• Maxon Cinema 4D

  attach a balloon string to a balloon one end and a cardboard tag the other?

  Posted by Daniel De silva on November 10, 2015 at 11:41 am

  Hey guys,

  I need your help with a problem I can’t seem to figure out.

  I have attached a balloon string using spline dynamics to the tied point of the balloon. What I’m having trouble with is (As seen in the screens) is how to attach the other end to a piece of card, in order for the card to follow the string, string to follow the balloon whilst all being dynamic.

  Please help!

  *ignore right hand side of screens

  

  

  Thanks,

  Dan.

  Daniel De silva replied 10 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  November 10, 2015 at 4:12 pm

  The spline dynamics system isn’t that sophisticated, unfortunately. But you could attach the cardboard to the spline with Xpresso.
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  Daniel De silva

  November 10, 2015 at 5:36 pm

  Thanks for the answer!

  I haven’t yet used espresso, would you have any idea how I’d go about this?

  Thanks Adam!

  Dan.
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  November 10, 2015 at 10:08 pm

  Here’s a real basic example: 9442_balloonsign.c4d.zip

  You’d need to do a little more work to add rotation to the card. One way to do that would be to attack a null further up the string using the same method and then use an aim constraint on the card to look at the null.
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  Daniel De silva

  November 11, 2015 at 9:48 am

  Ah ok I looked at the file and that’s great, problem solved!

  Thanks and much appreciated you’ve saved me on a deadline 🙂

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