C4D Tutorial: Setting Up Spline Dynamics

Just a little beginners tutorial on how to set up spline dynamics in Cinema 4D so you can have cables, ropes etc. that are dynamic. Hope it helps!
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[@michaellemmetti4528]

Brilliant tutorial. Such clear delivery.

[@dfa_evans]

Amazing tutorial that still holds up! Straight to the point thank you!

[@tompijnappel7368]

Nice tutorial. Straight to the point. Literally. Nice work bud!

[@ander3059]

Short and well explained, great job and thanks

[@Givethought]

Excellent tutorial very clear and straight to the point thanks a million

[@pawpotsRS]

i enjoyed all your video its simple but effective at delivering nice tips.

[@eganjesse]

Really great job explaining this. Thank you!

[@ingvarai]

What a fantastic tutorial, not wasting a second, and at the same time explain everything I wanted to know about this!

[@thepixellab2011]

Thanks mate! :)

[@hatsunemikuchannel2023]

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[@xelx843]

ENJOY! very useful for everyone!

[@worem2192]

thank you for this amazing tutorial

[@tomdempsey4394]

whenever i search for a tutorial for cinema online and your name pops up... i'm relieved and look no further. thank you!

[@thepixellab2011]

Ha, that's awesome. Thanks Tom! :)

[@JustDumpHere]

Thank you, very useful !

[@terrancebaraketh3320]

brilliant .. thanks

[@raymi5677]

This is sooooo cooool, thank u a ton

[@M3Animate]

thanks for teaching man

[@alinarangi7826]

as always thanks man

[@aalperbayram]

love it! just what i need. thanks a million.

[@thepixellab2011]

You got it boss!

[@aalperbayram]

i have a problem though, i made a rope over a well to pull up and down the bucket. i made the rope with helix, but when i added the spline dynamic, it dissappeared o.O

[@aalperbayram]

wow. it went waaaaaaaaaay down under scene for some reason. so is there any way to make it self collide?

[@Bob3D2000]

Thank you!

[@m.hworks5534]

thinks man it helps me a lot

[@JC3D]

thanks for the video

[@GiorgiAkhalaia]

Thanks

[@indrakurniawansaputro13]

Hi! thank you for such a good tutorial! I have question, so I want to make the spline is have "weight" on it. Its made of cable, not as light as hair, so when I moved things the spline not as bouncy as a hair. Can we give such a setting for the spline? Thanks in advance! edit: oh, I found it! its in spline, go to dynamic attributes change the "drag" from 0 to 100

[@ahmedmounir1168]

Amazing

[@aharmon]

If you are having trouble with the spline "curling" change the spline type from Bezier to Linear

[@protagoras7265]

thank you

[@allkhanan]

Thank you :)

[@Alireza-hv2ok]

ty

[@thejohnnylaw]

Thank you. I’m a beginner.

[@_caseyv_]

Thanks for the tutorial! I struggled with this for a while, and never really came up with a solution, but i'll ask anyway. With spline dynamics, is it possible when you move one of the poles with the rope attached, is there a way to keep the length of the spline constant / fixed and then pull the other pole with it once it gets fully extended?

[@apollovacademy6066]

You can use the character constraint tools to prevent the pole from going to far and pull the other one. On the note of getting this to be a set length I am not too sure?

[@eganjesse]

Is there a way to retract the length of the spline based on target distance?

[@jumpfarabove1200]

I have a question if you please i made a sail by cloth tag and hanged it by a rope which is a sweep spline made of hair tag connection to a null in the wood up when i press play the sail falls down and the spline elongates with it endless so i cannot fix the sail to be hanged

[@NaitorStudios]

How do I make a closed spline and avoid stretching? I'm trying to make a bead chain for a falling dog tag

[@ELVIS58687]

Cool!!!

[@byninjafx]

How can i make a torus hanging at the very middle of this spline? (and it is moving with the spline)

[@wizardAJgamer]

can u make tutorial on realistic exterior with vray

[@bodobanali]

Is there a way to activate a self collision in the spline? I have a radius of 10 in the dynamics tag … but it intesects itself

[@glatze_-.-]

Hello, i hope i get a answer to my question to an 3 years old tutorial video :D When i put a spline dynamic tag on the spline, the spline dissapears. i changed from bezir to b-spline- linear or something but same problem. Maybe anyone knows a solve for this Bug? THX

[@josemarono3392]

Genial viejo uwu

[@EdwardSedgwick83]

Hi, this is really helpful. But I want my constraint to follow an object. In this case a kite. Is there a way for the constraint to track the movement of the object it is constrained to? I don't mean a change in a static scene, I mean and object that needs to move through the scene.

[@EdwardSedgwick83]

Answered my own question! It will dynamically follow the object/null to which it is constrained. Great tut!

[@einjarfabrega822]

hey bro how make the animation more longer ???

[@mylocreative7931]

How do i bake the spline dynamics sim?

[@bsways]

IM trying to do this with a helix spline hanging but the helix gets unravelled. any idea how I keep it ravelled?

[@marcistewart7773]

Do you know if there is a way to do this in C4D lite?

[@Team_rk288]

Same can we do in blender

[@Gromic2k]

Is there a way to add a collision object?

[@Gromic2k]

Found it. Hair collision tag

[@motionislive5621]

How to make spline a rigid body?

[@Shev4uk]

How do I make a bunch of ropes hanging and not intersecting with each other? Thank you.

[@thepixellab2011]

I believe you could just add a Hair Collider tag so they would not intersect each other...

[@Shev4uk]

Thanks for your help. Looks like I do something wrong, geometry still intersects. gyazo.com/7a79b17e4ebee82a6368ee7015d2498e My maximum goal is to make the wire not to intersect with itself, can you advice?

[@fimich]

а как на счет взаимодействия?

[@jellykid]

Is there a way of achieving this from Broadcast? I dont have the hair rage due to the limitations of my version (annoyingly)

[@luman1109]

the spline keeps on stretching forever, I've seen this coment from a bunch of other people Anyone know a solution?

[@einjarfabrega822]

BRO como haces que se mueva wey ???? ayuda pls

[@SusanYT2023]

i dont know how to create a target .. sad

[@9vfilm476]

3Q！

[@GB-qg8ch]

Thank you!

[@FarihahSayed]

thanks for this but how do I take a constraint tag off mid animation so that it looks like the rope has fallen?

[@thepixellab2011]

In your Constraint Tag there is a parameter called "Influence." Just keyframe that at 100% and then on the next frame change it to 0% and add a keyframe. That will turn off the constraint tag at that point and it will fall. Cheers!

[@FarihahSayed]

thank you