How to ‘wriggle’ in c4d?

[Alan Lacey]

Using R13. I’m trying to set up a lamp that has random light output. The sort of thing you’d use ‘the wriggler’ for in AfterEffects. Is there an equivalent in c4d or will I have to revert to xpresso?

Thanks Alan

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[Adam Trachtenberg]

There’s not a direct equivalent to wiggler, but you can do it pretty easily with MoGraph:

* create two lights — one at 100% and the other at 0% brightness;
* drop them both into a cloner, set to one clone and blend mode;
* assign a random effector with all parameters turned off but “modify clone” set to 100%. Set the random mode to noise or turbulence.

Example: 4982_wigglerflicker.c4d.zip

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks very much Adam, I did half suspect Mograph would be able to do this but I’m very low on its learning curve.

Alan

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[sergio juyak]

Sorry for the late post. C4d does have something sorta similar called the vibrate tag.

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Sergio. I looked at this and it looks like it can be used but only with a bit of expresso converting either posn, scale or rotation to a value to control light intensity. Easier fpr me to get my head round tho’ than Mograph.

Cheers Alan

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