I haven’t been able to try yet (my employer bounces me from one project to the next like a deranged cat with its toy), but will probably circle back this weekend. I’ll let you know. The Octane one won’t work because I’m not an Octane guy, but the mograph + particles tutorial looks very promising (from the standpoint of what the final…

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No worries did those work for you?

Brilliant! Thank you Dave

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

Ah interesting. So if I’ve saved some Render presets, they are just within a project? Thanks Dave!