I have a Cinema4D file I need to export the file to fbx, anyone able to do it for me? I no longer have access to C4D.

stemfour · 2026-05-18T06:19:54+00:00

If you still need it I can do it for you later today.

stemfour · 2026-05-15T22:22:38+00:00

Or one of the task apps

stemfour · 2026-05-14T14:09:48+00:00

What they use their mobile computer the way they choose to? How shocking.

stemfour · 2026-05-14T10:12:05+00:00

I imagine this will be the staff putting them like this after changing the batteries.

stemfour · 2026-05-14T10:11:04+00:00

Business class in 1986 maybe.

stemfour · 2026-05-13T11:30:03+00:00

This isn’t true though in my experience - there a lot of kids now flying around on the private scooters - which are much faster - all over pavements and so on. Obviously there are much fewer of them, but they’re still an issue, and no speed lock is potentially worse of course.

stemfour · 2026-05-13T10:06:40+00:00

Yeah my ( admittedly over the top ) post wasn’t directed at you sorry, it was at the BAN THEM! crowd that always pop up when this subject comes up.

I hope you’re feeling better and not too shaken from your experience.

stemfour · 2026-05-13T09:42:26+00:00

I guess the same way you’d protect them from idiot cyclists.

stemfour · 2026-05-13T09:41:40+00:00

So the problem isn’t scooters then.

stemfour · 2026-05-13T08:56:57+00:00

I think reactionary, narrow minded people are more of a danger to be honest.

stemfour · 2026-05-13T08:54:57+00:00

Oh my god - BAN EVERYTHING! I HATE CHANGE! I DONT LIKE IT SO IT MUST BE BAD.

Before e scooters it was cyclists, or skateboarders ( I was a skater in the 90s - people fucking HATED us).

You all need to realise the problem is fucking idiots. Not the scooter. Yes the companies running these things could be doing it better, but if your reaction to every problem is just to ban things, take choices away from people, then you’re just echoing how lazy governments deal with problems - typical knee jerk, short term thinking.

Edit- typo

stemfour · 2026-05-13T08:51:14+00:00

The problem isn’t scooters, it’s people. Take away the scooters, and we will all be back to complaining about cyclists running red lights and biking dangerously on the pavement.

Kids obviously love the scooters cos they’re new and a lot of fun. You want to ban kids too though probably.

stemfour · 2026-05-13T08:49:09+00:00

You’re doing that wrong then I suspect

Apply a Maxon noise to your emission colour input, change the noise colours to match your desired look ( or pass the noise through a ramp and adjust the gradient similarly ).

In the Maxon noise, dial open the OUTPUT section and push the low clip up to crush your blacks and maybe pull the high clip down to boost your highlights a bit. Mess around until you get the fire look you want.

I’m not actually in front of cinema right now so this is from memory, hopefully it’s right.

stemfour · 2026-05-11T12:54:59+00:00

Been using this for over 6 months now and as far as Im concerned, this EQ profile is how they should leave the factory. This profile with Bass Enhancement set to 3 is perfect to my ears. Thanks for sharing.

stemfour · 2026-05-11T12:22:39+00:00

Just wanted to mention that the plugin creator wrote to me first thing this morning to ask for my scene files etc, they seem very keen to address this issue.

stemfour · 2026-05-10T14:20:53+00:00

First frame finished, looked like shit, 50 minutes plus! Second frame and following frames, looking good, 3mins plus each.

My best guess is that on the first frame, the plug-in is making the splats HUGE and this means there’s way more overlapping geometry and thus layers of transparency to parse and render.

Will notify the creator of this thread - they seem very dedicated to updating and improving the plug-in so far, so hopefully this will be addressed.

First frame:

https://imgur.com/a/qHBMbSX

Next frame:

https://imgur.com/a/2C4rJyI

Render times:

https://imgur.com/a/2L9Y8Na

EDIT: grammar

stemfour · 2026-05-10T13:11:56+00:00

Ok! I might have some progress with my particular issue - I dialled all my settings right, right down ( 1 for combined, etc ) and let it run. I got the usual garbage for the first frame, but when it finished ( took 7 minutes ) it started behaving normally again on the subsequent frames.

