Marvelous Designer 7, Cinema 4D - How To Transfer Selection Sets To An Animated Garment
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- We will use Cinema 4D's Timeline feature to bake our alembic animation to PLA so that we can transfer the selection sets from the obj over to our animation. Its very easy to do. ENJOY! Please ensure you are at least using Cinema 4D R18 or later, i encountered errors with earlier versions (R16) when using the timeline feature in Cinema 4D.
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THE EASIEST METHOD AS MENTIONED BELOW BY MITCHELL AND IT WORKS REALLY WELL! "Just make the alembic editable by tapping C. Then you can copy over the selection sets."
Thank you siMM V. for mentioning these techniques. If you watched this tutorial th-cam.com/video/tB6Iki3Sn3I/w-d-xo.html you no longer need Riptide, use Cinema 4D's tools to do this directly. Please ensure you are at least using Cinema 4D R18 or later, i encountered errors with earlier versions (R16) when using the timeline feature in Cinema 4D.
Guys! thank you both for this extra easy-going flow! Much LOVE!!
Very kind of you of giving me credits ;) I´m glad I could help!
Its only my pleasure, this helped me a lot!
it helped thanks alot
Guys! thank you both for this extra easy-going flow! Much LOVE!!
This video has just solved something that has been driving me mad for days!! You are a star
Very happy to know that, thank you.
Crazy tutorial, directly solved my problem, thank you!😀
dude. literally. just in time. amazing.
AWESOME, really great to know, this makes the process of selection sets on animated garments really easy.
Had my hopes up so high after watching this, thank you.. BUT - weirdly, when I move the selection tags over to the Alembic copy, the selections now point to totally different polys?! For example, a tag that was on a zip, once moved to the alembic copy, ended up on a pocket edge...
UPDATE! It was me, human error.. I exported the OBJ as thin, and the Alembic as thick! Leaving this here in case it helps anyone else. Thank you again!
Legend - you saved me too
You just saved me as well
Thanks mate
Even easier: Just make the alembic editable by tapping C. Then you can copy over the selection sets.
Awesome, didn't know about this, thank you for the tip!
@@TravisDavids great stuff! Any idea how to import this with the animation into Unreal Engine 4? If I try to just import an FBX into Unreal the only movement I have from the animation is the avatar of my character... any help would be much appreciated. Cheers
Nice
Thank you again! You are a lifesaver with these tutorials, it's so hard to find info on these common things when using C4D and MD. For some reason, I can't get this to work in C4D. The selections never transfer over, also when I bake the animation to PLA it generates a Locked UV instead of the Alembic Morph tag. Maybe I'm working on a different version or something. Just whenever I bake the animation and try to transfer the selections, the selections are lost.
OK wow, I finally got it working after two days of going absolutely insane trying to figure this out. Same issue as someone else below: make sure you export both the Alembic file AND the OBJ in the same thickness with the same unified UV option ticked. This tutorial is incredible, keep it up
@@papapetebreen Which version are you using?
I'm on R23 and the polygroups are not totally messy but they are not correct. Also, I cannot drag the alembic to timeline to bake the PLA, I can only "current state to object".
You export it has thin or thick? Actually, have you tried both? It works?
*Restarted C4D, and now I can drag the alembic to the timeline to bake it with PLA active but still doesnt work.
can i do the same thing with blender? hope u answer
I have Marvelous Designer 8 but it dosenot have alembic option in both export and import
This is fantastic - thanks so much.
Alternatively you can make alembic editable then add a point cache tag calculation, this avoids having keyframes everywhere. this might help with older versions of c4d. but havent tested it out yet.
Has anyone gotten HDF5 to actually work in C4D. I'm on R23 and S24 and I can only get the OGAWA format to open.
a hero without a cape
Lol, thank you, i try my best to help.
next video: "How to make simple cape in Marvelous Designer"
love your work!
thank you so much
Thank you for solving my Alembic problem
My pleasure!
what if I want my cloth to be moved by C4D wind?
thank youuuu!!!!
I'm using MD v9.5 and Cinema 4D R23.
I export the garment has a HDF5 alembic as well as OBJ (or fbx) with unified UV's and I get some polygroups correct (like the buttons) but topstiches and the rest of garments come mixed (ex back part of pants with the shirt).
Which versions are you using Travis?
Is it possible to 'bake' textures into marvellous designer garments???
My textures are specific to each pattern piece they don't repeat or tile. When I follow the process in this video I can't then open it in cinema 4d without it needing to be manually remapped
excuse me im new to this but can you apply the clothing to any model or how about genesis 8 character?
is there a way to use multiple separated alembics for each texture ? maybe it would free the memory as C4d streams alembics from hard disks and not in memory (as far as I know)
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Thank you so much!!!
