MoGraph Clone Objekt

[Jeremy Allen]

Here’s how I just did it. The short answer is that you need to make a triangle shape to clone the balls onto. If you need more, read on for the step by step.

Add a sphere and give it a radius of 124. Add a polygon from the primitives menu. Click on the triangle option in the attributes manager for the new polygon. Use a width of 980, height of 855 and 4 segments. Select the sphere, hold down option and add a cloner object. Holding option will automatically add the cloner as a parent of the sphere. Now click on the cloner in the object manager and select object for the mode. Drag the triangle from the object manager into the object field.

Viola! It took a little trial and error to get the size and spacing right, so you may have to adjust the sphere size and triangle width and height for your particular setup.

Also, I’m still pretty new to C4D so there may be a quicker or easier way to do this.. This is just a way I figured out how to do it after seeing your question. I would upload the file, but my demo of 11.5 just ran out and I can’t save! Hope this helps anyway..

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8core MacPro, 3.0 GHZ, 10GB RAM, OSX 10.5.6

C4D 11.5
AE CS3
FCP 6.0.1

[Jeremy Allen]

After playing with this a bit more I realized the balls are overlapping slightly, so if you want to use this with dynamics, they will repel each other when the animation is initialized. So the simple fix is to adjust the width and height of your triangle until the balls separate slightly. I used 995 and 875 and it worked great.

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8core MacPro, 3.0 GHZ, 10GB RAM, OSX 10.5.6

C4D 11.5
AE CS3
FCP 6.0.1

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Here’s another way to go about it: https://www.3danvil.com/tutorials/PoolRacked.c4d

[Simon Roughan]

Thanks guys, all of your responses were extremely helpful.
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