In this tutorial, I show you how to make a Glass Mesh object with spheres inside using Cloner Objects, Softbody dynamics and rigid body dynamics. I also use the Infinite floor technique for the white floor. This tutorial was made using Cinema 4D Version 12. But, if you are still running earlier versions of Cinema, have no fear. There has been some great discussion on how to do this technique in 11.5 in the comments over at this post. As always, feel free to push this tutorial and try your own version with different shapes or even text! Can’t wait to see what fun stuff you come up with.
Final Result
wanted to see workaround in 11.5
please did you get any help on the dynamic with you v 11.5
Hey ive done this inspired on your tut just to let you know ,oh and i did it with 11.5 never figured out how to do the cloth working with dinamycs together, ive researched a lot :S
http://vimeo.com/18705600
Very cool tut, I learned a lot about soft body dynamics, thanks!
result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5RRYFOFQq4
how to use Soft body in 11.5 version,
I could not find in 11.5 Please help
greattt !!!! thx you ! you are the best !
Hey Nick, Great tutorial! U might have figured out that cylinder problem you were having but if you didn’t… Cylinder State to Object, select all your verticies, functions/optimize, click ok. That essentially welds all of your verts together and will keep your caps from flying off the earth! Dunno why C4d has that set up as the default mesh but.. That should fix it for you! Keep the great tuts coming man
Great tip! Also solves the issue for text though i did have to select the vertices at the extrusion’s both ends and use the close polygon hole in Structure (shortcut: M-D) to keep the particles inside… I’ll see if i can render it today and post it somewhere…
Thanks for the tip! (im using r12 by the way…)
So, here it is… Its a shame that youtube messed up the sound design though… Its out of sync…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAxSkJ2t9do
great tutorial as always nick. created a great still shot with this tutorial and added some effects in photoshop http://picasaweb.google.com/jwelt91/Everyday#5566421715873548754
Great tut, thanks
realy nice work and this give me a lot of knowlage about dynamics in C4D 
Hey Nick, the tut was very helpful because I was wondering if I could do the cover of the recent deadmau5 album (4×4=12)in cinema and then I noticed that I could do the trick if I used the cloner object method you used.
Here is the result:
http://trepatorfx.comxa.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/render_1_hi-rez_png_blur_title.png
Cheers
Hey! An awesome result there!!!
But… now that you talk about phong I was wondering in there’s a tool or a plug-in to really improve the visual sub-division as Turbosmooth for 3DMax.
I’m looking all over Internet without any success. PLEASE HELP!
Has anyone figured out how to work around the softbody dynamics in v11.5? Or what happened to the posts where Nick said information on the problem could be found?
Nick you are the man, thank you.
Awesome tutorial
Nick you are the man, awesome tutorial
Nice tutorial! Totaly loved it, keep up the good work.
Here is my finished render.
http://vimeo.com/20108779
Hi, I need help.
I want to know why I have no ‘softbody’ in the dynamics panel, i see you have more dynamics and I have only three. I have the same version of the program. Please Help me
Nick
I just got C4D r12 and it keeps freezing, not sure if you can help. I have been running 11.5 with no issues. I have a 64 bit and 6 gb ram. Not sure what the issue could be. If you have a sec or any ideas what the problem could be I would really appreciate it.
Thanks
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Hi! gorilla!
I recently knew this awesome tutorial video!
I’m really crazy about this lecture!
But I have some problem.
Actually mine is version 11.5.
I can’t find simulation icon on the bar which you used that function like create rigid body and so on on this tutorial.
I need your advice
If you let me know ASAP, I would be grateful.
Awsome tutorial, I’m a big fan.
an other way of getting rid of your exploding caps problem is filletting your caps don’t know why it works but it does
cheers
http://www.vimeo.com/21889955
heyy… i have the thrausi plugin but i have put it everywhere, from the plugin file in roaming to the plugin file in c4d’s location but when i go to c4d it doesnt appear in the plugin menu. can anyone help me???
im sorry but i aint gettin any shadows with the overhead soft box and i am not getting any shadows with normal lights either
Could be your glass it too transparent?
“Get the heck offa me, your touching me” HAHAHAHA I laughed for ages at this!
Hi, Nick! Very useful tutorial. Thanks!
But, did u found a way how to do this with objects like cylinder or extruded text? I need it very much ((.
Regards.
Hey I can not figure out how to “trap” the objects inside another object…..I am using an emitter and it is shooting through my cube…and then I even tried to trick it with a plane and still doesn’t work…I switched the object to static mesh…since my object isn’t moving….in fact played with every setting the emitter is shooting through is there something in the dynamics tag of the emitter I should be looking at….thanks to anyone who can help…..
here is the project file…thanks a lot nick and to everyone on this site….i am three weeks into learning cinema since being laid off, spending ten hours a day on it…I will be using it in my freelance work soon.
so i think, wait OooOOOOooOOooOOo! HERES what happened!
Niiiiiice, Nick!
I did mine… its my first render on C4D… if you guys could gimme some tips, that will be great!
http://vimeo.com/24243755
Cya!
pls can anyone help on the dynamics for v11.5, i cant seem to find my simulation tab where all the dynamics is at. Please help.. Please
any help please when i hit the play bottom my dynamics don’t work?
Here is a still from my simulation…..some comments please
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2625756&l=15172020bf&id=1216671681
Hi Nick
Just want to thanks for the tuts, they are great.
