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UPDATE: If you are looking for a tutorial for the dynamics in the new Mograph 2 Module, try this tutorial instead.
Some of you were asking about a quick tutorial on how I set up last week’s Dynamics Test. I made this tutorial to show you the basic set up of how to get objects in your scene to bounce off each other. As you know, I have been a bit obsessed with dynamics in C4D all weekend. I hope to get more tutorials about dynamics soon. Enjoy!
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Cool Dynamics Fuck Yeah
Very cool Nick. I would like to see some tutorials on animating in C4D (F-curve, etc.), as opposed to just dynamics. My .02.
One of the bests Dynamics software out there is RealFlow4.
It not only works with fluids great, it also has rigid body dynamics. But as you said, it coasts money.
awesome can’t wait
great here is my first test after seeing yours
http://vimeo.com/5476486
waiting for seeing your tut’s and see if I was on the right way ; )
Bye,
m-_g
thegorilla on July 7th, 2009 said...
Love it. How did you make those textures?
m-_g on July 8th, 2009 said...
Thanks ! So for the balls it is the same texture with different colors gradients :
- Color : gradient (2D-V) from dark blue to green-blue and pink to orange for the others
- *Reflexion : 2% intensity, texture : fresnel
- *Specular : plastic, 77%, 81%, -36%, 0%
- *Displacemenet : 7% intesity & 11m high, texture : noise by default
(*it is to figure a kind of glossy crystal sugar outskin – not a perfect ball)
For the floor it’s a Danel texture but I changed the Diffusion color into a deep&dark purple
For rendering I built a studio whith your tricks for lightening,
Expect it’s quite clear I can make some screen capture or post you my source file if you want.
have a nice day,
m-_g
thegorilla on July 8th, 2009 said...
Thanks mg!
Thats a great looking material!
small tip regarding the gradient. To get this blocky kind of the gradient its better to click small triangle next to the gradient stripe and switch interpolation from cubic knots to none, you get crisp edge between colours. great blog! cheers
thegorilla on July 7th, 2009 said...
Great tip. Thanks pj!
Nick, for some reason the new vid is unviewable to me. It loads, but no sound and it skips. Maybe its on my end, but your other vids still work fine.
Thanks
yeah~ I can’t hear the sound either. Video loads normal, however, the audio is skips.
thegorilla on July 7th, 2009 said...
Sorry guys. I’m going to update this again tonight. Stupid Vimeo! Thanks for the heads up!
Joshua Schaible on July 7th, 2009 said...
May I ask what browser you are using?
Really nice tutorial. I am also tempted to attempt a rube goldberg machine in c4d.
Nick, here is something you inspired me to explore.
http://vimeo.com/5464042
Thanks Nick, it seems C4D Dynamics are really not that easy to handle. One thing I remember is the EPS value, it calculates the correct distance between objects so that they dont intersect.
Great tutorial as always! Just one question, why don’t you enable HD embedding?
Hello Nick , thanks for this great tutorial ,i notic that u are confuseing little bit with dynamics in cinema 4d , i feel it before
, let me tell u the best way to get AMAZING dynamic motion by easy way & short time!its too simple with Silverbullet4d plugin u have to try it once. i have a good experience with it, and i made some tutorials and tests with it i can share it with u , look it this please
http://vimeo.com/3978444
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLm3MOBoHkg
http://www.4shared.com/file/64123486/e640072b/coin_test_wm.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/67313517/7ac72785/phone.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/73221951/e0c2fba3/basketball.html
hope u like it , and i will be happy if i can help u ,
thanks again
zeeny
zeeny on July 8th, 2009 said...
hey what is happening here !
did i said some thing wrong ?
i see some comments here published after me comment!! why??
thegorilla on July 8th, 2009 said...
