animating Meta squares?

[Adam Trachtenberg]

> Hey everyone, just got the demo of c4d and I must say, I’m
> really impressed. Although rendering with GI and radiosity is
> slower and a lesser quality than brazil r/s

Hm, I don’t know about that. You might want to study the GI controls a little more.

> c4d is great for
> motion graphics and particles. I wonder if you can import a
> particle animation into max from cd4?

Probably not, but I’m not sure.

> Well anyways, I’ve only been messing around with c4d for a
> couple minutes and I have a couple of questions. First off, is it
> possible to make the object of the emitter a tile?

Yes, go to Objects>Object Library>Polygon Emitter. This is a preset for Thnking Particles that causes any object to emit particles.

> Basically I’m
> trying to make just a basic splash blobish effect with metaballs
> with the exception of square droplets. Secondly, is it possible
> to add motion blur to the metaballs? I’ve tried to with the cam
> but no use.

It’ll work with scene or vector motion blur, but not object motion blur. Or rather, the latter just doesn’t work with particles, not metaballs specifically.

> My last question is, is it possible to create a
> complex particle animation and just export the alpha of it and
> add the shading in after effects
or combustion? Thanks

Yeah, sure. Just add a compositing tag with an object buffer to your particle object(s), then add the buffers to your multipass file.

[Paolo1234567891]

Thanks for the info, but what exactly do each of the object buffers do and do I add the composite tag to the metaballs and the object under emitter?