Thanks, Dr. Sassi. I'll likely do just that. But doesn't it seem odd, that it would open an older version? I've never before seen that. No idea if that's some glitch in Cinema, or more likely the Mac OS?

I just installed C4D 2026. It's on a machine with 2025 and 2023.
Oddly, when I double-clicked on a test project which had just been saved from 2026 (with C4D 2026 already being open, no less!) 2025 opened that file, instead.

Any idea why that would occur? This is on my M1 Ultra, running 15.7 Sequoia.

Thank you, Dr. Sassi.
I'll study these two projects, so I can incorporate the best method into the final project.
Have a pleasant weekend.

Morning,

Please see attached project and (very general) example[radial mograph issue reference.

I'm creating a radial design with Mograph, and want to add randomness to the "tics".
But I'm not sure how to go about this, because if I add the "random" effector to the primary Cloner Object, it affects each subsequently cloned line identically. But if I apply the random to the secondary cloner object, the whole thing goes nuts.

I'm sure I'm just missing a simple setting or procedure, but it must be too early for my brain to handle this, yet.

Thanks!

radial mograph issue.c4d

Hey, so sorry, Dr. Sassi. My original post is nearly worthlessly vague. I'll see whether I can find a minute to create a simpler proxy scene, so you can see precisely what I'm trying to accomplish.
But quickly, it's an animated effect, whereby I'm sort of turning the CAD part into a liquid-type shape, ultimately resolving in the shape of the original CAD piece. So the UV transfer has to deal with a frame-by-frame evolution of the volume / mesh builder.
More to come...

I'm working on a possible effect, where I'm building on a CAD part, via the volume builder and mesher.
All fine!
However, the original CAD part is already carefully UVW mapped. I've found that the "Transfer" function works really well, transferring those original UV coordinates to the meshed object.
However...it's exceptionally slow / laggy. So much so, that I'm not sure I'd want to risk trying to render something like this.

I can't exaclty post the actual project, being that it has client CAD at its core.

But in general, is it expected that transferring UV's from a simple shape, to a more complex meshed shape, will slow down?
(I kind of figure it should...)

Thanks!

Thanks, Dr. Sassi.
Too bad, there isn't a ready solution, but at least it's not because I'm missing something.
I was hoping for a parametric solution, but have figured that I can export plan views out of one of my CAD apps, into illustrator. Then, from there, into C4D and go about my business.

Cheers!

I'm struggling to figure out which tool, if any, can project the outline of a 3D shape, onto another surface?
I understand the "Project Object" tool can do something similar, but in all my tests, it (essentially) just moves every single point / polygon / edge to the other surface. But I ONLY want the spline outline, of that resultant shape.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

Exactly. Thanks, Dr. Sassi.
Such a great tool, which I have never used or thought of using, until now.
Enjoy your time off, and have a great 4th of July.

Never mind! Found the video; it was Chris Schmidt's (always excellent) roundup of new features from C4D 2024.4.
The tool is the "Property Transfer Manager" and it's buried in the "Character" tab. I never thought to look there.
In any event, it seems to do exactly what I need.