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Smash A Van With Plastic Deformation In Cinema 4D 70 Comments

In this tutorial, Chris shows you how to smash up a van using Plastic Deformation and the Mesh Deformer In Cinema 4D. Also, he shows you how to prepare a model to be used with Mesh Deformer and how to create a low poly proxy to be used for the dynamic simulation.

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  7. Salem N. Salem

    Now, 3 years with you. I knew you in a time where I lost hope in every thing after getting bad news about my health, but from the moment that I visited your website by chance every thing has changed to be better and greater which is going after what I love and passionate about and that changed every issue into an easy task to handle and over come. You don’t only give tutorials, you give hope and ambition with them that everyone can be good in what he does and what he loves. Your star is always bright and shine. Every time you bring something new, unique and marvellous. You are the only person that I know who is ALWAYS getting more creative and beautiful in both; personality and work.

    Blesses all over you Nick.

    Greets and respects from Kuwait.

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    • The Gorilla

      The Gorilla

      Thank you SO much Salem. I’m so glad you find so much joy in what I do. It means so much. Keep learning and looking forward!

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    • Kelvin Huggins

      Wonderful comment. I agree. Thanks from Caracas – Venezuela.

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  8. L4eF

    I can’t see the elastic limit option in dynamics body tag! :-(

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          • The Gorilla

            The Gorilla

            Yep. Sorry guys. This one is for R14 and up. I added it to the post. I have to start being more clear about versions now that there are about 5 versions worth of tutorials on this site now.

          • kevin

            is there any other option that we can pick to make it retain the crush on the van?

  9. dan

    chris,
    When you were in point mode making the proxy object you were moving the points around freely. When I try that I’m restrict to just the up down axis with a weird double arrow without holding down the shift modifier. Anybody know how to fix this? I can’t find it in preferences. In R12, the last version I’ve been using this wasn’t a problem.

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    • Dark Hase

      What do U mean by ‘weird double arrow’?
      Chris is mostly using the ‘move bands’ [i don't know the proper english word for this, since i'm using the german version] to stay in X/Y, X/Z or Y/Z -level. Check Ur filter-menu in the viewport if it is turned on.

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  11. ahmed

    awesome
    i wounder what happen if you combine this with proximal shader

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  13. JimH

    Great Tutorial.

    Chris is at his best when he’s crashing or destroying objects. Sound effects and all.

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  15. blueteak

    I tried with a much higher poly count, 3 Ferrari Enzos. Worked flawlessly, never used the mesh deformer before and I think I will be using it constantly in the future. Was able to run the simulation at the same speed as I did when I followed the Tut with the van. So nice to be able to use high poly models with soft-body physics. You can see the seats inside the car getting deformed as well as the body of the car, which I think is sick. Also, for Chris, I’d love to know what the alternative to the connect+delete is, I use the function often and run into problems with textures and object orientations etc.

    (Btw, when you fuse multiple editable objects with different textures, each texture is set to a portion of the object’s polygons, you can select all the polygons with a particular texture in an object by double clicking on the orange triangles where all the other tags are in the object)
    – This bypasses what chris was doing with moving the glass up 300cm, selecting those particular polygons and deleting them, then moving the frames back down. You can just select all polygons with the glass texture and delete them.

    https://vimeo.com/49359439

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    • Chris Schmidt

      That looks great! Amazing the results we get from such a simple low poly version. The Connect Object trick was a simple way to connect a bunch of objects and maintain their material tags, but it starts compounding a lot of tags on one object which can slow things down.

      Rock!

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  16. Arfan

    Awesome … thx a ton guys for bringing us C4D lovers another amazing tutorial. Keep up the gr8 work. Cheers.

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  17. Mend

    nice, although it reminds me allot of one of the rocketpanda’s projects.

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  19. monku

    Very nice tips
    Not uselss blabla like Nick, you go straight to the point, I like that !
    HF

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  21. Richard

    This just looks amazing. Learnt so much from this site, can’t thank you enough for all the time and effort you guys put into your tutorials. I use this site every day!! Cheers.

