Reflective and Refractive Glass Block Tutorial Part 1 – Cinema 4D

Cool. Looks like another great tut. Can’t wait to try it. Thanks 😀

Another great tutorial. Can’t wait to part 2.

AWESOME!! Thanks Nick!

This is one GREAT tutorial!

Awesome, cant wait to give it a try.

VERY SEXY!!! LOVE IT

That’s awesome. Thanks for sharing Nick!

My CPU is 1 core, 1gb ram so rendering on that machine hmm… Maybe some long holidays?

😀

Awesome tuts nick.

great tut nick. Keep on going.

how many hours do you spend with cinema everyday??

thanks

another great tut by the gorilla! Thanks Nick. I am looking forward to part 2…

Haha I love how excited you sounded in the intro!
Another great one, as always

Thanx. useful tut. just in time. i will use it

You are awesome!
I wasn’t able to follow C4D till now..watching your tuts has helped me grasp quiet a bit and i hope to start creating something fun soon

Greyscalegorilla! tem como produzir uma legenda em portugues desse tutorial se sair fico agradeçido abraço de uma irmão brasileiro.

Great Tut, Cant wait for the next one. In fact I went ahead and threw it in to after effects and add some shine n glow to.

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/107/3/3/Gotta_Makem___Move_by_G2B.jpg

So good. Exactly what I needed as an inspiration boost. I adapted it to 3ds max and it works perfectly. Thanks a lot!

Great! Been waiting for part two. Get it up soon! I want to get this thing going because it’s amazing. Thanks so much for your tuts.

-Shaun

Nick if you have OPTICAL FLARES,can you show us how we can integrate it with this project? I think it will look pretty sexy

This is the best tutorial of all time!

Hey NICK,
first sorry for my english:D
thx for u TUT,I creating also the same Video but better than yours 😛 with cool FX and sound:D with After Effects

hehe but u still the best.

check it out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_uahjG_-Tc

i creat also this amazing video with Particular 2,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y83AlTi9PG0

please tell me what u thing, and u know u are the best MANNNN:D hehe
THX for all u tuts!

Great tut.
I try to follow it with maya, but there aren’t any random cloner thing, so I wrote it in mel. it isn’t so cool then in C4D, but do the job. (thistime I working on a smarter version) 🙂
but if someone want to follow with maya, can use my script (sory the source is long, but if you have any question ask it) :

// Just copy and paste to maya’s script editor
// Krisztian Kosi

if (`window -ex randomInstanceUI`) deleteUI randomInstanceUI;

window

-t “Random Instance by Krisztian Kosi”

-mnb off

-mxb off

-tb on

randomInstanceUI;

columnLayout -adj on lcLayout;

intSliderGrp -label “Number of Instances” -field true

-minValue 0 -maxValue 100

-fieldMinValue 0 -fieldMaxValue 10000

-value 9

numberCopySGP;

separator -h 5 -st “in”;

text -l “Translate”;

floatSliderGrp -label “translate X” -field true

-minValue -0.0 -maxValue 100.0

-fieldMinValue -0.0 -fieldMaxValue 1000000000000.0

-value 10

transXSGP;

floatSliderGrp -label “translate Y” -field true

-minValue -0.0 -maxValue 100.0

-fieldMinValue -0.0 -fieldMaxValue 1000000000000.0

-value 10

transYSGP;

floatSliderGrp -label “translate Z” -field true

-minValue -0.0 -maxValue 100.0

-fieldMinValue -0.0 -fieldMaxValue 1000000000000.0

-value 10

transZSGP;

separator -h 5 -st “in”;

text -l “Rotate”;

floatSliderGrp -label “rotate X” -field true

-minValue -0.0 -maxValue 360.0

-fieldMinValue -0.0 -fieldMaxValue 360.0

-value 90

rotateXSGP;

floatSliderGrp -label “rotate Y” -field true

-minValue -0.0 -maxValue 360.0

-fieldMinValue -0.0 -fieldMaxValue 360.0

-value 90

rotateYSGP;

floatSliderGrp -label “rotate Z” -field true

-minValue -0.0 -maxValue 360.0

-fieldMinValue -0.0 -fieldMaxValue 360.0

-value 90

rotateZSGP;

separator -h 5 -st “in”;

text -l “Scale”;

