Thank you very much, Dan.

I'm glad you enjoy the variety, as I believe everyone has a different background and preference, and so one or the other option might be a better fit. I hope that helps your curriculum keep the load for your students on a good level.

Thank you for all your support for your students; they must be lucky to have you!

My best wishes for your next class

You're very welcome, Dan.

If there are more questions, please never hesitate to ask, and thanks for opening each question in a single thread. I enjoy that a lot.

My best wishes for your exploration.

You're very welcome, Dan.

First, I thought it was all about Priorities, going by pictures.
I tested it, and, as usual, replicating is the key, not guessing.

So, thank you for your reply!

My best wishes

Thank you again, Dan.

Fingers crossed, it will be fixed in no time.

Cheers

Hi dnaphish,

Thanks for the file, and for using Google Cloud.

The Simulation System is not working with Connectors, AFAIK.

Here is currently the best I have found, animated the Stickiness. Yes, my value is here over the top, just to be on the safe side.
It helps when the friction is zero to avoid early fractions.

CV4_2024_drs_23_SIfs_01.c4d

Is it perfect, perhaps visually, with Motion-blur…

All the best

Yes, opinion-intnetion,

To my knowledge, Hierarchy works only in MoGrpah objects.

Please use this link
https://www.maxon.net/en/support-center
and please use "Share Your Ideas" to request this option.

Perhaps a Fracture Object as Parent might help, not knowing the set up…

I surely will support this.

My best wishes

You're very welcome, Dan.

A cube with 1000^3 segments made editable, placed into a Cloner 4x1x4 Grid and made editable again can quickly get over 4GB. Perhaps your student can test it. In that way, it can be seen if the student's file is perhaps damaged if the cube test file works.

I can say that 2024 has vast improvements to work with more load.

I hope your student can open it on another machine and split the file, perhaps place some parts in a new file and use XRef to overcome an OS limitation.

I guess you might share this observation: when people are new to 3D, there is often the idea to overdo it, and it takes a while to get a "feel" for the sweet spot.

My best wishes for you and your students.

Hi solid-fly,

Great that you got XPresso working. 🙂 I'm always happy to help, but I know the feeling of setting things up and knowing what is happening.

For now, I would leave the Filmtools alone when in Redshift. I have filed a report yesterday, so fingers crossed that this is working soon.

My tip would be to use the Focal length and the Shift parameters so that you can reset those.

When you work with a 21mm, I assume, going by the provided image; you know already to handle distortions with the image. As I write in a forum, I like to mention those things as a general tip. If I knew which practical lens you have used, I could explore what kind of distortion it had, if there is a test anywhere. Sometimes these lenses have barrel and cushion distortion mixed with a "Mustage" distortion, which needs extra care.

There is a lens distortion workflow in Cinema 4D, and you get great results with enough care (i.e., enough lines in image five and more).

All the best