In this Cinema 4D tutorial, I’ll walk you through the Cinema 4D Mesh Deformer and how you can use it to speed up your Soft Body Dynamic simulations by using a low poly cage to drive it as well as other handy workflow uses including rigging!
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You Will Learn:
• What the Mesh Deformer is
• How to build low poly cages
• Using Polygon Reduction to create a quick cage
• Multiple uses of Mesh Deformer for Soft Body Dynamic and Rigging workflows
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If you have any questions about the Mesh Deformer, post them in the comments section! If you created any thing cool using this Mesh Deformer workflow, be sure to share it with me Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or in the Comments! Thanks for watching!
Hi,
Thanks for the great tip!
I was wondering if it is possible to use this technique with a cloner object?
Let’s say I have 10 rubber ducks that I want to drop to the floor.
Any chance I can use the mesh deformer in combination with a cloner?
Cheers,
Mikkel
GREAT question! Soooo for that, you’d need to run the softbody dyanmic sim with the lower poly ducks, and then have those mesh deformers feed into another cloner with the hi poly ducks…i think that’s how you’d get away with that, I’ll have to play around with it!
Hi EJ, I really like your tutorial and this cute duckling. Can you share the model for me to practice? I am a Chinese, English is a little poor, can only be done step by step towards the tutorial, there is no model for me some difficulties, if you can hope to share 910120964@qq.com, this is my mailbox, thank you very much!