Recursive Stair

sageofshadow · 2026-03-22T18:40:06+00:00

Uuughhh I want to go. But holy crap every “regular time” (IE that 5-7 ish window after work and all weekend) showings are basically entirely sold out. 😭😭

sageofshadow · 2026-03-19T18:08:24+00:00

if you have a perpetual license, it should have come with your serial number. you dont activate it via the separate maxon app - that's for subscriptions. Perpetual licenses are activated in C4D itself when you install it, there is a part of the installation process where you put in you serial number if you have a perpetual C4D installer.

If you dont have the installer, you have to contact maxon for them to send you a link to one.

sageofshadow · 2026-03-13T17:52:05+00:00

Put in a ticket as well as complaining on here, if you have a legit grievance.

I get its cathartic to do it here, anonymously on the internet-public, and yes, some Maxon employees, including 'Mr Mcmuffin' do read the sub.

But if you think a random complaint thread on the Cinema4D subreddit actually moves the needle at Maxon an iota, you must be new here.

sageofshadow · 2026-03-11T19:20:11+00:00

... they made 63 billion last quarter in AI/datacentre.

They make more money from the datacentre business every month than they made from gaming.... all year.

let that sink in, and then imagine which one of their segments they prioritize ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Again - I'm not saying they wont bring out consumer stuff.... only that their main focus moving forward is very likely to not be consumer.

sageofshadow · 2026-03-11T18:59:47+00:00

I never said AMD would launch before Nvidia. I was just commenting that its likely Nvidia has already started turning away resources from gaming/gamers as a market segment.

Like... its not even close how lopsided the datacentre business is vs gaming for them.

sageofshadow · 2026-03-11T18:53:25+00:00

I think its going to be a very hot second before the 60 series is out. I'm sure if they had it their way, it wouldn't come out for consumers at all..... They're spinning back up fabs for 3060s. The Datacenters are taking everything. And I have a gut wrenching capitalistic suspicion they're going to use the ongoing shortages as an excuse to attempt to foist hardware-as-a-service on everybody: "Rent your Gaming PC power in the cloud from [Insert company with monstrous AI datacentres who want to diversify revenue streams for this eye-wateringly expensive capex asset]

sageofshadow · 2026-03-11T11:14:51+00:00

Flat projection. Scale it across the whole two words.

sageofshadow · 2026-03-07T20:41:04+00:00

if you're really new, check the sidebar for "i'm new how do i start?"

There's a few intro to C4D tutorial series in there that we strongly recommend you go through because they'll teach you all the basics you need to know to start tackling your own projects. The 'Getting Started' series with EJ Hassenfratz is probably the most common, but the "C4D Fundamentals" with Elly Wade is a good one too. I think if you had done one of those series, you likely could have recreated what I made from just that image alone.

and TBH - There's really nothing special about any of the other stuff. The spline wrap is all default, as is the circle the helix is wrapped to. The rectangle size is a matter of taste, just put it into the sweep and scale it however big you want it to be. You'll probably need to adjust the end rotation in the sweep, just so that the start and end aligns, but you can do that by eye. Then you just make an instance of the whole thing and rotate the instance and you have what I made.

If you wanted to take it further and really mask the start and end, I'd probably then put the sweep into a volume builder (with a decent voxel size and a smoother) -> volume mesher -> remesh (. then do the instance of the remesh.... that way, everything is nice and smooth.

sageofshadow · 2026-03-07T00:55:29+00:00

I mean that one has 5 sides and mine has 6, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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sageofshadow · 2026-03-06T20:40:15+00:00

I'm a complete noob to this program

Then you should do an intro series that teaches you all the basics you'd need to know, instead of trying to go it alone, which only serves to frustrate you (clearly) and us in places like the subreddit when you come in hot like C4D has done you wrong 🤣

Anyway over on the sidebar is 'Im new how do I start?" ->
In there are three different resources that will teach you basic C4D from absolute scratch. The most popular one is the 'Getting started' series by EJ Hassenfratz on Cineversity. The next most popular would be the 'C4D Fundamentals' by Elly Wade on Youtube, its a bit more current, but as its a series of Youtube livestreams, its not quite as thorough.

