Hey Kieran,

You’re absolutely right — coming from Blender, it can be a bit of a surprise that Cinema 4D doesn’t have native fluid simulation tools built-in (yet). Currently, fluid and ocean simulations in C4D do require third-party plugins like X-Particles, RealFlow, Liquigen, or importing simulations from Blender like you’re doing now.

That said,…

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Hey Mats,

I have a video showing how to export your Cinema 4D shortcut keys here:
👉 https://cgshortcuts.com/export-your-cinema-4d-shortcuts-keys/

You could also make a copy of your c4d preferences folder – inside Library/Layouts you can also find any custom interface layouts you may have created.

Most of the settings I use over and over again are…

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Yeah it’s a bit more complicated than it might seem. The easiest way would be to use a spline wrap but that will distort the text a bit which you probably don’t want.

Hey mate, just sent an email over with an update to your project file

Hi Jurgen, I’m off for Easter till Tuesday, but I’ll have a look and get back to you then, sounds like you need a guide spline and need to set the spline points to uniform so its even and the speed will remain constant as your object travels along the speed – you could take a look at the box rolling tutorial where I discuss something similar

If things are reversed, you can flip your texture or reverse the spline

Spline wrap is perfect for this kind of thing but your text needing to flip adds some complication. You could just flip the letters within the texture itself as an animated image sequence so as it goes into place the letters are subtly rotated

Hey all,

Love seeing everyone’s input on this—great perspectives all around!

Like I mentioned earlier, all three (Redshift, Octane, Arnold) are solid options and work in very similar ways, so switching between them isn’t too tough if the need ever comes up.

Personally, I made the switch to Redshift mainly because:

• It’s fast (on par with…

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No worries, did you get it working?