C4D R12 Thinking Particles

IXIMAGES · 12-12-2010

Was wondering if anyone could help. I installed C4D R12 from here. Everything went excellent except I don't have Thinking Particles. It says that I have the Studio version registered correctly and I even have the TP folder in my modules. Any advice would be appreciated.

muchograndes · 12-12-2010

its in the simulation menu now.

using thinking particles is real hell though. good luck

IXIMAGES · 12-13-2010

Oh damn! lol! Didnt see that change! Thank you so much!

jablalex · 01-28-2011

heya.. thinking particles dont show anything in the editor here. only the renderer shows them. i tried out the examples from the content manager.

any ideas??

cheers,
alex

edit: generally even the standard particles dont show up

muchograndes · 01-28-2011

check your "filter" settings at the top of the viewport.

jablalex · 01-28-2011

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oh yes, dumbass me i just found that, too

thanks

jwilwade · 07-30-2011

I have a question. Can Tutorials for THINKING PARTICLES for MAX be followed in C4d. Is it the same thinking particles. Also C4d changed everything with thinking particles.

mr rayne · 07-30-2011

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C4D uses its own scripting language called Xpresso - in principal, the answer is yes. You can replicate MAX thinking particle behavior in C4D using Xpresso - the "gotcha" being (of course) you have to know the appropriate (and requisite) Xpresso commands and how to hook 'em up.

This gets to be the tipping point regarding weather or not you will succeed in any such endevour.

So basically, yeah. You can do it but the method isn't an exact one-to-one translation. You have to wrap your noodle around the Xpresso stuff.

proVee · 07-30-2011

Keep in mind that TP in c4d is quite outdated, Cebas doesn't develop it anymore, the max plugin is like 9 years ahead now and has features it will be missing in c4d.

jwilwade · 07-31-2011

Another question to any C4d expert out there using thinking particles in C4d 12. How do you freeze to current state the particles once they are where you want them to be and then have them inter react with other objects? Example: Gas cloud or nebula then have an asteroid pass though them dispersing them and having them the particles come back into place as they were. Object passes through and the particles move in reaction then remember their previous position and return. This would be of great help to me to understand. I can do it easily in Maya.