• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Keeping all clone same apparent size in Z-Space

  Posted by Navarro Parker on October 23, 2012 at 12:14 am

  Can’t figure out how to do this with effectors, so I thought I’d try Xpresso.

  I have a 2D Plane object in an Object Cloner. The clones are distributed in Z space. How can I keep all the clones looking the same constant size even though my camera moves through Z?

  In After Effects, I can apply an expression that does this math to keep things that same size:
  X/Y scale = (3D distance between camera & object position / camera zoom ) * 50

  Trying to do the same thing in Xpresso hasn’t gotten me very far:
  

  I’d really appreciate any help!

  Adam Trachtenberg replied 13 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  October 24, 2012 at 7:54 pm

  I find Xpresso pretty tricky with MoGraph because you can’t feed PSR data directly into clones. Can’t help you there. But with a little tweaking this effector setup might get you most of the way there:

  4840_uniformclonecamera.c4d.zip

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