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Cannot get X-Particles and C4DR17 to work together.

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 8:01 pm
by cannon126
I have the latest versions of both plugins, but since the release of R17, I cannot do or see anything with Xparticles in Octane. Any piece of advice here? Even scenes that work just fine in R16 do not show anything in R17. Thanks, your help is appreciated!

Re: Cannot get X-Particles and C4DR17 to work together.

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 8:09 pm
by aoktar
I remember this question from somewhere. Can i advice to check the topics which contains xparticles title in this forum?

Re: Cannot get X-Particles and C4DR17 to work together.

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 8:14 pm
by cannon126
Thanks, but I already did that. Nobody seems to have posted this problem. There are people who didn't have object tags and things like that. I do notice that I'm running version 2.32.2 in R16 and then in the latest version in R17 there is no place to check "enable particle engine" in the options in live viewer. Any other thoughts?

Re: Cannot get X-Particles and C4DR17 to work together.

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 8:19 pm
by aoktar
Give up 2.23, please go with latest 2.25-R3. It's under Cinema4d->Releases
viewtopic.php?f=85&t=52422

I removed this option and the usage replaced by object tag->particles. Please locate sample scene in next links..

viewtopic.php?f=30&t=52708
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=52557
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=52139&start=10

Re: Cannot get X-Particles and C4DR17 to work together.

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 8:24 pm
by cannon126
Thanks, got it working a second ago. I didn't realize I needed to check the appropriate boxes within the object tags. Hope this works as well as before. Thanks for the help!

Re: Cannot get X-Particles and C4DR17 to work together.

Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 7:38 am
by JonathanWinbush
I'm using R17 and have the trial version of x-partles 3.5 and was also testing this out I updated to octane 2.25 R3 but I can't get my particles to display either.
Funny thing is when I use the regular emitter that comes with cinema I can get the particles to display with the object tag but not with x-particles.
Is this because I have the trial version?

Re: Cannot get X-Particles and C4DR17 to work together.

Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 5:40 pm
by JonathanWinbush
Can anyone post a simple scene I can try out maybe i'm missing a step somewhere but I've followed everything I've seen in these forums

Re: Cannot get X-Particles and C4DR17 to work together.

Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 10:18 pm
by feinschmecker
JonathanWinbush wrote:Can anyone post a simple scene I can try out maybe i'm missing a step somewhere but I've followed everything I've seen in these forums
You need to add the Octane Object tag to the emitter object itself - not the entire system. When it's on the emitter, you will see an extra particle particle tab.

/feinschmecker

Re: Cannot get X-Particles and C4DR17 to work together.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 1:35 am
by chrisfranklin6002
Same issue - guessing its the demo version...

Re: Cannot get X-Particles and C4DR17 to work together.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 8:06 am
by aoktar
chrisfranklin6002 wrote:Same issue - guessing its the demo version...
XP api is not available on demo versions. So direct access is not possible for particle data.