disk to hemisphere bending ?

[Richard Dunstan]

Interesting issue.. I don’t think any of the deformers would work out.. but what if you toss 7 or so circle splines into a loft nurb all on the same Y position then keyframe these circle splines up the Y to give you a hemisphere? not sure how that would work out though with the ornaments… can you upload your file?

[Ronny Traufeller]

hehe,

thanks for response, the workarround you discribe, i dont really unterstand it! 🙂

but sounds like a way to walk arround the problem. the things is its saveral splines diplicated via mograph into a cirlce, so i could bend each one, that would give me something to work with.

the file is top secret unfortunatly !!

but i still believe in the disk to hemispere idea! or not, i dont know 🙂

thanks,
ROnny

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[Richard Dunstan]

yeah, not sure then if this would work, here is a very rough example of what I was talking about though. you could set this up via xpresso so that you only have to animate the 1 circle, I just don’t have time so I went with crude hehe.

3230_example2.c4d.zip

[Ronny Traufeller]

definatly thanks,

the usual shit, i am o 11.5 actually so i cant open it yet 🙁

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[Richard Dunstan]

=( it’s definately an upgrade worth the money.

[Brian Jones]

you can dl the demo and look at it that way.
Another possibility depends on how your disk is constructed but the Move Tool with a Soft Selection set to Dome falloff might work too, but it depends on the actual construction

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Probably not what you want to hear, but the way to have done this was to start out with a hemisphere, duplicate the geometry, and then scale it flat. Then you could morph from the flat state to the hemisphere state with the morph tag.

You might be able to do something similar by using the spherify deformer and then running current-state-to-object. Then morph between the flat and spherified geometry instead of using the spherify’s strength to animate.