I am working on an eye model that requires animating a boole cutter to reveal the interior structures (test model attached). I am building a series of nested hollow spheres using a multi-step process involving the volume mesher, remesh, and polygon reduction. It looks like this:

Build the sphere using VM and Remesh - Export Mesh 1
Apply Polygon Reduction to Mesh 1 = Mesh 2
Apply Remesh to Mesh 2 = Mesh 3

Mesh 1 = 40K polygons and kills the boole function
Mesh 3 = 3K polygons - boole works great

I was hoping there was a more direct way to get to Mesh 3 without exporting the interim meshes - like applying Polygon Reduction before the first Remesh. But that breaks it. Do you see a better path?

Sclera Cutter Test_PolyRed.c4d

I know this will be a super-easy solution, but it's totally baffling me at the moment.

I'm laying out a calendar bar with the months abbreviated (project attached) Calendar Counter_Sassi.c4d .

My approach is to clone a text object that has an Xpresso tag linking the name of the object to the text field - so whatever I name it appears as text in the model. Then make the cloner editable, so each block now has an accessible name I can change for each month in sequence manually. But when I make the cloner editable, the tag breaks. The Xpresso sequence is still there, but the links to the specific object are empty. I feel like there's a checkbox somewhere like "preserve Xpresso links" that I'm missing.

A better option would be to have the cloner object advance the month name automatically, like you can count up (or down) with numbers, but that's probably not as easy as it seems.

I received this info today from Tech Support:

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Thank you for reaching out to Maxon Support, and I apologize for the inconvenience you're experiencing.

The FAQ you are referencing is for a different issue with the CV Toolbox, not Planesmart.

That said, it seems you've encountered a known issue with the Planesmart we've documented and already reported to our development team. We still appreciate you bringing this up, as it helps us understand the scope of the problem and prioritize its resolution.

The only workaround I can offer at the moment is rolling back to 2023.2. The plane smart object does appear to work as expected in this version.

If you would like to roll back you can find the Cinema 4D 2023.2 installer here:
https://www.maxon.net/en/downloads/cinema-4d-2023-downloads

The timeline for a fix depends on various factors, including the number of customers affected, the severity of the issue, and our current schedule of updates and optimizations. Unfortunately, I can't provide a specific date for when this will be resolved.

Thanks for your understanding!

When I upgraded to 2024 and installed the new updated CV Toolbox, Planesmart doesn't seem to work the same. The tool appears as normal in the menu lineup (though without the options gear) but when I load a PSD file into the field, no objects appear. The textures seem to be loaded normally, but the generator appears to be empty.

(file attached).

Am I the only one? In which case, is the best option to uninstall/reinstall CV Toolbox and try again? I hate doing that since in fixing one thing I generally break another.

Sc_11 Planesmart Test.c4d

Ah! I'm so used to things happening magically in C4D, the thought that I have to be patient seems oddly off brand. But makes perfect sense, of course. But you never know...

When I convert C4D standard materials to Redshift, I have to toggle the objects off and on in order for the texture to appear on the object - and I often have LOTS of objects. Surely there's a step I'm missing in the process? Maybe like a "refresh all textures" button?

I guess I'm not getting it. I have seen tutorials where the motion path can be manipulated in the viewport with handles like a spline. In my case, I can get handles on one keyframe but not on the other, even though they tangent settings are the same.

I may be overthinking it - the requirement is a smooth curve, and I can manipulate the keyframes in the timeline well enough to get what I need. It just seems more direct to be able to do it in the viewport.

I want to make a motion path to form a smooth curve, and found a method that sorta works: Select one parameter of a keyframe (such as the X position) and in the keyframe attributes, click off "Auto Tangent." Handles then appear that will bend the path like a spline. Magical! Only it doesn't work every time or for every keyframe

In the attached sample project, I set up two objects - one has handles, the other doesn't. As far as I can tell, I'm following the exact same procedure on each, but for some reason I was only able to create handles once. Toggling auto tangents on and off doesn't seem to do anything either.

