Brian Jones
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COW Coins
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Maxon C4D Coins
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animate the light’s Brightness (unless I’m missing the meaning here..)
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it sounds like the spline was not quite close enough in the Symmetry Object to join (weld) the two parts. So either make sure it welds in the Symmetry or do it by hand in the editable version
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nice work, I particularly like the shape at the bottom folds
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if you are talking about Functions/Duplicate check off Generate Instances and the copies will change when you modify the original.
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if you have MoGraph you can do it with a Cloner Object set to Object mode and use your points object as the Object. If not, there pre-MoGraph there were numerous plugins that did the same thing, it should also be possible to do the same thing via XPresso
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Way more polys than you need, use a ClothNurb to get smoothing of a simpler mesh. The same goes for the torus, fewer polys to keep the calculations to a minimum. However, it’s still not going to be easy doing it that way, cloth was meant for flags and clothing colliding with legs etc. not cloth to cloth interactions that are that complex. I would try to model it if you are not animating the pull. Here’s a quicky I made, Probably a few more polys would be good, I scaled the width with the bottom polys selected and Soft Selection on but if I did it again I would probably use point selections so I could get a sharper “tuck point”. Then I stagger-scaled the bottom up by hand one fold at a time. Not as good as it could be. Cloth could be then used on the shaped curtain but I tried that and the scaled bits are so close together they are inside the eps values and it is just chaotic.
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straight from illustrator is easy you just have to save as Illustrator 8
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HyperNurbs with a relatively simple control cage is a much easier way to do it. A quickie example, this is not right but it should give you the general idea.
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check out Sweep Object in the Help, it has a pretty good explanation.
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Array and Duplicate came first and are relatively simple and are included in the base C4D. MoGraph came later is a lot more capable but is a module you have to buy. If you have it great, but sometimes if you just need a simple line or radial array Duplicate and Array are still useful.