Hi 단지구, You might be able to do that by animating the object downward and using mix animation in your cloth or rigid body tag to have the sim follow the animation more closely. Or you could do the sim on a cube instead, which will fall flat on the floor, then either bake and parent your object to that or use the Mesh deformer to have it follow along.

Hey Gage,

Haha love it — respect for squeezing every drop out of that Iris Xe! 😄
That EliteBook’s a solid machine for general work, but yeah, for 3D and rendering in C4D, I can imagine it starts to groan once textures and effects ramp up. At least you’ve got the RAM to help keep things stable!

If you ever decide to upgrade, even a mid-tier…

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Hey Matt,

Good question! Just my thoughts here — definitely double-check with Maxon for the latest Redshift compatibility and recommendations, as they keep their lists pretty well updated.

That said:

Your 2070 Super has done really well, but for modern Redshift and video work, having more VRAM is definitely a plus — especially as textures and…

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Unfortunately, not at this point. I’m not sure why but Maxon never transferred this shader to the node editor – I was told that it would eventually be available but that was ages ago -, I guess their busy with other things. Just have to use the old shader graph for now.

Can you give me more details, context? Im not sure what you mean. Can you email me your project of chat?

Hi Olivier, Im not quite sure what you mean, any chance you could send your project file over to support@ and I’ll help you out directly;)

This option is super handy because it lets you have different UVs within a single shader

Did you figure it out? Just a file naming issue?

Hey Kieran,

You’re absolutely right — coming from Blender, it can be a bit of a surprise that Cinema 4D doesn’t have native fluid simulation tools built-in (yet). Currently, fluid and ocean simulations in C4D do require third-party plugins like X-Particles, RealFlow, Liquigen, or importing simulations from Blender like you’re doing now.

That said,…

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Hey Mats,

I have a video showing how to export your Cinema 4D shortcut keys here:
👉 https://cgshortcuts.net/export-your-cinema-4d-shortcuts-keys/

You could also make a copy of your c4d preferences folder – inside Library/Layouts you can also find any custom interface layouts you may have created.

Most of the settings I use over and over again are…

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Yeah it’s a bit more complicated than it might seem. The easiest way would be to use a spline wrap but that will distort the text a bit which you probably don’t want.

Hey mate, just sent an email over with an update to your project file

Hi Jurgen, I’m off for Easter till Tuesday, but I’ll have a look and get back to you then, sounds like you need a guide spline and need to set the spline points to uniform so its even and the speed will remain constant as your object travels along the speed – you could take a look at the box rolling tutorial where I discuss something similar

If things are reversed, you can flip your texture or reverse the spline

Spline wrap is perfect for this kind of thing but your text needing to flip adds some complication. You could just flip the letters within the texture itself as an animated image sequence so as it goes into place the letters are subtly rotated

Hi Jurgen, if you remove the Rail (which is causing the twist as its not a clean spline) and just set your text material to show on the FRONT rather than the BACK it should work correctly.

Hey all,

Love seeing everyone’s input on this—great perspectives all around!

Like I mentioned earlier, all three (Redshift, Octane, Arnold) are solid options and work in very similar ways, so switching between them isn’t too tough if the need ever comes up.

Personally, I made the switch to Redshift mainly because:

• It’s fast (on par with…

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No worries, did you get it working?

I think I cover a bit of animation in the course, the essential tools anyway so you should be covered

Hey Sam,

It sounds like your Picture Viewer might be showing an old frame or rendering from a different take. Try these steps:

1. Check Render Range, Frame Settings & FPS

   • In Render Settings, make sure:
     • Frame Range is set to Current Frame (if rendering a single frame).
     • The frame number matches what you expect.
     • Your Scene FPS (Project Settings:…

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Great to hear you guys are having success with it, to be honest I haven’t touched Daz since I made that course so I cant really say much about the latest integration.

For simplicity I can only really offer support in C4D + Redshift and not any 3rd party software or plugins.

However if I find myself back in Daz again, I’ll definitely post…

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Hey Matt,

Great find! Animagraffs has some awesome breakdowns.

For the semi-transparent material with colored edges, they’re likely using a Fresnel effect or a thin-film shader in their material setup. In Redshift (or any other renderer), you can achieve this by:

1. Using Fresnel in the Opacity or Transmission – This makes the center fully…

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No worries, great to hear!

Cheers Mimi,

If your object is spinning out of control in all directions when rotating, you’re likely running into gimbal lock. This happens because Cinema 4D uses Euler angles for rotation, meaning the rotation axes are applied in sequence (X, then Y, then Z). At certain angles, one axis can align with another, causing unexpected…

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Hey Stella,

A black render in Redshift usually means one of a few things:

1. No Lights in the Scene – Redshift doesn’t have a default light, so you need to add at least one (like a Dome Light, Area Light, or Physical Sky).
2. Wrong Render Viewport – Make sure you’re using the Redshift Render View instead of the default C4D viewport…

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You’re very welcome, Israel! Glad you found a solution that worked for you. And yeah, that intermediate null trick comes in handy for all sorts of constraint weirdness. Keep up the awesome work, and feel free to drop by anytime if you run into more challenges—always happy to brainstorm!