Keep them coming
Mark
hey! nice tutorial, but i have a problem… the floor doesnt receives shadows, and y have marked cast shadow and receives shadow!! what ca i do?
hi nic, congratulations for your job.
the issue from the cylinder may be fixed by
making it editable and selecting optimize from function menu?
regards from mexico!
This is probably a basic question, but how do I get the shadows to not flicker? I tried turning the intensity down and backing up the light. I do not have the light kit, but have tried omni and area lights with area and soft shadows but cant figure it out.
http://vimeo.com/28873927
c4d is the password if anyone can take a look
Hi nick I’ve a question and maybe you can help me…I need create a scene where a close bag is falling and hit the floor, it has fruits inside..so these fruits must keep inside the bag and moving..while the bag must respond to physic and change its form…my question
my bag is a soft body and it has the cloth tag
my fruis are hard bodies and they’ve the collision cloth tag
when i run the animation the physic works but my bag isn’t a cloth
when i run the cloth option “relax” the cloth work but oviously not the physic…
I know the solution would is in the cache option but I’m not pretty sure how resolv it..I’ve tried many ways and it still not worked
thanks for help
So I’m doing an infinite white background, and when I add a linear skylight it messes up the effect. Now I was like, “Okay I should just go to the composite tag and uncheck seen by camera”. Well it won’t let me, I uncheck it and then it automatically rechecks it. Any idea why?
I love everything you do, your awesome! I’ve really learned a lot because of your tutorials and blogs.
Make sure you go into the rig itself, where all the settings are to turn off “Seen by camera” instead of on the composite tag. I built it in.
hi this is my first time i comment i like your work and i follow all you”r lessons but i have C4D 11.5 and i dont have Softbody Dynamics how i can have it
Softbody Dynamics aren’t available in 11.5.
I have learn several good stuff here. Definitely price bookmarking for revisiting. I surprise how a lot attempt you place to create this kind of magnificent informative website.
Awesome blog.Much thanks again. Really Great.
Hallo Nick,
great tutorial, like always. I’ve a problem rendering the scene. Dynamics works great but when I render the scene the sphere and the plane just ignore the tags. I mean, the sphere breaks into the floor and it doesn’t change the form. Should I set something in the render settings?
Thanks,
A.
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This is SO awesome.
I’m having a go at the tutorial but trying todo it with motext or just text imported from illustrator
Nick do you know how it can be done with motext?
Loved that “ouuh” sound at 27:38 haha!
Thanks for your tutorials, learning so much from them and always having a pleasant moment watching it!
Thanks the Nick for a lesson. Often I visit your project. It is grateful for all your works. A nickname and you couldn’t give interview for our site??
I see a Weekend Project in my immediate future.
Thanks Nick
Hmmmm, finally I will see what I was doing wrong :/ Thanks, Nick!
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Great and original tutorial! Thanks!
Campbell Dude! You Rock!
Nice tuto.
For the cylinder cage issue, after pressing C, you must optimize (in functions menu) the mesh (to melt points that are both on the caps and on the cylinder).
I have a question: In C4D, is a basic sphere hollow by default or not ?
Cool, cool, cool. have a good weekend!
So cool… I don’t have the r12 (It’s working on 11.5) but you also can use the atom array with a sphere instead of the two cloner object?
Alternatively, you could just drop the sphere into an atom aray. Worked for me.
What`s about a pop filter?
Hey Nick why didn’t you use Atom Array?
Nice tutorial again. Thanks for taking your time to do these.
Got a question: Is it somehow possible to create instaces of the null.Cage instead of copy&pasting it. Cloner seems to work, but is somewhat limited for placement. Instance object on the other hand doesn’t seem to recalculate the dynamics.
Thank you for all of your hard work. I have learned a lot watching your blog over the past year and a half. YOU ROCK!
ARGHHH!!! Phong tag nearly ruined my day! Thanks Nick! I got there in the end.
lol damn… after like 12 hours of rendering (full hd, 2×2 aa, etc..) i just realized i forgot to remove the seen by refractions ><
my final version will be nice though =] here's the work in progress..
http://vimeo.com/17193494
Hi Nick, I really like that you don´t script your tutorials. It´s always fun to see other guys have a hassle in C4d, too
. It´s impressing what deleting the phong tag caused. I always screw around with the phong settings in Cinema, but never had the idea to just delete it 
Great tutorial as always!
For the cilinder you can just give it a small fillet in the caps tab, this will connect the object. But if you don’t want the extra geometry, optimizing is the way to do it, as stated above.
Reason not to use atom array:
- cloning is non destructive like nick showed in the end.
- using an atom array gives you another piece of geometry which is intersecting with the other cage object and gives you major dynamics problems. (has to simulate exactly the same, which it doesn’t)
wow. I’m really proud of myself because this is EXACTLY the way I did it!!!! Except the shaders and the lightning part, because my mbp couldn’t handle the rendering.
I like the last part where you can actually make the sphere refraction look like diamonds.I got a question,supposedly you have a 12 cores why when you hit play in Cinema 4d it look slow?Dont you have a powerful video card?..Thanks
Vraiment très intéressant, comme d’hab !
Really very interesting, as always !
Many thanks from a french guy.
