Create a Dynamic Building Asset Using Cinema 4D’s Xpresso – Day 3

Create a Dynamic Building Asset Using Cinema 4D’s Xpresso – Day 3

on May 25th 2011 with 9 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Software: Maxon Cinema4D
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Day 3 Run Time: 30 Minutes
  • Tutorial Files: None

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series 'Dynamic Building'

In Day 3 of our dynamic building, which is now, more about a city, then a building. We will be talking mostly about mograph and the cloner object, as well as exploring various ways of making these buildings into a dynamically generated city. You don’t really need Day1 or Day2 to make use of this tutorial, there is just a small section towards the end which discusses how to fix a couple of problems with the buildings we made in days 1 and 2.

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Aleksey Voznesenski is a 3D specialist experienced in many areas of the 3D world. Mainly focused on animation, he has experience in motion graphics, modeling, rigging, render setup, lighting, camera work and art direction. Working as a contractor for many companies, Aleksey provides his expertise to get projects done on time and to spec. His main package of choice is Cinema4D, but Aleksey has experience in all of the industry standard packages like 3ds Max, Maya and XSI. His contact details can be found at ace5studios.com. Also be sure to visit ace5education.com for even more tutorials from Aleksey!  

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Discussion 9 Comments

  1. logesh says:
    May 25, 2011 at 5:09 am

    Thank you….

    Reply
  2. patweiss says:
    May 25, 2011 at 10:00 pm

    this looks really helpful! thank you! I’ll definitely a try! THIS is a very nice C4D Tutorial! More of it please!
    Thanks patweiss

    Reply
  3. xsid says:
    May 27, 2011 at 1:21 pm

    awesome

    Reply
  4. illd says:
    May 28, 2011 at 7:47 pm

    Hi Aleksey,

    all in all a very good tutorial series. At some points a little bit confusing ;) For example the issues with the cloner blendmode concerning the textures. You mentioned to use the mograph color shader to avoid this. I cant get it to work – any tips?

    Thanks for your efforts!

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    • illd says:
      May 28, 2011 at 7:56 pm

      Nervermind, I found a solution:

      1) Choose for your shaders inside the color tab the mographcloner, and apply them to your objects you want to clone/blend

      2) Use the shader effector on the cloner and set under the shading tab a gradient with the needed colors as a shader.

      You will only see the effect when you render!

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    • aleksey says:
      May 31, 2011 at 3:13 pm
      Author

      Yeah, sorry about that. should’ve probs edited it out. will make a separate tutorial on that whole shinanigan, its all a lot less simple than id like it to be =P

      but its good that you figured it out. =)

      congrats.

      Reply
  5. jason says:
    July 5, 2011 at 12:59 pm

    then ≠ than

    Reply
  6. Harris says:
    May 13, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    Hi,

    I have completed the first two parts of the tutorial but need to finish the 3rd for a project.

    can someone post a link to the finished product as the deadline is near

    Reply

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