Adam Trachtenberg
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Spectral shader is a good way to get the typical CD rainbow look. As far as modeling, I’d start with the tube primitive.
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If you’re talking about the timeline, the snap settings are under the edit menu.
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btw, if you have the MoGraph module you could do this very precisely by cloning onto a sphere and simply keyframing the sphere’s scale.
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I would use Thinking Particles with a PGravity node set to Spherical. Go to the point of desired maximum expansion and then create a sphere that encompases that volume. Use it as your gravity object in the PGravity node. Easiest way is probably to keyframe the gravity strength, which will take a little experimention. Then set particle life to the frame where the particles collapse back on themselves.
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For the record, most of the folks I know who do a lot of TV work recommend not rendering to fields in Cinema, but rather, rendering at double the frame rate and reduce to fields in AE. Otherwise you’re limited as to what you can do in AE.
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[symonteve] “Thank you so much for your reply…I’ll try that. How about setting up different cameras in one render only? Is that possible?”
Sure, that’s easy. You would use the Stage Object. -
Don’t forget that the Cow has a tutorial section that includes some Cinema stuff. 🙂
Another good one: https://www.c4dportal.com/forum/
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I would suggest the base version plus the MoGraph module as the best bang for your buck. Depending on your budget you might also want to add Thinking Particles and Advanced Render.
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Welcome! Different strokes for different strokes, but when I was starting out I found Cinema much easier to pick up than LW.
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I don’t thin Xfrog is going to be your answer. It can make good looking trees but they are pretty heavy and animation capabilities are limited.
I’m not that familiar with it, but you might check out Samir’s DPIT Nature Spirit plugin. It seems similar to Xfrog, but with more add-ons. In particular, it has a volumetric instancing capability that allows you to use huge numbers of trees without a huge RAM penalty.