Ha, appreciate you like this and it gives you good vibes 🙌 😊

I was just about to say that^

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Thank you very much for your input Yassin! Ant thank you so much for your sparkles 🙌✨🙌

Ha ha. Amazing comment. Those are the ones that keep me excited in doing what I do 🙏✨🙌

Hey there and thank you very much for your comment. Not sure if I understand your question. Are you talking about my Behance? It's behance.net/silverwing-vfx

@@SilverwingVFX sorry I phrased my comment weirdly, but it was just a compliment on your thorough and detailed explanations :)! great behance btw!

@@papi_papillon Ahhh, then thank you for your compliment then. Ha ha. I thought you were asking something 😇😊

Thank you so much Fernando! Appreciate that you like it 🙌

I was thinking about going over the Particle to Matrix Object to Octane Scatter workflow. As far as I know this does not support motion blur. Correct me if I am wrong though! To be honest, I still got it to hang when I tried e.g. 100.000 Particles per second. I don't think Octane has particle primitives as Redshift has. Hopefully Otoy can make this happen so we can deal with a lot more particles with all the channels and additional motion blur. This would be glorious!

Thank you very much. Fantastic to hear that you like the video 🙌

Thank you very much Rufus! Appreciate your nice comment. It´s always so nice to hear people like my approach🙌🙌 I really like what Maxon did there. This is a really good system and it´s rather fast in two ways. One, to learn... and second to simulate 😊

And thank you for your nice comment. You are very welcome!

As always, super nice seeing you here and thank you for your kind words. Much appreciated 🙌

Thank you very much Robstar. Great to hear you like it. Also thank you for noticing the logo transition 🙌

Thank you very much for your message and your report. I would need to try on my end, but sounds like maybe a limitation. And you are right that X-Particles is better established. P.s. this "Dirty Trick" is Maxons official way to support their particles in other renderers then Redshift. Even their own Standard and Physical renderer 😇😇

@@SilverwingVFX seems to be the same even with standard renderer, so not an issue with your technique! Just a bug.

Thank you very much Ohhhh so many sparkly sparkles ✨🎇✨

Thank you very much. That's super cool to hear!

Uh thanks so much for reporting that typo. That must have been in there for a long time, since I never changed that 😇😁 Oh boy!

Hey there Max and thank you very much for sharing your thoughts. I personally think that Maxon is doing a really good job at integrating dynamics into C4D and making it mostly intuitive and easy to use. C4D never has been the power house that Houdini is in terms of versatility and flexibility. But they've always been the software that is very user friendly and easy to use. And I think this is where they are also going with this. I am a huge advocate of using the software that suits you best. If that is Houdini, then so be it. There are always advantages and disadvantages to every package. It's for the user to decide which one(s) suit(s) best.

You are very welcome. Oh, I did not know there was a silver wing emoji. Very cool 🙏🙌✨

@@SilverwingVFX Thx🍀

Thank you for your input. So good time for you then ha ha ha 🙌

Hey Alexandre, I would say it really depends what you are trying to achieve. It's not that Octane is outdated or something. You can use most of C4D's simulation features with it. And the implementation is rather quick as well. Usually it only takes 1-2 weeks after a C4D release until things are implemented (if they are not working right of the bat) I would argue the decision is much more a personal one then one. What do you do, what features do you need. Which renderer provides the best workflow for you to work seamless and fast. What renderer do the studios, clients, fellow artists use, you are working with? Also, people also seem to think in black and white. One render over another. I use both Redshift and Octane as well as Cycles in Blender. I love figuring out what the similarities as well as the differences are in those renderers and then use the one that works the best for the current project. Of course this is only my opinion. I will be very happy of others want to chime in here and also offer their opinions on the question 🙌

Hey there and sorry for my really late reply. I hope you have found a solution in the mean time. I have to be honest and say that I do no use particles on a daily basis and would have to research for a solution my self. I hope you have found some other channels that go into the particle topic more! Cheers, good luck and a great start into this week to you!

Thank you very much 🙌🙏

Thank you very much for your comment. I guess this is the Maxon way ha ha. They have a track record of stuff that is a bit whacky in their first iteration and then they improve it over time. Take the new Object Browser for example. But to be honest, I was surprised how mature the particle system already was. Also it´s really nice and easy to understand concept. X-Particles always confused me. To be honest the most easy way I would imagine a particle system would work is via nodes. I would be down for that. But I guess having it work like Maxons new particles is the next best thing.

There is even an example in the asset browser that uses particles in the volume builder. Are you sure you have set it up correctly? The output of the particle is the particle group (or multi group), not the emitter. So that's what you should put in the volume builder.

