Tip - 232: Blur a vertex map in Cinema 4D

[@eyedesyn]

Wish there was just a blur option in the vertex map or field vs this relatively laborious workflow! Maybe R21?? :)

[@mrlin8604]

Yes, it's heavy and didn't work if you want to bake as alembic!!!

[@amasun13]

They didnot do this

[@FlavioDiniz]

maybe in R30 !

[@3D-Jay]

maybe in 2030!

[@kierangfinch5123]

Instead of a field, use a polygonal object (sphere etc), set to surface mode then increase the radius which softens the fall off :)

[@ArgoBeats]

Nice, thank you Jonas!

[@simontrickfilmer]

is there a new solution in R2023?

[@XLCG]

Thank you so much

[@ishaqanimator]

Thank you jonas very useful tip

[@christophott]

Thanks! Is there a way to get those vertex maps baked? Those grow animations causing trouble when rendering on a farm.

[@lucagenovese7207]

Thank you so much for this!

[@matzdziebko555]

Quite useful but could be far more. It doesn't work with volume mesher because you can't have multiple Vertex Map tags on those objects. Please Maxon, be consistent with your solutions.

[@jackbrown2690]

Thanks for this. It's given me a good start. Have you any idea why C4D would keep switching between the new smoothed map and the old aliased map despite me having deleted the old map from my scene?

[@ticktockdoc]

Ingenious

[@az_ninja8682]

Thanks!

[@ospyder]

Nice... Thanks!

[@BakerTeam]

Omg, thanks

[@michaelaforeman3393]

ive got the opposite, my vertex map is too blurry and i cant sharpen it up! Any tips on how to do that? Im using a LOD 0 object and the high poly object is too intense for my computer, i.e. im not sure if its a subdivision issue

[@DanielLuzster]

maybe adding additional polys to your object will help?

[@shstplv]

nice

[@Perry-wy2fc]

Interesting but average didn't work on my side. It didn't blur anything ....

[@문어그리고초고추장]

good

[@bush9686]

yes)

[@BarryTGash]

A nifty trick for simple objects but trying this on anything more complex is totally unusable. As others have said, there needs to be a way to bake this or at least prepare the vertex map in advance.

[@sergey041963]

дайте проект чтобы разобраться

[@tabstabs90]

в чем проблема повторить, ведь все показано?

[@StudioXtutorials]

looks awesome, if you're ever looking to learn some more C4D, I have a ton of tutorials over on my channel

[@dmellis]

Thanks. That looks like a great channel with some good After Effects tutorials too.

[@ligmaackerman4554]

everything is easy at c4d for you but we.... not.