Thanks for all the great tuts Gorilla, I got into After Effects because of Andrew Kramer (VideoCopilot) 1year ago and a week ago I plunged into the 3D world–Universe via C4D because of Nick Campbell.
I’m working on my first paid project after watching 30+ hours of urs and other online tuts lol. If anyone wants to see how bad I do I’ll post on my site (dfilmon.com) next friday.
Sorry for the long post its my first. Advice to other “green”(noobs) 3D artists like me, fake it till you make it. There will never be a perfect time to start u just gotta start
-God Bless
Hey se c’è il Francese non può mancare l’Italiano no?:)
Bravo Nick! Always interesting and fun to follow you!
ciao ciao!
R.
If you want to keep your cilinder from loosing it’s caps without breaking it up:
Just ad a fillet cap with a radius of more then 0 (for example 1cm).
I came across this problem a few days ago, and after some fooling around I noticed the fillet cap kind of solves the problem (but that’s only if you don’t mind it has one).
Interesting work around the atom array, Nick. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving buddy. Thanks for everything
thanks Nick you are el mejor
hey! thanks for all the cool tutorials… I had a question, Ive been trying to find out how to great a polymesh of an object with deformation on it…
Nick, how did you get your spheres to not be so stiff. Mine don’t compress into each other as much as yours and I didn’t see you change anything in your settings to make that happen, it just naturally worked for you
I can’t figure out why my small spheres are bulging out of the main sphere, did I miss something?
you could have used atom array property …instead of making cylinders and spheres…speedsup the process..i tried it..:)
I know that I, along with many, went in a different direction. But this is why your site is one of my favorites. I’ve learned a lot from trying to replicate your work, and then I learn even more from your explanations of how you did it. Call it the Campbell Method (akin to the Socratic method) – but whatever it’s called, Dude, you’re seriously helping lots of peeps. Thanks for what you do.
Hardly anyone is doing such a professional tutorials as Gorilla. I am referring to free tutorials.Many thanks!
While I was watching this I went out and bought your light kit right away, Way more in the way of value then the million After Effects plug ins I have purchased over the year. Thanks a lot for all the great free tutorials! Even A person I was talking to at a apple store knew your site.
my final version after waiting all day for depth and lighting passes etc… i finally decided to NOT use depth of field lol
http://vimeo.com/17231165
Hey there Nick,
I was actually shouting “Niiick! The phone tag!”
hahaha
I actually encourage people not to stop there.
You can then bring it in after effects and use the motionVector pass from c4d and all good stuff.
Zizo
Someone have stolen your site
http://blog.snailart.ru/
Heres my result:
http://vimeo.com/17208760
played alot with lighting on this one
damn, but at least his promoting your kit
I didn’t have time to render the entire animation, so I just rendered out a still.
I also used a bulge deformer for the pyramid.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Glass-Mesh-Experiment/831891
for a cylinder issue and others like text and bla bla I always use tools – optimize / 0,01 and so on… It works always
no. Nick is a undercover spy. we think he´s a gorilla when he actually is a Russian snail.
Again a great tutorial! Thanks a lot.
By the way, here’s my try…
http://vimeo.com/17234925
how creative
Hey guys,
Here is my try at this technique.
I used a Tube primitive. I just made it editable (‘c’) and then used the ‘Optimize’ tool to attach the caps to the tube.
http://www.vimeo.com/17235561
Hope you like it!
Hey Nick
what you think?
My first one!
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/1975/provapalle01.png
Damm, russian fail
I might have a couple of times annoyed you
, but deeply admire you. You have such a great potential to explain complicated things, and to emphasize the basic principles of the computer generated graphics, animation and photography. Thank you a million times SENSEI!
Thanks again for the inpiring tutorial Nick. you just helped me to consider the opgrade to c4d 12
Press C to make cylinder editable and then Functions->Optimize to connect all parts of the cylinder.
This is so sad… And he calls himself a web designer…
Hey Nick, another great Tutorial! Thanks a lot for your amazing work!
Here’s my final result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kteFXtGXSeM
Hey Nick. Thanks for the tutorial. Wondering if you can help. Ive made a polygon to look like a 3D astrix (Sphere with capsules sticking out) but when I apply dynamics to it the capsules just mush through the floor. Any suggestions? Your Cross Process app is cool by the way. Can’t take an ordinary picture anymore, always have to apply a bit of Cross Process action!
Hello …
How are you doing
How can I mace bones in cinema 4d 12 like this:
http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-a-dancing-ice-cream-bar-animation-in-cinema-4d-and-after-effects/comment-page-1/#comments
Hi Nick, I dont have the dynamics on 09.42.
I only have: Simulation > Dynamics > Create Rigid Body, Create Collider, Create Ghost Collider and Force. Please tell me how to get the ones you have, and how to get the ‘hair’ ones? Oh, and how did you put them on the taskbar? Thanks
Hi Nick! Thanks for tutorial ! Love your site.
Here’s my final result:
http://vimeo.com/17258560
Love this site, started learning C4D a week ago.
Heres my version, a bit soft and short, but hey….it works
http://vimeo.com/17261268
Amazing tutorial… great stuff you do Nick.
I can’t find in Simulation->dynamics->.. soft body… i have only rigid body. why…help please
hehe. Awesome!
my try http://vimeo.com/17270087
Hi Nick,
here’s my result (if you care). I added caustics to make some nice reflections on the floor. Unfortunately the render was pretty long and I did not repeated (is too dark and not so interesting).