Sorry Zeeny, Your comment ended up in spam because of all the links. I have been looking at SilverBullet. Do you like it? How much easier is it to use? Also, does it handle more items? I really want to try something with a TON of marbles.
zeeny on July 9th, 2009 said...
hello again
its ok nick , thanks for your replay,
absolutely i like it from my heart , it’s very easy to use .. the plugin can handle with hundred and hundred and TON of objects without any problems
after installing plugin you will found only THREE options in silverbullet4D menu :
1- MakeDynamic
2- MakeStatic
3- MakrKinmatic
that’s it ..!!
i made a quick tutorial special for u about that options to know how the plugin works
http://www.vimeo.com/5522394
and this is another examples created by Silverbullet4D and look at the magic !! :
http://www.vimeo.com/5522603
<== good marketer lool:P ?
enjoy
zeeny on July 29th, 2009 said...
Hi , nick any updates with plugin ?
hope u doing great
bye
For those having video problems, may I ask what browser you are using?
Akatsuki5 on July 8th, 2009 said...
Im using Safari
Very gewd tutoriol !
Zhhank you my friend !
Last weeks post came in the middle of me looking at a project for dominoes – your post got me even further into the whole process. Next thing you know its 4 days later and I think I at least now understand – take a look
http://netsmith.posterous.com/dominoes-4
Cheers
Chris
Chris on July 10th, 2009 said...
I’ve now uploaded my c4d and realflow tutorial for rigid bodies. Hope it of use to someone http://www.nikonshot.com/domino/
Hey nick, gret tutorial. I have a little question (maybe a topic for some gsg cast someday) regarding file structure. I spend a lot of times, even in the most organized projects, trying to find out where are my files. The specific question is, in both personal and professional work (dk pipeline), assuming worst-case scenario (live action footage, references, 3d image sequences, alpha and z-depth passes, psd’s, ai’s, textures, projects files, and a long etc.), how do you organize you folders in order to keep the productivity flowing? Thanks for everithing man
Now is would be really great to see if you can mix Dynamics with the emitter and get your balloons to bounce off one another.
I dont have any sound. I get the Into Viemo sound but nothing during the tutorial. All of your other ones I have sound, Am I the only one having this problem
Great tips
I would try to make one thing soon …
Hey, Nick… I’ve been messing around with dynamics for about a week now and have def. found it to be unwieldy… makes me feel like I’m back in math class… I was screwing around with wind and gravity today to try to get a certain effect… A bunch of spheres flying and bouncing around inside a glass cylinder.
Also wondering if dynamics would work with a particle emitter. Any ideas? Gonna try it but am rendering the cylinder thing right now on my old-ass dual-core mac pro. Will post a vimeo link when it’s done.
here’s the experiment video:
http://www.vimeo.com/5529669
a bit of a mess.
thegorilla on July 9th, 2009 said...
Crazy looking. Yeah, c4d dynamics can be a pain in the ass. I am looking into SilverBullet right now. I’ll let you know what i find.
Here’s my version:
http://vimeo.com/5544006
Tried bouncing off multiple objects and adding a glass object to catch the balls at the bottom. Design needs work, and the stickiness/pausing thing is driving me nuts. I’ll keep working on more versions, but this is definitely a cool technique.
Todd Day on July 10th, 2009 said...
Very cool, John! I never had the sticking issue… will look at my file again and let you know.
http://www.vimeo.com/5544575
Another experiment… this time with thinking particles and collision… still looking for the holy grail when it comes to C4D Dynamics… Still playing with it. Not much luck but have learned more…
here’s the C4D file…
http://www.motitude.com/download/c4d/C4Dr11_TP_collisions.c4d.zip
thegorilla on July 10th, 2009 said...
Thanks for sharing Todd. Keep the good stuff Coming… It’s good to see these files.
Hy
It’s a little complicated ..?? isn’t ??
Why you don’t use the Hair module it’s very easy !!!
John Fischer on July 14th, 2009 said...
I don’t know enough about the hair module, but I’m curious how you would do this with it?
And is it faster, or does it slow down as dynamics does with many objects?
Hello, Nick!
Thanks for this great tutorial!
