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.

Using a Cloth Tag for a soft-body character, is there a way to ensure that the character maintains an upright position and keeps its upper body posture when falling and hitting the ground, even if it collides with different collider objects during the fall?

Using a Cloth Tag for a soft-body character, is it possible to make the character maintain an upright position and preserve its upper body posture when it falls and hits the ground?

Thanks Mats! I’ve certainly learnt my lesson. And yes super lucky.

I always assumed new cards and renderers were just in tandem.

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I just recently got cgshortcut mails about the realistic plastic wrapping tutorial.
And that reminded me about a challenge i never manage to quite do.

I have added a reference video from youtube. And in the first minute you can see the machine wrapping the hay ball in plastic.

One aspect is the physic and simulation of this, the other…

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A bit late to the party.
I can really recommend reading on the redshift forums before doing hardware changes like the GPU, there is alot of threads about GPU’s especially, and driver compatibility.

You got lucky tho, that the support just came out 🙂
Congrats on the new card!

Hey guys ‘n gals,

I ended up getting a 5070 Ti 16gb Windforce gpu and Wow! what a huge difference. It’s super fast and great so far. But not all has gone smoothly…

For the last 5 days I’d been racking my brain trying to figure out why Redshift wasn’t recognising my new card. Everything else said I’d installed properly. I searched forums,…

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I think I might bite the bullet and go for a 5070 ti 16gb, mainly for longevity. (and I can claim it for tax time)

But… which one?

The Windforce OC looks pretty good, but all variants and brands looks the same to me.

Does anyone have any insights to guide me? Or are they all out of the same factory? haha

Cheers

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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I think mine is way overkill. I use Intel Iris Xe Graphics with 32GB DDR4 shared from my 64GB laptop :))))) and its running at 46FPS to 78FPS sometimes with rendering effects and texture it lagggggg lol.

I use EliteBook 840 G8 for Cinema 4D.

Fantastic! Thanks heaps Dave. That helps a lot.

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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Heya Dave,

What are your thoughts on current GPU’s and what you’d recommend for Redshift and general Video editing and After Effects stuff for that matter?

The Nvidia RTX 5090 has 32Gb ram (what a beast!) but is way out of my price range.

5080 16Gb again is pricey at the min.

5070 ti 16Gb is appealing being 16gb but still a little pricey

5070 12Gb

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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.

How or can you set up a Multi Shader in the Node editor like you could in the Shader Graph?

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

the grid of dots are meant to twinkle like stars, which is kind of working, but I want them to disappear when they are at their smallest size. Any ideas?

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;)

Hello,

Have a question about my animation “text growing !

Why the Sweep (tex) Collider (Hair colider) don’t work like a Sphere and how can i fixe that ?

If you can help me thx 😉

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

yes. it seems that it was simply a naming issue in a field that I was unfamiliar with.

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

it looks like updating the art in the RS material also require the UV channel to be properly named; “text”

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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I am trying to adjust the ‘print’ on the balloon project – which I was able to do with no problem before when I was testing, but now when I update the material, it aligns all wacky and I am stumped.

Ideally, I could place it on the balloon and have it appear once.

Coming from Blender, I thought it would be as easy as it is there to create ocean waves in C4d. Sadly it is not! I am trying to recreate the sort of scene as this real life video of the waves crashing on the beach: https://youtube.com/shorts/47yOv9bOzh4?si=apdj85VvKPx8Epm6

Additionally, I’d love to try and get a product I modeled to wash ashore…

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Hi Dave! Would love to see this tutorial!

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New.c4d was there. Shortcuts, layouts, settings, plugin.js, databases.

So it was pretty organized. Just backup preference folder. And copy over what you need when done clean installing.

Cheers.

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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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Hi.
I am planing on doing a clean install of windows.
And was wondering if cgshortcut have any tutorial on what files one should keep backed up before doing something like this?

Keeping hotkeys, layouts, templates, presets, databases,scripts,plugins. (Alot of these are stored externaly, like the database content, but need the correct pref file…

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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.

Thanks. This is quite a bit of work yeah? The morph tag on the spline is a great idea.

I went in the file to change the size & textures of the boxes and it got a bit hectic. I might need to watch some texture lessons to get a better understanding of polygon selections & materials. Thanks

I haven’t tried yet, but it’s on my to-do list.

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

I tried a version with cubes & nulls along a spline in order to move as desired in space. ( project collect: https://f.io/h1HVSK6y ) The textures aren’t operating as expected when the cubes flip, and overlapping cube seems to be a bit problematic when making adjustments to the type alignment. Additionally, spline animation is a bit chunky. I…

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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

Thanks Dave. The problem without the twist is that the word ‘promise’ is upside down. The other thing that is happening is that the texture seems to be locked and backwards in the c4d file.

Is spline wrap the wrong approach to take?

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.

Is this complicated, or am I making it complicated?

I have text that is meant to slide off of a package, and resolve in a roundel. The complication is the flip of the geometry (with adjusted art on the red side), otherwise, one of the words is upside down and backwards.

Is there a simpler way than the convolution I’ve created? (the red &…

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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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I guess I’m the odd one out lol.

I still use Octane. For the specific aesthetic that I want for my projects, I find that Octane gives me that out-of-the-box in fewer steps than Redshift.

I knew I wasn’t going to be an artist that goes back and forth between renderers so I asked myself a similar question before going all in on one renderer. …

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And… what made me switch too was that Redshift is always updated alongside C4D, unlike Octane. For example, displacement doesn’t work with vertex maps in Octane.

However, I love how volumes work in Octane—it’s a whole different story in Redshift, kind of crazy! It would be amazing if we could combine the best of both render engines.

No worries, did you get it working?

That’s fantastic! Thanks Dave.

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

Seems like there is a much newer version of the Daz3d to C4D Bridge. I haven’t tested it yet, but I am about to. It looks much less automated. It is not on the Daz page it’s on github. But it is the official version and updated in Nov 2024

GitHub – daz3d/DazToC4D: Daz to Cinema 4D Bridge

So, the 2015 thing was a typo. I meant 2025, sorry about that. I did try using it again and it seems like it worked for the most part. I had some other confusions, but I may be able to finish that course.

I am more interested in learning about animation than making still renders, so I hope there is a course that will help me with that after…

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Dave,

Very appreciative for your quick response and tips. I will look into these.

_sam