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Waves into Wireframe
Hi All,
I’m a newbie w/ Cinema 4D and was looking for some info on an animation I’m doing for a client. Basically, I’m trying to have wavy lines form into circles that eventually turn into a wireframe globe. Can anyone point me into the right direction as to what tools I should use/play around w/ to achieve this? I’m sure there isn’t a magic button, but I’m so new to the program I’m having a hard time figuring where to start. I’ve been tinkering around and haven’t been able to accomplish what I’m looking for.
Thanks in advance
mike -
6 Replies
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Well, maybe this link might be a little helpful:
https://www.c4dcafe.com/ipb/index.php?download=79
Cheers
Nolan -
Thanks Nolan – I did this tut and it was very helpful. I’m still trying to figure out how to animate the globe being built from single lines
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Have you tried to put a Sphere into an Atom-Array-Object
and maybe set Cylinder-Radius to 0.5 and Sphere-Radius to 1.
I presume one could animate this nicely.Cheers
Nolan -
Here’s one way to do it, although it’s pretty labor intensive: https://www.3danvil.com/temp/lines2sphere.c4d
I used a Posemixer to morph the shape and position of the curvy line to the spherical line.
I selected one set of longitudinal edges on the sphere, then ran structure>edit spline>edge to spline. I copied that spline and moved the points around to form the curvy line (Sphere.Spline.1). Then I copied the original spline again to use as the posemixer’s default pose.
You’d have to repeat for all the lat/long lines you need, but you could save a lot of time by copying/rotating/pasting the lat/long lines.
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will try thanks!
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It was hard to see w/ out posemixer – but thanks for the tips – i’ll give it a shot
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