floatSliderGrp -label “scale X” -field true

-minValue -0.0 -maxValue 10.0

-fieldMinValue -0.0 -fieldMaxValue 1000000000000.0

-value 1

scaleXSGP;

floatSliderGrp -label “scale Y” -field true

-minValue -0.0 -maxValue 10.0

-fieldMinValue -0.0 -fieldMaxValue 1000000000000.0

-value 1

scaleYSGP;

floatSliderGrp -label “scale Z” -field true

-minValue -0.0 -maxValue 10.0

-fieldMinValue -0.0 -fieldMaxValue 1000000000000.0

-value 1

scaleZSGP;

separator -h 5 -st “in”;

text -l “Actions”;

button -l “Do IT” -c “doIT”;

button -l “Cancel” -c “deleteUI -wnd randomInstanceUI;”;

showWindow randomInstanceUI;

proc doIT()
{

string $curSelObj[] = `ls -sl`;

int $numberCopy=`intSliderGrp -q -v numberCopySGP`;

for ($i=0; $i < $numberCopy;$i++)
{
instance -n Duplikalt;
}

string $lista[]=`ls "Dup*"`;

float $transX=`floatSliderGrp -q -v transXSGP`;
float $transY=`floatSliderGrp -q -v transYSGP`;
float $transZ=`floatSliderGrp -q -v transZSGP`;

float $rotateX=`floatSliderGrp -q -v rotateXSGP`;
float $rotateY=`floatSliderGrp -q -v rotateYSGP`;
float $rotateZ=`floatSliderGrp -q -v rotateZSGP`;

float $scaleX=`floatSliderGrp -q -v scaleXSGP`;
float $scaleY=`floatSliderGrp -q -v scaleYSGP`;
float $scaleZ=`floatSliderGrp -q -v scaleZSGP`;

select $curSelObj;
float $origtranslate[]=`getAttr ($curSelObj[0]+".translate")`;
float $origrotate[]=`getAttr ($curSelObj[0]+".rotate")`;
float $origScale[]=`getAttr ($curSelObj[0]+".scale")`;
move
($origtranslate[0]+`rand ($transX*(-1)) $transX` )
($origtranslate[1]+`rand ($transY*(-1)) $transY` )
($origtranslate[2]+`rand ($transZ*(-1)) $transZ` );
rotate
($origrotate[0]+`rand $rotateX` )
($origrotate[1]+`rand $rotateY` )
($origrotate[2]+`rand $rotateZ` );
scale
($origScale[0]+`rand ($scaleX)`)
($origScale[1]+`rand ($scaleY)`)
($origScale[2]+`rand ($scaleZ)`) ;

print $curSelObj;
print $lista;

for ($objElement in $lista)
{

// float $origScale[]=`getAttr ($curSelObj[0]+".scale")`;
select $objElement;
float $origtranslate[]=`getAttr ($objElement+".translate")`;
float $origrotate[]=`getAttr ($objElement+".rotate")`;
float $origScale[]=`getAttr ($objElement+".scale")`;

/* move `rand $transX` `rand $transY` `rand $transZ` ;
rotate `rand $rotateX` `rand $rotateY` `rand $rotateZ` ;
scale ($origScale[0]+`rand ($scaleX)`) ($origScale[1]+`rand ($scaleY)`) ($origScale[2]+`rand ($scaleZ)`) ;
*/

move
($origtranslate[0]+`rand ($transX*(-1)) $transX` )
($origtranslate[1]+`rand ($transY*(-1)) $transY` )
($origtranslate[2]+`rand ($transZ*(-1)) $transZ` );
rotate
($origrotate[0]+`rand $rotateX` )
($origrotate[1]+`rand $rotateY` )
($origrotate[2]+`rand $rotateZ` );
scale
($origScale[0]+`rand ($scaleX)`)
($origScale[1]+`rand ($scaleY)`)
($origScale[2]+`rand ($scaleZ)`) ;

}

}

OMG I have been looking for this type of tut forever! Thanks Nick!

Sick tut! Thanks Nick!

Hi
Thnx for real cool tuttorial
this is my first use cinema 4d
it easy then 3d max
what you think about my work?
http://vimeo.com/18423565

i don’t know why on vimeo – looks so bad. (

and sorry for my english )))))))
Thnx thnx)))))