Anyway I learned the technique, thanks a lot!
http://vimeo.com/17271608
Thanx for the great tutorial as always
What would be the solution to make the cage be a part of the ball but also be included in the collision calculation? Because now they are just going through the floor.
Awesome tutorial, thanks Nick. Learning Cinema became a lot cooler after discovering your blog, seriously. Thanks for the great work you do.
Extremely cool tutorial. Thank you ^.^
This is an awesome tutorial but I have one big problem. I got to the stage of making it a soft body dynamic and then found out that in my Simulation > Dynamics menu there is no soft body tag? I have just brought Cinema 4d version 12 so I really wanna get this to work. Please help!
Thanks
In C4D r12 Broadcast, is a cloner object required for the rigid body dynamics? I could not find a way to apply the body dynamics directly to primitives without first setting up a cloner. As a result, beyond 9:40 in the tutorial, I was lost as to how to proceed given that limitation, as the outer structural elements didn’t seem to recognize another cloner as an object. Did I miss something?
My Try…
http://vimeo.com/17282949
Great technik, but how can I make a realistic sound?
My work: http://vimeo.com/17262489
Learned something new today.
Deleting the phong tag!
Great tip Nick
.
There’s a “simple” way to connect the cylinder:
- Make a cylinder
- leave it as a primitive (don’t make it editable)
- create a Connect Object as a parent
- In Connect Object’s attributes set the Phong Mode to “Lowest” (this will use the Phong value from the Cylinder’s own Phong tag)
- enjoy
hey nick
which cinema 4d do you have?
the studio bundle? broadcast or prime. tell me pls.
Really cool
Awesome tutorial, Nick! I learned so much from this one.
Anyway, I’ve been having a problem that is off topic from this tutorial, but I thought I would ask it here because of the awesome community…
So… I have been using the destruction plugin to create and explosion and my project settings are at 30fps but my render settings are at 60 fps or sometimes higher. It seems that whenever I turn up the Fps or render the scene, the is a much bigger explosion than what I want. Does anyone know how to fix this?
*To explode my object, I just hit it with another rigid body.
I watched the tut yesterday and made a little try with a font.
It’s a little shameless tribute to the gorilla.
Nothing very creative in the lightning cause I’ve got the LKP and did the same rigging but it was fun to do.
http://vimeo.com/17292232
And Nick, your tuts are really good cause I am now able to watch them once and do it all over without looking the video again. Impressive how you make things logical for the rest of us.
Cheers DUDE.
thanks a lot, very inspiring
Hey, I was curious about buying C4D and figured i’d post this here instead of emailing directly, so more people would have a chance to chime in if they knew the answer.
I’m looking into buying it for my company, but figure that I don’t need the new features of 12 and could do with 11.5 studio – hopefully for less than 12 studio would be new since we can’t really afford it. It seems though that companies don’t really sell old licenses and there’s not any floating around ebay or craigslist. Is there a place where people legally buy and sell old copies of pro software like this, or am I barking up the wrong tree entirely with this idea? Thanks-
GSG Tut + HDRI Lightkit Pro + Vitage Film for Looks = WIN Formula
Everything turned out pretty sweet, except there’s some noise going on after everything settles with the fat doughnut ring shape. It’s like the glass texture is vibrating or something. Anyone got any ideas?
Great project.
http://vimeo.com/17292858
Here’s mine:
http://www.vimeo.com/17298446
I am a total novice, so I’m still amazed by everything about this software. Thanks Nick!
Have you thought of making a GSG forum? I think it’d be a hit.
Great tut as always Nick!
WOHOOOO. Awe-inspiring stuff, Nickety Nick. I want to do some C4D again, now.
Sweeeeet Tutorial!!!
Have you looked inside your C4D goodies CD? There’s a plugin called “Real Fresnel” in there. I’m not sure what the difference is but It is a little different.
Greeeeaaaaaat tutorial!
Does it also work with poly. objects instead of primitives? I tried it out, but without luck ;-(
do you have any idea?
Here is my attempt. Being short on the $ 1800 I need to buy soft body simulation in R12, I ran the large balls soft body dynamics in Blender and imported the animated meshes into Cinema 4D for the lighting, texturing, and the modynamics simulation. It was an interesting exercise. Thanks for the challenge, Nick!
Just adding my output to the pile.
http://vimeo.com/17270891
Loving everybodys work and this post!
Does anyone know how to achieve this cloner technique if your object has edges of different lengths?
HI
I tried to do the mesh thing on text, but the cylinders are not coming on the face of the text,,just on the sides. When i animate it the sides explodes outwards and all the inside balls come out. How can i make the text covered with the cylinders so that the inside balls stays in when it hits the floor.
thanks, and keep up the good and fun tutorials.
Great tutorial. Beautiful result.
The refraction of glass is by the way 1.51714. Nitrogen (liq) is 1.2
http://interactagram.com/physics/optics/refraction/
Hi!
Is it possible to make a short movie about preferences in C4D R12, don’t look the same as in R11.5. Thinking about setting monitor gamma and color profile etc. The basics.
Love the lightkit by the way, it’s great!!
does anyone know how to do the countdown transitions in this video? the 10, 9, 8, 7 etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnP1neKl1yc
Nice tutorial, you’re really good at explaining these things, and great fun with the cloner, i don’t use it as much as i should.
