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You're very welcome, unique-calm!

Have a great weekend

Hi prompt-height

Yes, that is why the Bullet engine is in Cinema 4D as well. It is not replaced.

Please have a look here: Quick Tip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwjDc8zIlN0

More about the new Simulation engine is here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/3O22A-hRP0c?feature=share
https://www.youtube.com/live/3O22A-hRP0c?feature=share

So, to a certain degree, you can set up a stiffer object. Look also at the other tips in the Ask the Trainer video.

All the best

Hi Laura Fischer,

The Magic Bullet Looks is software that was added to Cinema 4D. Going back a few years is always problematic, as tools have been added to newer versions naturally.

Your question is general, meaning I would need to list a four-digit number of functions, tools, and objects in R19 already and what they were not in comparison to R25. Since those release number combinations can easily create over a hundred combinations, that would take a few days per pairing. That is not possible to provide here.

R19 was released in the Fall of 2017. If you can access R19, open the file, copy everything from the Object manager, open a new project, and copy things into it. Since you mentioned modeling only, timeline and render settings don't matter. Does it look OK?

As long as we talk about modeling, the safest way is to export the model in obj or fbx and share that with your client, they can send you the R19 file back, and you can check if they got everything OK.

One side note, this forum is for Site Issues only. Please remember this; thank you. I will move this post to the Q&A forum.

All the best

Hi Mitch,

Thanks for the file.
I replaced the Floor Dynamics (Backdrop) with a Plane.
I have set the Wheel Dynamic Shape to a Cylinder Z
Increased the scale to 5 cm
Friction to 80% for all
I left the Bounce at 0% even though I think that is not how I would do it, but I guess that is your target.
I cached it, and it looks acceptable to me.

It runs fast; I placed (standard render) a checkerboard on the wheel.

What you might have used, but since I write in a forum:
Attribute Manager> Mode> Project> Bullet> Visualization

CV4_2023_drs_23_DYwp_01.c4d

I hope that works for you.

All the best

Thanks a lot for the feedback, jacket-imagination.

I explored your scene a bit, perhaps putting a polygon selection on the fingers, and used that to place via MoGraph Cloner little colliders.

Let me know if there is anything else.

My best wishes for your project

Thanks a lot, fordmar,

The two key elements are that a spline can be a Field and that the MoSpline can be used to adjust how that spline affects the scene (Start, end, Offset), while the other is when the Clone with the Ridged Body appears, Dynamic takes over. If that goes too fast, the Blend might not do it completely. I used the MoSpline (a copy) for the MoGraph Selection, which then went into the Rigid Body as a "switch".

Let me know if you Have questions.

Enjoy

Nice that you found a sweet spot spot for your project, Adam.

My best wishes for your project.

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for your openness and for mentoring your team. It is always a balancing act.

The idea of collaboration and how to operate along a pipeline while including multi-disciplines should be worth a more extended discussion.

It is like the teamwork between a Rigger and a Character Animator. How to find the right balance, to have each field working efficiently, but not cutting into the comfort of the other. When one likes to animate the character, there should be no long search for the right parameter, and distracting so from the target, creating an expression should be the only concern.

With Dynamics, there is no default concept to rig it for the next stop along the pipeline, like setting up a few sliders in a User Data Interface to hide the complexity involved. (Time to think about it.)

My best wishes for your project

OK, thanks for the feedback, Chris Villa,

How about this:

CV4_2023_drs_23_DYsw_11.c4d

Enjoy