.54.13 PM.jpg

Otherwise, please check with Tech Support.
https://www.maxon.net/en/support-center

All the best

Hi Zusana,

Is the "Set as Default Preset" not working?

That was my first impression as well: gray? My argument against icon change in that way is clearly that all tutorials suffer from what was done before. While the "shape" change will stay, I see no argument against it being red.

I understand to change it each time to red feels like one more step too much, and setting a preset, is not so much less work, while it might overwrite the already done settings.

… and yes, the red version was an easy-to-spot option for such a central tag.

Please check with tech-support, as the old PSD file option is now buried in a zip file, to my knowledge, and I haven't tested it at all with 2026, what side effects a change will have. That is tech support's strength.

https://www.maxon.net/en/support-center

With the same URL, you can also express the need to have it back in red using the "Share your Ideas".

You have my support, but it needs some input from your side as well to get it back.

Thank you so much for your input and time!

Cheers

Hi Bart,

Thanks for the reply.

I can't confirm this limitation. I explored it with the current version, avoiding so to answer from memory.

Please have a look here:
https://projectfiles.maxon.net/Cineversity_Forum_Support/2025_PROJECTS_DRS/20251110_CV4_2026_drs_25_SIal_01.zip
Screenshot 2025-11-10 at 10.21.07 AM.jpg
.

Some processes don't like changing point amounts, so I checked this as well with v2026, just in case.
https://projectfiles.maxon.net/Cineversity_Forum_Support/2025_PROJECTS_DRS/20251110_CV4_2026_drs_25_SIal_11.c4d.zip

This works for me here.

Perhaps your setup is different. I'm happy to take a look at it. Please use only Dropbox, WeTransfer, Google, Apple, or Adobe cloud services. Upload the non-compressed file and paste the URL here without an HTML wrapper. Sorry for the long text; it is all about security.

All the best

Hi Jan Sidwick,

Sorry, I do not have a license anymore from Insydium, and no stored Taiao example.

As in the image, is that tag there, and do you get the UV information in the UV editor?
Screenshot 2025-11-08 at 3.12.53 PM.jpg

If so, add an empty texture in the resolution you need to the object.
You might need to go to the paint layout first, and on the material, click on the red X to load the texture.
Go to the UV editor

With the Active Object and UV tag, use the Layer> Create UV Mesh Layer
https://help.maxon.net/c4d/2026/en-us/Default.htm#html/32150.html#PLUGIN_CMD_170723
This needs to be saved, and when opened in e.g., Photoshop, you know where to place the specific textures or colors.

Let me know if there is any obstacle.

All the best