[Scott Green]

Works perfectly, thank you.

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[Scott Green]

Sorry, that doesn’t work either.

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[Scott Green]

Sorry for the late reply Dan, the notification ended up in my spam folder.

Thanks for the info, but I’m not quite getting the result I was hoping for.

I think that the solution might be to try and link the Source Text property to the 2nd value of the Rotation Property, but to ignore the “1x” value and the “-” value.

For example…

…ignore “0x” and ignore “–” to give 15°.

…ignore “0x” and ignore “–” to give 359°.

…ignore “-1x” to give 0°.

…ignore “-1x” to give 30°.

Does that make more sense?
Would that be possible?

The wiggle was used just to test it out. I’ll probably be keyframing these values manually but with a bit of wiggle added.

Many thanks.

[Scott Green]

I haven’t had much luck solving the transparency problem of materials but for this particular problem I’ve been about to add some reflection on top of the screen graphic material to give it a more reflective look without the glass object in front of it – although it’s not too obvious in this render.

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[Scott Green]

Sure, here is the file.
13639_prorenderglass.zip

I thought it best to remove the main product as this is for a live project and I’m not sure the client would appreciate me sharing it at this stage, but I’ve left the screen graphic which has a glass object in front of it (which is how I first spotted the problem), then of course there’s the glass ball in there, just so you can see whether the transparency is working or not.

Thank you.

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[Scott Green]

OK that’s fine, I’ll just do it that way, thanks anyway.

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[Scott Green]

I mean an expression, where would I put that script?
I thought maybe to the Time Remapping control but a solid doesn’t have one, pre-composing it didn’t work either?

[Scott Green]

I think I see where I was going wrong now.

You had your sphere start at 0.01cm radius and used the Plain effector to scale it up 500%.
I did the opposite and had my sphere start at 2cm with the Plain Effector scaling it down -100% which probably why I wasn’t getting my falloff working the way that I wanted it to.

Here’s a file if it’s worth seeing.
11682_scalefalloff.c4d.zip

Many thanks for the response Jim, you’ve been a big help 🙂

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[Scott Green]

I’m looking for a post that can help and wondered if this is the place.

I’m scaling up some spheres in a cloner attached to the surface of a larger sphere. But instead of the scaling to be linear from 0% to 100% I’d like the falloff to have more of an ‘overshoot’ effect so each sphere goes say 0% to 100% then 75% at the end.

I thought I might be able to do this by adding a spline curve but it doesn’t seem to be giving me the effect I want as the spheres don;t all start at 0% scale.

Can anyone help please?

[Scott Green]

Beautiful ☺

Many thanks.

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