Hello,
I'm wondering if there is a way to render an exact background solid color for scenes that for example use GOBO light to light the products and floor around those products.

It's somewhat easy if I use just the dome light, enter a solid color value in the camera background, and use a shadow cache on the floor.

Render with Dome light and shadow cacher
https://ibb.co/nN09QX18

When I use RS material on the floor it caches diffuse and defined color is different.
Render with GOBO light and RS material on the floor
https://ibb.co/dwg3fMqW

If I use shadow cacher on the floor I loose GOBO light on the floor.
Render with GOBO light and Shadow Cacher material on the floor
https://ibb.co/DP1bRD16

One way is to play with floor edges opacity, but wondering is there another way to get exact same defined color on the floor and background?
Thank you.

Link to example C4D Scene (for some reason can't upload scene or 720p images to this post):
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ylhzlsaj6b8i224njib20/solid_color_test.c4d?rlkey=y5v44ovbl6pch488gr087rte4&dl=0

Joke aside, thank you guys for putting so much effort, covering and helping in every aspect od C4D/RS.

All the best!

@Dr-Sassi said in [Help] Simulation Scene Settings & Point Density:

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Do you sleep peacefully Athanasios Pozantzis!?

Hello,
This lesson ends with "in the next video..." but there is no next video in this series.

Thank you Dr. Sassi, great tip.
As I understand, tearing happens on value transitions at the vertex map, so it's better to give sharp transitions between points, right?

I want to make a torn hole on top of the cardboard box, like one in the picture:

Well, maybe I could make it "by hand" but I think it would be nice to try to use Cloth Sym to get an organic feel.
I have to make sure that torn edges look good.

The test scene is on the link below and I think I'm pretty close to getting the hole shape (static mesh) and fixing edges (stitch and saw) on the baked object.
The only problem I have is to prevent some polygons from detaching from the base mesh during the tearing simulation.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bfh957fcrqtadrx1s1qye/BOX_tearing_01.c4d?rlkey=k867foisco0nob2hzljge2y9k&dl=0

yeah, with the new assets database system, there are some glitches and I think it's hard to recreate glitches, especially if we use more than one release of C4D.
Thank you.

Managed to solve a problem with the Connect object (as usual )

But can't get tearing to happen at vertex map guides.
Need some help with this, scene is attached.

plane_tear_02.c4d

Thank you.

Hello,
I'm trying to recreate cloth scene from this tutorial:

Exploding Pumpkin
https://cineversity.maxon.net/en/series/getting-started-with-cinema-4d-simulations?tutorial=10-getting-started-with-cinema-4d-simulations-exploding-pumpkin

But I'm stuck at the step where I need to insert spline clones in the vertex map field at 5:14.
I don't have a spline object option, only Point Object and MoGraph Object.
I'm using the 2025 release, the tutorial is done with 2023.
Is there some change I need to be aware of?
Example scenes are attached.

Thank you.

vertex.c4d
plane_tear.c4d

Hello,
I managed to solve it, not sure how, probably by clearing the assets downloaded cache.
Thank you.