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  • Is there a quick way to randomly scale a ton of objects without mograph?

    Posted by Ximon Gray on July 15, 2015 at 7:18 am

    I’m working on an architecture project involving hundreds of buildings that aren’t clones. I need them all to scale from 0 to 1 on the Y axis with randomly offset timing. I’m fairly new to C4D and haven’t learned Xpresso yet, but I’d rather not have to manually keyframe them.

    Cheers 🙂

    Ximon Gray replied 11 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Andy Ward

    July 15, 2015 at 10:59 am

    I reckon you’re looking for the commands under TOOLS > ARRANGE OBJECTS.

    There’s a randomise command in there along with aligning tools, etc.

    Hope that helps!

  • Ximon Gray

    July 15, 2015 at 6:35 pm

    Nice one Andy! This is the closest I’ve found to what I need, but doesn’t quite have the option I’m looking for. I want all the objects to scale upwards from zero (as if they’re growing from the ground) but with random timing. I know the mograph tools have this function, but all my objects are individual and laid out according to a blue print, so I can’t mess with the positioning. Logical solution in my case would be to spend half an hour moving keyframes around, instead of 5+ hours searching for answers online. But I reckon there must be an easy way of doing this and I’ll have nightmares if I don’t find it. Cheers though!

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