[Jeremy Allen]

oh ok… yeah putting your object in a cloner is a pretty common techinque to enable mograph on your objects. Nothing wrong with that. Some people also use the fracture object for the same result.

In theory, the cloner object can have any number of children, but your plane disappears because you are telling the cloner to only clone one time, so it only clones the first object in the stack. If you set the clone count to the number of children, they should all show up. So set the clone count to 2 and you should see your plane again. Or you could also leave the clone count at 1 and set clones to cluster instead of iterate. That may be the better way to go, not really sure, but both methods seem to work.

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C4D 11.5
AE CS3
FCP 6.0.1

[Jeremy Allen]

When you say you’ve put the plane inside the sphere, do you mean you’ve made it a child of the sphere, or just visually placed it inside? If it’s a child, it will take on whatever transformation the parent has.

I see you are wanting to have several clones of the sphere/plane combo, and that should still work if you just put the plane under the sphere in the object manager (while still being visually inside the sphere) instead of the plane being a child of the sphere.

Did that help, or do you have a different problem?

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C4D 11.5
AE CS3
FCP 6.0.1

[Jeremy Allen]

Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but it sounds pretty close.. Hope it helps!

https://www.pariahstudios.co.uk/tut_003.html

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C4D 11.5
AE CS3
FCP 6.0.1

[Jeremy Allen]

OR…

– turn on Action/Title safe guides
– select the ellipse tool
– position your cursor over the center cross hairs and start dragging
– without releasing the mouse, press command to expand from the center and shift to constrain to a perfect circle

This works for square and non-square pixel comps.

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C4D 11.5
AE CS3
FCP 6.0.1

[Jeremy Allen]

In addition to Larry’s #3 tip on framing… to get a little more resolution, you can turn your camera sideways and fill as much of the frame as possible.

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C4D 11.5
AE CS3
FCP 6.0.1

[Jeremy Allen]

Also, if you select the Extrude Object and change the parameters, you can see the structural differences of each option on your object.

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C4D 11.5
AE CS3
FCP 6.0.1

[Jeremy Allen]

I don’t mean to be harsh, but that Illustrator file is just a mess. You have way too many paths, overlapping paths and there is indeed extra junk around some of the letters. I’m really surprised C4D even gave you that good of results with the Extrude. I wish I could help more, but I don’t have the time to clean all this up for you. Essentially, all you really need is the red outline and the outer most path that defines the letter shapes. But then ideally you would need to combine those paths to cut out wherever you want the empty space in the letters.

I have no doubt that if you clean up these paths and give C4D proper splines to work from, you will get the results you are looking for..

Letter “e” with junk:

Letter “c” with junk:

Letter “a” with junk:

Overlapping:

Way too many:

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8core MacPro, 3.0 GHZ, 10GB RAM, OSX 10.5.6

C4D 11.5
AE CS3
FCP 6.0.1

[Jeremy Allen]

If you’re on a Mac you can try Window > Workspace and then try a few of those options and see if it helps. Or maybe “reset Standard” will do it.

you could also try to set your monitor to a different resolution and see if the window will reposition itself..

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8core MacPro, 3.0 GHZ, 10GB RAM, OSX 10.5.6

C4D 11.5
AE CS3
FCP 6.0.1

[Jeremy Allen]

That sounds like some sort of problem to me.. The scale tool is pretty snappy and responsive for me. By that I mean it scales like I would expect it to right off the bat. Not really sure how to help in your situation though..

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C4D 11.5
AE CS3
FCP 6.0.1

[Jeremy Allen]

The file upload button is the last one on the right… so if you see the picture button, then there is a video button, then the file button. It looks like an old school floppy disk.

But yeah, you can upload the file anywhere and link to it in the message.

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C4D 11.5
AE CS3
FCP 6.0.1