• Maxon Cinema 4D

  spline with random movement

  Posted by Stephen Grimm on March 17, 2011 at 5:22 am

  This may be a simple answer, but I’m new to C4D.

  I’m growing along a spline with sweep nurbs. How would I go about giving each of the points in the spline a random movement. Sort of like a waving tentacle.

  I’ve tried messing around with the vibrate tag with no avail.

  Thank you.

  Adam Trachtenberg replied 15 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Randy Johnson

  March 17, 2011 at 7:13 am

  Try the Formula deformer as a child of the spline. Or maybe the wind deformer.

  /Randy
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  Emmet Reddy

  March 17, 2011 at 10:15 am

  You could also try point level animation and animate some of the points on the spline?
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  March 17, 2011 at 1:13 pm

  Another option would be to use a MoGraph random effector in deformer mode, with the effector mode set to noise or turbulence.
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  Stephen Grimm

  March 17, 2011 at 2:50 pm

  Thanks, those are both working nicely.
  How would I keep the root of the spline from being affected?
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  March 17, 2011 at 5:55 pm

  You can use falloff if you’re using the random effector method.

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