planetfour 0 Report post Posted April 10, 2009 Chris, You are undermining everything I liked about Maya and supporting everything I hate...C4D is now a must-have. ...oh, and Nick is partially responsible as well. I wholeheartedly relate to this post. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C.Smith 0 Report post Posted April 10, 2009 Chris, You are undermining everything I liked about Maya and supporting everything I hate...C4D is now a must-have. ...oh, and Nick is partially responsible as well. -gl I didn't leave Maya after 4 years for nothing Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
knettwerk 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2009 Thank you!!!!!!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nick Campbell 0 Report post Posted April 17, 2009 New CSTool Tutorial is up: Area Lights and Ambient Lights - Complete with a downloadable scene file. Enjoy! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C.Smith 0 Report post Posted April 17, 2009 New CSTool Tutorial is up: Area Lights and Ambient Lights - Complete with a downloadable scene file. Enjoy! Great stuff, Nick! I learn more about how to use my own tools from watching you Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C.Smith 0 Report post Posted April 30, 2009 UPDATE 4.30.09 Nick Cambell at GreySCaleGorilla added a handful of new CSTools tutorials: GreyScaleGorilla CSTools Tutorials Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
imcalledandy 0 Report post Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) Great tools by Chris, and thanks to Nick for doing this series of tutorials - really useful! Edited April 30, 2009 by imcalledandy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grapeseeker 0 Report post Posted May 2, 2009 Great tools by Chris, and thanks to Nick for doing this series of tutorials - really useful! How do we get the CS Tools to show up in C4D V.11? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C.Smith 0 Report post Posted May 2, 2009 How do we get the CS Tools to show up in C4D V.11? Just load them into the scene like any other file. Like if you double click on one it will load into C4D. However, You'll probably want to merge them since they are usually added to a scene as a tool. If you're talking about the object menu, that's been discontinued by Maxon in r11 so don't bother with it. You can use the content browser or the best replacement for the object menu is OLX, a free plugin at biomekk. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C.Smith 0 Report post Posted May 30, 2009 (edited) UPDATE 5.30.09 MoCam changes, new: CS_Particles, CS_IsoCam, CS_LoopNull MoCam now uses frames instead of seconds (thanks to Albert Omoss for making the changes to keep Monkey from nagging anymore . Mocam's 1st waypoint now also has a "Lock to" switch. Except the 1st waypoint locks to whatever is the active cam in the scene. So if you already have a normal camera in the right spot and add mocam, you don't have to figure out how to get it in the same spot. All you have to do is go to waypoint 1 and engage the checkbox, then immediately uncheck it. That will pop it to where the active cam is. PROPS: Huge thanks to Stoiqa for this idea. - CS_Particles. It's the same as CS_Spriticles. Except made for up to 4 objects. Also added is an orientation drop box to set the object orientation options since it's not just sprites looking at camera. There is an example folder with two examples of it in use. - CS_LoopNull It allows you to set how many cycles the loop has before stopping. Then like CS_Movenull you crank up the channels you want , except each channel has a normalized curve. The point of this tool is to do small interesting detailed motions that you want to loop a certain amount of time. - CS_Isocam. Monkey and I came together on this track for a isometric camera he needed. It's Easycam2 modified so that it will morph between an isometric view (almost) and to normal perspective. Monkey added the nice feature of dragging around where it points with a null. Thread on it here with a Monkey example. Edited May 30, 2009 by C.Smith Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C.Smith 0 Report post Posted June 1, 2009 sorry. mondy bump. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leahzero 0 Report post Posted June 1, 2009 Isocam FTW. Can't wait to find a use for this. I find I use something from CS_Tools in more than half of my projects now. If Mocam supported DoF out-of-the-box as we talked about, my world would be complete. (Haven't had a chance to dig into the Xpresso yet.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stoiqa 0 Report post Posted June 1, 2009 it does support dof, you just have to activate the camera settings(mocam), and work around the render settings Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pixel_pimp 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2009 Awesome Tools, thank you foe the update! Questions: Using the CS_Fog; how would I add more turbulence, wispiness and noise? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C.Smith 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2009 Awesome Tools, thank you foe the update! Questions: Using the CS_Fog; how would I add more turbulence, wispiness and noise? Hmm. Actually not sure. I'm not really a material expert. I tried putting a noise in the alpha but it seems quite crude . I get the feeling volumetric lights are really used for that whispy smoke thing because whispiness is more on the scale of lights. Where as fog is meant for atmospheric haze on a large scale. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C.Smith 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2009 If any one happens to be interested , I'm posting a test movie of a new tool "BuildOn". It takes a complex model and scales and rotates every part to assemble it with springy effects. Here it is used on a low poly turbo squid model: MOVIE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
directrix 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2009 If any one happens to be interested , I'm posting a test movie of a new tool "BuildOn". It takes a complex model and scales and rotates every part to assemble it with springy effects. Here it is used on a low poly turbo squid model: MOVIE whoa! very nice! :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
carbaldi 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2009 If any one happens to be interested , I'm posting a test movie of a new tool "BuildOn". It takes a complex model and scales and rotates every part to assemble it with springy effects. Here it is used on a low poly turbo squid model: MOVIE Sweet stuff!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leahzero 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2009 If any one happens to be interested , I'm posting a test movie of a new tool "BuildOn". It takes a complex model and scales and rotates every part to assemble it with springy effects. Here it is used on a low poly turbo squid model: MOVIE Are you making the C4D Transformers plugin everyone's been lusting for? This looks fantastic. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sao_Bento Report post Posted June 5, 2009 Are you making the C4D Transformers plugin everyone's been lusting for? This looks fantastic. oooh! ooooh! - I want the dancing Citroen plug-in! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
imcalledandy 0 Report post Posted June 6, 2009 looks cool - looking forwards to this!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
munkart 0 Report post Posted June 10, 2009 These tools just get better by the second... Thanks so much for supplying them to the C4D community for free. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
imcalledandy 0 Report post Posted June 10, 2009 Cheers for the update, Chris - really looking forward to doing something with IsoCam - the Monkey's example was sooo good! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C.Smith 0 Report post Posted June 10, 2009 (edited) These tools just get better by the second... Thanks so much for supplying them to the C4D community for free. You're welcome edit: wrong you're Edited June 10, 2009 by C.Smith Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gr8effect 0 Report post Posted June 11, 2009 Please I need CS Tools for C4D ver.9.5 (or 9.6). If anyone has any info or links bring them on! I would really love to get them. You could also mail the zip file to me (please no spam don't need viagras -not yet-) at: anim8or AT ath DOT forthnet DOT gr OR gr8effect AT hotmail DOT com BTW Special thanks to mr C.Smith for creating these amazing tools! Thank you! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
