• Maxon Cinema 4D

  creating a maypole

  Posted by Victor Camacho guerrero on April 22, 2013 at 4:03 pm

  hello everyone,

  I am trying to create a maypole

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxcIqMmlVOs

  but instead of people moving the strings, it will be in the end of the strings some balls hanging from the strings.

  I managed to create the strings with spline dynamics and the ball attached using this tutorial:
  https://cgterminal.com/2012/04/02/cinema-4d-springs-spline-dynamics-hanging-objects-on-a-string-tutorial/

  So the idea is having a clones of these strings rotating by some motor in the middle, so all the strings are moving by these motor that should be in the center, so they are flying orbiting around the center.

  I have tried using motors and connector such as ball and socket with no luck.

  Anyone has any idea???

  Many thanks!

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  Victor Camacho guerrero replied 13 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  April 22, 2013 at 5:28 pm

  That’s going to be awfully tough, but I would try something like this: 5881_maypole.c4d.zip
• 

  Victor Camacho guerrero

  April 23, 2013 at 9:48 am

  Thanks so much Adam, this saved my ass from the deadline! More than i expected.

  I managed to create, using your file, a version where the splines are rotating without falling down ( i want to create a shot from above when we can see all the splines rotating).

  There is something i was wondering if it is possible:

  1 – Using a motor to actually move all the splines , so what is rotating is actually the pole and the splines moving according to the rotation of the pole. ( I attached a file where I used a ball and socket connector, which i thought it could reflect better the real rotation).

  2 – if you have a look in the file i created from your file, sometimes in the rotation, the splines does not really get attached to the spheres. I changed many times the point in the constrain and changing the scale of the spline but no success. Any idea?? Anyway, Thanks so much for this Adam.

  5894_maypole.zip
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  Victor Camacho guerrero

  April 23, 2013 at 10:12 am

  Thanks so much Adam, this saved my ass from the deadline! More than i expected.

  I managed to create, using your file, a version where the splines are rotating without falling down ( i want to create a shot from above when we can see all the splines rotating).

  There is something i was wondering if it is possible:

  1 – Using a motor to actually move all the splines , so what is rotating is actually the pole and the splines moving according to the rotation of the pole. ( I attached a file where I used a ball and socket connector, which i thought it could reflect better the real rotation).

  2 – if you have a look in the file i created from your file, sometimes in the rotation, the splines does not really get attached to the spheres. I changed many times the point in the constrain and changing the scale of the spline but no success. Any idea?? Anyway, Thanks so much for this Adam.

  I am not sure how to attach files, but here is the link:https://f1.creativecow.net/5894/maypole

  Many thanks!

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