• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Blanket of pearls for Organic Scultping (Not for animation)

  Posted by Alan Farkas on January 14, 2016 at 5:29 am

  HEEEELP! Countless hours on this problem:

  I am trying to create organic shapes of connected objects, sort of like a blanket of pearls (as opposed to just string.)

  Important Note: I need to sculpt/deform to create flowing organic shape – not animation. Just a still image. Will post Ref Pic, and what I’ve done so far.

  I’ve done the Mograph Object Cloner, and connected it to vertices of a plane (and tried a Bezier Object, as well) and then either used regular CD Deformers, or just moved the vertices. Problems:

  1. The vertices stretch, and objects move away from each other. Need the objects to only be able to spin in place, and MAAAYBE just a bit of rotation between objects, but they shouldn’t be able to overlap – so real world rules, here.

  2. I don’t want to randomly animate – need to be able to do this for clients and make specific tweaks by hand.

  I have a sneaking suspicion I need to use Particles and or Xpresso in some way, but haven’t found the tut that would make me go that way yet (also i do NOT know Xpresso yet, FYI)

  Adam Trachtenburg’s advice (https://f1.creativecow.net/3710/sphereflag) to someone else’s prob sooort of worked but not quite for this.

  Here’s my Ref Image:
  

  and what I’ve been able to do so far:
  

  Link to my file: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwUhrZIajpfdd2J2YVVYamMzTEU

  SIDE NOTE: I also have trouble using deformers the way I’ve seen in Tuts – but putting them in a null with the Cloner object, i.e. making them siblings. Is there a linear order to it that I’m not picking up on?

  ANY and all help very, very, very appreciated!!!!!

  Alan Farkas replied 10 years, 4 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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