• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Cloner Issues?

  Posted by Jane Jenkins on July 2, 2015 at 1:47 am

  Hello All,

  I rarely come on here unless I honestly have no clue how to do something.

  So heres a question that either requires an easy fix or a workaround,but it would definitely be helpful for any suggestions on how to solve this.

  So basically, my problem is

  https://i.gyazo.com/4fdc07dd5cdb1bb21de1502edfdd7fe6.png

  Lets say I want to replace this blue cube with another cube(pink) and this other cube has features,extrudes,etc

  The problem is, when I do this with a cloner on poly-center mode, this happens:

  https://i.gyazo.com/5a930c69541ab148b31aefff1ef9dc95.png

  Okay.

  But imagine that you have a scene in which your objects, or like many cubes, are consolidated into one polygon object, then it becomes complicated when you have 4 clones per vertex.

  So my question is, is there a way or a work around to get the effect of poly center, but without the other polygons? Because remember, my goal is to replace the objects in my scene all at once, but I cant seem to just get 1 Cube for the center of the object.

  Heres a small scale example, of what i mean for the scenes that i do:

  https://i.gyazo.com/8d9ca9d89832bc934b0482d8ebb3b0bc.png

  Here we have the blue cubes duplicated and consolidated, and without the cloner on.
  
  https://i.gyazo.com/ea3615c05c9cb964cba7452d055dc835.png

  And with the cloner, although it clones the blue cubes successfully, it creates those other cubes surrounding them. My goal, to either have a way through script or xpresso, to tell it to make 1 clone pep = center of 4 vertices or something like that, or to have a work around to somehow make sure those clones surrounding the object dont get shown/made,etc

  Thanks guys!

  Jane Jenkins replied 11 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 7 Replies
• 7 Replies

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  Jane Jenkins

  July 7, 2015 at 6:28 am

  noone?
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  Brian Jones

  July 8, 2015 at 5:33 pm

  don’t understand what you are after (what should it look like, what is the desired result – can you make a picture of that?)
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  Jane Jenkins

  July 8, 2015 at 10:04 pm

  I figured out a better way to say it.

  Basically, I want to find away or make a script, that allows for a clone of whatever object im trying to clone (in this case just a cube) and have these clones be placed on the Faces of my target object.

  So one clone per face on the y axis, if this makes sense.
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  Brian Jones

  July 9, 2015 at 12:43 am

  your ‘faces’ have more than one poly?
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  Jane Jenkins

  July 9, 2015 at 1:07 am

  No…okay, I mean Polygon faces.

  1 Clone per PolyGon Face on the y-axis.

  So for example:

  Imagine I had a single cube. And I used a method that could get this to work.

  My end result would leave me with a cube(the cloned object) ontop of the original cube (the target object)

  Think about it.

  My target object is a cube. It has 6 faces. But I want it so I get a clone only on the Uppermost face (Y-Axis). And it my Cloned object is also a cube, it would be the end result of a cube on top of a cube.

  Lets say we have multiple cubes, and lets say we make them blue.

  And If I were to scatter them around on a larger scale and various hieghts etc, my end result would be a replica of those positions etc, since my clones will only make one of themselves per face.

  They would be 1 cube higher than the original( in which case)Id move them down until they were correctly aligned on the Y-Axis, but essentially thats the result ^^
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  Brian Jones

  July 9, 2015 at 3:32 am

  selection sets with Poly Center possibly
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  Jane Jenkins

  July 9, 2015 at 4:14 am

  Ohhhhh?

  Do you think you could make a small scene to show how that might work?

  I was thinking something along those lines though ^^

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