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(Replay) Rocket Lasso Live S4 Ep 13: What's New in 26.1 / Glitter in Resin

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00:00:00 Greetings! Today there was an update to S26 to 26.1. It comes bundled with a surprising number of features!


Recapping new features in 26.1

00:02:35 Volume Builder changes / Simulation changes / Clothing


00:22:53 Deflating Cloth


00:34:37 Curvature Fie...

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(Replay) Rocket Lasso Live S4 Ep 12: Super Controllable Text Transitions and Morphing

Scene Files for this episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/69400574


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00:00:00 Greetings! Also new tutorial: Clone Complex Fields Easily https://youtu.be/REmJ3WmwFrs


Super Controllable Text Transitions and Morphing (Good one!)

00:00:18 A really fun one with lots of potent...

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(Scene Files) Rocket Lasso Live S4 Ep 11: Dynamic Winch / Capsules Modeling

Replay: https://www.patreon.com/posts/69392577 

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(Replay) Rocket Lasso Live S4 Ep 11: Dynamic Winch / Capsules Modeling

Scene Files for this episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/69392579


Support Rocket Lasso with your Prime Account!

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(Replay) Rocket Lasso Live S4 Ep 10: Custom Firework / Paint Drip Explorations / Coral Growth

Scene Files for this episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/69392404


FYI! If you have an Amazon Prime account you have a free Twitch subscription to give. It's a little way to support Rocket Lasso without costing you anything.

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/rocketlasso

Use Prime to sub on Twitch: 2022-07-21 17:53:04 +0000 UTC View Post

What Else is New in S26.1 of Cinema 4D?

Breakdown of all the new features inside Cinema 4D S26.1! 

S26.1 Live Stream today at 2PM CST: https://youtu.be/wkm-suj0_z8


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00:00:00- Intro

00:00:36 - Simulation improvements. Collider Tag can see the front or back side of polygons!

00:03:33 - Improved Cloth for clothing

00:10:31 - Attribute groups collapsing fixed

00:11:44 - Improved Animation Mode

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(Upcoming) S26.1! Rocket Lasso Live Ep 13 Season 4 (2PM CDT / 7PM UTC)

twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/rocketlasso

YouTube: https://youtu.be/wkm-suj0_z8 

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(Replay) Rocket Lasso Live S4 Ep 9: Redshift Fog / LASERS with Ricochet / Adding Wrinkles

Scene Files for this episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67314112


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Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/rocketlasso

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(Replay) Rocket Lasso Live S4 Ep 8: Dynamic Airplane / Capsules Based Selections and Modeling

Scene Files for this episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67313813


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Clone Complex Fields Easily: Cinema 4D Tutorial (Live Stream Highlight)

Another short tutorial packed with info. A question from the most recent episode of Rocket Lasso Live led to this useful little exploration. Normally Fields can not be cloned, but with this simple workaround, very complex Fields can be created using Splines!


Tutorial scene files here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66849928


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00:00:00 - You can NOT clone Fields. But....

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(Replay) Rocket Lasso Live S4 Ep 7: Cloning Fields / Painting Rice / Popcorn Popping

Scene Files for this episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66849928


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Support Rocket Lasso for free through your Amazon Prime

FYI! If you have an Amazon Prime account you automatically get a free monthly Twitch subscription to give away. It's a little way to support Rocket Lasso without costing you anything if you already have Amazon Prime. Thanks everybody!

How to Subscribe with Prime : https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/how-to-subscribe?language=en_US

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(Replay) Rocket Lasso Live S4 Ep 6: Pixelated Animations, Volume Builder Vectors, & Collision Avoidance

Scene Files for this episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66588517


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00:00:00 Greetings, Twitch changes for Rocket Lasso, changing up my streaming setup. FYI! If you have an Amazon Prime account you have a free Twitch subscription to give. It's a little way to support Rocket Lasso without costing you anything.  

Twitch: 2022-05-18 16:16:16 +0000 UTC View Post

(Early Access) Perfect Animated Spread. No Popping: Cinema 4D Tutorial

Using no dynamics create a perfect spread-out layout for your clones.  We'll trick the Push Apart Effector to behave smoother by combining it in just right way with other Effectors.


Scene file here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66354306

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(Replay)Rocket Lasso Live S4 Ep 5: Jellyfish with Cloth & Rope, Node Selections

Scene Files for this episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66062761 


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00:00:00 Greetings and news from Vegas


Using Nodes to Add Variation to Selections

00:00:53 I build the simplest possible version "tree" inside of Nodes. Works just fine. Then I use Nodes to create a random selection of leaves and make a Set Selecti...

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(Replay)Rocket Lasso Live S4 Ep 4: S26 with Rick Barrett

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00:00:00 Guest Rick Barrett talking new features inside of S26 

www.Maxon.net


00:07:48 A bunch of little interface improvements.


00:17:22 Redshift in the Viewport and the new Redshift Standard Material


00:28:35 Task Manager


00:36:28 New ZReMesher


00:42:36 Some new modeling tools in S26


00:57:46 Impor...

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(Replay) Rocket Lasso Live S4 Ep 3: Flowing Eyeballs, Slicer Colors, Vertex Map Plants

Scene Files for this episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66061170 


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00:00:00 Greetings and news from over the break!