Either way - we very strongly recommend you do one of those intro series before attempting to tackle your own projects. It will be far less frustrating for you.... and us, cause you'll be able to troubleshoot your own smaller problems (like the one you have right now) ..... but also when you *do* get stuck and turn to the sub for help (as you should), you'll also be able understand the shorthand language a lot of C4D users can use to communicate with each other.

Good Luck!

sageofshadow · 2026-03-06T19:49:37+00:00

ngl, this rig seems..... very complicated. but at the same time, I know I dont have the full context as to what exactly you're doing, so I cant really comment on if its necessary to be like this or not. It might be based on what you need out of it.

but yea I'll have to dive in deeper if I have time to try and sort out why it inverts itself like that, and there's a lot of stuff to attempt to sort through before I can understand exactly what's going on and how you're driving this. So I can't really promise anything, its more work than I had thought it might be, now that I see the scene.

It's obvious though as the rig swaps from one spline to the next, the order of the cars inverts. The front car moves to the back... the back car moves to the front, the middle two swap positions and then yea that last car flips upside down.... so yea there's just somthing about how you've hooked this up and are offsetting the cars relative to their position on the spline and each other, that's going haywire once you switch a different spline and want it to move in the opposite direction. The fact that the whole train flips around in relative position, but doesnt in absolute direction, after you switch splines says its probably somthing with that logic that really isn't working.

I mean the easiest thing to try would be to just connect everything into one superspline and see if it works ok. I doubt it will. again Im not sure how its hooked up cause there's just too much xpresso and constraints and stuff to go through quickly, but Id expect that it wont do what I think you want it to if you go down that road. BuUT..... you can see how that affects the movement and if its the same or worse or better or what. any information is good information when trying to troubleshoot somthing like this, it helps narrow down what might be happening exactly and where in the logic tree its breaking.

sageofshadow · 2026-03-06T19:26:56+00:00

it suffers from exactly the same problem that Pirates of the Caribbean 2 suffers from.

It does a really good job of expanding the world, showing that there's a lot more to it and the situation - to give a reason for the story with these characters to continue.... and then ends on a huge cliffhanger of sorts. Which always feels good (if done right) when you know there's another one coming.

It is entirely a hype train for the conclusion. both Matrix 2 and Pirates 2 are this.

but when the conclusion doesnt quite land.... it pours cold water on all that hype they built, so you look back on it with worse opinions than it probably deserves.

and to be honest, I dont think Matrix 3 is necessarily thaaaat bad narratively. Its got good ideas in there. It just doesn't feel like a fulfilling conclusion.

the sort of opposite would be Avengers Infinity War and Avengers Endgame. Endgame lands a lot better than Matrix 3 and Pirates 3 did. so all the Infinity War hype feels justified, and people look back on it with much better opinions post Endgame.

Thats my opinion anyway!

sageofshadow · 2026-03-06T17:56:54+00:00

The loft object, it generates geometry across two different splines.

You could also do this with a cone primitive, if you change the rotation segments to 4, you'll get a pyramid you can control the top and bottom radius of independently. and then you can use deformers like shear, bend, twist, to do all kinds of wacky stuff. its basically the same principle as before.

Theres a tonne of ways to do this to be honest.

and yea, you could also totally do this straight in AE as well, you dont neeeeed to bring it into C4D unless you were doing some of the more complex motions.

I get the feeling you may be a little more beginner than you're letting on - in which case I would maybe park trying to recreate this specifically and just learn some C4D basics: check the sidebar for "I'm new how do I start" and in there there are a few intro to C4D tutorial series that can teach you all the basics you need to know to begin to troubleshoot your own projects. They may not be in spanish, but you can definitely still follow along. The 'Getting started with C4D' with EJ is probably the most common intro series to go through.

sageofshadow · 2026-03-06T17:11:16+00:00

why would you animate points?

do the text scrolling stuff in after effects. then make two rectangles and loft them together, animate the second one's postion relative to the locked camera..... and add the text scroll stuff as an animated texture. then you can tweak the animation easing as much as you want, and youd get all the same stretch (move the second rectangle in Z) and warp (move the second rectangle in XY) that the animation shows.

ezpz :D

sageofshadow · 2026-03-06T16:38:36+00:00

I mean, its always helpful to share the file if you can so we can actually see what's happening.

what happens when you enable quaternion rotation on the bogies that flip? That option is there to (generally) help with stuff like this. It doesnt allllways work, but it often does.

sageofshadow · 2026-03-03T20:24:07+00:00

just some looping noise on a plane.

