Brian Jones
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COW Coins
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Maxon C4D Coins
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[Tak West] “Is there any way to edit a polygon’s points while the object is being effected by a deformer?”
Yes, in the Windows menu not the main menu, go to Edit/Configure or Mode/View Settings in the Attribute manager and check off Deformed Editing
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If you want to sweep along the entire spline then make it all go away from the first point then (in a 91 frame example)
Frame 0
-sweep nurb Growth = 0%
-spline (needs to be editable) Reverse unchecked – add keyframeFrame 45
-sweep nurb Growth = 100%Frame 46
-spline Reverse checked – add keyframeFrame 90
-sweep nurb Growth = 0%If you want to have the end follow at some distance behind the beginning it can’t be done without other plugins or cutting the tail off with a boolean (slower as the boolean gets longer) unless I’m forgetting something easy. It’s been a common question here check out the archives.
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I don’t know the full details but all splines use intermediate points (used internally by C4D) at places in-between the points we see in the editor. You were probably using the default Adaptive intermediate points, that places points where they are needed to maintain a shape based on the angle the spline has bent since the last point. Uniform places the points …uniformly… 🙂 and Natural seems to be like a combination of the two. According to the manual Adaptive is good for tossing in a nurbs since it will generally generate fewer polys. Uniform is good for animation along the spline since the uniform points mean motion along the spline will be uniform.
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try changing the Intermediate Point of the spline to Uniform (you may have to increase the number as well)
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is the camera following the same spline or another one?
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Can you post a pic or the scene?