Creating Interactive Carpet Fibres in Cinema 4D that react to Vaccum Rollers

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Check the “Rigid” box in the hair dynamics tab and increase the “Rest Mix” percentage to make it stiffer. You probably only need 3-4 segments for the guides and hairs since they’re so short.

[Ryan Ainge]

Thanks Adam. I apologize if my post was unclear. I think I’ve accomplished the dynamic movement with the hair that I want, I just think that my hair I’m using looks too much like cinema 4d hair and not enough like the hair follicles in the reference. Can c4d hair create something like the reference that I have?

[Adam Trachtenberg]

So you want the wound fiber look for the individual strands? Couple ways to go about that.

1. Generate geometry instead of 2D hair using the Hair Object>Generate tab. Circle is probably what you want, though it creates the most geometry.

2. Generate instances of geometry you’ve modeled (same tab).

If you go with No. 1 you can then use a material with bump or displacement to create the ropey look. Example: 9052_carpettex.c4d.zip

[Brian Jones]

in terms of viewport speed you also don’t need any more than two or three rows of carpet pile for that low shot in the example – more rows like in Adam’s example if the camera shot moves upward though…

[Ryan Ainge]

Perfect, thank you. This solves my problem. Appreciate all the help!