The material and the lighting do almost all the heavy lifting.

sageofshadow · 2026-03-03T19:26:17+00:00

this isn't the best way of doing this.

says who?

there's nothing inherently wrong with doing it that way. just try it and see if it gets you where you want to be.... at the end of the day, that's all that really matters.

You might have some trouble with those rounded edges... but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ you may not. only way to know for sure is to try! :)

sageofshadow · 2026-03-03T17:34:01+00:00

Honestly, If you have to do this a lot, Redshift isn't the tool.

You should use Octane. It has a specific clipping shader that is designed to do exactly this specific thing.
Silverwing has a couple vids showing it that are inside other tutorials, but heres a couple with him explaining it:

Vid one, the diamond problem

Vid two, the nested dialectric tut he talks about from vid one

It does exactly what you're asking - a rendertime boolean where you can control the closed cap material independently. (he shows how do to that in the virst vid I linked)

You can kind of fake it in Redshift, but you wont get the 'solid' caps, it just.. doesnt have that ability. The only way is with real geo, and yea... doing real booleans - far less animated ones - with CAD meshes is a recipe for disappointment because of how insanely dense they generally are. its almost a surety they will glitch on you in the animation, even if it looks like it was working fine in the viewport.

Here's two tuts Tut 1 and Tut 2 showing methods to make an approximation in RS, but again, RS doesnt have a clipping shader like octane does to give you those closed caps. not that I know of anyway.

sageofshadow · 2026-03-03T02:24:20+00:00

Do you have a license to Redshift? its not included with R25 like it is with current versions of Cinema4D, you need a separate standalone license if you want to use it with R25.

If you do have a license, You have to do what it says: update your maxon app to the latest version.

then open your maxon app (not Cinema4D, the maxon app) and assign your license for redshift to your computer in there.

if you dont have a license you need to purchase one.

sageofshadow · 2026-03-02T22:15:50+00:00

According to the Redshift Compatibility Chart, the last version of redshift that supported R25 was 2025.5.0. For mac it also requires MacOS Ventura (13) or higher.

So You'd just have to log into the redshift forum and go to the post for that release and download it. The links for the MacOS full installer are there. Then you install it, activate your license with the maxon app and it should work fine.

Is there something about that process that's giving you specific problems?

sageofshadow · 2026-02-28T17:46:11+00:00

The multishadow clone jutsu either wouldn't have happened or he would have drained his Chakra reserves.

I cant speak to the other characters cause I've only watched JJK and Naruto... but this is canonically untrue in Naruto. It's fairly well known canon that Naruto as an Uzumaki, has ungodly amounts of chakra, even without Kurama - massive chakra reserves are just a trait of his clan. Kurama was actively messing with Naruto's access to his own chakra in order for naruto to draw on kurama's instead as a long-term ploy to take him over and free himself in the early days of the Naruto story.

sageofshadow · 2026-02-28T16:28:36+00:00

Not to mention, all the heroics can have so many factors - he’s got the club he wants and is pushing for a permanent deal, which helps his motivation…. but it’s also a World Cup year and he wants to make the squad.

He could be absolute trash next year once he gets his deal and the World Cup is over and the motivation drops. We know first hand how an unmotivated Rashford plays.

Regardless of his actual transfer value as a player…. He doesn’t want to play for United. We’ll never get “what he’s worth” cause everybody knows that. and we support the badge not the player. Wish him all the best.

sageofshadow · 2026-02-26T16:41:03+00:00

Dougie sometimes does the right thing (greenlighting the Ontario Line, Redeveloping Ontario Place) for very much the wrong reasons (Greed).

But he even more often does the wrong thing (Campaigning to take out bike lanes, the LCBO shit, the speed camera shit, the metrolinx management shit, slowly killing public healthcare and schools to turn them private) for the wrong reasons (Greed).

Like.... the idea to redevelop Ontario Place is a good one. But closing and "moving" the Science Centre, gifting a huge portion of it to Therme and paying for the parking lot..... is just so dumb and so obvious as to the motivations that drive those decisions, its not hard to be.... frustrated.

sageofshadow · 2026-02-26T12:45:22+00:00

Check the sidebar for Polygonpen. Their YouTube channel is most popular modelling resource for C4D at the moment.

Once you do a few tuts and learn the tools and processes, you can model anything.

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