[foxshox]

[h1]Sprilly Ball in Cinema 4D[/h1]
Hello, Today I'm going to show you how to make your own "sprilly" ball like the one in the downloads section. It is a very basic tutorial that goes over some key things in Cinema 4d that you will use later on in your works.



First start out by opening C4D obviously. Now click on the cube on the top toolbar and select the spherical object. This tutorial goes into basic use of the sphere, but theres ALOT of things you will use this mundane shape for.
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Now hit the letter "C" and click into the polygon mode.
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Once your in polygon mode. Go to Structure->Matrix Extrude. Matrix extrude is your friend.. you will almost always use this to make all that cool abstract stuff. Because this is a very basic tutorial I'm not going to really go into it much rather than a few things you should input.
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Now input the numerical values like shown in the picture.( these are definatley arent set in stone. Play around with EVERYTHING, who knows what kinda cool stuff you can get)
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Now click the Nurbs button at the top near the Cube that you clicked on earlier. Click the one in the picture. Drag your layer underneath it like shown in the picture.
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Now we will load the materials, assuming you do not know how to make your own yet. Click on the File menu of the materials section at the bottom shown in the picture and select Load Materials.You should have it open up into the C4D folder with materials, and choose "cheen", if this selection is not there, make sure you are in the Materials Folder in the C4D folder found in Progam Files.
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You should now have a bunch of little spherical shapes with different colors. Drag and Drop the Mirror material over the "sphere" layer. A little sphere with that material should appear, and the color of your object should change.
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Now double click the mirror material, and a dialouge box like the one in the picture should show up. Uncheck the "reflection" selection and it should look like the picture now.Why? you ask, well first of all, rendering it will take alot longer since there are so many little appendages that will be reflected, and also the fact that it will end up looking bad if you dont.
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Now Click the Preview button like in the diagram below, and your done. I will write another tutorial later on, on how to save and edit your renders.
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Click the link below to download the Cinema 4D file for this tutorial.
Sprilly Ball C4D

[Smeck]

nice tut, now to find c4d

[Saven]

contact me at skater7789@aol.com smeck i have to inform you about something that happened to your faimly

[Smeck]

err...? btw what was edited by sketchi?

[SKETCHi]

The title of the topic post changed but your message still said "Re: old post name". So I changed it ^_^;.

[Saven]

lol well i told smeck the news and everything was ok.. i think a few smart people know what the news was.. ahh i gotta get ps7 on this comp im down with terregan and c4d which i just transferd from my other comp but i forgot to put ps7 on it so i gotta do that lol

[Blitz]

where can i find c4d? pnw1in? u get my email?

[kah]

uuuuuu nice
im a beginer got the the program 3-4 days ago and this is what i did last night no tutorial just asked my friend a few things
 is it eny good?
BTW i did this on my own

[foxshox]

uuuuuu nice
im a beginer got the the program 3-4 days ago and this is what i did last night no tutorial just asked my friend a few things
 is it eny good?
BTW i did this on my own

it looks pretty good, albeit basic. There is a lot more to c4d, and this tutorial is just showing you how to use one very minor function. I would like to write some more tuts, but just dont have the time.

Keep working with it, tutorials can help find things, but making your own things give you a great deal of satisfaction. Especially when they look real.