Curved Cylinder

[Alejandro Torres]

Hi, you can achieve this by having enough height segments in
your cylinder (if it is still a primitive) or subdivide it accordingly if it’s a polygonal object (via the make editable button). Once your cylinder is subdivided you can use a bend deformer and make it a child along with the cylinder of a null. I would send you a scene file but I have R10…

I hope this helps…

Regards Alejandro

[Chris Holland]

capsat,

I actually have CD4 10 at home so if you could send that scene file that would be great, as I am still a little confused.

I added a bend transformer and it seemed to squeeze the capsule where the bend started and it also flattened the end. It wasn’t curved enough.

I didn’t understand the significance of adding the null. Do I just add a null then add the cylinder then add the bend to that. I did add a bunch of height segments.

Thanks for the help.

[Randy Johnson]

i think it would be far easyer to use a spline, circle and a sweep nurb like this link.
https://www.randyarchy.com/curve.c4d.zip

it is in version 9.0 so you can open it with any later versions.

good luck

[Chris Holland]

Randyj,

Thanks a lot. That is extremely helpful. I would have never known to do that. That is my biggest stumbling block with this program. It is so huge that I just have no idea how to model things I want to model. I just don’t know where to start.

I thought I might be able to do it with the splines but i couldn’t get the thickness.

Do you, or anyone else, know of a good mdoeling training book for C4D that gets into modeling and outside of the basics. Almost like a step above beginner training ?

Thanks again, that really did help tremendously.

Chris

[Randy Johnson]

I started with the Cinema 4D workshop book by Arndt von Koenigsmarck …its a great overview of the whole program. It is a hard to follow since he wrote the tutorials in paragraph form rather than point form but it shows the program better than any other.

I also read a book called exploring 3d modeling with cinema 4d. It is easy to use but i found it a little short sighted…meaning it is good for the first time user but there is so much more to cinema than modeling….and the workshop book covered the same stuff only better.

I got both of those from amazon.com.

if you prefere video tutorials lynda.com has a very good series for cinema 4d….its like 25 dollers u.s and then you can watch all the videos all you want for a month…there is like 5 hours of cinema stuff.

good luck

[Chris Holland]

Thanksfor all your help.