What I am trying to do is have the golf ball come in from behind the camera and bounce off the 2 logo's and land in the grass. I can't get it to look right keyframing it, so i am trying to use dynamics. I can get the ball to drop straight down but not have forward momentum. I tried using wind to blow the ball into the scene but i feel like i am totally off on my approach to this. Can you use a spline path and still respect collision properties? Then i could keyframe the ball into the first logo and have dynamics take over... I tried baking the dynamics and the modifying the keyframes but that has the momentum still as droping from straight down. Ug, i am a noob...
Re: Golf Ball Dynamics ? by Brian Jones on May 18, 2008 at 4:47:38 pm
That's what the Start Tab is for in the Rigid Body Dynamics Tag.
"The ‘v’ settings define the starting velocity of the rigid body. The ‘w’ settings set the angular velocity (rotation). ‘F’ defines a force that is exerted during the first frame of the dynamics animation. The values you enter for ‘I’ will define the torque applied during the first frame of the dynamics animation."
So you can set a starting speed and let it run. Like this.
Re: Golf Ball Dynamics ? by Chris Holland on May 23, 2008 at 6:58:08 pm
Chris,
I am new at Cinema 4d as well but I thought it looked great. Did you put it on a huge sphere or is that falloff from the camera ? I don't know a better way to do it. I don't even have the hair module. Thanks.
Chris Holland
Editor/Animation/Design
hollandedit.com
