Fantastic. Thank you, Dr. Sassi.

Greetings,

I'm working on learning the fundamentals for the new C4D particles system, and I've encountered a roadblock.
I'm trying to learn how to do something (seemingly) simple like scale the size of the particles, over their life. But I'm not getting even remotely the expected results. (Please see attached scene file.)

I was watching Sketchy Visuals' Beginners Guide to Basic Particles... where he demonstrates how to control particle size (radius) over time (age) with the Data Mapper. But right away, I notice a few small discrepancies, between his controls, and mine. I'm running 2025.1.2 - but not sure if his was a slightly older version of 2025? Regardless, I followed his instructions as best I could, but my results are nothing remotely like his; which is what I'm after.

Can someone please take a look at what I have set up, and see what I'm doing incorrectly? I'm looking for my particles to smoothly scale up and down, during their lifetime.

Thanks!

Particles Radius by Age.c4d

Thanks, Dr. Sassi. I'll read through your links. I think half my issue, relates to (surprise) poor AI related Google searches, for the use of Pyro. That's where I was seeing the wording about "emission rate" controls.

Hey all:
I'm attempting to use pyro, in R2025.1.2.
However, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to animate the effect in and out.
I'm looking at the Pyro tag, and no where do I see anything related to an emission rate.
Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

Thanks, Dr Sassi.
I'm still just barely getting things going, but I did test out a client product on the M4, and holy cow it's fast! Between the new hardware, and the newest version of C4D / RS, it feels like a totally different experience, when compared with the M1 Ultra and the older version of RS I'm still running.

Great, thanks. While I have you here I'm reading up on how to add a second seat to my existing Maxon One subscription. But when I follow Maxon's instructions, in the Maxon app, there is no way to do that. Instead, it seems to prompt me back to the website.
So...if I go through the "buy" process, will that simply "add" that second seat to my existing account? I'd like to keep things clean, in terms of billing, etc. Rather than just having two totally separate Maxon One subscriptions. Does that make sense?

Edit: Never mind! I just found the location inside my account, on Maxon's site, where I was able to add a second seat to my existing license. It wasn't as obvious, as I would have hoped, but got there anyway.

Will do, thanks!
I have a quick follow-up question. Now that Redshift is the default renderer for Cinema, does that change how updates are done?
Does RS still need to be updated, independently of the C4D updates?
Thanks!
P.S. I didn't forget about your kind offer to help with the glTF exporting...from weeks back. But now that I have a new machine, I'll have the newest version of Cinema installed, so I can run those tests myself.

I just purchased a new M4 MBP, and will be purchasing / renting a second Maxon One license.
What is the best method for a ground-up installation of Cinema & Redshift? Should I go through the Maxon App, once I install that? Or is it better to download the installer from the Maxon site?

It's been a few years, since I went through all this on my M1 Ultra, with R2023; so I forget the best protocols.

Thank you!

My apologies. For some reason, I thought you might live in Europe. In that case, we're both sharing the same mild west-coast weather!
Happy Thanksgiving, as well.

Thanks, for the continued help, Dr. Sassi.
Regarding your offer to test the export results from R2025, thanks! I'll figure out a simple test, with both a "standard" physical material object, as well as a basic-node RS material. Likely, not until after our Thanksgiving break.
As for your follow-up, thanks for that PDF. I must have missed that, while browsing the Khronos website and tutorials. That document is rather dense, on programming information; a bit over my head. But I'll try and glean all I can from that, all the same.

Cheers!