Thanks Nick! Loved the tut. It made me feel like learning more about it.
http://zuperdk.blogspot.com/2009/07/dynamics-in-maya-and-c4d.html
UPDATE: just got off the phone with Maxon and they admint that the DYNAMC module is old as hell itself. So, they have offered to swap dynamics for hair. Hey, as long as I have mass, gravity, and detection I should be good to go. Will keep you updated Nick… I should have the info from Maxon soon. DON’T MAKE ME GO BACK TO MAYA HELL! Hey, there is a reason why the MAYAns aren’t around anymore
The C4D Dynamics module I don’t think ever moved past v1.0. It’s SO out of date. SilverBullet is a good replacement plug-in. All signs point to r11.5 being announced at SIGGRAPH in a couple weeks. Here’s hoping for a new Dynamics upgrade!
Great Tutorial ! Here is my piece : http://vimeo.com/5727330
I’m going to work about something more personal.
Hi there,
I love all the tutorials. They are really helping me with my Cinema4d Skills. I have been in this industry a long time and respect your work. Thanks so much.
If you would like to check out my work. It is at http://www.brigittelattanzio.com.
Cheers
Hi
I’m not good at English, but i want to thank u. thank u!!
Nice example! Hey do you or anyone else have any idea how to bounce soft bodies off of each other. Like in this awesome syfy spot http://www.vimeo.com/5510525? I’ve tried both clothilde and soft springs. The balls bounce off the ground just fine, but they do not bounce off each other. I think it would make a pretty dope tut.
thegorilla on August 5th, 2009 said...
Nice Spots!! I will play around and see if I can get that look. I’ll be sure to share when I do.
lucas on August 5th, 2009 said...
Sweet! Yeah i’ve been obsessed with them since they released. I think they were handled by proudcreative …for anyone who cares. I’ll let you know if I get a similar look, as well.
Thanks Nick
Lucas on August 20th, 2009 said...
Sorry for the low res, but this is what i came up with.
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http://vimeo.com/6200140
Here is what I came up with. There is still hoving and motion blur issues. Thanks for the tut Nick!
http://www.vimeo.com/5980090
Hey I have watched your tutorial on dynamics and I am wondering if you could help me out alittle bit.. here is a link to the forum discussion.. I am so lost.. I can’t figure it out.. thanks alot…
http://www.videocopilot.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=20768
Here’s my little piece. Great tuts Nick. Brand new to this C4D shit.
Played around with text with this. well fiddley but i’m quite pleased with the end result and learnt a lot.
http://www.vimeo.com/6448153
Hi nick, Collision Eps under Solver object > Details has to do with the distance of the collision, taking out the “hovering effect”. The default is 20 i think, try to change it to 1. and it will work just fine.Thanks for the video.
So how would you animated the disk so that it tilts back and forth while the balls are falling on it. Was trying to figure this out after watching your tut. Not sure what im doing wrong any help would be great. Thanks!
The Gorilla on October 8th, 2009 said...
You can just use traditional animation techniques to move the disk. Maybe try a Vibrate Tag?
this tutorial was so awesome…i have demolished the web looking for decent tutorials and this by far was one of the best…if not the best…Thank You!
Hi, I was doin this tutorial with a load of polygons that make up an object but when they hit the disc they fall apart any idea how i stop this happening?
Haha, a little messy for a tutorial, but still enjoyable!
Is silverbullet free, anyone? thanks Nick.
by the way, there’s only coming sound from my LEFT SPEAKER when you’re talking.
The Gorilla on December 2nd, 2009 said...
Sorry, Marcy. I will try to upload a new version soon. Cheers!
Although I DO appreciate the effort of making this tut, it would be helpful if you kinda rehearse it before putting it up for the whole world. Makes it a little frustrating to watch when you trying to figure out live how to do things. I don’t mean it in a negative way, since generally your other tuts are pretty good.
Here’s mine first dynamic short!!
thanks for the tips Nick
http://vimeo.com/8675328
wow man! i really love you! tnx