r/Cinema4D

Hey everyone, maybe you can help me out with a problem.

I’m trying to simulate a „Zen garden effect“, but instead of sand or small pebbles, I want to use tiny cylinder objects to represent plastic granules. You’ve probably seen those videos where someone rakes through sand and leaves those cool patterns, I’d love to replicate that effect. The cherry on top would be having two layers of granules, so when the grooves are formed, you can see a second color hidden in the deeper layer.

I’ve already tried several approaches: with X-Particles, with the native Cinema 4D particle system (2026.1.2), and a simple Cloner spawning a massive amount of cylinders.

The Cloner has worked best so far, but the scene hits its limits very quickly; I’m getting constant errors during simulation and my PC keeps freezing up when I use too many objects. Good thing with the cloner approach is, that the cylinders are mostly laying still after spawning and don‘t move around (which is exactly what i need).

How would you guys generally approach this effect? I’m pretty stuck and feel like I’m either missing something or just don't have the technical depth yet.

I cannot find this plugin to purchase…

I think its ability to do spline patches is how I’d like to model some ship hull (like) objects.

Or is there an alternative?

Or do later versions (than my R21) have these kind of spine tools already included now? (examples please).

Thanks :-)

Has this ever happened to you?

Most 3d Gen Ai model tools use the Objaverse data these basically comes from a ton of Sketchfab like websites. This is where the water gets murky. These 3D artists who uploaded their work to Sketchfab for instance were never informed that their data was collected to make profits from which isn't allowed under their licensing agreement but still they went ahead.

Objaverse XL contains more than 10.2 million 3d objects around 17.5 TB of data.

Sketchfab is just one of those main pillars here, most gen ai websites don't open up about how they get their models or training data and how legal it all is.

Just to take Sketchfab as an example here they were most web scrapped without them knowing it or allowing it and Objaverse just ran with it. They targeted models that artists had uploaded under the Creative Common Licenses (CC) which doesn't mean Take my stuff to train a multi billion dollar commercial entity.

Later in 2023 Sketchfab introduced a NoAi tag but even then there have been many samples still taken.

More of us need to be aware how these systems actually function.
The more you dig into it the more you understand that its foundations are based millions of taken 3D work of others without them ever seeing a penny for all those subscriptions.

No current ongoing lawsuits are taking place (other then Austin Beaulier) on these topics, Sketchfab or Objaverse I believe that to be the case simply because we are still heavily under the illusion that these Gen Ai Websites magically figure out a 3d model by itself without constantly referencing the output of the peoples work.

They never signed up for that, and never see a penny, they unwillingly contributed to their profitable tech to then sell it back to us as the next best thing.

Allenai.or / Objaverse is simply a massive data laundering pipeline for Big Tech.
[They call themself a non profit]

Hello,

I am looking to try out Cinema4D for the first time, and coming from Blender this is quite a jump in price and I would like to try out their 2 week trial before I commit to a license.

My only problem is that I seem to not be able to create an account. I go through all the steps to complete it, get to the page where they say they'll send me a confirmation email and then that confirmation email ends up never coming. I tried for the first time two weeks ago, and today again but the issue still persists (yes I have checked my junk mail). I have tried to contact their support team but in order to log a ticket I need to have an account, which I can't confirm.

Is there any other way I can contact them or any other method anyone can suggest I can try to complete my account registration?

I’m having a frustrating issue with Cinema 4D version 2026.2.0.
Until the latest update, when I render to the Picture Viewer and a file with the same name already exists, C4D asks if I want to overwrite it.

Now, it has started to automatically add a "2" to the filename instead of prompting me to overwrite.

Here’s what I’ve checked so far:

• Preferences > Renderer: The "Auto Renaming" checkbox is UNCHECKED.
• Render Settings: I’m not using any version tokens ($ver) in the file path.
• Engines: It happens across all render engines I use (Standard, Redshift, Octane).

Even with "Auto Renaming" off, it keeps duplicating files rather than overwriting the existing one.

Has anyone else encountered this in the 2026 version? Thanks