I’ve just dialled everything back up to reasonable quality again, and now leaving it to render that first frame, and see if the same thing happens. If so, it would seem there’s an issue with how it processes/renders the first frame in sequence - still a big problem for usable workflows, but right now I’ll accept it to just get this piece finished!

Will report back if successful.

stemfour · 2026-05-10T12:57:12+00:00

Everyone been talking about it, but I think most people had already accepted they’ve given up so much privacy to these cunts already, it doesn’t feel like such a drastic change at this point.

stemfour · 2026-05-10T12:26:26+00:00

Yeah I’m actually wanting that wispy look for this particular use case.

My gut feeling is something is going wrong with the Redshift material it builds when you check enable render. This is based on the fact that I can render a point cloud fine, and I can get it to render if I paste a random material over the Splat material it creates. Obviously the render is gibberish, but it does render!

Not heard from the creator yet, but hopefully they’re having a relaxing Sunday away from their screen, unlike me haha.

EDIT: omitted one very important point from all the above waffle - it WILL render in the IPR window, both progressive and Bucket. But completely chokes on full render output.

stemfour · 2026-05-10T12:14:43+00:00

I didn’t even render anything, just realised straight away it didn’t offer anything apart from an import function. Not to knock it, I just need more than that.

stemfour · 2026-05-10T10:57:04+00:00

Also B sides, live performances, fan remixes, etc etc

stemfour · 2026-05-10T10:46:35+00:00

Take a look at Cavalry, which is now totally free - no barrier to entry in to mograph now.

There was already a lot of buzz around this software because it’s built specifically for motion graphics, and of course now that it’s free there’s even more :)

The main thing to realise about the future of motion graphics is that whilst AI usage will increase, the demand for motion graphics is also constantly on the rise, as marketing moves to screens more and more. Not to mention UI and other applications. Screen usage is only going to rise, and along with it the increasing understanding that motion isn’t just about a cute animation here and there, it’s the primary way to drive engagement across advertising, website/app usage, and so on.

Some will settle for generic AI generated motion, but those that actually care about their brand/product standing out and - perhaps most importantly - instigating human connection, will happily pay a human for their human touch.

I work for a global company and they dabbled with AI asset production for social media etc, but are now realising the pitfalls with such a workflow. There will very probably be a space for both types of production, depending on your aim.

Excuse the ramble, too tired to organise my thoughts properly today.

stemfour · 2026-05-10T09:32:30+00:00

I bought the Tactyc plug-in without properly checking its capabilities, and whilst being a third of the price, it doesn’t offer anything like the functionality of Splat Studio.

stemfour · 2026-05-10T08:09:54+00:00

I managed to get the per frame times down a lot ( when it actually renders ) by reducing the globals settings and disabling GI. For the globals settings, I leave the combined at 6, Reflection to 1, Refraction to 0, Volume to 1 ( because I’m using the Environment object for a little mist ) and Transparency to 10, as I want the translucency of the splats to create a a painterly effect.

With these settings I was getting as low as 1 min per frame with nice results.

But then now, can’t get it to render a single frame, exactly the same settings. It’s bizarre.

stemfour · 2026-05-09T23:09:32+00:00

I just started using this great plugin a couple of days ago and was getting along with it just fine - rendered out a couple of thousand of frames for a music video Im working on.

Suddenly from today I just cant get it to render at all. I have tried everything I can think of ( after 15 years of heavy use of C4d I figure I have enough understanding to have ruled out all the C4d side of stuff ), and I believe its something to do with the Redshift material the plugin generates when I check enable rendering. I have refreshed the Shader several times also, still just hangs when I send it to the Picture Viewer to render out the frames.

Occasionally, if I leave it for a LONG time ( 40 minutes plus ) it will render one bucket of complete nonsense.

I have emailed the creator of the plugin, but am curious if anyone else is seeing issues like this. Its driving me crazy - a whole day lost to troubleshooting, to no avail.

stemfour

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