Thanks for the detailed response - I agree that the old Linear workflow was easier and more reliable, but I find my renders look far better with the larger color space offered with aces.

I personally don't concern myself too much with the technical side of color as its way too big a concept, Im just trying to set up a solid workflow so I don't need to think too much about it from job to job. Its worked well up to this point but now with the changes suddenly the colors are all off although if anything its supposed to be easier now.

I'll get in touch with Maxon and see if there's anything they recommend, thanks again

Doh! I guess I'll just go back to R 2024 in that case, should have known better than to upgrade straight away;)

Good to know its a bug though and not me!

Is this only an issue with 2024 files in 2025? Would I still get problems with color if I started a fresh 2025 scene?

Thanks again

Yeah I tried it again in 2025 today as well, works much better

No worries, I'll give up on that one then, thanks though

Hi again Dr Sassi, I tried to render a project made in C4d 2024 in the new 2025 version today but I'm having trouble with the colors.

I know there's been a big update to the color management in the new c4d so I'm sure there's just a setting I need to change, but here's what seems to be happening:

In C4D the renders are identical between 2024 and 2025 within the Picture Viewer, however, when I bring the EXR outputs into Resolve, the colors are very different between 2024 EXR and 2025 EXR - 2025 version looks super saturated or maybe there's something weird with the gamma?

The output file size is different too even though its the exact same project file and frame.

Is it adding some extra color transform on output maybe?

Here's my test scene which I rendered in both versions, and the resulting EXR files from each: https://we.tl/t-ndBFQ0EZ1j

You're probably the most qualified color expert out there so Im hoping you can point me in the right direction.

Cheers

Thanks for that, but what I mean is that I need a custom geometry to squash and squeeze along with the polygons rather than extruding the polys.

The objects Ill be using are cubic shaped so I just used a cube in the example I sent over.

So it's like transferring the squash and stretch of the polygons to other objects if that makes sense.

This is kinda what Im going for: https://www.instagram.com/reel/BwZzmMlgkjy/?hl=en

Hi Dr Sassi, Im not sure if its possible but Im trying to stack a bunch of boxes up and have them move and scale based on shifting polygons made by the Partition Modifier.

Using a cloner I've managed to clone the boxes to the polygons and have them scale up, but I want them to fit the the polygons better, so they stretch and shrink like the polygons do.

Is there a way to make objects fit to a polygon? Or would it need to be a complex xpresso setup?

I kinda got it to work by extruding the polys to make boxes, then if I bake the boxes I can add my own custom geometries in the same places as the baked boxes, then drive each box with the mesh deformer, but this process is super slow and breaks if the poly is too small.

Was just wondering if you knew a better way. I wonder if there's a capsule or scene node that would do it.

Here's my project: https://we.tl/t-EVrJdEAGkd

Thanks again!

Interesting, I think it's going to become something I use a lot!

Perfect! I think I need to make more use off the Inheritance Effector for now on, thanks for that!

cheers, slightly different setup, heres the wetransfer version, https://we.tl/t-R3I9wPac2t