Hi Noseman,
Thank you for sharing your absolutely great knowledge over all these years, I'll definitely miss you here...
Is there any moderator that might take over here? If not, I'm afraid this forum will not make a lot of sense anymore.
That would be great to have a captain on the ship!
All the best for your new channel, I'll follow that with a lot of attention of course.
Cheers,
Arnaud
Same here..
If anybody can help in that..
A little up here for a little help, thanx guys!
Hi there again,
I experienced something quite a bit frustrating..
I have an object, I animate its opacity via the redshift shader node.
On the viewport it shows its animation properly, but when I do a viewport renderer (copy effects from viewport clicked) it doesn't animate it the way it should (in fact there is no animation at all), it just show the actual opacity from the current frame.
This doesn't make any sense to me and I have no clue how to get the same result as I have on my viewport.
Anybody experienced that?
Hi there,
There must be a way, surely.
Let's say I want to align all the highlighted frames (in the blue circles) to the level of the others (moving them down). I can do it manualy, but there is no accuracy, so my values are displaying unwanted value with decimals.. How can I do it with accuracy?
Thanks,
Arnaud
Hi there,
On a large scene, I'd like to find back all my proxies (rs proxies) on some scattered plants.
I imagine I did something wrong, because as soon as I click make editable or click on edit mode (scatter menu), everything just disappears.If I leave my scatters untouch, they display well and render well... The only way I can get some geometry back is by making a current state to object on my scatter object. Connect objects and delete will not work. My idea is to get rid of the scatter object, get the full list of proxies back and then edit it the way I want. Is that still possible?
Thank you for any guidance.
Excellent, exactly what I was looking for! Thanx Athanasios!
Hi there,
I have a CAD model of a complex machine, and I noticed that the rotation axis of each individual group of elements is sometimes different.
I would like to know if there is a way to reset the rotation axis of everything without changing the rotation of the object itself (just the axis not the geometry). It sounds simple, but I’ve been trying to figure it out for quite a while and haven’t been able to.
Thank you in advance for your advice—I would really appreciate it!
Arnaud
Dear Dr Sassi,
This was absolutely the solution I was after.
With a counter-form and easily animated with keyframe.
Thank you so much!
Dear Dr Sassi,
I really appreciate your help, the time you spend to make these examples to make us understand the way C4D works. I was thinking of a loft this afternoon, but had no clue how to animate it in this fashion!
I would love to continue your setup, but honnestly I have absolutely no clue how to drive this formula to continue the cuting after the 1st turn.
To be honnest, I never been really good in math and I don't understand the way to drive those formulas.
Is it possible to animate on the fly a different behaviour in the formula based on these oscillations?
So I can replicate what is on the graph (on the video), it's apparently doing a first turn (the red path) then it can oscillate for multiple turns always chopping a bit of the metal (always repeating the red path and then the blue). As now I have the first part (red path, thank you!) how can I initiate the second path (the blue one)? Doing an other formula?
Sorry if I ask silly questions, I understand most of the things you did, but the formula part is still very opaque..
Hi Dr Sassi,
I'd like to reproduce a similar effect as demonstated on this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tpgc_pHRl4
A cutting tool removing chips of metal on a metal bare.
I've tried different approaches to simulate the process of this tool, for the moment none of them makes sense to me.
Doing it with a deformer will not help as I can't animate the way I want it. Then I thought I could do it with a counter shape and boolean it with the bare, but this is becoming also pretty complicated. My best bet is probably morphing the shape from a state to an other. But I don't know how to reproduce the morphing effect radially, as it should..
Maybe you have an other idea?
Thank you for your help.
Cheers,
Arnaud
Absolutely, this video reveal all the secrets of anisotropy, thank you for this link.
Polygon Division goes in depth about the subject too.
https://www.youtube.com/@PolygonDivision
Cheers,
Arnaud
Thank you for your advices. It helped me to find a way to nicely represent this anodized metal and brush it acurately.
Here is the result I got.
Cheers,
Arnaud
I'd like to reproduce this type of metal.
We can see the anysotropy specular effect is tinted in blue on the circular brushed blue material.
Dear Dr Sassi,
There is something I don't understand with the new standard material on Redshift. I have a metal material, I want to tint it in let's say green. Ok, I put the green color under color, then the full metalness to make it nicely shiny. Here is my problem: in various anodized metals, the color of the specular could be different to white, like let's say a blue spec, or any other color. With that setup, I struggle to change it the way I want.
The only solution to colour the spec would be to remove the metalness and increase the IOR value to get close to metal, but then the diffuse color and the specular color are overlapping, that sounds kind of wrong to me..
I'm pretty sure I missed something, but I couldn't find any information so far about this specific question.
Thank you, I hope it makes sense..
Arnaud
Thank you for this very valuable help. Deforming the geo instead of using a texture image is something I didn't even think..
It does a pretty good job and the light deformation appears to be more conform to the reality.
Here is the result I get. Much better.
Hi Dr Sassi!
I'd like to reproduce this effect:
I'm quite close with this:
https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/94562d4e-8fc5-4029-913e-c803e3de9db8
I'm not so sure about the spiral effect in the anisotropy, maybe there is a better way to do it. Thank you for your guidance.
Cheers,
Arnaud
@Dr-Sassi
That's great!
I worked on it a bit and I can say now I exactly get what I was expected.
It's very close to my reference and I can make various type of metal chips based on that idea.
I'll do the other type of metal chips, the ones on the left of the video now.
I'll come back if I have some questions.
Thank you again for your help, this is exactly the type of messy metal chips I was looking for!
Dear Dr. Sassi,
Thank you for taking time to build this example. It's interesting and that could be an option.
I found an other way, probably closer to the reference.
I get only one problem, the head of my string is not looking good (it looks like it contains the the rest of the helix that didn't travel yet on the path), I was wondering if you know a way to fix that?
