• Maxon Cinema 4D

  making spheres align with 2 mograph effectors

  Posted by Benjamin Budzak on June 24, 2009 at 4:09 pm

  hey quick question,
  I am trying to create the effect of a array of spheres forming into text from left to right…my steps so far:

  1) I created a sphere and a plane
  2) set up a cloner and mapped my spheres to the plane
  3) created a shader effector and a black and white map to map where the spheres appear…
  4) added a random effector, changed falloff to box, and animated the box moving left to right (revealing my shader effected clones)
  5) turned on scene motion blur and rendered

  The problem I’m having is when the random effector moves, the spheres don’t move into position, they simply jump from where they were to their position set by the shader…

  Any idea how to get the spheres to move into position and not just pop into position? Thanks 🙂

  Benjamin Budzak replied 16 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  June 24, 2009 at 4:24 pm

  Sounds like you’d be better off using linear falloff for the random effector. Then adjust the size of the falloff to suit. You may also have to change the order of your effectors in the cloner’s effectors list.
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  Benjamin Budzak

  June 24, 2009 at 6:01 pm

  got it looking perfect! here’s what I did:

  1) turned the falloff from box to linear…
  2) played with the position, learning the further it is in negative z space, the more spread out the clones become…
  3) also discovered that if you rotate the random effector on y axis and then move in z space, it will add the clones in from left to right (or right to left depending on how the effector is turned)…

  thanks so much for your help again 🙂

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