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  • Xpresso & Cloner

    Posted by Mike Van der noordt on February 17, 2016 at 10:42 am

    Hi,
    I made a quite simple set-up of a book. I created two hingeconnectors to create the hard cover which are rigidbodies, and 3 pages with a bend deformer on each side (to fake ´dynamic´ bending of the paper). These bend deformers are driven by the rotations of the hardcover via xpresso.

    So on itself the simulation works good (enough), but as soon as i put them in a cloner the expresso stops working. I´m a bit stuck here, anyone knows a solution?

    9792_book.c4d.zip

    thanks!!

    Andy Sills replied 10 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Andy Sills

    February 17, 2016 at 2:10 pm

    This is a great job man!
    I fiddled for a bit and I couldnt find anything, all I kept thinking was “why doesnt he just copy and paste these books!?!?
    Are you just wanting hundreds of books or something?

  • Mike Van der noordt

    February 17, 2016 at 2:36 pm

    Hey thanks!
    yes the thing is there needs to be a shitload of book.. nonetheless, i might just go for copying like you suggest.. and try to bake the simulations in a few passes.. see if i can get away with that 😉 did a few tests already with a couple of hundred, and it´s still not too heavy, but still if i can find a less destructive way i´ll be a happy man…

    cheers!

  • Andy Sills

    February 17, 2016 at 2:54 pm

    Well dont jump the gun just yet, Im no expert here.
    Hopefully somebody chimes in here and helps out better than I can!

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