Sorry for the late reply!

Thank you so much, this is just awesome. I tweaked it and experimented a lot and I'm really happy with it.
The material setup also is gold. Very very helpful.

Thanks again, you are always so helpful. I can't comprehend how you are able to know probably everything
about C4D.

Cheers

Hi there,

I have a question regarding setting up a scene to get results as shown in the picture above.

I want to have a flexible setup as I need to customize these and later animate them.

I tried setting up a particle system with a tracer but couldn't get the "curtain" effect with the more transparent spots. Then I tried with splines inside a sweep object and a translucent material but there's not enough randomisation. Also tried with a plane and a cloth tag which gives a nice look but also not really what I'm after. I also tried with sweeping splines and setting up a fresnel shader but also couldn't get the desired look.

Maybe you can point in some direction where I could look to get this going?

Thanks a ton in advance

Hi Dr. Sassi,

thanks for your reply.

@Dr-Sassi said in Help with creating a honeycomb ornament:

I assume you aware of "Current State To Object", and other options.

Yes, thank you. Unfortunately, this didn't get the desired results.

I don't mind some extra work! Your workaround sounds really promising, and I'll definitely try it out.

Thanks for looking even further and helping me!

Best wishes

Wow, thank you so much for your help and effort,
they all look awesome!

Glad that you had some fun with it also

What would be the best way to make this as one single object with good topology? I put it in a volume builder and did some smoothing, but the amount of polys needed to make it look smooth is way too high. Also, I lose a lot of edge detail, unfortunately. The end object is going to have a glass material, so it would be nice to have a single one.

Do you have an idea how to achieve this?

Thanks a ton again!

Hi there,

Sorry for the rather unusual question, feel free to delete if it's not fitting!

I'm trying to recreate a christmas ornament and got stuck.

Is there an easy way to recreate the parts where it splits into two in the middle section?
The basic shape was no problem, just a path, extrude and then a cloner.

Thanks a ton in advance

@Dr-Sassi

Hi there, thank you so much for explaining and going the extra mile with the video.

I think I get it know.

For the solution I now just used the label itself as a displacement and built everything else on that. Worked like a charm and I can change the thickness as I want.

Thanks again for always helping out so quickly and detailed, very appreciated.

Best wishes

I want the render on the right to look like the geometry on the left. Without the gap all around. Hope this makes more sense.
Thanks for reaching out!

Hi Dr. Sassi,

thanks so much for the fast feedback. Sorry for not beeing more specific about the use.

You are right, it's for single use. My goal was to get a label which has thickness for using it on a bottle. The alpha is used for getting the exact label size.
The problem also occures with the opacity, as I don't want 2 sides which are not connected.

Hi there,

I stumbled upon a problem and I can't get it to work as I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

So I tried to make a bottle label, selected the polygons from the bottle and splitted it. Then UV Unwrapped it and put it in a thicken operator. Now as soon as I want to cut out the label section with the sprite node and the alpha texture the label is split with a gap in between.

It would be awesome if you could take a look at the scene and point me in a direction as I'm completly lost.

Thanks a ton in advance!

https://www.dropbox.com/t/6xUPFICiP8KpkJwy

Hi, here‘s the scene file if it helps. Thanks a ton!

https://www.dropbox.com/t/K7vmnBBmBtkZ4qWu