Animating a falling box

I am trying to animate a box falling onto a table. I can and have just animated it falling in a traditional manner with the keyframes, but I wanted to create more of a realistic feeling instead (it falling and moving around slightly due to a very slight bounce-back.

I am fairly new to Cinema 4D and I am at a bit of a loss at how the mograph stuff works sometimes. I tried making both the box and the table I built rigid bodies, but there is no way (at least that I cannot see) to animate it falling and hitting the table. Can this effect only be done a certain way or is there a better way to control it?

If anyone knows of a really good tutorial on making this kind of animation work please let me know...Thanks

I have tried that exact thing over and over but the box just stays in the air. Is there a way of telling it when to fall. I have a entire room modeled and a camera that swings around to the table and I want the box to start falling once the camera turns around towards the table. Do I have setting messed up or something....really confusing me at the moment.

It is R13

Cinema 4D R13 Broadcast

Thanks...that worked, but I have one more question. How exactly do I get it to drop at the exact frame that I want it to...it seems to have a mind of its own about that and I cannot seem to understand which setting changes that.

Thanks!

Thanks a lot Adam!... that worked great.


I really need to work on some tutorials to get the basics of animation in C4D down. I am fluent in doing it After Effects, but I have found that CInema 4D is very different in some aspects. Any recommendations of tutorials for a beginner animating in C4D?


Thanks for the help...truly appreciated!