Adam Trachtenberg
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Not sure why you aren’t getting this. You are still using Thinking Particles to control the simulation. Mograph is simply used to place geometry on the TP particles and control the color. The combination is quite powerful, easy to use, and 100% native to Cinema 4D.
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Okay, well maybe someone who’s better with TP can help you. But for what it’s worth, MoGraph isn’t a plugin any more than TP is. If anything MoGraph is actually more native, since TP was originally a Cebas plugin that was purchased by Maxon.
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Well, you could use the MoGraph method I mentioned. Doesn’t get much simpler than that.
Example: 8856_particlecolormograph.c4d.zip
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You’ll lose the curvature, but this cheap plugin will convert the cap to quads for you: https://www.c4dzone.com/en/shop/plug-in-17/quadcaps-1-0-255.htm
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You can feed color into the PSetData node and you can output the color to a material using the PGetData node, which is located in the TPHelper menu.
Example: 8855_particlecolor2mat.c4d.zip
An easier way to do, however, might be to use a mograph cloner to create the geometry rather than the TP Geometry object. That way you can use whatever effectors you want to control color.
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Here’s one way to do it:
* place two copies of the tile object under the cloner and give the second one the luminance texture;
* set the cloner’s Clones method to “Sort” (Object tab);
* assign a plain effector to the cloner, turn all the effector’s parameters off, and set “modify clone” to 100%;
* drag your mograph selection tag into the effector’s Selection box (effector tab).
Example: 8850_lighttiles.c4d.zip
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Cool.
You can make the helix taper but twirling down the sweep object’s “Details” menu and adjusting the scale graph. Ctrl + Click the line to add points.
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I can’t duplicate the problem here. Are you sure that you’ve assigned your shoe ojects to the shoe layer? Quick way to check to is select all objects and then set “Use Color” to Layer in the Attributes Manager’s basic tab.
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You had the right idea using the luminance channel. Put the gradient in luminance and disable all the other channels and you should get what you’re after.
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Set the emitter type to cone and the horizontal angle to 270d. That way you’ll have particles firing out to the sides all around the emitter. You’ll have to up the particle count of course.