Modeling Abstract Trees (Link)

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Here’s how I would do it:

Clone a straight spline along another straight spline;

Use a random effector to rotate the splines along the axis of the trunk spline;

Use a step effector to scalet the clones into the cone shape;

Drop the cloner into a connector object to make it a single spline object;

Sweep a circle spline along the resulting branch spline with a sweep nurbs object.

Example (R12 file): 1437_xmastreecloner.c4d.zip

[Evan Seitz]

Everything worked for me except for your last step, which I have set up like this:

Sweep Nurbs
|_Circle
|_Connect Object
|_Cloner Object
|_Spline

The connector object isn’t cooperating with the Sweep Nurb structure, including when I try putting it into a Null Object, etc…

Is this something that r11.5 can do or just r12?

[Evan Seitz]

Oops, like this:

Sweep Nurbs
|_Circle
|_Connect Object
…|_Cloner Object
……|_Spline

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Yeah, I think that the connect object didn’t work with splines prior to R12. What you could do is make the cloner editable and connect the resulting splines, or just clone cylinders instead of splines and skip the sweep nurbs altogether.

[Evan Seitz]

Thanks – that worked! 🙂