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[AdamT]

Great story f3rry. You should get Mesh Surgery and you won't miss Messiah's split poly anymore. :) http://www.peranders.com/c4d8/ms/

[f3rry]

Thanks AdamT,

Saving money for my own core copy first

[dfaris]

Originally posted by AdamT
Great story f3rry. You should get Mesh Surgery and you won't miss Messiah's split poly anymore. :) http://www.peranders.com/c4d8/ms/


AH you mean Maya's split poly right? Messiah does not have any poly tools.

[AdamT]

Originally posted by dfaris
AH you mean Maya's split poly right? Messiah does not have any poly tools.
Woops, yeah I meant Maya. Bed time!

[Shademaster]

Great story :) ,

I heard it was even possible to export Cloth/Skin/Dynamic simulations from maya to Cinema 4d through FBX. Does anyone know more about this?

:)

[dfaris]

Originally posted by Shademaster
Great story :) ,

I heard it was even possible to export Cloth/Skin/Dynamic simulations from maya to Cinema 4d through FBX. Does anyone know more about this?

:)

I dont know about FBX but there is a plugin Free that does that.
You can find out about it here http://www.zoogono.com/ its the pointoven plug.

[f3rry]

OK, still on Maya - C4D related...

I heard about Fbx long time ago, but that time they said it records all the points position on an object over time, that means it can be easily plugged into anywhere.

I tried fbx on maya, but instead it tries to export ALL features from 1 app to another which I am more than sure NOT gonna be fully compatible. Bone, deformation, lighting etc... Aaargh... it is far from being usable on a character..... works well on set though...

Has anyone heard anything about exporting point position over time on a character? So we can forget the joint, weighting etc?

[f3rry]

Oh.. oh.. ohhhhh

I forgot to mentioned in the story above...

One time I have to do this commercials with beveled text and flying around. But because the director wants the exact shape of the Text and Maya only bevel the curves outward to create extruded text (it means the letters are going to look fatter) I have to spend ALL DAY LONG extruding the curves inward, clean it up and extrude it ONE BY ONE sometime flip the object to face the same direction. There were about 50 letters involved (cap and lower and some different fonts). By the end of the day my c4D mate walked in and say I can click "constraint" in C4D and that will save me the WHOLE DAY. Thats 30 second VS 10 Hours

Get it guys?

I hate those moments.....

[MJV]

Interesting story F3rry. I tried to get into Maya for awhile and thought it was the biggest piece of crap ever. I know it has good CA tools, but as bad as I want better CA tools, I don't want them !THAT! bad. Maya is completely intolerable.

[paintbox]

I have a similar story but then with Max to C4D.

It was really tough to get into, since C4D does things another way, but I believe once you get that logic, C4D is very very good in its workflow. I thought I'd miss the stack function in Max, but the object manager of C4D is so much better :)

And the renders are top-notch and the price is right, what more could you want ? :cool:

[Cartesius]

Originally posted by f3rry
I read this tut for texturing and lighting in C4D (Carles) and he is kind enough to include the scene file with it.

You don't happen to have the URL to that tutorial available, do you? I remember looking through it (or a similar by Carles) quite some time ago but now I can't find my bookmark.

And yes, Cinema is in many aspects wonderful to work with :)

/Anders

[pasto]

Well I am a c4d user (motion graphics mainly) and I tried Maya. And I felt this way :

For fast production : c4d is pure light speed
For dynamics : Maya is waaaay better
For typography works : c4d for sure, as Maya hasn't got any real text tool.
For character anim: maya rules, Mocca looks immature but promising.
For rendering : C4d sounds really easy to control (multipass) but Maya built in renderer has great tools that needs a lot more time to be controlled... and rendered !

It is a bit caricatural, but it is the way I think after several (6) months using maya for (little) productions. I would say that, for a little studio it can be a good solution to get both. Except the fact that switching from one app to the other and vice versa is a real mind killer...

Hopefully Darf might port his great Cidertank tools on maya...



pasto

[Ric535]

Anders - heres the URL you are looking for

http://www.3dluvr.com/carles/resources.htm

[Cartesius]

Originally posted by Ric_535
Anders - heres the URL you are looking for

http://www.3dluvr.com/carles/resources.htm

Thanks! :)

/Anders

[fretshredder]

Originally posted by Ric_535
Anders - heres the URL you are looking for

http://www.3dluvr.com/carles/resources.htm


Awesome! thanks for posting that. I've been looking for that resource too :thumbsup:

-gz-

[RusMan]

Originally posted by Ric_535
Anders - heres the URL you are looking for

http://www.3dluvr.com/carles/resources.htm

Nice tut, I think I should learn how to make complicated things simple, thanks.

[flingster]

Originally posted by paintbox
I have a similar story but then with Max to C4D.

It was really tough to get into, since C4D does things another way, but I believe once you get that logic, C4D is very very good in its workflow. I thought I'd miss the stack function in Max, but the object manager of C4D is so much better :)

And the renders are top-notch and the price is right, what more could you want ? :cool:

hey paintbox...what does stack do in max?

f3rry: great to read positive thread...and insights from maya v c4d...not always what we are lead to believe by maya users.
makes a change..:beer:

[f3rry]

Cartesius:
Sorry for late reply, I was away on w/end..

Ric_535:
Thanks for filling that in for me........


Cheers guys,

Once again its not about flaming around, just some mentality thought we all can apply to our workflow... I have heard so many people say they can't produce things good enough just because the use low priced app....

More about C4D:

This might have been said before (I'm sure), but I'm glad these forum exist. I met some of the nicest guys in this industry here...

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