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Hi

Thanks for posting this solution!

Additionally, there is a patch 1.0.1 for RFMaya which may help to fix some problems.

I just noticed, that the waterline.tv seems to be gone.

And I haven't seen Tsn since April here...hope he is doing well and is busy simulating particles

Hi

I don't have the Maya plugin, but I would say if you have already excluded the obvious reasons for this problem (path settings, valid cache files, file access), it is a bug and the only way to fix it is to report at Nextlimit and maybe they will provide a fix soon.

Hi

this used to be relatively easy using the melt material/shader for MentalRay. Now, I could tell you only for Cinema4D, but I don't think there is a direct solution using the RF connection plugin for 3dsmax or Maya now: https://forum.realflow.com/viewtopic.php?t=3011

Hey, thanks for posting this workflow! That is the spirit of community forums.

Could this method be useful for your purpose? Not sure if it applies to RFC4D though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gea4Q1WHzSg

Yes, this is a problem. You find other posts here on the forum about merging abc-files with the standalone version of RF, but that is not an option for RFC4D-users. I have never tried this type of export to AfterEffects and I don't know if the are other options of baking the animation and exporting ...

Hi Adam, that is great news that you have found the culprit for the crashes! That might be a useful information for other people using Hybrido. Maybe send a bug report to Nextlimit? The newer method VDB-mesh is definitely faster. I assume that vorticity has to be activated in the particle channel in...

Hi

I can confirm that the scene indeed crashes at the mesh-making step. I have tried to remove the filter settings of the mesh, but it still crashes. Maybe, a different type of mesh has to be used?

Maybe try the older non-VDB hybridoMesh. It is slower, but does not crash so easy here.

Hi that may not be possible directly inside cinema. I see the problem here, that each mesh or particle file that is shown in the viewport is actually a new one for each step in the timeline. So, if you try to export, Cinema (and Riptide) might see only one file. What works here is caching the RFC4D ...