Cinema 4D Tutorial: Unfolding Polygons Effect
In this C4D tutorial I’ll show you how to set up your scene to create a really sweet unfolding polygon effect. This effect is made possible with the new free Python script by Rown. You can find his overview video and the .zip download here: http://vimeo.com/36915151
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February 20th, 2012 at 5:28 pm
love it thanks!
February 20th, 2012 at 5:44 pm
maybe this is new to c4d13 or i missed this. but how did you get the rown custom commands over above the object manager. thanks. love all your models (packs) too = amazing!
February 20th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Kim, go to “window” and “customization” and then “New Pallete”. You can then drag the handle on that empty pallete and dock it wherever you want, aka above the object manager. Then you can customize palletes, find the icon you want, and drag it onto that new, docked pallete. Hope that makes sense!
Joren
February 20th, 2012 at 6:07 pm
I had been trying to re-create something like this last year and gave up. This is perfect!
February 20th, 2012 at 6:44 pm
Love the script ! Could tell me where do i install it ? Which directory or process ? Thank for your help.
February 20th, 2012 at 6:52 pm
love this script, trying to translate isn’t going so well, script has garbage characters in it because i’m on a english pc.. hoping a english version is on its way!
February 20th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
http://translate.google.com/#de|en|
Believe it or not, Google translate works pretty well these days. I used it to decipher Chinese very successfully last week – German should be simple….
February 20th, 2012 at 10:16 pm
Always wanted to know how to do this. Thanks, Joren!
February 20th, 2012 at 10:45 pm
ok, english version here:
http://bit.ly/xtcoMA
includes version 1.05 of the ALIGN_POLY_1.05 script.
February 21st, 2012 at 12:44 pm
nice one joren, thanks!
February 21st, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Hey Joren – great tutorial but how would you do something like the NFL video you showed where there is some randomness/offsets in the polygon
unfolding?
Cheers!
February 21st, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Hey Fasteddie, I’m not 100% sure, I haven’t tried that yet, but my first thought would be changing the rotation axis point so they’re a few pixels off the edge of the polygon so when they unfold there is a slight gap? Not sure, but that’s my first thought. I’ll have to play around with that!
February 21st, 2012 at 3:57 pm
great script! I’m having an issue with changing the rotation axis with 1.05. Does not execute a change of axis. Anyone else having an issue? Thanks
J
February 21st, 2012 at 4:05 pm
Got it! I was trying to selected multiple rows of polygons.
February 21st, 2012 at 4:09 pm
This is great, but the German menus are a bummer. Is there an English version floating around someplace?
February 21st, 2012 at 4:10 pm
Hi Joren,
I was trying to test it in a circular plane but there´s an overlaping problem…any toughts?
Tnks,
Pedro
February 21st, 2012 at 4:10 pm
Doh! Ignore that last idiotic comment.
February 21st, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Sorry, an overlaping problem usin mograph to clone a section of the circular plane ( to make it grow using varios effectors )
February 21st, 2012 at 7:24 pm
thanks joren
February 21st, 2012 at 10:00 pm
Awesome script. Does this work in 11.5?
February 21st, 2012 at 10:50 pm
Hi Joren, thanks a lot for this tut. It was very useful!
I am now trying to figure out how does Rown archieves that spring effect in his video.
I tried with delay effector (as effector+fracture obj, and deformer) and jiggle deformer, but none seems to result. Any ideas?
Thanks!
February 22nd, 2012 at 8:48 pm
Hey Joren! Thanks for doing your tutorials…VERY HELPFUL STUFF INDEED. Does Rown’ unfolding script work in 11.5?? Just curious.
February 22nd, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Chris, I don’t have 11.5, so I’m not sure, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t. Thanks!
Joren
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:18 am
just amazing….i love all your tutorials!
thanks
February 24th, 2012 at 2:48 pm
I tried loading it in 11.5 ( wish I had R13 )…and no go. Maybe I did something wrong…but I don’t think so. I think it’s just a matter of running a old version of C4D. Too bad for me. Nice plugin though. Cheers Joren, and keep up the good work.
