How to freeze time with Realflow meshes in C4D

This is a quicktip tutorial to demonstrate how to stop a Realflow mesh to make it look like time has frozen.

1. First import your Realflow mesh using the Realflow mesh importer which is a part of the C4d Realflow plugin.



2. In order to freeze time we want to add 2 key frames to the "Lock current frame" selector, which is under the setup tab in the mesh importer. The first key frame should have the check mark deselected and the second key frame should have it selected.

Thats it for stopping time. Now if you want to restart time just reverse the key frames. If you play your timeline now you will notice that when it starts up again it will skip some frames. This is because the mesh importer has mapped each frame of the mesh to correspond with the timeline in C4d.

In order to get around this we need to adjust the offset value. To easily calculate what number we should put in the offset box take the frame number of the first key frame and subtract that from the frame number of the second key frame.

In the video above the first key frame to stop time was set at 118 and the second keyframe was set at 176 giving me an offset value of 58.

I hope you enjoyed reading this quick tutorial and I hope I can make many more!

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