Cinema 4D rigging
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- CyBrain
I have a VERY simple need for bones. It's just a bend at the end of a cylinder that the Bend Deformer isn't handling well enough.
I can't find one decent tutorial or example out there for C4D, preferably v11. I can't even find any clear direction on how to fix bones to an object.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
- M_C_P0
bones are going to add way more complexity to your scene than you'll need if all you want is a bend at the end of a cylinder.
posting some screencaps or a scene file would help us to help you in seeing what you're trying to achieve.
- CyBrain0
What I don't like about the bend deformer is how it starts to angle to the left right away instead of the shape I formed with the bones. If I put the deformer on an angle the deformation becomes skewed rather than angled.
- CyBrain0
Hey, M_C_P, I forgot to post what I did with your paper morph example you sent me a while back.
- M_C_P0
CyBrain, your link above is to your main page. did you mean to post a direct link to the file?
- CyBrain0
I think those comment boxes get truncated sometimes. Here's the scene file.
talesfromthehead.com/random/brus...
- CyBrain0
Let me try that again.
tinyurl.com/24tdbbu
- M_C_P0
does the curvature need to be animated?
- M_C_P0
if it's not animated, i would just do some simple mesh surgery. select the points in the middle of where you want the bend and enable soft selection, play with the numbers of how far out you want the softness and then pull those points over.
- M_C_P0
scenefile:
- CyBrain0
Yeah, I thought about that on the way home and realized I was obsessing over learning bones instead of solving the problem.
Taking a look at your file now.
- lukus_W0
Can you create a lattice in C4D? I reckon this could be a much more simple way of getting a bend ..
- M_C_P0
There a lattice deformer called freeform deformation. C4D's version of it is a little clunky and by the time you set it all up to move the points of the deformation, you could have just moved the points in your original mesh. for this scenario, at least.
- benr0ck0
I try to avoid using deformers in situations like this.
Perhaps re-build using a sweep nurbs?
- BarryEvans0
Spline Wrap?