• Maxon Cinema 4D

  animate an emboss?

  Posted by Adam Tracksler on February 10, 2010 at 7:44 pm

  I am making an animation of a piece of “paper” (right now a sweep nurbs rectangle along a spline path) plane that gets pressed in a gear (cogwheel spline that has extrude nurbs applied to it) and comes out on the other side embossed with the gear pattern in it.

  I’m not sure of I am explaining it right, but before the paper goes over the gear i want it flat, and after it goes over the gear, I want it embossed so that it has the “teethmarks” in it.

  Is there a way to do this?

  Thanks in advance, ad

  P.S. Have a Nice Day!

  Adam Tracksler replied 16 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Randy Johnson

  February 10, 2010 at 9:08 pm

  Depends on your detail level.
  Is it so deep that you need to actually model the impression or can you get away with animating a bump map or displacement?
  /Randy
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  Adam Tracksler

  February 10, 2010 at 11:57 pm

  i guess it could go either way… what would be better? er.. easier….

  P.S. Have a Nice Day!

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