Hey Israel, sounds like an interesting setup! The issue is likely due to how the Parent Constraint interprets transformations when you flip the character along the Z-axis. When you scale an object negatively, it can cause an unintended inversion of rotation due to how Cinema 4D handles coordinate space.

A possible fix:

• In the Parent…

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Hey! No problem at all—glad I could help!

For the blush powder material, you’ll want to use a mix of subsurface scattering and a fine noise bump to get that soft, slightly textured look. A subtle sheen or specular highlight can also help mimic the way powder catches light. If you’re using Cinema 4D with Redshift or Octane, I’d recommend…

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Hi Kieran, is that first image your render or the look you’re trying to create?

Making an Indent in Powder Material:

For the powder indentation effect:

1. Displacement Map Method:

   • Convert your logo to a black & white height map.
   • Apply it as a Displacement Map in the material settings.
   • Use a high-subdivision plane to capture details.

2. Volume Builder (For…

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No worries, did that setup all make sense?

Hey Josh,

You can achieve this effect by just wrapping a helix around a circle. I’ve just made a quick project file for you at the link below, let me know if you want me to make a tutorial;)

https://cgshortcuts.net/twisted-abstract-shapes-in-cinema-4d/

No worries, let me know which one you end up going with

Hey Joanna, other than what I mention in this video: https://cgshortcuts.net/what-computer-do-you-need-for-cinema-4d

Here’s some ideas:

Budget Options ($200–$400):

1. Dell UltraSharp U2422H

   • 24″, 1920×1080, 99% sRGB, factory calibrated.
   • Affordable, great color accuracy, compact size for smaller setups.

2. BenQ PD2705Q

   • 27″, 2560×1440, 100% sRGB, HDR10…

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No worries did those work for you?

Hi Israel, there’s actually a few good tutorials on youtube about this already, did you try these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PouTnEErU40&pp=ygUUYzRkIHBvd2RlciBleHBsb3Npb24%3D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O5xknV11Kw&pp=ygUUYzRkIHBvd2RlciBleHBsb3Npb24%3D

Hi Parag, I think the easiest way to do something like this is to create the shockwave in After Effects, you’ll have more flexibility in getting the right look. Then render that out as a black and white matte and use it in C4D inside a material which you can stack on top of the ground material. I’ll see if I can knock together a project file…

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Yep, you can make a project file template if you use the same settings all the time and save loads of time

Hey Matt, render settings are actually stored within the project file itself. If you mean your saved layouts or keyboard shortcuts etc, you can find them in your preferences folder.

This tutorial might help:

https://cgshortcuts.net/export-your-cinema-4d-shortcuts-keys

No worries, good to hear it worked out anyway;)

Hi Sean, thats a bit of a tricky one. Looks like some twisting going on for sure and some cloning along the twisted shape. Maybe the shape being cloned is also being twisted as well, really hard to say.

I’ll try a bit longer and see if I can figure it out

Good stuff, all the best with your project bud, its looking great!!

Hi Parag, that’s coming along nicely, well done!

Texturing animated volumes is notoriously difficult, but I think for this example it might be best to use triplanar projection within your material – as that material is from the CG Shortcuts library it already has Triplanar nodes set up for you, just set the mode to REFERENCE so the texture…

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Hi Alexandre, good question!

Reflection and refraction will play a big part in getting this look, with a balance of light and dark areas in your scene and lighting.

It might be a good one for a project file and tutorial as its a bit tricky to explain in words.

I’ve added it to the requests list now on this page: https://cgshortcuts.net/requests/

No worries, Polyhaven also has a great collection of free models

https://polyhaven.com/models

I added a few extra balloon materials to this post that might help you out Bob
https://cgshortcuts.net/dynamic-balloon-rig-in-cinema-4d/

Hi Joanna,

I think CG Trader is probably the best value, you can also offer your own price on most things too so you can get a good deal directly with the artist.

Turbosquid has a big range but they are often the most expensive.

Here’s a list of popular choices:

1. TurboSquid

• Type: Paid (some free models available)
• Pros:
  • Extensive library with…

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Hi James, it’s totally doable this way, the tutorial is just a quick dirty cheat to save you some time. There’s some new angular connectors in the 2025 version of C4D too that might help with this kind of thing, I might do another tutorial showing how to set that up

Hi Bob, the BACK-LIGHTING/TRANSLUCENCY setting is in the old RS Material which you can still use in the latest versions of Redshift if you want to do it that way – The new Standard Material is usually a better option for most things but I still use the old shader pretty often for this sort of thing.

I might do a tutorial on creating a…

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Also make sure the texture map is high enough resolution for everything to fit on there, 4 or 8k maybe

Hi Stephan, If you select all objects, switch to polygons mode and in the UV Editor layout, under UV Packing, you can fit all UV islands into one texture by clicking APPLY under UV Packing.

This way all objects can share a single texture (you may need to reproject the textures you currently have to the new UV layout which you can do with…

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