Tips & Tricks, Textures, and Tutorials for Cinema 4D and Xpresso
Hair, Clothilde – by: base80
January 22nd, 2006
Here is a little tutorial about Hair + Clothilde + (Particle-)Forces.
The tutorials covers how to include forces (old particle system) with both Clothilde and Hair.
It is a great day! Hair has arrived. Thank you Maxon!
The postman delivered it a week ago but mistakenly gave it to my neighbors.
I will post a series of tutorials and tips on using and misusing hair in the coming weeks. I’ll try to make hair grow using xpresso and sliders. And I dream of making a lawn with a lawn mower. I will also start posting combinations of Hair and Clothilde, hair and particles, Hair combined with forces…
If you have any suggestions please post them in the comments or mail them to me.
Xpresso – by: base80
January 19th, 2006
This is a cheap trick to do banking. It is very useful for animating bikes or airplanes.
Here is the image of what you can get in 2 minutes of xpresso.
Xpresso – by: base80
January 6th, 2006
OK I had you going with the previous Tutorial.
It is the mathematically correct formula to make a wheel spin. But it can be simplified.
As you can see in the Tut I use Pi twice, one to multiply and once to divide with, and that is useless.
Xpresso – by: base80
January 5th, 2006
How to make a wheel rotate on a spline in 7 steps. (please read the 2nd Tut it is way easier)
This is the formula: 2Pi * (Length of spline / distance on spline) / circumference of wheel(2Pi*r) = rotation(in radians)
Continue readingHair – by:
base80
February 1st, 2006
This tutorial will show how to make a thatched roof, a straw roof.
The roof will look ok from a distance and is quite ugly in close up.
Hair – by: base80
February 15th, 2006
A Mouse Cord. Dynamic Spline TUT-1
! There is a known bug on mac-c4d 9.5.2.1 – you can not always save the file or it will crash – should be fixed soon!
Lets assume we want to make a wired computer mouse. Or whatever appliance with a wire or cord.
Here are some tricks to make the task a breeze.
Xpresso – by: base80
February 1st, 2006
Have you ever wondered how to make blinking lights. Or blinking anything for that matter.
Join me for a super fast tutorial.
Continue readingXpresso – by: base80
February 18th, 2006
A frequent question on the C4D boards around the world is: “How do I animate a Locomotive Piston?”
At first glance it seems to be some sort of target thing, but unfortunately it is more complex.
We need some math here.
Remember the Pythagorean theorem? AAAAARGH!
Xpresso, Formula – by: base80
February 19th, 2006
Micro Tutorial about manipulating text.
This is the tip of the iceberg of text manipulation.
I’ll just show the bare basic manipulation, adding text strings together.
What I do is add This Cube is (size of cube) Cubic Cm.
