After four years I picked up the project used to generate smoke with a setup of Thinking Particles, Volumes and Prorender. old post here
By keeping only the TP setup and replacing the rest with Pyro and the Redshift render engine I obtained the following result. I would say that the step forward is more than evident, there is a beastly gap. Pyro is powerful, versatile and at the same time simple to use, which is absolutely not trivial.
As the tilte say, now you can download the preset and tutorial in pdf version, in english and italian.
You can find the files HERE or in the tutorial article.
And this is an example video created with my preset.
A couple of days ago I came across this video of Maxon Training Team (channel that I recommend you follow):
This tutorial shows techniques for rolling a cube along a path using XPresso and the new Nodes system. The result is good and in certain situations it can be fine, but it is not precise, it is an approximation. I tried to look if there was a mathematical solution to the problem but in my short search I found only these other methods of solving the problem:
This is another fast and effective approach that leverages the internal physics of C4D.
Here, on the other hand, a solution is offered to obtain a mathematically precise rolling, but it would probably be difficult, to deny me if I am wrong, to adapt it to make the cube follow a path other than the straight line.
So I thought I’d solve the problem mathematically so that the cube can follow a path along a spline. But first I want to show you a short example video where I used my own preset.
After a few months without a free time for Cinema 4D, today I wanted to give me a gift with this simple render.
This is the Realmagazine preset for Cinema 4D used in my first 3D tracking test.
Rendered using Redshift.
Thanks to Maarten Vissen for this useful video.
Gianni Lorusso 