Hi,

a long time ago we made this rig to simulate projection ratios in our scenes. For this we used a Standard Spotlight set to rectangular where you can define the aspect ratio of the light and the light angle. We now tried to recreate this rig using Redshift Lights but we cant get it to work properly. Redshift Spots cant be rectangular it seems. Giving it a Rectangular Texture also doesnt work right. Especially as we cant really give it a proper angle that is mathematically correct.

Tldr: Any ideas on how to make a proper rectangular redshift light?

Che[Beamer_Proj_Ratio.zip](Invalid file type. Allowed types are: .png, .jpg, .bmp, .txt, .c4d, .jpeg) ers, Max

Hey,
super, these are two very good ideas to lock the cams to the take, thank you! I guess i will go with the second one as it doesn't clutter up the take manager so much.
Thank you!!

Hi Dr. Sassi, yes i meant exctly that, choosing the take. So to stick with your scenen, once you chose "New Take.1" you jump right into "RS Camera.1". But once you leave that cam via the object manger, (by unclicking the selection icon to the right of the CAM name ) the selected Cam in tehh Take also changes. i wish the only way to change a Takes Cam was to selct it there, not by changing CAMS in the Object manager. I just thought maybe someone knows a way to lock that selection in the Take. But maybe i just need to take care and think of that special thing

Hi!

Example:

I have multiple cams in a scene and tell "TakeA" to use "CameraA".

I then highlight the take, so that i can work within that take... Once i leave the camera though because i need another viewing angle, or switch to another camera, i need to tell TakeA again to use CamerA and not the other one that i switched to.
Can i not lock CamA to TakeA? This is really confusing.

Wow okay, thank you, i am still trying to grasp the concepts of MoGraph i guess :)))

Aha, thank you very much!

I am not sure what you did there. Something about the Modify Clones Parameter i suppose? I wonder why the Plain Effector scales up the clones when its "Scale" parameter isn't switched on? After 12 years of Cinema 4d i still feel like scratching the surface from time to time.

Hi,

i am a long time Cinema user, but i can't seem to get a seemingly simple thing to work. All i want is that a random effector affects individual clones in nested cloners... is that not possible? i dont want to make everything editable and put it in fracture, that creates more problems further down the road in my case. I would like to keep the cloners. Is there a way?

Thats what i get:

And that is what i need, although i didn't achive this with the cloners, but made the cloners editable and put them in a fracture:

Also attaching my c4d File. Any help would be great!

Raster_neuer_Versuch_02.c4d

Max

Ok thanks we will talk to tech support!

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Hi Sassi, you‘re a legend, thanks for the detailed reply! Of course I don’t expect this to play smoothly. It’s just when I am, for example, looking at frame 40 and then click on frame 80, the scene takes 10 seconds to update. This just seems very, very long doesn’t it?

Hi!

We have this rather huge VDB sequence that we load into cinema using the Redshift Volume Loader. One VDB frame has up to 2.5GB. The sequence is stored on a PCIe 4.0 Nvme which ( we checked) is able to deliver 7GB/Sec.

When moving around in the timeline it takes around ten seconds for the viewer to update. We set the preview to dots, switching to box doesn’t help either. Cinema takes very long to load these files. Is that expected behavior? What could we do to speed up things?

We have a midrez VDB as a stand in, but it’s not much faster and not if help when actually trying to shade the VDB to our liking.

Any ideas?

Thx, Max