Chris
February 25th, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Hi guys!
I have a problem.
When I try to create a hierarchy (second action-2nd button) It pops up a message saying that my order of polygons is not correct or the hierarchy of the polygons is not correct.
What canI do?
Cheers.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:27 pm
I ran into the same issue. If you run your polys in a straight line then it works fine. I think the issue has something to do with creating multi line selections.
Joren thanks for sharing. Never would have figured out how to install and use this script on my own.
Steve
March 5th, 2012 at 1:12 pm
Hi,
Awesome script. Thanks
How would you apply multiple setups like in the example. is it as simple as copy and paste to the new selection of polygons?
Joren, could you do a tut on something like the NFL example? Is there a script to unfold blocks in the same manner?
March 6th, 2012 at 10:11 am
HI Joren
Do you got an idear in how to stick video material
to this in the right way
Cheers
Flemming
March 6th, 2012 at 3:40 pm
Thanks for the tutorial. One question. How would you go about texturing one image across several boxes and still have each box turn with the texture applied? I’m not sure how to map the texture when the polys get broken up to use in the unfold script.
Thanks,
Jeff
March 11th, 2012 at 11:25 pm
Hi Joren,love your tutorials.
Everything worked fine apart from when I render, none of the effects appear on the cube. Any ideas?
March 16th, 2012 at 9:13 pm
guys does the script works on c4d12? im having problems on the first step, when splitting the polys the popup menu won´t let me press ok, just abort and then it goes wrong, anyone experiencing this? any ideas please? it has happen both on osx and w7.. thanks
March 20th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
is it working with R12?
March 20th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
Hmm…I’m having the same problem with it in R12! Not sure why, maybe it doesn’t work in R12. I’ll have to ask the developer. Seems there are some bugs as well, since some people trying to use it have had random errors. It runs perfectly on my R13, so maybe the errors people are having are from using R12?
March 22nd, 2012 at 5:26 pm
hi Joren, any ideas on how to make this work with triangles instead of squares? I’m trying with not luck.
March 22nd, 2012 at 5:51 pm
It does work! you need to download The align_POLY-Script again from vimeo and replace it in the script folder in cinema.
thanks for your tuts man, always very helpful!!!
March 22nd, 2012 at 10:38 pm
you can use plan effector + clonner. and you can get kinda same effect.
April 2nd, 2012 at 8:52 am
HI Joren. Thanks for your tutorials, they are very useful. Joren, just wondering if how can i make the unfolding polygons to be extruded just like the video of “NFL NETWORK DRAFT PROMO” that you have included in you tutorials. I am having problems to extrude the polygons using the script. Can you make a short tutorial on how to make that kind of effect? and how can i put my video or pictures on the polygons? sorry, i’m a newby in C4D and really excited about this software. I hope i could receive a response from you. I am from Philippines anyway. Thanks.! Cheers!
April 7th, 2012 at 10:51 pm
Hello everybody,
I´m not sure if I´ve understood all the questions correctly, but here two little answers. At first the script-set doesn´t work with versions older then 12.048. It is python-language, so I´m sorry it cannot work with 11.5 or older. Furthermore there are some more scripts and codes I wrote and used for the movieanimation. For example the spring-effect is done with one of them. After some weeks of working for other stuff I´d like to continue developing that poly-stuff. I´m sorry for bugs. I´ll try to kill them and besides I´ve got some new ideas. I´ll publish all as soon as I can. And of course! I´ll try hard to script english.
greetings
rown
April 19th, 2012 at 7:24 pm
Hi Rown,
Thank you for making the script, and thanks Joren for the tutorial here.
I’ve managed to translate the latest version to English for my own personal use. Happy to share with your permission and to help out with future releases… but your English seems to be perfect based on your comment!
April 30th, 2012 at 11:35 am
thanks .thanks .thanks it’s cool
May 8th, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Okay, I translated the PDF that comes in Rown’s ZIP file into English as best I could… how can I post it?
May 8th, 2012 at 7:50 pm
You can just send it to me, Joe, and I’ll post it under the video…