Baking Twist deformation in C4d for export to Maya.

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Yes, use the “current state to object” function.

[Sam Stanton]

I should clarify…I’m animating the twist deformation, so i’ll need to export the object twisting to maya.

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Ah, well that is different. 😉

In that case you’ll have to bake the animation. You can do that with a point cache tag:

* add character tags>point cache tag;

* click the store state button;

* check the enable and use deformer boxes;

* click the calculate button;

* uncheck the use deformer box;

* in the timeline, run Functions>Bake Object, making sure to check the PLA box.

That will bake the deformer animation to point-level animation. Now, I think from that point you may need a plugin to export the PLA animation. I think there are MDD reader/writer plugins available but I haven’t used them.

[Sam Stanton]

This helps! Thanks so much!

[Brian Jones]

check out Bake To PLA by Aixsponza on their site

https://www.aixsponza.com/index.php?prefs=page__1___lang__en___enum__frame_software___width__700___&accesskey=3

[Robert Dinnerville]

Hi guys,

I’m trying to do the same thing but all the functions under the point cache tag aren’t active so the “store current state” button isn’t doing anything. I’ve got a run down of what i’m trying to do below but what would cause this tag to not work?

Maybe my animation setup is different? I have a null as the parent to control a group of individually animated objects. I am using bend. bulge and twist deformers on top of the objects contained under the main group so that I can control all the deformations and the individual objects at once.

I’m really new to c4d and 3D in general – yewwwww – 3 days in – so talking to people who know what they are doing would be awesome and any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks guys
robo