My 2 cents: http://uppix.net/9/8/7/5b5db213621020db7d5f779709ba6.jpg
really Great tutorial, Thanx
For all guys who also have problems with “soft” body. I think we really should try 2 update our Cinemas. This is copypaste from log 2 upgrade:
This update also includes the improvements from 12.016 to 12.028 which are:
- Overall stability improved
- Character animation tools (weighting, dynamic IK, stick mode)
- Dynamics (caching, soft body behavior)
- BLA-BLA-BLAH
- Behavior of various Deformers
- Dynamics
- BLA-BLA-BLAH2
Hey !
Is the 5 second project dead ?
Seriously Nick, you should be a little less casual about it, that’s the mean reason your website is so popular..
Thank you very much for that anyway, looking forward to see some new 5SP !
I just got C4D and your tutorials and blogs have seriously done amazing things for me. I love watching your videos and your tuts are so easy to follow and watch, not boring like some of those lynda vids. Anyway, just wanted to say thanks!! I love this blog and everything you do for all of us n00bz.
Heres my attempt, I added some sound in Fruity Loops also to try and make it more epic, hahaha.
http://vimeo.com/17328843
New tut now,
kthxbai.
Hello there! Nick you’re awesome!
Here’s my try… http://vimeo.com/17361542
it was awesome as always hey men can u do a tutorial to do something like this please
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTnvxVJ4fTo
Thankyou nik for this great tutorial
i realy enjoy doing it and my result is great too
i’ll upload it soon, but didn’t find the way to use it on text (am new in C4D, am a max user since 2002)
thanx again
YEAAAAAAAA GREAT ONEEE NICK
AS ALWYZZZZZ THE TOPPP TUTS
ABT THAT PROBLEM OF Cylinder , just u have to make it editabl and select all the vertix
and rightclick on the mouse . go to optimize and click OK .
AND ITs DONE
THNKXX AGAIN FOR THE TOP TUTSSSS .
hi Mr nick this is another good tutorial thanks again but i want know please if is possible yto make a same effect with texte please will be helpful
They ripped off some of Hydro 74′s work as well. Compare his Storm Trooper logo at the bottom of the page to Josh’s on this link:
http://www.hydro74.com/hydro2011/illustrations2.html
Hey, this was neat! Now about those 5 second projects. Have they gone off the regular biweekly schedule you were sticking to as it was months back?
Hi Nick,
I am new to C4d. I followed your tut and used Two rigid body sphere and two soft body sphere. When the rigid body collides, some small sphere breaks from the rigid body. Is there any way that all the small spheres remain inside the rigid body even though it collides with other object? http://www.vimeo.com/17355956
This is what i got.
Here is my try…
Thanks for this tuto… im amazed…
http://www.vimeo.com/17344201
Regarding the Cylinder problem .. The solution I came up with was adding a fracture object to the cylinder and then choosing “Explode and connect” (You actually taught us about this in the Chain Tutorial) .. It worked well for me and if you want I can share the file I worked on
Hi Nick!
It’s really amazing what are You doing, not just technically speaking, but the whole approach you are taken, to teach others, to show others cool stuffs, it’s really appreciated. Keep the good work!
It should exist an site to search and check if your designs has been used somewhere else.
thanks cheebachops
Once again Nick, awesome tutorial man…Dynamics is the shiznizzz!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pnpp_2AyTc I did that video using dynamics…I twitted you to check it out a few days ago…
I can’t find in Simulation->dynamics->.. soft body… i have only rigid body. why…help please . I have Cinema 4D R12
Hello Nick!
Nice tutorial. Just wondering if in your next tutorial you tell about simulation hair objects. Sorry for bad english
Some good ideas in this one Nick. However, because of the subject matter (glass cages) wouldn’t RayTraced shadows be better? Soft Shadows here just don’t do the objects justice IMHO! Keep up the good work!
come on dude next tutorial! its been way too long!
Hey Atish,
At first I didn’t know you had 2 non flexy cages bumping into the 2 flexy soft bodies. What I did was keep both as Soft Body tags, but altered the setting so that the second one is really stiff and doesn’t flex. Those settings are in the “Soft Body” tag. I found that selecting Made of Polygon/Lines in the 1st drop down helped make the second ball act just like a Rigid Body tag. Here’s a link to see a frame of my out come and the settings I had on the 2nd cage.
The top ball keeps its shape while squishing down the bottom one. Word up!
http://www.ryanhamilton.ca/webPosts/cageTest.jpg
Hey Gorilla,
thanks again for a nice tutorial
About the issue with the cylinder, what might help is to optimize. Functions>Optimize.
Please keep coming those great Cinema tutorials!
Scooter
Edge to spline?
Nick your the man! Wow a different workflow instead of using the atom array. Thanks for teaching us different ways on making cool stuff!
I stand in doubt…
In other c4D motion tuts you turned GI on or not?
and with yout HDRI kit isn’t GI turned on by default or you do not advise to use the kit in motion anims made in c4D?
