kkamin

Thank you. The issue here is how the lines are getting broken up individually and affected uniformly. If you look at the very first message in the thread, in the reference image, the lines are all curve together. This is the hard part because if there is an animation wave effect it needs to go through somewhat straight lines or you get weird kinks and breaks in the lines.

Yeah, it's constantly crashing. LOL. I need to rebuild it if this is the starting point still and cross my fingers.

Thank you again everyone for your help. Based on your guidance I have something close. A few notes: I'm using a depth map pass to have the lines farther away fade off. I tried using a sweep nurb to create the geometry, but the Displacer would flatten it in areas and it would lose that uniform graphic look. I ended up using hair to get an undistorted line. Big challenge: If you look at the reference image at the very top of the thread, the wavy lines twist and curl at points. It's fine if I cannot use circle splines any longer and it's 2 half arcs or whatever as a cheat, because if you look at the reference, there is room for that. Any ideas would be welcomed. I've played around with the Bend and Twist deformer a bit but feel a little stuck. I'll gladly buy anyone of Coke if they have a solve, meaning, a $100 Venmo/Paypal. : ) Wave_Test_01.mp4 Wave_Test.c4d

These ideas are awesome. Thanks everyone. I'll report back with a final.

Thanks, Hrvoje. I'm not too familiar with tracers but know they can create geometry around splines. How would you generate the spline in this case.?

I'm looking to re-create these type of waves and have them very slowly undulating. There are obviously a lot of curves/bends but also it twists around as well. Open to ideas. The lines need to be kept crisp and graphic looking. Thank you!

Awesome! I completely missed that tab in the delay effector.

Scene file attached. Since I'm using a delay effector, you obviously need to play the timeline vs scrubbing it to see the effect. Thanks@ Mograph_Challenge_END.c4d

Hello, I have a Plain Effector with a linear field scaling up my text. I have a Delay effector added to have the letters ease into place. When I have the Delay effector applied, the ease works, but also my letters are rotated slightly at the beginnings of their animation. Any idea who to fix this? Thank you.

OK, great. Thanks for the help.

Hello! I have a model of a boat from Turbosquid that is UV textured. What would be the best way to make parts of the boat look wet in an organic way. I'd somehow need to modify that sections with a mask, and have a slightly different material overriding those areas (a material that is darker, shinier, etc.). The model doesn't need to get wetter during the animation; it would be a fixed state. Any thoughts are appreciated!

This is great! Thanks for the link!

I'm looking for ideas on how I can simulate an oar from a boat displacing water in a wavy ocean. The boat would be a large row boat, so I don't think there would be need for white water (could be wrong). I can't have this be a true water sim, so is there a somewhat convincing way to replicate this is some other way? To recap: It would be a wavy surface then with some additional surface displacement as an oar moves through it. Thank you!

Newb question. What node can I connect two noise nodes to, in order to blend them? Thank you.

Thanks everyone for your help! The Sketch and Toon was throwing me off since I hardly every use that. I got a great result and can't thank everyone enough, especially Happypolygon.

This is awesome. Is there anyway to make the tracer paths thinner? I've been futzing around and can't find a way to do it. Also is there a way to make the tracer dissolve away over time? Thanks for all your help.

Hello! I'm trying to make spinning starts that leave a trail. Initially I tried in After Effects by using a long shutter on motion blur, but it's never getting bright enough (really faint). Even if I quadruple the star layers in add mode, it doesn't reach anything beyond muddy. SO, I'm a newb to the tracer object. Any tips on creating a field of stars with a cloner, and then rotating the whole thing so that when it reaches a certain speed I can create a trail? Ideally the trail would need to fade off in a realistic way. Thank you!

Thanks everyone for all these solutions (and scene files)! I'm going to dig and take a look. Can't thank you enough.

I would like to somehow turn an image into pixels (square planes with a tiny bit of spacing around them). The ideas is that the camera is going to zoom out from a single 'pixel' to reveal the full image. At some point during the move I'll switch over to the actual image (motion blur is my friend). Any thoughts on how to get the planes set up in a non-excruciating way? Thank you!

Hi Mike, Thanks for the idea. I think it's just a bug in the latest release. I'm on a Mac. It doesn't happen on the previous 'S' version.

Hello! When I take a snap shot they look fine as thumbnails, but when I click on them I get a weird blown out look. Any ideas? Thanks, Kkamin

Awesome! Thank you!

Thanks, Bentraje. Would you ever be down for a paid consultation? I'd gladly pay for a few hours of training. This of course would be after I completed some tutorials and started hitting some walls. Thanks so much for these resource links! I'll check them out!

Thanks for the insights! I have a teaching opportunity at a college that is Maya based. I'm not teaching Maya or anything, but we might need to pop in there to do a few things. -Kevin

Hello, For those of you who also know Maya, how much of a learning curve is there learning Maya from Cinema 4D and to gain an intermediate proficiency (a matching level from C4d)? I might be required to learn it, so I'd like to prepare myself accordingly. Thank you for any insights! Kevin