Tutorial Details
- Software: Cinema 4D/ Pyrocluster
- Difficulty Level: Beginner
- Completion Time: 45 minutes
- Additional Files/ Plugins: ProjectFiles.rar
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Twice a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Cgtuts+. Today we have an awesome Cinema4D tutorial by Mountaga Kane that will demonstrate the ease and versatility with which you can create convincing looking gas effects using Cinema 4D’s Pyrocluster. This tutorial was first published back in April of 2010 and proved to be incredibly popular with our C4D users! Let’s take a look back…
This tutorial will demonstrate the ease and versatility with which you can create convincing looking gas effects using Cinema 4D’s Pyrocluster. You will learn how to optimize your scene and tune it to your own visual tastes, while focusing on creating realistic clouds as the subject matter. The basic techniques, however, can be applied to a variety of different scenarios and effects.
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Fantastic Tutorial! Nuff said!
just what i needed, if only this was easier to do in maya damn. thanks mate
are those ss 5h headset? ahah
At last a tutorial on pyrocluster, thanks!
pretty nice tut. thanks. by the way, i am from germany and my english is not the best but your tuts are always on the perfect speed, i undersand everything and i love them. thank you, a useful tut.
Ha i was trying to look for another way to this is what i came up with using the cloud tool. I may use this in my lengthened version thanks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLHogj92lpw
also wish this wouldn’t have been using a preset..
The point of the tutorial was to explain what all those settings mean. We also cut the render time by more than half, without a huge loss in quality while changing the pyrocluster shader to look more realistic. By the way, that was a nice little animation, nice use of music, too bad the 720p didn’t load for me.
Regardless an awesome tutorial for sure, and that little animation took 4 ever lol. Getting the cloth to work right was a pain
Try caching the frames that are already ok, so you don’t have to keep recalculating them. Saves a lot of time when trying to get a couple frames just right.
well done :D
Is there any way to use pyrocluster with mograph ?
I would love to make some cool explotions and stuff that way, but coudn’t figure it out :/
You would be much better off using thinking particles.
creating convincing looking gas effects using Cinema 4D’s Pyrocluster… seems to easy. fun. ı want to use it but first of all ı fiind at where ı will use it.
Please find a mouse that doesn’t “squeeze” it’s really fustrating…
and check your audio recordings levels… I have to gain volume twice the normal amount than usual.
(maybe it’s because your voice is so low that I hear the mouse moves so much)
Other than that … great tutorial ^^
thanks mate! i just found this link on google…its what im looking for since 2 days:p good job…u detailed all the stuff.
i have some question about your tut.
can i take your contact?!!!!
plz
e-mail or twitter ect…
i am so sosososo stuffy.
Your tutorial is very easy to follow it awesome, it’s simple and straightforward.. .
nice tute, even though pyrocluster doesn’t look good enough even if perfectly tweaked in my opinion…
The final output looks great … I can’t wait to try it myself … Thanks
Awesome tutorial, explaind a lot and helped me loads, thanks . . .
just one thing that was niggling me, Queens English “Diffise. . . Dif-fuse not Difuse” i know you say Tomato i say Tamato . . .but this isnt a case of accent . . they are clearly two ‘F’s”. . . not the first time i’ve heard this slight linguistic error.
Other than that which is nether here or there. awesome tut thanks :)
Are they any other options for creating volumetric clouds in C4D?
Other than that which is nether here or there. awesome tut thanks