I do not have the “soft body” in the cinema 4d v12. What should I do?
really great tutorial, but i have some problem here which is, i cant find something called Soft body tag..
i only have
Creat rigid body
Creat collider
Creat ghost collider
Force
can u tell me how exactly that happened or if anything must i do.
by-the-way i have cinema 4d v12.0
and thanks alot
I LIKE IT!!!
what about c4d designers wanted?
why are you so awesome! even without doing the final rendering, i learned alot of new techniques. thank you so much.
hy man
another great one, keep them coming
one question: i’m trying to simulate a light bulb made of 2 parts- the glass is a soft body, the metal screw is rigid.
is it possible to combine them on one object, or does it need to be 2 separate objects?
tried both but no success here..
hope you find the time to answer
thanks a lot
Gilbert
Ahh another great tutorial!
I decided to get into C4D after watching your tuts. You’re doing a great job Nick!
And here is my try
http://www.vimeo.com/17413411
Cheers!
hey nick hi, sorry to annoy u.. actually i dont have the simulation option, mi c4d version is the 11.5, how can i get the softbody and the rigid i mean , a menu with those options or if i must activate them please,where are them, send me back the answer to my e mail… i’ll apreciate a lot, thanks a lot from Perú
Great Nick as usual….love your tutorials…
Alt. Title for this tutorial: ‘Caged Wisdom.
Your Welcome.
Seriously though, great stuff! Thanks for passing it along!’
Wow, I did this exact scene in maya for my showreel, was not happy with how the dynamics where!
Been using cinema4D for a month now, and I cant believe how easy it is!!! its insane in speed and workflow!!
Think Im gonna redo it in Cinema for my reel, Dynamics are way nicer!!!
Thanks for the great tutorial Nick. I’m learning a lot from you! I’m still a beginner in the wunderfull world of 3d rendering.
Here’s my try http://www.vimeo.com/17684656
This uploaded one is much darker than the original one on my pc (don’t know why)
Great tut once again Nick, thanks.
One of the things I did notice when I was doing this myself was that the cilinders and balls that where cloned on the large ball are actually falling through the floor. This is logical since there is no dynamics on those. The problem is that I can’t figure out how to get that solved. When I put dynamics on those they fall loose from the ball and scatter all over the place. Any idea on this?
I dont have SoftBody tag =( Help
Hey Nick!
Just wondering if you know how to fix the problem with jittery shadows as seen in the video…
http://vimeo.com/17834852
Also, you can’t really tell in the video, but the bottom of the glass mesh in front, including the balls inside, are also jittery. Do you know how to fix this problem?
here’s my try…nothin special just to show it works…even on an old dual core cpu
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2478761/softbody_25.mov
Hey great tutorial. How do I get my Dynamics things up in the top left hand corner like yours?
Hi Nick
Here is my example, Im not satisfied with the shadow???
http://www.vimeo.com/17851943
GREAT TUT
ever gonna get the 11.5 comment workaround back up? i’m guessing you re-did the comment system/site and they’re not there anymore…
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Always a treat Nick.
Here’s mine. Render turned out darker than I had expected.
http://vimeo.com/18051869
Cheers Nick!
Hi Nick,
Nice tutorial. Thanks for that.
Now to the cylinder and caps.
After making the cylinder editable just go to point mode and go to function->optimize and on the popup just click ok. This will weld the points from the caps to the base.
Peace,
Rich_Art.
Realy thank you for this video
Best wishes to you
Here is my try. Not so perfect as yours.
http://img831.imageshack.us/i/ball0077.jpg/
i tried it too.
please check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-h6X15seNc
http://vimeo.com/18268043
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nice tutorial awesome i like too much your page and how you show us to do some things and we learn from you and like you said you too learn from us
and, happy new year
!!!
i just start to use cinema 4d ur tuto help so much to get it, i did this exemple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbzTEuFmX9k&hd=1 and this thank to niki, thank u so much for ur most best tuto ^^
zak from morocco
Hi nick I just followed this tutorial to 22mins in and my render time is really really slow . I bought a new system only like a month and a half ago it was pricey enough its powerful to . Is there anyway to speed it up my aliasing is set to geometry . Please help ?
Oh I fixed it I was using Ambient light from CS tools . It slows down the render tims immensly
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Hi there
many thanks for this tutorial (really fun to watch “real-life” style). But I’m missing all the comments. I see “249 comments” but there’s nothing displayed (in safari, chrome, FFox). Any idea?
even i am missing all the comments in google chrome
Testing.
To connect the cylinder – just use the Optimize command
Soft and rigid body rulez!
Big to you thanks for lessons, all is told well and interesting.
Thanks the Nick for a lesson. Often I visit your project. It is grateful for all your works. A nick and you couldn’t give interview for our site??
But if you want to keep it editable try:
Put the cylinder in a fracture object and set it to explode segments and connect. Then in the soft dynamics tag, turn off the accurate solver. If you don’t, the cylinder acts like a rigid body.
thanks for this nice tips, Dan.
by the way, by default a sphere is hollow.
More control this way.
Sarin-Right click the object and choose current state to object.
Another great tut Nick!
Somebody correct me if I’m wrong on this.
I haven’t tried it yet, but length and position of the cylinders won’t react on the glass object, as the atom array is a different object. Here, legth and position are determined by length and position of the glass objects edges. (which seems to be a really neat trick, btw!!!)
You might get difficulties or at least different results
Also the soft body setuo could be a lot more difficult.
