[Cactus Dan]

Howdy,

Do you have the Model tool or the Object tool active?

Adios,
Cactus Dan

Cinema 4D R10 XL Bundle, BodyPaint, Dynamics
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[Cactus Dan]

Howdy,

Have you tried using the Stick Texture tag?

Adios,
Cactus Dan

Cinema 4D R10 XL Bundle, BodyPaint, Dynamics
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[Cactus Dan]

Howdy,

You can check out my CD Character rigging plugins. They have a lot of squash & stretch options built into them.

Adios,
Cactus Dan

Cinema 4D R10 XL Bundle, BodyPaint, Dynamics
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[Cactus Dan]

Howdy,

Oh, cool. I didn’t know about that one.

Adios,
Cactus Dan

Cinema 4D R10 XL Bundle, BodyPaint, Dynamics
http://www.cactus3d.com
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[Cactus Dan]

Howdy,

You could put the ball under a parent Null object, and rotate the Heading of the Null object. This would give you a different direction.

Remember that all animation keys are in local coordinate space, so the ball’s animation would be local to it’s parent Null in the above scenario.

Adios,
Cactus Dan

Cinema 4D R10 XL Bundle, BodyPaint, Dynamics
http://www.cactus3d.com
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[Cactus Dan]

Howdy,

If you’re not familiar with my plugins, my CD Constraints plugin has a CD Spline Constraint tag which works similar to the align to spline tag, but with several additional features, like the ability to continue around a closed spline by setting the edit number values above 100% or below 0%. It will also allow you to manually drag the constrained object along the spline in the viewport:
https://www.cactus3d.com/CDSplineConstraint.mov

Adios,
Cactus Dan

Cinema 4D R10 XL Bundle, BodyPaint, Dynamics
http://www.cactus3d.com
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[Cactus Dan]

Howdy,

A Joint’s Z axis must be aligned to the next joint down in the chain (its child joint) before applying IK to the joint chain. This is what the Align tool does.

The reason for this is because of the internal rotation order of Cinema 4D, which makes the Z axis the perfect twist axis. Animating an object’s rotation around the Z axis gives you stable interpolation between keys. If you’ve ever tried to animate an object rotating around any other axis than the Z axis, while the object is not originally oriented to the world 0,0,0, then you’ve probably experienced wobbly rotation interpolation between the keys.

If you’re not familiar with my rigging tutorials, you can check them out here:
https://www.c4dportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4374

The tutorials are based on using my rigging plugins, but there are a lot of explanations of why things are done a certain way which can be applied, no matter what tools are used or what software application is used.

Adios,
Cactus Dan

Cinema 4D R10 XL Bundle, BodyPaint, Dynamics
http://www.cactus3d.com
http://www.cactus3d.com/Plugins.html

[Cactus Dan]

Howdy,

Well, the easiest way is to parent the objects to the joints, but you want make sure to place them as secondary children of the joints like this:

+Joint
+-Joint
+–Joint
+—Object
+–Object
+-Object

… otherwise the objects would interfere with the joints’ rigging.

Adios,
Cactus Dan

Cinema 4D R10 XL Bundle, BodyPaint, Dynamics
http://www.cactus3d.com
http://www.cactus3d.com/Plugins.html

[Cactus Dan]

Howdy,

Make Editable is the command to use (under the Functions menu) to convert geometric primitives and nurbs objects into editable meshes. It will also make spline primitives into editable splines.

You only need to use mesh objects if the objects will deform or bend. Rigid characters, made up of several different parts (like robots and such) which will not deform, don’t need to be mesh objects. You can simply rig the parts themselves by constraining them or parenting them to a rigged joint skeleton.

Adios,
Cactus Dan

Cinema 4D R10 XL Bundle, BodyPaint, Dynamics
http://www.cactus3d.com
http://www.cactus3d.com/Plugins.html

[Cactus Dan]

Howdy,

Sorry, the original links are broken.

But you can visit https://www.reald.com/ and click on “watch RealD trailer” to view the animation.

Adios,
Cactus Dan

Cinema 4D R10 XL Bundle, BodyPaint, Dynamics
http://www.cactus3d.com
http://www.cactus3d.com/Plugins.html