@Dr-Sassi Thank you so much for you swift reply. I will investigate these suggestions. I am also pleased to see that the Maxon Developer's Cafe is a thing. I did not know there was such a thing. Thank you again. (Have you checked your drone for new firmware? My DJI Mavic 2 Pro supposedly has a new Remote ID firmware)
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RE: Matrix Object MoSelection ID drives the "Text Spline" attribute of text object
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Matrix Object MoSelection ID drives the "Text Spline" attribute of text object
Is there a way to programmatically fill the string of text within the “Text Object (previously MoText)” Text Spline attribute. Specifically, I am needing to make a matrix object’s mograph selection ID(+1) to drive the string value found in the Text Spline attribute. I have created this with a single number in the Text Spline attribute, but can’t figure out how to programmatically change this value. In the end, I am trying to create a 20 sided die.
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RE: Pyro Explosion Cached Version is Smaller in scale than live
I completely understand about the post. I am glad that you are able to take days off. I have been flooded teaching Drone flying this week, trying to get a unit in before our DJI drones here in the USA are grounded because of RemoteID.
I added a camera, but still had the same issue. I made a screen recording of the issue while using an RS Camera. Perhaps you could look one more time?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sAP0R4U9oREkVyyy4NvIWQklka0zUqUU/view?usp=drive_linkThank you sir.
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Pyro Explosion Cached Version is Smaller in scale than live
I was able to follow along with this tutorial until I wanted to cache and view the results.
I had a very odd problem when I cached the simulation. The cached files are about 20% the size (not file size, but viewport size) of the viewport when compared to the RS renderview. They were the same while not cached, but the moment after creating the cache, the RS renderview shows the exact simulation, but it is 1/5 the size.
Here are my project files:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vxDKDBvrmZrWDTuEtbY34Isncz3gl_oV?usp=sharingHere is a screenshot of the difference RS Renderview/Viewport:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OU9thFDUGfLWfemVB-DfmpxekS4ZReHG/view?usp=drive_linkI am still not able to wrap my head around the vast visual changes to Pyro in C4D 2023.2.2. The pyro appears completely different, and I believe it has something to do with the changes to the Noise section in Pyro. I was able to alter some settings to begin to get the same wispy nature of Noseman, rather than the blockiness of the 2023.2.2 system.
Working on a Macbook Pro M1 Max 64, Ventura 13.5.
I posted this on the tutorial questions page, but got no response in 12 days. I assume it is because caching the render is not a part of the tutorial so I need to post in the QA forum.
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RE: [Help] Making an Explosion Using Pyro
I was able to follow along with this tutorial until I wanted to cache and view the results.
I had a very odd problem when I cached the simulation. The cached files are about 20% the size (not file size, but viewport size) of the viewport when compared to the RS renderview. They were the same while not cached, but the moment after creating the cache, the RS renderview shows the exact simulation, but it is 1/5 the size.
Here are my project files:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vxDKDBvrmZrWDTuEtbY34Isncz3gl_oV?usp=sharingHere is a screenshot of the difference RS Renderview/Viewport:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OU9thFDUGfLWfemVB-DfmpxekS4ZReHG/view?usp=drive_linkI am still not able to wrap my head around the vast visual changes to Pyro in C4D 2023.2.2. The pyro appears completely different, and I believe it has something to do with the changes to the Noise section in Pyro. I was able to alter some settings to begin to get the same wispy nature of Noseman, rather than the blockiness of the 2023.2.2 system.
Working on a Macbook Pro M1 Max 64, Ventura 13.5.
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RE: [Help] Basic Explosion Effects
@Dr-Sassi Thanks again for working through this problem. I want so much to expand our use of the Cineversity Tutorials in my program at school. I discussed with Tech support, and they said they were reporting the variations between older versions and the new versions as a bug to tackle. They appreciated the inclusion of a scene file and detailed descriptions. Pyro is the most exciting tool I have used in a quite a while.
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RE: [Help] Basic Explosion Effects
I was able to get the 2023.2.1 working on one of the other Mac Studios in the lab. It is also running RS 3.5.15. I pulled in your example project. I really appreciate the help, but I still struggle to see that the explosion resembles the tutorial. The viscous and rippling nature of the tutorial's pyro (even at 2:30 in) is just so much more natural.
There is now a controllable Noise category which defines the shape of the emission's source. Previously this may have been handled (I assume) "under the hood" meaning that the noise was setup with some parameters by default. Can I set the new noise parameters to the previously (internal) settings so as to match behavior? Can I know what those settings were so as to not only recreate the previous behavior, but understand how the controls affect the system now?Were you able to get the example file from Aaron?
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RE: [Help] Basic Explosion Effects
Thanks for sending it over. I was waiting to upgrade to 2023.2.1, because I had gone through quite a bit to a get a 3rd party plugin, HOT4D to build and was worried it would break it. I will see if I can update an extra computer and check this out. Please allow me to respond again.
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RE: [Help] Basic Explosion Effects
I couldn't upload a large enough file here, but there are no wispy tendrals, just boxes of fire and boxes of smoke.
These are both after the 2:30 mark, with no changes in the tutorial other than C4D version. -
RE: [Help] Basic Explosion Effects
Thanks for the awesome tutorial. However, since upgrading to 2023.2.0, I have a completely different result when creating even the most basic explosions. Following exactly on my M1 mac Studio (Monterrey), I was just around the 2:30 mark in the tutorial when my pyro looks completely different. Very boxy, not resembling the explosion at all. Indeed, on older versions, I think Pyro was very similar to Aharon's results.