Great and inspiring tutorial, again.
mmk.. I played around with it and Im seeing that the more segments you have the more flexible the object will be. The thing I don’t understand though is that we are only using as high as 16 and that doesn’t give me nearly as much of a “squish” look as 30 would and it will not give me the same looking sphere obviously..
It could be a scale issue. Maybe scale your spheres up so there is more mass, or change the dynamic settings?
Nope, I must have tried a million things. I redid the scene even and the only way I get the same effect as you in your scene with the squishy look is if I give it more segments. Im not sure what you did differently..
This might seem light an obvious question, but are you using version 11.5 or 12?
Version 12. The only way I get the spheres to smash as much as Nicks is if I make the segments 25 or above. It doesn’t matter if I resize the spehere larger with less segments or not, nothing makes a difference.
if you can, post a link to your project somewhere and I’ll take a look.
Do you have an email I can send it to? Not sure if I can send a link on here
use this http://wikisend.com/ and post the link
You bet. There are definitely many different ways to pull off anything in 3D. I would do what feels comfortable to you. Thanks for watching!
Your dynamic settings may be to low.
i tried that too, but difficult to get the atom array aligned to the glass surface when bouncing; because of 2 separate objects. Or you found the solution?
Yeah, I made them editable and then connected and deleted them so they were the same object. I had already applied the textures so it saved them. Nick’s way still might be better because weird things happened.
Hey Nick,
I think im lost somewhere in the softbody tag.
Is there a way to specify how many times a second it will seek for collision parts?
I think my spheres are peeking out of my big ball.
I remember seeing it on 11.5 maybe on cloth sim.
Edit -> Project settings -> Dynamics tab -> Expert tab -> Steps per frame
Nice render. Don’t know if you wanted the elongated look in the reflection of the spheres but if not you can adjust your refraction and it should lessen the look. Cheers!
Just follow the tutorial you’ve linked?
Some people are way too lazy and want others to do it for them…
but in cinema 4d v.12 there is no bones in character
and I’ve download the file , and i’ve open it in 4d v.12
it’s doesn’t work
thanx
You can use joints instead
thanx a lot
Nice. I started yesterday though I am stuck at 9.42 in the video, where he is adding the dynamics. I dont have all the ones he has, do you maybe know why? Here’s my previous reply on this tut:
Hi Nick, I dont have the dynamics on 09.42.
I only have: Simulation > Dynamics > Create Rigid Body, Create Collider, Create Ghost Collider and Force. Please tell me how to get the ones you have, and how to get the ‘hair’ ones? Oh, and how did you put them on the taskbar? Thanks
Nick hasn’t answered though, haha. I’m really starting to get bored and I hate it that it isn’t fully working over here. Please someone come with a solution. Thanks!
Sorry, cant tell you wy, but download and use Nick’s layout and the configure the way you want. Easier to follow when it looks the same
So how can I get Nick’s loadout ? Dont aee a download link. (reply onnyour reply on my comment
..)
If you by his light kit pro you get it, but I’ve seen it here on the blog. Look under one of the R12 videos (what’s new).
http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2010/09/what%e2%80%99s-new-in-cinema-4d-12-springs/
For this tutorial, I’m using 12.
I don’t think that will work with dynamics. You need two separate objects.
Thanks, Lee!
Thanks! I love doing them on the fly, too. I think it’s easier to learn that way and see how to solve problems instead of just following directions.
Hi, Andrew. Cores have nothing to do with realtime playback. It’s all about the video card at that point. Dynamics take a long time to calculate, too. I could have baked the result for faster playback.
I really appreciate that, Bob! I’m really trying to help as many people make cool shit as I can. Thanks for watching!
Nick, you’re most welcome. I’m enjoying going back in time on your blog but also still playing around with glass mesh. Beyond doing it manually, is there a layout setup available for download/purchase that will copy your setup in the videos? Also, if this is your video setup, is it also your standard work setup when you’re not making tuts? Thanks!
That is awesome! Thanks for getting the kit! I’m so glad you like it.
thanks for MAKING the kit, been extremely useful.
Thanks a bunch! I really try to break it down into simple bits. Cheers!!!
You can make a rigidbody a softbody in the settings of the tag. I should have shown that. Sorry.
Are you running a fully paid version? If so, uninstall and reinstall. Sounds like your install may be corrupt. If you have any dynamics you should have all.
I got the same problem. Hm. No good… I got 12.028 – It can be updated – maybe that’s the problem… Who knows?
what version of Cinema you have?
Cinema 4D R12
I have the same problem! help
same problem here:(
although you can transform a rigid body tag to soft body in the tag prefs but ONLY if you apply onto a mograph object and not on a primitive as shown in the tut…
but if you do so you loose the dynamics on the particles…???
HELP:)
Help!!!!….
One way to do that is to change the “Size increment” on the collision settings. That way, it will move the calculation further away.
Simulations > Dynamics > Create Soft Body
The broadcast edition is a good deal. Have you checked that out?
I checked it out, and it looks good — but i’m worried about all the missing dynamics. Also, from what I can tell it doesn’t have motion blur or DOF in-render, but do you know if it still can export the motion vector or depth passes to add them in post? Thanks for the help again, by the way.
The Broadcast edition has the ability to export vector, depth, and many other passes so you can add them in post. It also included GI, AO, and Net Render for up to 3 computers. It has mograph, modynamics, IK spline dynamics, and soft body made of clones dynamics.
Awesome!
I have Studio.
