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Attaching Sound Effector to Material properties
I’ve watched a lot of tutorials and searched a lot of forums but there are some basics that i’m still not understanding.
I want to animate this spikey orb (picture below) to do 2 things:
1. Increase/Decrease variables in the materials
2. incremental rotation based on audio peaks. ie Rotation doesn’t return to 0,0,0 when audio stops but maintains new value value. (Ideally the direction would seem random, but this makes it too complex)
“displacement” settings based on audio. (ie displacement “strength”)I’m able to get Xpresso to give me a result for the frequency, but dont know how to link that to the material’s displacement settings.
Any help is appreciated.
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Here’s a file showing a sound effector feeding into displacement strength (sound file not included): https://www.3danvil.com/tutorials/sound_drive_displacement.c4d
AdamT
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Thanks so much for building that for me. I would have responded quicker but wanted to make time to mess around with it. Your file does exactly what i was hoping to achieve, thanks.
One thing i still can’t wrap my head around is how to get an attribute that is buried within a material’s texture field into Xpresso.
Ie: I’ve added my material to Xpresso, but within the displacement channel i have added “Noise”. How would i get a variable that is within the Noise settings (ie “octaves”) into the Xpresso editor?
If its not too much to ask to shed some light on this i promise i won’t bother you again.
Thanks!
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just grab the picture of the noise and drag it into the xpresso window
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