Please tell me why the alembic file from Marvelous to Cinema is not loading. I put all the same settings, only I still have "Instances: Render Instances"
the the other allembic format Okagawa I think is the name
Am trying to export with alembic but i don't seem to have the option here (am using Marvelous Designer 7)
Are you on mac ?
Yes am on a mac
.abc is not supported on mac. :( i had troubles with it too. I just switched to using .mdd Method instead
Thanks a lot for the response dude
nah all g mate
saved my life, thank you
hey Travis, how can i have the selection sets of the avatar also ?
If you're using a Daz character as well they automatically have selection sets for different parts of the body like face, torso, legs, arms etc. Just reimport the obj or fbx version of the Daz character and you're good to go. Don't export the avatar from MD.
@@TravisDavids thank you, i did the fbx version so i can have the animation also, it worked but i had some problem with the cloth selection. going to find out
also thanks for the tutorials!!
Just a quick question, why my PLA bugs? It slows down the entire scene
is there a way to sculpt/get details into md animated garments?
Yes its possible, I've done the whole process and even used Substance Painter for texturing. You just need a normal map with all of the high res sculpted detail. I'll have to put a full video together.
thank you travis, really struggling with that at the moment.
fantastic !!! Thank you so much !!!!
Hi Travis, thank you and great work. This method works in the latest version 8_4.2.295 C4D R20? its not working for me. And how do you export buttons?
they go crazy and they tremble.
Hey Travis, Thank you for you awesome tutorials! got a question, is there any way to use dynamic objects in MD for interacting with cloth? like a trash bag full of objects(like spheres) fall on the ground. i tried to do it in C4D with Combination of soft bodies and rigid bodies but softbodies are so limited in C4D for simulating cloth, and i dont see any good alternative ways
BUG import c4d
exported alemebic from marvelous designer 9 cant be importetd to c4d: was running into importing problems via c4d. turns out if you export ogawa from marvelous - you can import it to blender, export it again to c4d and continue with travis workflow.
thanks alot
My alembic didnt import the clothing movement, help please?
Highly helpful tutorial! Just a question from a beginner:
When I open the render view (I am using Redshift) my clothes are super pixelated. I have tried different render settings and higher the samples of my materials, but nothing works. As I am new to C4D and redshift, I feel like this might be a simple setting that I am missing! Any help would be appreciated :)
Just put the cloth a redshift object tag and activate the geometry and tessellation override
When I move the Selection Tag to the alembic the polygons are selected very different. Does anybody knows what is wrong?
u used bottoms for cloth and that make this issue and i dont know how to fix it
Hi Travis, what's the purpose of baking the PLA? If you just copy the tags from the OBJ it works for me too and I have not encountered any issues so far. Thanks for the tuts!
I think you can skip the baking to PLA since Cinema 4D R19... Are you using R19? If not, you still need to bake the alembic to PLA... I tried this method with R18
that's great and i love it. Can you please tell me how to export CLO3D(or MD) character with animation....? I want to do the rendering in other program such as Cinema4d. i'll try lot of different techniques but nothing will work. please help
if you imported your character (with animation already) into MD, then open that same file in Cinema. you then need to export an allembic file (of the garment only) from MD and merge it into the Cinema file. let me know if this works.
the problem is, I need to use motion files (*.mtn) of CLO3D(MD) and avatar to do the external rendering for catwalk show.
ok new problem! Using a patterned material for a jacket, and having to use cubic projection, as UVW is seriously messed up ( mesh issue? UV from MD issue? ). So the cubic projection looks fine static, but as soon as I render out the animation, the material pattern starts to slide, as if its using camera projection! Tried everything I can think of, can anyone help me?! Its for a job so urgent.. Thanks!
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does anyone know if this is possible using mac? mac doesn't support alembic
Unfortunately since I don't use Mac I don't know how to answer this question.
you never show how you import clothing into MD...
thnx a lot man.but this really sucks.i mean the export should just ahve everything.they need to fix this stupididy.but thnx one more time.i will go your way.dont have a choice tho
Polygon Tag in Cinema 4d is not working on my goment.Its wierd because it transfers the knitting pattern but not the logo on my animation.Can someone help me please?
If you have a logo in the garment on Marvelous Designer that's a UV problem. Do the same thing, export the alembic and the obj to get the poly selection groups. When you do this, the UV's are exported with the obj. If the UV's look weird, go to the UV editor in Marvelous, is quite easy to use.
There is also a work-around, you can place your logo has a decal, I donno which render engine you are using but you will find a lot of solutions here in YT,