• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Cant see Weight points on ‘clones’ with Fracture Object :s

  Posted by Elin Grome on June 30, 2011 at 4:11 pm

  Hi all,

  I have a collection of editable poly objects under a fracture object in order to apply effectors.

  Works ok but I want to use weight transform on a random effector to give some randomness to movement with other effectors..

  but for some reason I cant see the weight points when I turn on display: weight in the transform tab – when using a cloner seems ok…

  Thanks 4 your help…

  It’s all the those pesky details :p

  Elin Grome replied 14 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
• 5 Replies

• 

  Adam Trachtenberg

  June 30, 2011 at 10:43 pm

  I can see the weight points here (R12), but only if the fracture object is selected.
• 

  Elin Grome

  July 6, 2011 at 12:21 pm

  Hi Adam,

  wierd :s

  Ive checked a triple checked but cant get the weight points to display.

  Even if i open a new file, create a couple of cubes and put in a fracture object, then with FO selected, change display to ‘weight’ – still dont appear.

  Anyway, that aside – I have a bigger issue with the fracture object – namely that im working with quite a funky setup of effectors from a tip I got from tim clapham using time effector and stuff…

  When I replace the cloner obj. in that setup with a new one all works fine… but when I put in a fracture object – even if its created directly from that same cloner obj. – only some of the effectors in the list work – namely those shaders that create rotation and visibility – but the time effector and visibilty shaders dont seem to execute….

  Do you know of ny documented limitations of the fracture object v cloner object ?

  I know this is vague – ive attached a scene file if anyone has some time – as u can see the cloner object works correctly – the fracture not…

  thanks (again) in advance,

  Elin

  It’s all the those pesky details :p
• 

  Elin Grome

  July 6, 2011 at 4:56 pm

  ok ive tried to upload the file about 8 times but cant even manage that 🙁
• 

  Brian Jones

  July 6, 2011 at 5:56 pm

  you have to copy the link you get on the last upload page back into the post you are making
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  Elin Grome

  July 7, 2011 at 12:16 pm

  thanks brian.

  Its 35 degrees here again today – with no A.C. – which doesnt help my already waning concentration. Actually ive decided to move on from that problem and workaround it.

  But of course I have another issue now – so ill repost a new thread 🙂

  It’s all the those pesky details :p

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