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Controlling Growth Effects in Cinema 4D - Grass, Plants, Anything

RocketLasso via YouTube

Overview

Learn advanced techniques for controlling growth effects in Cinema 4D with this comprehensive 39-minute tutorial. Master the art of creating realistic grass, plants, and other dynamic elements using light-based growth simulations. Explore methods for adding variation, setting up vertex maps, and implementing additive growth. Discover how to create smooth and springy animations, invert effects, and even simulate a lawn mower. Apply these techniques to various objects, including text masking and knife animations. Gain valuable insights into enhancing your 3D scenes with lifelike, controllable growth effects for a wide range of creative applications.

Syllabus

- Catching up to the preset scene
- Basic Cloner & adding plants from the C4D Content Browser
- Scene files and more via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rocketlasso
- Adding variation to the grass elements
- Basic growth via "Light". Setting up a Vertex Map
- Additive growth from the light via Freeze Layer
- Growth completing itself anywhere the light shined
- Adding smoothing and springiness
- Inverting!
- Lawn Mower effect
- Masking out Text
- Adding wind & changing out the plants
- Similar setup, but with KNIVES!
- Outro
- Did this help you out? Want to support? https://www.patreon.com/RocketLasso

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