Molecule grid

[Brian Jones]

it’s hard to see with only the one view, you can get semi close with a Grid Array 5x5x5 with a sphere and a null as children of the cloner (set it Iterate, the default)

Cloner
—Sphere
—Null

but that’s only semi-close, it probably needs a combo of cloners

[Ari Grunzeweig]

Hi and thanks. That does indeed get pretty close.
Then I’m trying to use the MoGraph > Tracer to connect the spheres, but it connects in a bizarre pattern.

Is there a way to connect all spheres between them?

Thanks,
Ari

[Brian Jones]

you’d need a tracer with a distance parameter – there have been a couple in the past but none that I have now (don’t know if that’s because they stopped working due to version changes or if I just haven’t needed one and haven’t kept up) and given the construction I don’t know if the distance method would work either. I played with it for a bit and I think this is it, maybe fewer cloners are possible… 11596_moleculegridtrial.c4d.zip

[Ari Grunzeweig]

Wow! This is amazing! Thank you!

Thanks,
Ari

[Steve Bentley]

You could also just make a spline the shape you want one layer to be with points on the spline where each sphere goes. Put that spline (or splines) in a cloner and have it generate all the layers – then collapse that cloner with make polygonal. Then use the atom array on the resutling objects and just make the spheres bigger than the tubes.