• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Sweep Nurbs cap material

  Posted by Baard Kolstad on December 9, 2016 at 9:16 am

  I’m a beginner in Cinema 4D, so please keep any replies as detailed as possible.

  I have a spline with Sweep Nurbs using a ring with filet caps. What I’d like to do is apply a gradient material to this Sweep Nurbs that goes from the start to end seen from any angle. I also intend to animate the growth of it, so making it editable doesn’t seem like a good idea.

  I have managed to do these things, the only thing missing is that the material doesn’t apply to the caps. This is the initial result I’m getting:

  

  So I searched a bit and found that you could target the caps in the selection of the material. So I made one material for the start color and one for the end color, that gave me the result I wanted:

  

  The only issue is when I animate the growth, It doesn’t follow along:

  

  Of course I could keyframe the color of the material to match up, but there surely must be a better way of achieving this?

  Thanks in advance!

  Baard Kolstad replied 9 years, 5 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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