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  22. lyonnel

    Very nice and funny (I love your “sound effects” when crashing the bus) tutorial.
    but I’m still waiting for “the” camera calibrator tutorial (from Nick I presume)

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  23. John

    I can’t see the elastic limit option either, is this tutorial only for R14 ?

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    • Chris Schmidt

      Hey John, Yes this is an R14 Tutorial showing off the new Plastic Deformation.

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  25. Murat Ozgul

    Hi Nick; someday you share with us some kind 3D models Im looking site but I cant find it? if you remember please share link to page? Thanks to nice tuts.

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  26. Jim

    Wondering if someone can help me out here.
    I’m trying to do a combo of this tutorial and Nicks baseball tut.
    I have a soccer ball that has the “cage” of a parametric sphere with soft body dynamics.
    Everything is working well with the dynamics except when I render in the picture viewer the soccer ball is gone. Viewport render is fine.
    I changed the mesh parameter “External” from “surface” to “none” and I got the ball in the picture viewer window but it’s doesn’t follow the animation.

    Any clues?

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    • blueteak

      I’m not sure from all the info you, gave, but when you use spheres, sometimes there are problems with keeping “render perfect” on in the object settings. I’m not sure what you are doing with the spheres so I don’t know if it is effected by it or not, but couldn’t hurt to see if that’s the problem.

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  27. bbennett2001

    So awesome! Loving the look of R14. Can’t wait to pick it up.

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  28. SB

    Having trouble taking the rigged or ‘initiated’ state of the VW Bus and trying to smash it essentially into a clone of itself but it seems to brake the collision awareness. Can someone guess as to why that happens?

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  31. Ankit busted

    hey sweet tutorial and effect have bee n following your site and must admit this is crazy stuff and helps a lot for any motion graphic artist. thank you…..

    btw just to ask you i cant get the elasticity parameter … he mentioned r14…

    m working in r13 does it have the elasticity parameter, hopw you don’t mind?

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  32. Matheus

    Hey i just downloaded the Cinema 4d R14 Demo version and i dont have the Rigid Body Option in the tags menu!

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  34. Realms41

    I couldn’t get it working with the proxy part I have to look at the video i may have gotten lost in it…but the beginning part was so easy the only problem for me was that I could see sphere denting in the viewport but not when I rendered it remained round and smooth why? I tried looking for and switches seen in viewport and renderer are on …I don’t know what else………..

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    • Realms41

      Sorry I had to rewrite what I wrote………………I couldn’t get it working with the proxy part , I may have to look at the video again. I may have gotten lost in it…but the beginning part was so easy the only problem for me was that I could see the sphere denting in the viewport, but not when I rendered it. It remained round and smooth why? I tried looking for and the switches indicating, “seen in viewport and renderer” and they are on …I don’t know what else………..

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      • Kyle Ex

        I had the same issue… took me a bit to figure it out. I just missed a step. You have to make the objects editable, something to do with the way it reads it when rendering.

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        • Realms41

          Thank you Kyle! That was it! I appreciate your help..:)

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  35. Tai

    When I put a rigid body tag on anything, I don’t get those menus you have (soft body, etc.) I’m on R14, what should I do?!?! Its the same for most other tags too.

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  36. jon

    i fricking pressed W and it fricking deleted the object view and now i cant fricking see my fricking scene .

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  37. Rens

    ‘Smashing’ tutorial :D But sir Chris: you are going FAAAAAST! :P

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  38. pete menich

    bugger, just got to the bit where you need the elastic limit and realised its r14.

    Anyone know a work around for r13? I was counting on this method for a project.

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  39. Zedul

    Amazing tutorial… And i ended with something like this… Render time very long…

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  41. David

    UGHHHH you can’t do this in R13 cause it doesnt have that Elastic Limit option

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  42. serafin

    great, now my questions is how to make it work the mograph text ? I am trying to drop one letter on top of another but before the second letter drops in its polygons are splitting up in all directions. Any hint on that ? :) thank you.

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  44. Chazmataz

    Nice tutorial!! I just wanted to know where to get the bank-safe model that you dropped onto the van because i can’t find it anywhere…
    Love the tutorial though!

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