• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Creating A Gravity Well

  Posted by Robyn Rhodes on February 9, 2011 at 4:51 pm

  Hi,

  I’m trying to solve a dynamics mystery. I’m running R12.

  Link to scene.

  https://files.me.com/mr27/2shy71

  I’m trying to make a “gravity well”. You may have encountered one at some point. You roll a penny around the edge of a funnel and it rolls around getting faster and faster as it’s journey brings it closer to an increasingly steep slope of the cone. In this case I am using a sphere. My sphere is losing energy to quickly and only gets about half way round before diving down. It’s a fine balance I am sure, but was wondering if you might have some advice for how to get closer to what I’m after. I have tried reducing the friction to 5% on my Dynamics Tags, turning down collision noise and bounce to zero on both Collider and Ridgid body tags. I tried increasing overall gravity, and Mass of the sphere. Ideally it would take the sphere 30 seconds to a minute to make it all the way down the Gravity Well. I derived the curve from a google search on Gravity wells.

  Thanks for any help!

  Robyn Rhodes

  I’m only half the thing I say I am, the other half are me.

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