How to use the Tracer Object in Cinema 4D

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1. Miles says:

   April 15, 2011 at 8:09 am

   cool simple tutorial

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2. Jay says:

   April 29, 2011 at 3:32 am

   First time I’ve ever used C4D, and I was able to complete this without any issues. You are awesome! Thanks so much for this site!

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3. zHAK says:

   June 15, 2011 at 11:20 am

   hi nick
   i can see the tracer object in viewport, but when i render, i only see my spheres, without the tracers… please help

   thanks

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4. AriADesigns says:

   July 30, 2011 at 11:40 am

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-i5xIh12Ro

   could someone help me please :S ?

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5. Bow says:

   August 6, 2011 at 8:54 pm

   sorry, but how to create the same in maya?

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6. Bow says:

   August 7, 2011 at 5:00 pm

   how can i do the same thing in maya 2012?

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7. Randle says:

   October 13, 2011 at 2:01 pm

   Everybody who has Cinema 4d bug with Mograph tracer that shows black screen in picture viewer: try to render the image on local disk and it should appear correctly.

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8. Flavio Reis says:

   October 17, 2011 at 10:09 pm

   Hi Nick, first thanks for the tut, very nice as always.
   Is it possible to change the clonned objects anchor point? Actually I want to change the way the trace meets the object.
   Thanks

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9. Adam says:

   November 24, 2011 at 12:01 pm

   Hey Nick.
   I’m using tracer object in my project + GI and AO.
   The major problem is…render time. Why the hell it takes so much time?
   Few objects on a scene – even with low GI settings (very low) it can take forever.
   One frame in a “hot” moment took me over 4 hours to render.
   And yes it is an animation.
   Any suggestions?

   Adam

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10. Edd Guerrero says:

    December 4, 2011 at 10:22 pm

    Hey Nick!, what’s up, I made this using this tutorial as reference, check it out if you wish, thanks =). http://eddguerrero.blogspot.com/2011/12/tazas.html

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11. Leonardo Moitinho says:

    December 28, 2011 at 12:18 pm

    Hello,
    can you help me….? the Formula doesnt works….
    link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8010082/TUTO_GSG_Trace.c4d

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    • Leonardo Moitinho says:

      December 28, 2011 at 12:26 pm

      THANKS MAN …. I did it……..

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12. ivona says:

    January 15, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    Hello Nick!
    Hope your reading this and answering!!! God I hope!
    I can see the tracer object in viewport, but when I render, I only see my spheres, without the tracers???

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    • The Gorilla says:

      January 15, 2012 at 2:21 pm

      Did you hook up your tracer to a sweep nurb?

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13. Yuriko says:

    February 2, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    Hey Nick,
    I’m working on a final for one of my classes, and I’m trying to create an Icosahedron using this method. I’ve played quite a bit with the settings but I am not getting the desired result.
    I want to make the “shell” of the icosahedron with spheres on its points and use the tracers to connect them but only to create a “shell”, so that it looks like an atom ray.
    Now, as you may suspect, the tracer connects the spheres seemingly randomly, and I can’t find a way for it to just look like the atom ray version of the icosahedron.

    Do you know of another way I can do this, maybe manually select where the tracer connects?

    I want to animate it, and I know I can using the atom ray but I’m trying to use new methods as I’ve just started c4d (4 weeks ago, but I am rather strong in Maya). Plus, this way seems inefficient.

    Please please please help.

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