Dr. Sassi,
Thanks for the prompt response!
It would appear that Craig inadvertently hijacked my question... that's OK though as I now have your original 2 projects as well as a project that wipes off with a vertex attribute. Neat!

Your original project with the Standard and Redshift versions is doing exactly what I was looking for... thank you! I will actually be rendering in both Standard for roughs and Redshift for finals, so 2 separate versions is great.

However, I am no closer to understanding what's going on so I might later recreate/build this effects than I was. It appears the Formula Effector you've provided is very different from the default Formula Effector... so I have zero idea on how you got there as well. I am also unclear on what the Colorizer is actually coloring. Is there a grayscale on my clones by default the that Colorizer is working on?

So... I'm reading my response above and it sounds ungrateful... please don't take it that way. I am just unclear on the theory (or buttons clicked) for what is going on.

Thanks for any clarification you or anyone else can pass.

Scott_Sp

Gang,
I'm missing something that seems like it should be moderately straight forward but after an afternoon of multishader tutorials I'm just not getting it.
I'm trying to get some clones on a path to cycle through 4 colors in a repeating, non-random order. Lets say they are like Vegas lights traveling along a path. Red, green, blue, pink... over and over along the path, and the clones keep the order but their colors are shifting along the path of clones every 5 frames (or whatever speed needed) while staying in the same order.
My cheat has been to use 4 grayscale values on 4 clones, then rendering that out and recoloring in AE with Colorama. This kludge works well but I have to think it could all be done in C4d and therefore saving me a few steps in AE.
There seem to be lots of uses for this technique but I'm just not finding instruction for this very specific task.
Any advice, links, or direction greatly appreciated.

Scott Sp.

Thanks, Dr. Sassi. Just what I was looking for and then some!
Much appreciation for all you bring to the community over these many years.

I am finally coming to grips with takes. Let's say I have 3 cameras and a 300 frame project. Take01_Cam 01 needs to render 0-99, Take02_Cam 02 gets 100-199, and Take03_Cam 3 gets 200-299.

I can set up the takes for the 3 cameras and render tokens/folders for each take/cam, but am at a loss as to how to get each specific take to render a specific portion of my project.

Thanks for any info you can pass.

Scott Sp.