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Hi erwin,

Thank you so much for sharing your great results and giving even credit.

Your result looks great; I'm glad you pushed it that far.

Yes, I'm no longer on Instagram. Sorry. My images are not for AI training, and to show up as fragments later in work I might not support.

Enjoy!

You're very welcome, entry-newspaper.

Let me know if you encounter any obstacles.

Cheers

Hi voice-item,

Your question is different. If I understand correctly, you would just like the Vertex map data as a mask.

Here is an example. Render the file. Then go to the Render Settings and use the Overwrite Material. Render again.

CV4_2024_drs_24_RSvm_01.c4d

I have set up a material that only shows the Vertex map. The material will show any Vertex map with the same name in the material entry.

If you have follow-up questions that are different, please open a new Forum Thread; otherwise, things become hard to search and read. Thank you.

All the best

Hi reading-card,

I can't reproduce this here.

I took a plane and made it editable.
Use Fields - checked.
I placed a Sphere field in the list.
Unchecked the Filed option.
Deleted the Sphere Field (not needed)
The values stay the same.

Since you mentioned Deformed and Non-Deformed.
I can't tell you anything else without a Project file (reduced to the problem); only check with tech support.

All the best

Hi history-growth,

Thanks a lot for the reply.

Yes, of course, you are correct, if the Refresh works for you, then please use it.
I had some trouble with it yesterday, so I shared the workaround, just in case.

Enjoy your project

You're very welcome, AlexC.
My best wishes for your project.

Hi Michal Rodzinski,

The idea is to rotate the points around the axis but not the axis itself.

The position of each Point is based on the Object Axis. With this, the Normal is a Local idea. So you need to rotate the "surface" but not the axis. How to do that? Rotate Point from the X-Pool>System Presets> Matrix in XPresso.

Example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3wf6skt6a3w2xe6/CV4_2023_drs_23_XPvr_01.c4d.zip?dl=0
I have marked what can be moved and what can be rotated. Any derivation from that and the system is broken.

The "surface" can now be rotated or moved" while the Vertex Map is focused on the light source.

Since I have no file here, and screen capture nor images tell me that, I can only suggest/guess that you had in the Point Node, not the "Use Deformed Points" checked on.

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With that knowledge, you might use the Cluster Object to rotate the points around, while the Object that rotates the Point is a child of the Object, so it stays at Position 0, 0, 0.

My best wishes