@@Havealot Thank you for chiming in and adding that. Yeah I think that's what probably a lot of people will get wrong in the beginning. Trying to interact with the Emitter instead of the group! Caught me off guard at first as well!

@@Havealot hey! thanks! that works indeed.

@@SilverwingVFX Yes, this is causing a bit of confusion. But I do think it is the better choice and being able to freely move particles from one group to the other or combining them with a multi group justifies breaking this intuition. Plus it s consistent with Pyro, which has a similar problem (any number of emitters can contribute to a sim) and also solves this by having an output object that is not the emitting object.

Hey hey, thank you very much for your comment and your question. I think this is a very young particle system and not that feature rich yet. There are some things missing in order to make good looking water. Beginning with particle to particle collisions. But if Maxon keeps going in that trajectory then at some point will be a fluid sim capability in there.

@@SilverwingVFX thank you for kind answering

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Hey there and thank you for your question. You can adjust your particles size over the age. You can do this with the "Attribute Remapping". So remap your age or age percentage to the radius and use the spline to control the growth.

Hey there and thank you very much for your comment. I am not quite sure if I understand what's happening. Do you have already problems in the live viewer? Usually a lot of those problems are solved by caching your simulations for final rendering. Also I had problems like this when the scene frame rate was not matching up with the rendering frame rate. Maybe it's worth checking! If none of that works, maybe you may explain in a little more detail, so I can recreate it on my site and eventually repost the bug to the devs 🙌 Cheers and a great start into this week to you! Raphael

@@SilverwingVFX Thanks for the reply! I meant if rigid bodies are emitted as particles. There is a problem between simulations, I can send you an example file so you can see what the problem is. I understand that you can use rigid bodies and particles separately, but I wanted the rigid bodies to be used in a particle system. This is probably not possible, and such a feature will appear in the future.

​@@vivatrip Yes I think you are right and what you are searching after is not possible at the moment. Probably you can sort of work around by having the particles emitted as rigid bodies and then use the "follow animation" feature (not really sure if it's actually called this way) to make the particles sort of follow the particle animation. Not sure also if there is particle to particle collision. If there is not I am 100% certain that this will come in one of the next releases. I have not dug too deep into the particles for now as I was busy with other stuff. Hopefully you will find a way to get your to behave in a way that you imagined!

Thank you very much for your comment. Not sure if I understand your question right. The color assignment happens inside a Octane Material. So the material is assigned. You can assign different materials to different sets of particles through linking different groups into the Cloners. So it should all be possible. What you can't do is to get information as Age, Velocity etc. through the material (yet) Though there already was a ner version of the Octane C4D Plugin released that may be has access to that. But I would have to check.

@@SilverwingVFX Oh! i see. For some reason i thought we had to plug the instance color node into the albedo in order to get octane materials to work. My bad, i understand now. Thank you :)

Hey hey and thanks for your question. I just had made it and then cut it and copied it back in to the scene. The object itself is just a null with the name of 30 times the - symbol. So unfortunately no scripts just a bit of trickery involved 😇

@@SilverwingVFX thank you so much for the answer! I really like how tidy it feels

Hey there and thank you very much for your comment and your feedback! Is your report based off of the live viewer or the final rendering? I am asking because C4D handles motion blur different in scene then when rendering in the picture viewer. It should look correctly if you render in the PV 🤞

@@SilverwingVFX Thanks for the quick response (and thanks for the video in the first place). I noticed it in the LiveViewer. Because of this I made a render, but unfortunately it was the same case. I'm using a very basic setup, fast particles (300cm velocity), cloner and multiinstance and kept everything else at default trying to find the problem.

​@@Druskqq One more thought I had. In order for the motion Blur to work correctly, the whole Simulation has to be cached. Otherwise the system does not know the before state of the particles and therefore there will be no blur. Also the instancing should be set to Multi Instances, otherwise also the motion blur is a bit finnicky. Hope some of it helps 😇

@@SilverwingVFX Caching the Particle group seemed to work! Particles do lose their blur at moment of death though, this is especially noticeable for my setup of fast moving particles (welding sparks). But I was able to hack this by letting them go to zero opacity at the last moment in their lifetime. Maybe I'll find a better fix later, but this will have to do for now. Thanks again

​@@Druskqq Appreciate your feedback and hearing about your solution! Great you got it solved with a bit of a workaround from your own. I guess the motion blur "problem" does not vanish, it just moves from the birth of the particles to its death. Clever solution with the opacity. My trick was always scaling them down in the end ha ha. Cheers and a happy mid of the week to you!

