Everytime I do animation in C4D I'm frustrated by the fact that in the dope sheet, the value curves does not automatically update in height, meaning that they disappear. And the only way to get them back is to close and open the channel.

Is there a handy shortcut for handling this? Or some other setting?
Or should I only use the F-Curve mode?

For anyone interested I think I found a solution: I'll be using a new null for each parent situation and animate the weight between them.
Not as sleek as what I first had in mind but it'll do the trick.

Thank you!
Greatly appreciate your time and effort in answering this Dr. Sassi!

Thank you!

One question regarding your setup and the Geometry Axis node: would it be possible via Xpresso (or Scene Nodes) to automatically link the values of the Geometry Axis to counter the placement of the object - so the visible result is the object staying in the same place. Is this perhaps what you meant with your first suggestion?

Best

Thank you for the answer Dr. Sassi.

I first figured this must be an achievable solution but now it feels like this is the wrong way to go due to this much technical overhead.
Interesting solution in your example with the Geometry Axis node. I have not yet looked into Scene nodes that much...

Hi everyone,

I trying to build a setup where one object has four axis points to rotate around. It's a chair that I want to be able to rotate around each of its legs.

I've tried several ways to achieve this. Amongst others with four nulls that the object is Constrained to. But I can not find any solution that updates each of the individual nulls and rotates the object correct.

Has to be solvable - right?

Hi,

(tried searching but could not find anything)
what is the best practice for combining rigid body simulation together with the new simulation system for cloth/soft bodies?

Is this even doable?

Aaaah! Interesting technique. It works, now I'm just trying to set up a workflow to easily translate the original light to a Redshift light.

One thing - why not use the Refresh Frame checkbox (found in the bottom of the Shader Field settings) to force the Vertex map to continously update?

Hi!
I'm trying to find a way to drive a Vertex Map with the Sketch & Toon Cel shader. What I'm trying to achieve is to generate a vertex map with only the shadows, I figured since the Cel shader is able to generate this it would maybe be possible.

Any ideas if and how this can be achieved?

@Dr-Sassi excellent solution. I'm guessing the linear field and box field approach works so much better since it's not trying to generate a map based on proximity to the polygons but rather just use the linear field?