That's a great work around, works much better!

You've done it again, cheers for that!

Hi Dr Sassi, hope you're having a good start to 2025!

I'm trying to hang a block off a string in C4D and have a spline with a rope tag and connector and some dynamic blocks at either end so the main block swings down attached to the spline.

However, no matter how I tweak the settings I always get a gap between the block and the string. I intend to use a sweep to make the spline a 3d rope but it'll look pretty silly if there's a gap at the end.

Is there a way to have the ends of the spline lock onto the geometry better without the gap?

Is it something to do with dynamics order? To me it seems like the string isn't keeping up with the box.

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

Thanks heaps!

Wow, I didnt know about the Nodes Spline, very useful! I'm only just getting into scene nodes myself, so many to explore, I'll definitely be using this one!

Thanks again!

Happy New Year Dr Sassi, hope you had a good one!

Just had a quick question: I'm trying to chamfer a spline in a non-destructive way with the SPLINE CHAMFER scene node.

I can get a single spline chamfer to work on selected points, but I want to add a second spline chamfer to a second set of points so the rounding will be different on those.

Any idea how I can combine 2 chamfer nodes?

I thought placing one after the other would work or possibly using a switch node, but I can figure out how to combine both effects.

Here's my file problem.c4d

Cheers

Cheers, I was thinking of doing that but there will be a lot of pieces so it might take quite a long time. Thought there might be an efector I've overlooked.

Thanks for the project file though, thats definitely a better setup than I had!

Hi Dr Sassi, hope you're enjoying your holiday!

Quick question for when you're back, do you happen to know if it's possible to use an effector to push objects out from a central (or predefined) point?

I'm still working on that globe I sent you earlier, I've managed to cut a few pieces out but I just need to figure out a way to push them out from the center of the globe - I've tried the plain, random and push appart effector but none of them seem to work the way I want, they always move along the wrong axis.

I guess I could use dynamics with an attractor but that's going to add a lot of extra complexity when all I need is for the parts to move out slightly, preferably controllable with fields.

I thought maybe using the target effector might be a way to keep them pointed toward the center but still I dont know a way to push them out from the center.

Here's where I got to anyway: https://we.tl/t-dKm0KSqbEM

Thanks again!

Thats a great idea, probably much smoother edges doing it that way as well. THanks again Dr Sassi, enjoy your week off!

Hi Dr Sassi, do you happen to know if its possible to fracture an object with the voronoi fracture along lines on a map? I need to break a sphere in a particular pattern.

I thought it would be as easy as adding a shader souce with the map, but I cant get it to generate points along those lines, no matter what i do theyre always randomly scattered around.

Here's my file so far https://we.tl/t-UIwZ79cJwc

Thanks again!

This is brilliant, looks way better than mine! Thanks again for that!

Hi Dr Sassi, I'm trying to make a waving flag with the new cloth system, I thought this would be super easy, but I've literally spent all day playing with settings and Im getting nowhere.

No matter what I do I cant seem to create realistic ripples and folds in the cloth, nor can I make it actually look like flag material - it always looks flat and bouncy like rubber.

Ive tried every force but mainly trying to get the look from the wind deformer or extra turbulence fields, all to no avail.

There's loads of tutorials on YouTube showing the effect in the old cloth engine, which while slow to calculate looks so much better.

Is it just that this kind of effect isnt possible with the new engine?

This is the kind of thing Im going for where it actually looks like wind (unlike mine): https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/beaver-pa-october-28-2023-a-slow-motion-view-of-a-pow-flag-outside-a-courthouse-348791869

Here's my project file: https://we.tl/t-8x3W3PpuUx

Is there a particular setting thats important to this effect? I even tried increasing drag and lift but it doesnt seem to do anything.

Thanks again!

Forgot to reply here, that worked perfectly! Thanks again!

Thanks for that, hadnt thought of using rigid bodies!

Was hoping I could use millions of particles to get a really detailed fluid sim - Fingers crossed Maxon adds a fluid system next, then it'll pretty much do everything!

Thanks for the setup though I think this will work fine for now, cheers!

Hi Dr Sassi, I'm trying to fill an animated beaker with some liquid that sloshes around a bit as the beaker moves.

I thought this would be a good opportunity to try out the new Particle system in C4D, but I'm struggling to get it to work.

I cant seem to give the particles any volume, they always seem to collapse to a thin pile rather than filling the container. I tried Seperation in the flock modifier but it doesnt really help, it just slows the sim way down.

Also the particles dont seem to want to stay in the jar even if I ramp the substeps way up.

Do you think this is even possible with particles?

I was hoping to get the sim right and put the particle group inside a volume mesher to make the liquid.

Here's my attempt so far anyway:

https://we.tl/t-IvrYzFuhk5

Thanks again

@point-year Yep, if you update to the latest version of C4D and Redshift it should work as expected, it was just a bug

Brilliant, thanks for that Dr Sassi, now I know why my scene was crashing, way too many particles! Thanks again!

Hi Dr Sassi, this might be a dumb question, but is there a way to see the total particle count in my scene with the new particle system?

I'm guessing I have way too many particles because it keeps freezing up but I cant figure out how to show this, nothing in HUD settings as far as I can see.

Cheers

Cheers for that!

I managed to get the inheritance effector looking pretty decent by offsetting the timing as you mention here, but I was hoping to make it more organic looking.

Was hoping the dynamcs option would work out but the attrator or field force just make the ball act crazy. Any idea how to tweak the settings to make that work if possible?

I might also try the new particle system, I think the Turn Modifier might allow me to have 1 particle follow another.

Hi Dr Sassi, I have 2 spheres orbiting around within a bigger sphere, as the bigger sphere approaches another sphere, it breaks free of the orbit and joins the orbit of the other sphere instead (probably a bit hard to visualize).

I've tried using an inheritance effector, and with dynamics (field force and attractor) but no matter what I do I cant get it to smoothly go from one sheres orbit to the next - the effector works best but not as smooth as Id like.

I thought it would be easy to do with dynamics but it just goes crazy.

Maybe particles would be a good option?

Any ideas?

Here's my 3 failed attempts, just trying to get the red ball to go from one to the next.

https://we.tl/t-fGDNxOlzN6

Cheers

Thats exactly what I was looking for, thanks for that!

@jeff-bluejade I ended up using the technique shown in this tutorial for a rubiks cube to solve my problem: https://youtu.be/9fTtL-TFMSQ