Hey there. Let's try to help. Generally you need to bundle the latest Octane together with your latest C4D version. So C4D 2024.2 will only work with older Octane versions. Not the newest ones unfortunately. You would need to update your C4D to 2024.4 to use the newest Octane version. The newest Octane version would also work with the latest 2023 Version of C4D. New Versions of Octane are always compiled against the most recent versions of C4D within their version number. So that would be 26.110, 2023.2.2 and 2024.4 for example. If you have an older version of C4D, you would have to search for an older version of Octane that came out at the same time. Unfortunately I can't tell you what octane version would work with your C4D 2024.2. It's best you upgrade it to the latest 2024.4.

@@SilverwingVFX Yes, you're right! Only Octane 2023.1.2 R6 support c4d 2024.2.2, rather than the latest version!!!

Hey there. There are multiple settings you can set this. With C4D particles you can set the distance e.g. in the collider. Since I am not doing a lot of simulations I do not have a 100% answer. You can go to the Scene Settings by hitting CTRL + D and then go to Simulation and change some settings as the Scene Scale and see if this helps Good luck with your endeavors 🙌✨

Hey there. I think this might be lost in translation. Do you want to send me a scene or do you want me to send you the sparks scene? If you want to enquire the sparks scene, you can go to my patreon and subscribe to it and download it there. Together with a whole bunch of other really cool octane scenes accumulated over time. www.patreon.com/SilverwingVFX

Hmmm. If nothing else is introduced to the scene like movement or other forces, then I would not know why something like that would happen. The only thing that comes to mind right now. If you have a gravity, make sure the gravity is executed before the collision. In terms of hierarchy that I am saying is that the gravity should always be higher up in the hierarchy then the collision. But the chances are rather slim that that's actually it. I hope you find a solution! Cheers, Raphael

@@SilverwingVFX Oh yes, thank you! It all worked)

@@TheSchpuntov Oh, super nice. Glad to hear that 🙌

Ha ha, ja ich komme aus Deutschland 😊 Deswegen auch die gute Aussprache auf Deutsch 😇

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Hey there and thank you for your comment! As in the upper bar of the video I used C4D 2024.4 Particles is a new feature that was not available in S24. In order to make Octane show up you have to make sure you run the newest version of C4D. As octane is always compiled against the newest C4D release. The most recent release of C4D is 2024.4.1 It's highly likely that Will show up in this version. On the other hand, you can downgrade the octane version if you need to stay within your current C4D Built. e.g. C4D 2024.3

@@SilverwingVFX How to determine which octane version will work? As I don't see it mentioned on their website.

​@@technoober8352 Yes, unfortunately there is no info on Octanes Releases. You can figure it out by the release date. Or by just trying it out.

@@SilverwingVFX I just downloaded octane for the first time and this is gonna be so annoying 😅. Blender is quite easy to set up compared to C4D.

​@@technoober8352 Yeah you are right. Installing Addons in Blender ist super nice and easy! C4D could really learn from that. In terms of versioning. It's not that bad on C4Ds side. Just make sure you have the latest version of C4D and everything should work just fine. If you are on an older version of C4D. As long it's the latest of its version, you should not have any problems with Octane either. Fingers crossed you get everything working. Should not be that hard though 🤞😇

I think particle to particle forces are missing right now to be able to do this. Maybe something smart will find a workaround. But also with the track record of Maxon lately with all their simulation tools I think it´s only a question of time until they will tackle particles based fluids like e.g. Realflow.

@@SilverwingVFX I hope you're right! Thanks for the video

Thank you very much for your comment! Yes, unfortunately with many particles it will become laggy. With the newest Octane version, 2023.1.3_R2 you can use the Object Tag to get the particles. Right now the Tag-Method also does not support any motion blur. Also those particles will always be Objects since Octane is lacking particle primitives. I whish they will implement those at some point. 非常感谢您的评论！ 是的，不幸的是，有很多粒子，它会变得迟缓。 使用最新的 Octane 版本 2023.1.3_R2，您可以使用对象标签来获取粒子。 目前，标签方法也不支持任何运动模糊。 而且这些粒子将始终是对象，因为 Octane 缺乏粒子基元。 我希望他们能在某个时候实施这些措施。

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Thank you very much for your comment. I feel you. Though I have to say the last release is a potent one. But back to topic. I would love to provide more blender tuts. Any suggestions what you'd like to see there? Cycles shading? Blender Octane?

@@SilverwingVFX may be but I think we should just be more taking a stand. The users shape the software, it seems Maxon has forgotten this. Cycles actually! Only if we move to free tools, companies are forced to overthink all this subscription dictate and airy-fairy company behavior.