• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Flat Hexagon Pattern line up

  Posted by Anders Hattne on September 6, 2010 at 11:15 am

  Hello!
  I’m trying to make a tiled floor with hexagons, and figured I’ll use a disc, with 6 rotation segments and multiply that with a MoGraph cloner object. That makes a grid, but in order to align them in an even pattern, like a football – but flat, every other piece has to be moved down half the height to fit in. I tried with the Formula effector setting the speed to 0, but I have no clue how to sort out a formula so it lines up.
  Does anyone have any idea on how to best do this?

  Many thanks!

  http://www.ardillamedia.com

  Anders Hattne replied 15 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Brian Jones

  September 6, 2010 at 5:04 pm

  one way would be to use two tiles offset, make one the child of the other and then toss in the cloner like this

  1064_hextilemgtest.zip
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  Anders Hattne

  September 6, 2010 at 11:45 pm

  …..I guess it’s typical beginner’s pitfall to complicate things!!
  A simple and elegant solution. I hope I’ve learnt something from this. Thanks a lot!!

  (Yet, I’ll try to offset something with the formula effector, just for the heck of it..)

  http://www.ardillamedia.com

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