Is it possible to link individual polygon points to null objects in cinema 4d?

[louderthan11 0]

I'm trying to link individual points from a polygon to null objects in Cinema 4D. Then I would animate the null objects to move the points. I know I can animate individual points with PLA but I'm creating polygons based on null objects from a point cloud. So I want to link the points to the null objects rather than try some crazy keyframing. I'm sure there is a way to set this up via xpresso but I am terrible with xpresso. I'm trying to learn more about it. If anyone can shed some light on a way to do this that would be much appreciated!

[tcastudios 0]

A native way is to use the Cluster Deformer (under character).

 

Cheers

Lennart

[louderthan11 0]

Yep! That's the ticket. Thankyou very much! I didn't know how to use the cluster deformer but I searched around and this video was very helpful.

 

[baynoise 0]

awesome. i was always using the morph tag. i am definitely going to check this out.

[vozzz 2]

be carfeul clusters are really buggy in R13 though. whatever you do, don't try to modify the axis of an object with a cluster null in it. it'll mess everything to shit.

 

and save incremenetally often, coz ctl+z doesnt always fix it...

[iline 0]

be carfeul clusters are really buggy in R13 though. whatever you do, don't try to modify the axis of an object with a cluster null in it. it'll mess everything to shit.

 

and save incremenetally often, coz ctl+z doesnt always fix it...

 

Agreed Vozz! r13 has some standout bugs still. They'll be ironed out with reports in time. Ctrl+S doesn't always save, and it's a non-reproducible problem (mac pro 8-core, snow leopard, r13 >latest update) so I can't really accuse Maxon of making a bug. The safest thing is to set Auto-Save for 15/20 minute intervals imo. This doesn't help when you are baking out caches, in fact it causes a horrific bottleneck that means you have to sit there like an ass with your fingernail going white on the F7 key to stop your playback CTI advancing relentlessly. Probably merits a new thread, but I don't want to do a bug thread on r13 because there are official channels for that sort of thing. And r13 is a joy to use most of the time.