Cool idea. I think the vibrating might be aliasing. Maybe try turning it up a bit?
I thought that too, so I rendered out min-2×2 max-4×4. Took forever too. Maybe there’s a setting that controls the ending of a bounce or slide or whatever might be causing some movement inside the object.
Either way I learned a lot and make some pretty cool shit.
It looks like a dynamics solver issue.The shimmer is due to the low poly surface jiggling and changing angles of reflection.
If i remember correctly there is a setting to alter for the min speed to stop dynamics calculations.
If you don’t want to re-render, just use After effects to fix it.
I believe that with linear workflow turned on, you are using a real fresnel. I think…
Oh, yeah, the link…
http://www.vimeo.com/17315376
found a great script to handle this little problem:
watch out: http://vimeo.com/14642874
to combine the object is another way!
Should still work.
I tried this on an abstract object with different sized edges and no matter how much I adjusted the height of the cylinders, they would not meet cap to cap, There are no settings to tell the cylinders to resize to the poly edges anyway.
your right james, it does not work unless the poly edges are exactly the same length
its works when you clone the balls, but obviously it does not work on the cylinders..
anyone have a fix for this?
anyone know how to get the cylinders to automatically resize?
Your shadows are cut off at start (to the background).
I know, this is only my third render in C4D and I could not figure out how to stop the shadow cut off. That and I cant use area shadows because I’m working off of a laptop and I don’t have time to render with actual high quality settings.
So thanks for stating the obvious. Very constructive.
RE: “So thanks for stating the obvious. Very constructive.”
what a prick!
Yeah, sorry about that.
If you use a floor object, you won’t have this problem.
If you want to use a plane and have this problem simply make it bigger.
Ps snares you could of told him this aswell, instead of calling me a prick
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Actually I’m sorry, this is just the first time I’ve ever posted here, and then the first comment was something telling me what a did wrong, it was just discouraging, so I apologize for snapping at you.
But, I did try this with both the floor and plane, and had them stretched to massive proportions and I still couldn’t kill that cut off line. When I rendered from a different angle the shadows appeared wholly in tact, but as soon as I lowered the cam, they would vanish right behind it. I got frustrated and just rendered anyway.
My computer is a stoneage beast, so doing these takes half a lifetime :/ lol
You can give it ago in c4d using animated spline,sweep nurbs + cloners with matrix cloned cubes.
It looks as though it is only happening on the one ball to the left. I’d just double . . . nay . . . triple check you have the same tag settings and what not as the other 3. If it were happening to all of them it would be a critical step you missed but cause you have 3 of the 4 working I am guessing it is just one small issue.
Actually its happening to both balls which is animated from rigid body to softbody.
Ah, I see. Well then, I’ll go through and do the result myself rather than just watching and see if I run into similar issues.
Will post any glitches I come across that seem the same as your problem.
Hey Atish,
At first I didn’t know you had 2 non flexy bumping into the 2 flexy soft bodies. What I did was keep both as Sof Bodies, but altered the setting so that the second one is really stiff and doesn’t flex. Those settings are in the “Soft Body” tag. I found that selecting Made of Polygon/Lines in the 1st drop down help make the second ball act just like a Rigid Body tag. Here’s a link to see a frame of my out come.
The top ball keeps it shape while squishing down the bottom one. Word up!
http://www.ryanhamilton.ca/webPosts/cageTest.jpg
You should be a little less casual about making assumptions why Nick’s site is so popular.
Just convert and optimize…
That’s easy just model the thing and rotate the ring and animate it.
i cant seem to make the circle thickness increase when using it with extrude nurbs. am i doing it wrong?
Is this the correct link? Big Hits? I didn’t notice anything that was using dynamics.
thanx man i’ll try this with the text guess it will work
yEAAA WORK WITH TEXT TOO
BUT JUST U HAVE TO SUBDIVIDE THE TEXT OR TRIANGULATE IT
I HOPE THATs WORK WITH YAA
love it!
dud! love your work, how did you get this to work with edges of different lengths? when i clone the cylinders to the object, all of my cylinders are the same length resulting in the cylinders not meeting cap to cap? did you do this the same way nick did?
any info much appreciated.
Thanks,
I actually did it the same way Nick dit it. Dit you select the “Scale on Edge” button in your cilinder’s cloner object? I think that’ll do it.
Cheers!
My interpretation:
http://b.imagehost.org/view/0110/Bauble_00000
i love your tutorials dude
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Most of the studios in the Light Kit built mainly for product shots and stills. I wouldn’t use those for animation. They will flickr like crazy. However, all of the lights in the kit were designed to be used without GI. I can’t think of a motion tutorial I have done with GI turned on. Maybe using the Sky Sampler? I hope to dive more in to this stuff soon in future tutorials and show use cases for both.
You may have to upgrade to get it. What version do you have?
I have a studio version
What version of 12 do you have? Studio and Broadcast have the advanced dynamics.
All Dynamics are usually found under animation/ Simulation or something to that degree. Maybe even do a search for dynamics in cinema 11.5
Group them as a null object
as one null with 2 separate tags?
it makes them behave as two different objects’ that rejects each other..
or is it not the way?
thanks
Looks like you are using soft shadows? You may have to turn the settings up on that?
Can anyone tell me please?
Confirm, no comment at all from first of Dec!
Nick please help!
Looks good.