[Victor Camacho guerrero]

Hey guys,

thanks for the replies, all of those were really awesome options. My goal was keeping the geometry of something complicated based in a any primitive and keep using the primitive to animate. Usually you need to convert to polygons to create geometry from a primitive, so then you have no option to animate using the primitive functions.

So this is what i did, I did a primitive when the shape more or less I want, I duplicate and convert into polygon and then I create all the complicate geometry I want. With the original primitive I animate it using any of the option, for example, slice in a cylinder. Then I use a Boole object to animate in or animate out the primitive transition over the geometry. Later of course you could use deformer and so on.

I hope it helps, if anyone wants the file, please let me know.

All the best!
Thanks

[Victor Camacho guerrero]

True as well 🙂

[Victor Camacho guerrero]

Thanks Brian,

it is actually a shame , because put down a little the process of the multipasses. Specially if you want to modify your reflections and do only the reflections part without calculating the rest. I guess something Maxon has to improve.

Many thanks

[Victor Camacho guerrero]

wow Cassisus this is pretty impressive, i never heard about this plugin, i will get for sure into my workflow.

thanks so much for this!!

[Victor Camacho guerrero]

I see ;( what a shame. hopefully maxon improves this in future versions

[Victor Camacho guerrero]

Thanks Adam,

pretty interesting trick you showed me there. As you said the simulation gets quite lost so, in the end I did manually the animation by hand ( quite painful) but it works too.

thanks so much

[Victor Camacho guerrero]

thanks guys for the reply.

Brian that is brilliant you realized that, which it solved a lot of my headache figuring it out.

I imagine there has to be some way with point cache tag too but i havent figured out yet.

Another solution I did was putting really high FPS in C4D and later retiming in AE with timewarp. Not so efficient, but it works.

Thanks guys

[Victor Camacho guerrero]

Thanks for your reply Brian,

I tried that, and it works as you said, but for some reasons sometimes using Time track it could get a little tricky.

If i remove the cloth tag, after baking, the animation goes wrong. I dont understand why that happens, if it has been baked already. Any idea?

Many thanks

[Victor Camacho guerrero]

Did you try cloth nurbs?? I found it a really easy way to add thickness to things..

[Victor Camacho guerrero]

Hi Adam,

I have been playing around trying all possibilities, and everytime I bake the objects and remove the tags, the objects behave really badly.

In the first place, I tried to follow your steps. In the first place if I press Bake All in the dynamics tag, the square bounce really heavy. Later applying the bake function, kind of works, but not doing exactly the same ( do you bake the soft body dynamics to PLA too?) . I baked the cloth tags to PLA and after I delete them, they explosion goes crazy splashing polygons all over the place.

Did you already try this with the project?

Many thanks for all this