Comments on: How to use the Tracer Object in Cinema 4D

By: KleonZ

KleonZ — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:18:41 +0000

Hey Nick,
awesome tutorial!!
But here is a question. Is there a way to change the anchor point for the tracer?? I want to trace some letters but I want the trace “line” to begin from the bottom of the screen while the letters are at the top!!
Thanks in advance,
Kleon

By: Joe Tinsley

Joe Tinsley — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:54:21 +0000

Hi Nick

Having some trouble getting this to work in r13?

Whenever i add the tracer and circle spline into the sweep nurbs, i just get a big horrible mess, and the circle is swept…

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Joe

By: Genuine_Justin

Genuine_Justin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:47:36 +0000

I have a complex animation, and/if/when c4d crashes i have to render from the beggining or else the tracers reset, is there a way to pick up the render from where it left off with the tracers in place?

By: PILEOFPIXELS

PILEOFPIXELS — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:16:43 +0000

Hey Nick how would I vibrate null in c4d R13

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By: Marc Foster

Marc Foster — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:40:49 +0000

Quality! was searching for ages to find out how to add geometry to traced particles. This works.

Great stuff and Thanks

By: axis

axis — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:58:41 +0000

Thanks man, simple but effective

By: Zidane Stewart

Zidane Stewart — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:45:17 +0000

Thanks Nick ! I did this with help from your tutorial – http://flic.kr/p/bqNeQ8

By: Yuriko

Yuriko — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:59:59 +0000

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.

By: The Gorilla

The Gorilla — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:21:06 +0000

Did you hook up your tracer to a sweep nurb?