From the course: TurbulenceFD for Cinema 4D Essential Training

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TurbulenceFD (TFD) preferences

TurbulenceFD (TFD) preferences

Before we get started, let's get a couple of things in place that'll make life easier throughout this course. If we come up to the Edit menu, down to Preferences. Down at the bottom here we'll see TurbulenceFD. Just click that and the first thing we want to change is the Default Cache Base Path. This is where all the files get written out when we simulate our fire and smoke effects. I'd just like to put these in a folder that's a little bit easier to access than the one that's selected by default that one will work absolutely fine but I usually put this on a different disk. Usually, it's a disk that's faster like an SSD drive or something like that. So, let's just do that. Just gonna click this icon here and twirl down Computer. I'm just gonna select my F drive which happens to be an SSD drive. I've made a folder called Cache so I'm just gonna select that and choose OK that way everything's nice and organized. The next two settings are fine as default. We don't need to touch them. You…

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