• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Arrows around Splines

  Posted by Glenn Takakjian on January 29, 2007 at 7:53 pm

  Yesterday I was able (very easily in fact) to get a whole bunch of arrows to follow a spline and bend along it. I used Mograph Cloner with Spline Effector and an object with Spline Wrap. Unfortunately I was just experimenting and playing and didn’t save the file.

  Today I am trying and can’t get it to work at all. I’ve got a Spline Wrap inside my arrow. Using the offset it works beautifully. Now I want a whole bunch of arrows to do this. I drop my Arrow (with the child Spline Wrap) into a cloner with a Spline Effector on it and every thing goes haywire. The arrows are flying in all different directions… not along the spline.

  I have been trying all the permutions of different settings in both the Spline Wrap Parameter and the Spline Effector and can’t get it to work.

  Banging my head against the wall isn’t helping either!

  Any thoughts?

  TAK

  Tom Slattery replied 19 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mylenium

  January 30, 2007 at 8:07 am

  You can’t have both. Either use the Spline Wrap or the effector. If you use the Spline Wrap, the cloner should be a simple linear cloner.

  Mylenium

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  Glenn Takakjian

  January 30, 2007 at 6:09 pm

  I kind of figured it out. But thanks for help. It made me crazy for a while.
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  Tom Slattery

  May 16, 2007 at 3:57 am

  I am trying to accomplish the same. I am able to make the shape wrap around the spline, I just can’t seem to duplicate the shapes along the spline via Cloner.

  My tree is as follows:

  Linear Cloner
  Cube Primative
  Spline Wrap
  Helix

  I have a feeling I missed something simple!

  Thanks!
  ~TPS

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