Flowing Eyeballs Over a Surface

00:06:09 Using Ricochet I create a series of flow splines along the surface of a model. Then combining with a suite of Mograph tools we get a pile of eyeballs continua...

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What's New Inside Cinema 4D S26!

S26 was just dropped! Check out this comprehensive video for all the improvements and new features. 

Also Rick Barrett be guest on Rocket Lasso live at 2PM CST 7PM UTC https://www.patreon.com/posts/65365564

New modeling tools!

ZRemesher inside of C4D!

New simulations with Connectors!

Task Manager! 

&More!

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(Upcoming) Special Rocket Lasso Live Ep 4 Season 4 with Rick Barrett (2PM CDT / 7PM UTC)

YouTube: https://youtu.be/KDBFEijKQcQ 

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/rocketlasso

Come hang out with the chat and ask your burning Cinema 4D question with Rick and I!


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(Replay) Rocket Lasso Live S4 Ep 2: Filling a Shape with Softbodies / Easy Melting Strings with Ricochet


Scene Files for this episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64903548 

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00:00:00 Greetings and news from over the break!

Upcoming NAB presentation

Volume Builder Text with Spline Dynamics

00:03:40 Some Volume Builder tricks to take bites out of some text. Then a few attempts to get some cloned splines to wrap arou...

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(Replay) Rocket Lasso Live S4 Ep 1: Dynamic Pin Pression / Freezing Softbodies in Place

Scene Files for this episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64599294 

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00:00:00 Greetings and news from over the break!

New FREE FUI Grid and FUI Graph for all R25 subscriptions!

00:03:48 Bend deformer for a plant peeling up.

Reference: Smarter Every Day https://www.youtu...

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Rocket Lasso Live Returns March 30th for Season 4!

We're back baby! I get lots of questions about Cinema 4D from Twitter, Instagram, email, YouTube,  and Slack. I’d never be able to answer them all. However, that doesn’t  mean I don’t want to take a crack at them! Enter Rocket Lasso Live, a  two...

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Practical Uses for Cinema 4D Nodes. Live 3D Motion Show!

Join tomorrow (March 23rd) for Maxon's 3D Motion Show where I'll be tackling some of the new tools Rocket Lasso has been making for Maxon and then diving into some easy uses of node Capsules!

https://www.3dmotionshow.com/

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Grid Spline! A free R25 Rocket Lasso tool that's already in your Asset Browser.

All-new Grid Spline has shipped in the newest release of assets from  Maxon in C4D R25. Rocket Lasso has teamed up with Maxon for some  consulting all while creating some new Node-based tools.  

The Grid can be used exactly like any Spline inside of Cinema 4D. Fun to  use while opening up new opportunities for Spline fun. This video walks  through ways to use it, as well as some Redshift tricks.

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Cyclops. A Completed Rocket Lasso Slack Chain Project!

With the new James bond movie fresh in theaters, it was time for the Rocket Lasso community to tackle a title sequence of their own. Themed to a underwater setting with hints of a certain cartoon character, a great piece came to life. Tobias Larsson (tacoindian) composed a fitting track, and Paul van Sommeren did compositing and color correction to make it feel like a single piece.

These collaborative projects are hosted a couple of times per year, and are started from a brief with a bi...

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Launch of Gemstones + Bonus Materials (100% Off Coupon)

Welcome to the launch of the Rocket Lasso gemstone collection!

10 UV Unwrapped Gemstones:

  • Diamond Brilliant Ideal Cut
  • Heart Cut
  • Regent Cut
  • Trillant Cut
  • Pear Cut
  • Emerald Step Cut
  • Crushed Ice Cushion Cut
  • Radiant Cut
  • Eight Corner Cut

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(Replay) Rocket Lasso Live S3 Ep 34 Season Finale: Rigging Splines and Dynamics!

Scene Files for this episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57857795

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00:00:00 Greetings


(Really fun one!) Rigging Some Simple Splines with Joints to Drive Dynamics

00:02:55 Using some mocap data we'll rig up some splines with Joints. Now we can clone onto them! Splash of dynamics and we've unlocked a BUNCH of opportunities. In...

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(Replay) Rocket Lasso Live S3 Ep 33: Rigging Splines with Joints / Mography Spheres

Scene Files for this episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57856198


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00:00:00 Greetings


Very Basic Bend Deformer Setup

00:01:27 Bend deformer for a plant peeling up.

Reference: Smarter Every  Day https://www.youtube...

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(Replay) Rocket Lasso Live S3 Ep 32: Dynamic Fish, Noodle Arms, & Baking Materials

Scene Files for this episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/56811806


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00:00:00 Greetings


A little demo of something fun you can do with the RKT Ricochet plugin.

00:04:29 Using Ricochet we can easily project a series of points onto geometry and then link them all with a tracer.


00:07:34 New R25 Global Pins Asset, but I'm no...

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(Replay) Rocket Lasso Live S3 Ep 31: R25 with Guest Ricket Barret

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00:00:00 Greetings


00:00:33 Guest Rick Barret https://twitter.com/ricknroll


00:01:33 ZAKI (Creatiflux) https://creatiflux.gumroad.com/


00:02:34 What's new with Maxon One.

Cinema 4D Live A...

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