Construct a Detailed Type 97 Hand Grenade in Cinema 4D, BodyPaint and Photoshop – Day1

on Apr 19th 2011 with 60 comments
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This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Type 97 Hand Grenade in Cinema 4D

In this two part video tutorial, you will go through the complete process of modeling, unwrapping, and texturing a Type 97 hand grenade, the standard fragmentation grenade that was used by the Imperial Japanese Army in WWII. In the first part, you will learn how to create the model using the lathe and boole functions in C4D, and in the second, you will learn how unwrap it in BodyPaint, and paint the texture maps in Photoshop.

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Hi my name is Mountaga Kane, and I am a 17 year old digital artist living in Pennsylvania. When I first became interested in 3d, I decided to start out with Maxon's Cinema 4d because of its mid-range price, ease of use, and short render times. In my free time I like to watch cheesy B movies with friends, and help to moderate the 2d graphics forum: www.audigex.com.  

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  • http://www.behance.net/Modisana Modisana

    Nice… I really dig it

  • Name21

    What happened with the exploding glass?

    • http://www.behance.net/Modisana Modisana

      You know for a while I was thinking that I went insane and I had started imagining things… I knew i saw something about an exploding glass.. yeah what happened?

    • http://kaleb-3d.com Kaleb Aylsworth

      Sorry about that. It was an error in the publishing software. Look for it again on Friday:)

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/odisoes Odisoes

    WOW man, thank you very much for this staff, is really first class material. Is really hard to find good information like this on the web.

    You have answered me a lot of question about Cinema 4d with this tutorial. I can wait for the second part.

  • Cinema 4D User.

    This looks fantastic. Though, in the beginning he makes a reference to there being images associated to the project. Are those available for download?

  • Cristian Pop

    Really nice!

  • alex

    Keep the C4D tutorials coming! :)

  • simon

    It much easier to align points, by scaling down the size of them…
    Just select BOTH points, and then scale down the axis to 0 ;)

    But great tutorial :)

  • Mike

    Thanks – I’ve just watched it and will go through it soon!

  • Joe

    WOOP WOOP! C4D!!

  • Veizer

    Great tut, ccan’t wait for the 2nd part, want to see bodypaint in use.

  • Dave

    Thanks dude looks great.

  • http://www.adamfarnsworth.com Adam Farnsworth

    Now I’m seeing the reference images, but they aren’t downloading correctly… Am I the only one having problems?

    • http://kaleb-3d.com Kaleb Aylsworth

      I just downloaded them and it worked just fine for me

      • http://www.adamfarnsworth.com Adam Farnsworth

        Thanks, it’s working now!

  • Max

    Fqantastic tut! Interesting would also be a tut on texturing it only with BodyPaint!

  • tbon

    Zipfile with ref-images is empty :(

    • http://kaleb-3d.com Kaleb Aylsworth

      Try again. It should be fine now.

  • Rem

    This is great {Y}

  • Niels

    Great tut, thanks a million..!!
    Learning by the gallons :D!!

    The UV-unwrapping had me confused quite a while, till today.

    Tnx

  • samaBR

    Awesome tutorial! Thank you Kane.
    Any chance of a downloadable version?

    keep up!

  • http://www.backstagegfx.com Alex

    Almost made it to the end. After finishing Bodypaint UV part I can’t find render texture, only bake texture. And there is only 1 material listed in my materials pane and not for all 3 so not sure what to do.

  • PatWeiss

    @ Alex: i made the tut as well and i am finished with part one. bake texture seems to be the same thing. i had the same and bake the texture. dont know why u still have just one material. if u follow exact those steps the materials should be there. maybe u replay the vid to exact that position where the materials were created. maybe u find u mistake.

    @Mountaga Kane: its time for the next part ;) when we’ll allowed to see it?

    Thanks mate, i have learned a lot in this first part, can’t wait to see the second!

    • PatWeiss

      EDIT:

      @ Alex: I Think u have to redo the Bodypaint 3D Setup Wizard. When he finishes this part, the 3 materials have been created. So it seems to me, that there is ur mistake. Btw. its @ 38:50 in the video.

      Hope it will help to correct ur work :)

      Pat

      • Mountaga
        Author

        Hey Pat, thanks for for replying even faster than me. Yeah Alex when going through the Bodypaint 3D Setup Wizard make you have single material mode deselected.

  • http://www.backstagegfx.com Alex

    Thanks, also in Body Paint I don’t have the “Set Selection” Feature. I think I still managed to set it all properly with the selecting and flatting the parts but just thought I’d point that out. The “Selection” menu bar wasn’t there, only “Select” and “set Selection” wasn’t in it.

  • http://www.backstagegfx.com Alex

    Nevermind guys I found it, I had the Bodypaint menu in by accident and not the cinema4d. Last question, how do I change it so my highlight color is orange like in the video instead of a light grey like mine…orange looks cooler haha.

