Adam Trachtenberg
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Try increasing the Linear Velocity Threshold setting in the Dynamic tab.
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I don’t know of any tutorials offhand, but it looks like it’s a circular gradient with an alpha. Could be done with a stacked material.
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I think you’ll want to use a Tendril modifier and set the trail object to Tendril mode. Check the X-Particles help docs and videos for all the details.
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I tried to build one of these a few years ago and as you discovered it’s a tricky problem. I only had a tight deadline and ended up having to fake something up manually. Later I came across an Xpresso rig someone posted which works quite nicely. It uses a COFFEE node which loses me, but maybe you can use it, or apply it to your file. In any case, here’s the one I saved: 11078_rubikscube.c4d.zip
You won’t actually see the rotations until you keyframe them (using the user data on the xpresso tag).
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A basic chrome material is easy to create. Set color to black or very dark, turn off specular, and set reflection to a high value (80-95%). The key to getting a nice looking chrome render is to have something in your scene that the material can reflect. The best way to do that is to use an appropriate HDRI mapped to a sky object. If you want the reflection only and don’t want to see the background you can place a compositing tag on your sky object and uncheck the “seen by camera” box.
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In this case you’d want to use a material to create the effect. Place a circular gradient in your material’s alpha channel.
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Hard to tell from the pics, but my guess is that you’re experiencing an order of rotation problem. You can see the problem illustrated if you activate the rotation tool and then check the “gimbaling rotation” box in the attributes manager. The best way to avoid it is to nest your object in a series of nulls. Instead of animating the object’s rotation, animate the nulls’ rotations (one axis per null).
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This is something that would benefit from a dedicated fluid sim (X-Particles, RealFlow, etc.), but you might try using a boolean object to cut away parts outside of the glass.
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What I would do is keyframe the dynamics tag on the voronoi object. Specifically, in the Collision tab, set Individual Elements to None and then keyframe it to ALL (or Top Level) before the blades start up. You’ll also probably need to keyframe the Trigger paramter in the Dynamics tab at the same time, changing it from immediately to “on collision.”
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Looks like you’re using the Lens effect on your lights and the Reflexes option is causing the dots.