how do you do this...?

[AdamT]

Cool site! Looks like he's using animated sweeps and applying some kind of animated deformation to the rail spline--maybe the flag or formula deformer, or perhaps Nickl or something along those lines.

[JoelOtron]

COOL SITE thanks for the link.

The beginnings of this technique can be done by just animating the growth of a spline nurbs object. The downside is that the you get an open end at the part that is growing.

heres c4d file (http://www.betatronstudios.com/loco/VINEGROW.c4d)

Loco can do this sort of thing with particles. Rendering a movie now--will put the loco version up in a sec...

[policarpo]

to avoid the hole in the end just apply a Fillet cap and scale the spline down in the Sweep scale percentage parameter field.

[govinda]

The $350 answer to keeping the open end of the SweepNurbs pointy is XFrog and its Branch Object. Looking at a few vids I don't think Tetsuo is using it.

[policarpo]

it would be cool to have a connected multi spline sweep nurb object.

:-)

[darf]

Originally posted by policarpo
it would be cool to have a connected multi spline sweep nurb object.

:-)

Explain... ?

darf

[JoelOtron]

Arndt has a plugin called "Sweet Sweep" that allows for multiple sorce objects....if thats what you mean.

Anyway, hers the loco version:

movie (http://www.betatronstudios.com/loco/VINE%20GROW3_sor.mov)

[policarpo]

Originally posted by darf
Explain... ?

darf

i guess a better statement would have been to say that it would be cool to have the ability of doing a Sweep Nurb Growth animation along a single object with a branching structure instead of a just single Spline path.

Does that make sense?

C4D is still new to me, so if we can do this, I blame LW for making me think inside a box.
:drool:

[JoelOtron]

Originally posted by policarpo
i guess a better statement would have been to say that it would be cool to have the ability of doing a Sweep Nurb Growth animation along a single object with a branching structure instead of a just single Spline path.


This ability actually exists via XFrog:
http://www.xfrogdownloads.com/

or DPIT2:
http://www.dpit2.de/

[policarpo]

Ahh...sweet.

Is one better than the other?

I'm on OSX and the PC....

Cheers.

:thumbsup:

also, how much is X-Frog 4.1 for C4D? The shop is taking forever to load?

Is it $350 as indicated earlier in the thread?

[flingster]

srek did a great example of this...but he used geometry in metaballs...so looked like a branching organic worm...i think it was called growth or something..i'll try and dig it out.
:shrug:

cool thing was it was native to c4d no plugins at all.

btw that site is very funky...impressed by it..v cool stuff on there.
:thumbsup:

[policarpo]

that would be cool flingster...i'd love to see that.

:beer:

[flingster]

Originally posted by policarpo
that would be cool flingster...i'd love to see that.

:beer:

thanks to siddhy for tipping me off about this one....sreks example file afaik...so all credit to him.
it shows the branching...different result everytime...but might give you food for thought.

http://www.bonkers.de/download/tp_growth.c4d

http://www.bonkers.de/download/tp_growth.mov
:beer:

[policarpo]

cool thanks.

i will check it out.

:buttrock:

[Medicine Horse]

I've never heard of this plug before. Where can I see what it does? I checked Vreel but I couldn't find anything.

Sounds interesting.

-M

[JoelOtron]

Its an extra bonus with the weight lifter/weight shader pak.:

http://www.vreel-3d.de/plugins/ShaderPack_II/links.html

Its an easy one to miss, mentioned briefly in the first sentence on the page.

[Medicine Horse]

Thanks for the reply, I'll look into it.

-M

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