  • http://www.backstagegfx.com Alex

    AH, new problem. When I hit fit canvas to UV the background of the canvas that is created turns to black and it shows up on the model also, any ideas?

    • M.kane
      Author

      Most likely while doing the bodypaint setup wizard you selected black as the color of your background layer, it shouldn’t be a problem because in the next part we paint over it.

      Cheers

  • PatWeiss

    Kane, whats the release date for the next part… :(

    • M.kane
      Author

      It’s been released, should be at the top of the page.

  • treehouseturtle

    Great tutorial, thanks for sharing this man! Can’t wait for the next tutorial, I really gotta start learning BodyPaint lol.

  • David Perez

    Finally after many many many years I had found a nice UV EDIT UNWRAP tut… very very very Thanks

  • Brink

    Now that’s what I call a real C4D tut! Awesome. Thanks a bunch, you really know how to teach.

  • Logic

    Very nice tut!
    but i have a problem; I can’t rotate the reference image, it’s blocked in r11 :(
    What can i do?… i rotated it in Photoshop but i want to know how to solve this problem.

    • M.kane
      Author

      Hi there, you may not see this image, but if you do; go ahead and email me a screen shot.

  • http://www.ardillamedia.com Anders Hattne

    Great tutorial, has been easy to follow along. I hope I understand the process better now.

    But is Fit canvas to UV new for r11? I can’t find it in r10, only Fit UV to canvas which squashes the Circular shape.

    Also the shrink projection for the top gives me a different outcome: round with the indents shooting outside the circle like a star. I just used flat instead..

    Thanks!

  • http://www.ardillamedia.com Anders Hattne

    ..I just ran into another problem.. On r10. After switching back from BodyPaint and baking the texture. It says “could not find all textures or shaders of the material to bake”.. Confused I try this and that, and after hitting the render button it says fuse.tif, granade.tif and fusecap.tif are missing.

    In the color channel of the material editor there are links to these files but they do not excist where it is linked to. Nor in the document folder either.

    Is there some step I’ve misse to creat these files in Bodypaint?

  • erik

    great tutorial! what version of BP are you using? – I can’t seem to save selection while in bodypaint – is there a difference between versions?

    • erik

      another issue – fit canvas to UV is also greyed out – something that has been mentioned above as well… seems so inconsistent – maybe that’s why I can never get a grasp of bodypaint ;)

  • Max

    is there any possibility to download the videos like in the zune tuts??
    i like to have them on my iPhone

    cheers

  • Ant

    Hm, wouldn’t be easier to use inset (or bevel) to create grooves on body? Instead of boole.

    And shift key to align vertices while making spline? (don’t know Cinema 4D, I’m modelling in 3ds Max)

  • leon

    i have a problem with the rendering..
    i cant choose “ambient Occlusion”, it is grey, i cant klick on it :(

  • Ethan

    WOW!!!! Where is the reference image? it says on the download link it doesn’t exist! Help.

  • Laurent

    Thanks !!! Very good Tut ;)

  • val

    Yeah, the reference download link is completely not working for me too.
    For anyone still looking, the grenade image is just something off google images.

    http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/13307/1169204-type97_granade_large.jpg

  • http://aokaystudios.wordpress.com Alexclavelle

    you cant download the images

  • Shannon

    For some reason, the link for the reference images is broken, but the file address is still in the source code of the page.

    Copy this into the address bar of your browser and it should download: http://d2d04grx5ahzvh.cloudfront.net/028_C4D_HandGrenade/Reference_Images.zip

    • LorenzoPozza

      you’re my hero.

  • Tiago Cristiani

    Very nice tut.
    Could you please make more tutorials using Blender? I barely remenber what was the last time you did.

  • http://www.therocketpanda.com Riccardo

    in my opinion, one of the best cinema 4D tutorials here on cgtuts!

  • steve

    PLEASE do not chew or eat food while doing your tutorials. Sounds disgusting

  • 田凯祥

    Thank you! Study.

  • florin

    I love your tuts man … I am waiting for more :D

    It will be great if you make some tutorials with render setings and some advance things.

    Thanks ;)

  • edoneo

    what happened whit the link?

    • http://www.christateonline.com Chris Tate
      Staff

      Hey Edoneo,

      I’ve removed the broken link, and added a new one to the Reference Images at the top of this page. You can now find it under the “Tutorial Details” section :) Thanks for letting us know!

      Cheers

  • Chris

    I’ve always found UV editing the most difficult in C4D, and I’ve used it for years now. I feel at last like I am finally understanding it.
    I’ve watched the tutiorials so many times taking notes.
    Thank you so much.

  • makosx

    This is not a tutorial (of course, it is) This is more than that, it is a great master exhibition! Uff! Amazing!

  • Mark

    Great tutorial! But for some reason after I add the grooves into the grenade C4D crashes when I try and switch from the front view. Anyone have any idea why? I’m running R13.