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

Hi there,

probably a pretty simple task, but I’m struggling a lot of setting this up.

I have a rolling ball which leaves a trail through a plane with a vertex map.

Is there an effector which can spread the trail behind the sphere a bit?

Thanks a lot, I can also upload the scene file if that‘s more convenient.

All the best

Hi there,

I guess this is rather a simple question, but I could not find anything regarding this topic.
Is there a possibility to get the same endless scrolling/zooming as in windows?

If you scale something or move the camera around in windows you're not stopped by the window borders and can scroll/pan around endlessly.

On my iMac at work it's always restricted to the window size your cursor is in.

Thanks in advance,
Mitch

Hi Dr. Sassi,

no no, no worries at all. That's what life is like, I guess. Haha. It's so great to have someone with that kind of knowledge to help and I don't mind workarounds! So thanks again and have a great week!

Hi Dr. Sassi,

" I am unclear if I annoy you now or if that helps (as you wrote "test" in your setup). Please have a look here"

Oh god, no, not all. There was absolutely no intention with the naming, and you are in no way annoying me. Quite the opposite!

Thanks for looking into it! If using the old system works, that’s totally fine and I'll go that route. So far it looks really promising and renders correctly, thanks.
I was just confused why it wouldn‘t work with the new system and it would have been really nice to use it with additional particle effects as it is quite faster calculation wise, as far as I noticed.

"Besides that, I shared a report with the particle team and a file that uses primitives to demonstrate the problem."
Should I still open a ticket? That would be no problem.

Thank you once again for all your help, it really means a lot.
All the best

Hi there Dr. Sassi,

Thanks a ton for your reply, and help, and for clearing that up. Unfortunately, the problem is that I want to render it out and it gives me the strangest results. It looks okay in the Redshift RenderView, but it behaves very weirdly as soon as I cache or render it. I made some screenshots and uploaded them. When the cloner is cached, the collisions are still way off and intersecting with everything. When sending it to the Picture Viewer I get yet another different result, no matter if cached, starting from Frame 0 or uncached.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/t1th94n0eh8qi5s5q7juo/AO-XsuxANeTS7y05FpH-6Ks?rlkey=k13z4lxm9tk2va33vyt1cia4e&dl=0

Did I miss some steps on the way or am I just way off for using this to get the results I want? It's just so irritating that it looks and behaves perfectly in the Redshift Renderview.

Thanks again and all the best

Hi there,

I encountered a problem while using the new particle system with a cloner. Everything looks and functions fine but when I cache the scene in the Particle-Cache tab the collisions are way off and the objects are intersecting with the floor.
Maybe you have an idea where the problem might be?

I hope you can reproduce this problem within the scene.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yowsc51b6n5wj9n06ps56/cache-problem.c4d?rlkey=4rlifljx2n0wl8i1mlvhuiwnw&dl=0

Thank you so much for all the support, you're doing such an incredibly awesome job, I really appreciate it.

Best wishes

Thank you so much,

Amazing how fast and helpful you are.

Unfortunately, I can't download the file you attached.

Have a nice day and thanks again.

Hi there,

Thanks a ton for your quick reply and solution! Very appreciated, that's what I was looking for.
May I ask what your approach was?

I figured it out myself, in the glass material setup the vertex map goes trough a ramp. I just clamped it a bit and that did the trick!

BUT, another problem still exist, unfortunately with your file also. If I want to render caustics it still shows all of the glass model.

Do you have another idea what might be causing this?

Thanks so much

Hi there,

I couldn‘t find anything about this specific problem so I hope it‘s okay that I post this.

I set up a scene where a glass is dissolving after going up in smoke.
The opacity in the material is driven by an animated vertex map.

This works super great, unfortunately the reflections/refractions are still visible.

Is there something I can do to fully dissolve them?

You can find the file here, it was too big for the upload here.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2z985f56qr644z4nugi5g/vertex-problem-reflections.c4d?rlkey=47khdrw2h303c4gld4zyp2lib&dl=0

Thanks a lot in advance

Okay the Problem got resolved!

I overlooked the Normals – they were facing inwards, haha.

Thanks anyway!

I ran into a problem and can't quite get my head around it.

I have an object remeshed with remesher but it won't inflate and behaves very strangely while a simple text object with remesh ist behaving as it should be.

Is there something I'm missing concerning the mesh?

I attached the scene file, thank you very much in advance.

Mitch

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/epiq7i3bsdd4nia6sl59m/cloth-balloon-problem.c4d?rlkey=8xfrp339czyjf1cz10jivjm5w&dl=0

The file is too big for the upload here, sorry bout that but I couldn't get it smaller.