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Create a Dynamic Marble Simulation using Mograph in Cinema 4D

Create a Dynamic Marble Simulation using Mograph in Cinema 4D

on May 5th 2010 with 37 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Software: Maxon Cinema 4D
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 1 Hour

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 4 of 9 in the Best of Cinema4D Session
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In this beginner/ intermediate level Cinema 4D tutorial, you will learn how to use a particle emitter and gravity from the Mograph module to create a dynamic simulation of marbles falling into a glass bowl. You will also learn a technique on how to make more glass look more convincing from the basic banji shader, and how to light your scene with global illumination.

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  • BRUCEW

    A basic tutorial but i learned some cool tips to get that glass shader. thanks a lot man, very good :)

  • http://www.youtube.com/v4vfx ramesh

    awesome man ! i was waiting for this thanks.

  • flashpredator

    Great tutorial, I was looking around for something no to dissimilar for my demoreel.

    Bit of advice for envato, they really need to scrap this player as it doesn’t render the video out well. It has been a constant niggle for quite a while, The video doesn’t play smoothly on low end computers and high end macs.

    Peace

  • Zwoep

    Seen it on greyscalegorilla. Hope you didn’t get paid for this.

  • Mike

    Yeah its similar to GreyscaleGorilla but that uses MoDynamics. This uses a Particle Emitter and Dynamics however so its definitely similar concept but different approach.

    • Mike

      Okay I take that back, he is using MoDynamics.

  • dim0w

    From this tutorial can be learn a lot of very useful tips…Good job and keep going ;):);)

  • chetan

    hey, even i can do a ton of such tuts man.. nick has done a lot like this you know :P… get a life dude..

  • Sal

    Nice tuts, Sebastien. By the way are you from Quebec? I live in Montreal and I’m a screenwriter. I’m learning C4D to relax….lol. Maybe we can hook up if you’re from Mtl.

  • http://hazystudio.com Patrick Riley

    Yeahhh another tutorial….. ugh can we get some cinema 4d modeling tuts? it does more than mograph…

    • Shahrez Rafiq

      Yeah definitely. Plz gives us some C4D modeling tuts.

  • http://www.blackbluebrown.com geoff brown

    i found this tutorial very helpful and well explained. the end result looks great. a helpful introduction to emitters. thank you very much for the great tut sbastien.

  • Shahrez Rafiq

    Not particularly interested in marbles, glass shader looks good though.

  • http://seblavoie.com Sébastien Lavoie

    Thanks for the positive comments and… too bad for the bad ones lol… maybe I will get into C4D modeling (which I haven’t explored that much yet). Et oui @Sal je suis Québécois, mais je vis à Québec Québec, mais whatever, lâche pas C4D :D

  • kswiss

    we need more mo graph tuts!

  • adam

    anybody have any idea how to knock over the bowl with dynamics so all the marbles spill out and the bowl reacts?

  • Shane

    greyscale gorilla?

  • jason

    umm…why don’t your marbles have any bounce? they just fall and stick. also, this isn’t very creative. yes, thank you for covering some modynamics and particle generation but you could have done something with it that hasn’t been done and seen by thousands of people all over the world who look at greyscale gorilla every day.

  • gabriel

    very good..

    thanks.

  • humberto

    the preview and tutorial video player are bullshit never works in my computer , and it is not an old computer its a core 2 duo macbook pro

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

      It is most likely not the player or your computer that is the problem, but rather your browser or version of flash player that needs to be updated.

  • Yahya

    This is sick! Pretty cool as you like to say. You showed some awesome tricks and trade off of a lovely rendering foundation. From navigating built in content manager, to quick preset of glass material and to finally quickly animate your camera off of splines. You showed some sick time savers.

    THANK YOU!

  • pprator

    Nice. Very helpful.

  • http://- MadaManu

    What means if i don’t have the MoGraph – Rigid body? … Please let me know on my e-mail: madalin08_irl@yahoo.com

    Very usefull tutorial. thanks a lot.

  • alin

    hello….i have a little problem…i have not the rigid tool in cinema 4d?what is the problem?great tutorial…thx!

  • http://www.giulilab.altervista.org Giuliano

    Cool Tutorial! i’ve really understand a lot of things about the basics of animation with this! Thank you for sharing you’re knowledge!

  • http://www.grantkilloran.com Grant

    I think this is the best C4D tutorial I have seen. You covered a whole heap of important stuff – I never even knew about the content browser! Thanks a lot.

  • Anja

    Hey!

    Nice tutorial but I don’t have this MoGraph gravity. So where do I get it?

  • Keejay

    :( Very nice toturial but I got same problem with rigid body.. I follow the steps but the problem is when you added the rigid body to the cloner effects, the bowl and Emmiter are not bouncing together…. I stuck of that step but I manage to solve the problem.. I just delete it the Emmiter and used clone and added random effects so it look realistic…but after 3 minutes I realize that this tutorial is not for me :(..

    “I found a new thing.. if u want to cut the sphere half, you just need to change type:Standard to Hermisphere for short cut ” :)

    thank you man :)

  • richie

    awesome…..

  • Robert

    I see you are using either 11 or 11.5 , could you possibly do an updated version of this tutorial using R12, as when i add a rigid body , the sphere falls endlessly.

  • smotru

    Is it normaly to take 60h+ for rendering on i3? THX

  • Elmar

    Tnx nick i searched your blog for a little problem with the emitter first the just fall on to the bowl no the don’t YAY

  • terry

    I am using coffee beans for the cloner, but they leak from bottom of the bowl, at least for the first 50 frames.

    Any ideas 0n how to plug this leak?

    regards

    /terry

  • http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/maxon-cinema-4d/create-a-dynamic-marble-simulation-using-mograph-in-cinema-4d/ ledys

    hey tanks for that..
    is there any way to download the video??

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

      Hey Ledys,

      To download the video, just right click on the “Video 1″ text (right above the embedded video) and choose “Save Link As…”

      Cheers,
      Chris

  • ian

    hey, thanks for the tut. the one problem i have is even after i edit my sphere in half, put on the hypernurbs and put the proper rigid body tags on the particles react as if the sphere is still a complete circle and not a bowl…any ideas? thanks again