This smacks me as a classic missing tick box - somewhere along the line I'm missing a critical parameter setting.

I'm a little unnerved by the inconsistency - I'm about to launch a big project which will require this kind of control throughout and if it starts glitching out halfway through, I'll be stuck.

My fallback is align to spline, but modifying the keyframes directly seems a simpler approach - if I can get it to work.

Thanks
Motion Path Handles.c4d

Ah - the Math:Multiply node is a conversion factor - converting cm to inches? That works. But I would have expected C4D to have a preset for that - so you don't have to put it in "by hand." Not surprising that Cinema operates natively in metric. We Americans are slow to change

I'm working on a template for adding dimension lines to model objects. I want to have the measurement (in inches) to display at the midpoint of the line. However, I can't get the numbers displayed to match the measurement it's calculated from. I feel like the units in the calculation are different from what appears in the number field. So it may just be a setting checkbox - though everything I can see is in inches. Project attached.
Dimensions Line.c4d

I was not aware that the fracture object could be so versatile. Back to school!

So keyframe animation on an object (i.e. moving from A to B) is lost when put into a cloner? Only effectors work with MoGraph objects?

Block Wiper.c4d [Block Wiper.zip](Invalid file type. Allowed types are: .png, .jpg, .bmp, .txt, .c4d, .jpeg) I have set up a cloner with cubes and effectors to create a wipe effect (project attached). The key animation is a rotation of the blocks to reveal a new image. I wanted to set the animation up at the cube level using standard keyframes, but couldn't get it to trigger with the plain effector - I feel sure I've done that before, but couldn't figure it out this round. So I used a single clone and animated the move in a nested plain effector. Then cloned the clone. It works OK, but I'm not able to get the textures to "fix" onto the polygon surfaces - they slip and slide as the cube rotates. I'm wondering if I could animate the cube by itself and trigger it in the cloner, the texture problem might resolve itself.

I would like to rotate the blocks through several turns to reveal multiple sides over time. I thought I could add yet another plain effector with a new field to layer in a second or third rotation, but the controls got all wonky - the axes were flipped in odd ways and the rotational controls didn't work right. I feel like if I could animate the block object directly, I could probably trigger the animation as desired. Or not. I may be asking too much of the cloner (which doesn't seem possible). Block Wiper.c4d

How is it that you can put a link in a post directly rather than going out to Google Drive or Adobe to download? I thought Cineversity allowed only ZIPs. New day?

I'm making a bar chart out of dollar bills and coins. Project link here:

https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/720b92be-95bc-400a-657b-5cb78e874a74

I want to use fields to wipe the chart in and out using a morph transform. I built unit blocks out of bills and coins, and staggered them into what I hoped would be a random arrangement, but I'm not having much luck using effectors to distribute the coin blocks and bill blocks in a true random arrangement. And the clones are becoming unmanageable - very hard to manipulate. I think I've gotten lost in the woods...

Then it occurred to me - this might be why there's a Matrix object? I've spent way too long going down this rabbit hole and I don't want to go down another one without some indication that I'm on the right track.

Would the matrix object let me create a bar chart design from truly random blocks of coins and bills - and then transform them with fields?

Blow me away! I have seen the Takes popup before, but didn't understand how crucial it could be. Thank you!

Project here: https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/de974535-fb04-4b56-6b2f-8106bd78af74

I have a Mixamo rig that was working normally, then "suddenly" the keyframes in the Timeline disappeared. Also, all the controls in the Attribute window grayed out so nothing can be adjusted. Is this really happening?

I would attach Screenshot of the attribute window with grayed-out controls but I keep getting a "file too large" error. It used to be 800 x 600 max, but it won't take my 781 x 390 offering.

Really amazing how simple it can be...

I'm sorry - got it exactly backwards: MGmt_11 looks promising, MGmt_01 is more daunting.

MGmt_11 looks very promising - I think I can figure it out.

I will have to do some homework before I can understand MGmt_01. A lot of elements I haven't used before (i.e. MoSpline) but it looks very interesting!

Thank you!