• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Displaying an Object’s Rotation Values and the Timecode in a Realtime MoGraph Text Display

  Posted by Hayden Martin on September 23, 2014 at 3:09 pm

  Hi Guys

  How do I assign the changing numerical values of an object’s rotation to a real-time MoGraph Text display?

  I need to send data from a virtual robot’s axis values to a programmer who will input the values to a real robot.

  I also need the real-time timecode in a 30fps format to be created in MoGraph text too…

  Thanks!

  Brian Jones replied 11 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Brian Jones

  September 23, 2014 at 4:55 pm

  in xpresso feed the rotation you want to watch through a Degree node (set to Radians to Degree) to the Object Properties/Text port of the MoText object. If you don’t know xpresso I can send an example.
  The time is easy enough if you want frames – same thing feed the Frames port of a Time node the the MoText Text port but if you want seconds:frames it’s trickier as the Time node doesn’t have a SMPTE out. But it can be constructed. What time output do you need? Just the frame number or something more complex?
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  Hayden Martin

  September 23, 2014 at 5:03 pm

  Ah thanks Brian

  It’d be great if you can show me an example

  And yes, i do need seconds & frames! Cheers
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  Brian Jones

  September 23, 2014 at 6:34 pm

  8030_valuetomotext.c4d.zip

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