Keith Vick

Ok, thanks for the suggestion. That sound excellent, I have a lot of time to experiment. I was thinking of making this dynamic so the pieces do not intersect and I need to finesse the splines. This is a rough version to get used to using C4d again. Its coming back quickly. Not that I was an expert. I started using C4d at Rel 9.5. The last job I did was in Rel15. I used it on and off between those releases. Now weighting and shader effecter..

Im going to head on over to MAXON to see which new toys I will have. Thanks again Cerbera. really great help. You were up early. Where are you based?

Thanks Cerbera yes, I was just about to post that I stumbled on the Random Effector. Seems to be the way to go. No Push Apart in Rel 15, unfortunately. Now I need to finess the animation with some curves. Is there an Easy Ease function in Cinema? My boss is buying me a shiny new seat on subscription so next week I should be using the latest release at work. 🙂 Exciting. I will have to catch up with Mograph fields and new Nodal texture system. Well it is new to me 🙂 I am really enjoying being back in C4d, even though it is rel15 for now. Didn't sleep last night. I have been re re-acquainting myself with C4d. I had forgotten how engaging this software is. and its great to know there are people here at the forum.

Hi Cerbera and Southpaw and Bezo so nice of you guys to help so promptly. Cebera, I followed your instructions. I have taken all of my paths and run Connect command. I now have the holes back in my text. I have one spline which i drop in Extrude Nurbs. Then made the Extrude editable giving me some geometry and dropped it into a Fracture object set to Explode and Connect I can now rotate, scale my objects using the Fracture Object's Transform Tab(so Fracture Object works like an Effector here). Great! Now is it possible to make the pieces explode out from the centre of the logo, having them move back into position on the centre of the screen? Will I need to stack another Effector or is there a setting i can use in the Fracture object? Bezo this is more or less what you suggested. Yes? South Paw I am going to look into the use of Spline Mask as well. Thank you.

Hi guys, Its great to be here. I am creating a logo animation. I have many splines. I need to extrude all of the splines and place them in a cloner object, so I can start moving them around in mograph. If I use a Extrude Nurbs I dont have any holes in my letters. I know that I can connect and delete but wouldn't this stop me from animating each piece with Mograph. Can any sage members give me some advice on this? Its been about 4 years since I did any 3d work, I am very rusty. 😉 I want to be able to use a plain effector to scale the pieces and move them into position as they grow over time. Hope that makes sense. I am using Rel15 Keith