Cinema 4D Big Swarm Tutorial (No Particles)

[@johnhansen3129]

Update: It seems that the Dynamics are not rendering as shown in the editor. To avoid this, assign the cloner object to a matrix object. Now remove the cloner from the tracer and insert the matrix object instead. Also make sure that the matrix object is above the cloner in the object hierarchy. That fixed it for me.

[@lorenzoresta2841]

In my case I have also done the following actions: -changed the distribution of the matrix into AXIS; -shifted the rigid body tag from the sfere inside the cloner to the cloner himself; This works for me, hope it will useful for you.

[@olasz82]

Hey John! Could you pls be more specific about these changes? I tried to make it but it's still not ok in the render so I'm not sure I did it well. I'm still a beginner. Thanks if you could reply!

[@johnhansen3129]

​@@olasz82 check this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnawopuFpMyEsLs

[@armankirakosyan96]

@@johnhansen3129 Hey John, can you show how you make them swirl around the custom surface like in the intro with the face?

[@vidalmateos3416]

Just be careful to not do the same mistake as me, since there are two "Distribution" in Matrix, one showing the cloner's one and one showing the Matrix's one, be careful to only change "Distribution" to "Axis" for Matrix, while keeping "Vertex" for Cloner.😅

[@FrickingTaylor]

Amazing tutorial, thanks so much!

[@inigoarmendariz2698]

It's been a long time since I saw such a good c4d tutorial, you are amazing

[@johnhansen3129]

I'm glad you like it :)

[@inigoarmendariz2698]

@@johnhansen3129 I can't wait to see more 😊

[@AB-mv1mb]

Wow super cool!

[@DoxiaStudio]

Smart! sometimes you just need to use your imagination to make something so complex without any plugin. great tutorial!

[@johnhansen3129]

Thank you :)

[@SammyKyuuketsuki]

who needs particles after seeing your vid , thanks man !

[@vidalmateos3416]

Excellent, thank you John

[@PhotoshopRoom]

One of the most powerful tutorial! Thx man,best!

[@ParagBodkhe]

One word! Awesome! Thank u

[@robertophotonic7200]

awesome tutorial

[@oktayortakcioglu8957]

great content, thank you. Looking forward to the follow up tutorials.

[@Tim_warpTV]

excellent. thanks

[@adriennh9817]

the best tutorial I have seen in a long time! thank you so much!

[@harrisonbruhn8528]

Dude come back to youtube! This is incredible!

[@the_mographer]

Great Tut! Love this approach!

[@nirajthakur4099]

This is mind blowing

[@CaligoFXnet]

Excellent!

[@maltavfx]

dude this tutoring was so incredible congratulations, i don't have Xparticles but it's a good solution

[@imaesthetic9196]

This is very cool John, I would love to see more tutorials from you. It's been a minute since you uploaded. I put the bell notification on 👏.

[@tlRahul]

Amazing tutorial. Learned lots. Thank you so much for this. 😊

[@zerosixtwosix]

This is cool, good solution!

[@Rombododecaedron]

Amazing! Thank you!

[@huynhaibac2020]

thanks

[@nathangillies9552]

Fantastic tutorial dude it works perfectly didn't run into any issues, it was perfect however could you please do some sort of update to show how to use the (Rail) thing just in case I decide to use a model of a fish in the future please and thank you again what a great tutorial :)

[@johnhansen3129]

check this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnawopuFpMyEsLs

[@danieljoda]

OMG this is incredible! thank you so much

[@cleberrodrigo8720]

amazing

[@manlok497]

stunned by your tutorial

[@juniordev4190]

Awesome tutorial. Thanks for sharing. I am unable to make collision of the individual sphere as you did in 17:06. Could you please guide me on the parameters inside the collision tab of rigid body dynamics.

[@johnhansen3129]

Thank you :) all the rigid and collider bodys are on default values. I didn't change something there. 1. Make sure your gravity is disabled. Press Strg + D to open the project settings. Then go to the dynamics tab and decrease the gravity value to: 0 cm. 2. Leftklick on the sphere inside the cloner object and go to simulation tags > rigid body. (don't change any values here). 3. Leftklick on the sphere or the object you want to colide with the swarm, go to simulation tags > collider body (not rigidbody) (don't change any values here).

[@juniordev4190]

@@johnhansen3129 Thank you very much.

[@simonDmotiondesign]

this is sick! great tutorial man, thanks for that :)

[@ro-animation]

Wow! Epic!

[@houssineetouhami4586]

nice work

[@vupadhyai]

just BRILLIANT!!!!

[@thekfox1]

Thank you , great tutorial. Would love to see a morphing swarm tutorial.

[@mantanabonpokkong2283]

Thank you!

[@ggenz]

Thank you very much! What an amazing tutorial!

[@calanm7880]

This is utterly amazing!! Subscribed, please keep sharing, I learned heaps

[@ЕвгенийВодолажский-н8в]

Огоооо! это невероятно, Спасибо!

[@ideascortes]

AMAZING

[@ashkanmirzaei2608]

creative tutorial ty alot ♥

[@alessiocasciaro1047]

simply amazing! thank you!

[@stefofpv]

Hi John, incredible tutorial thanks! I try to replicate the effect you did in the intro on an animated head, but I can't animate the particles along the head's surface... Would you explain how you did it please?

[@lyndajones1133]

so no. cant explain i guess.

[@yongshengwu1483]

good

[@J3DMG]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge 👍

[@georgehephzibah4786]

can you change the swarm objects into alembic animated objects? please show how...

[@leilavlog3380]

Great tutorial! Please can you do tutorial on under sea ? Thank you

[@goodkingdesign]

Great tutorial, thank you. Turning off gravity in the project settings (for Simulation and Bullet) to stop the rigid body falling didn't work for me, I'm using R26. Any ideas?

[@mohanlei.design]

Same issue here, did you figure it out eventually?

[@goodkingdesign]

@@mohanlei.design no sorry but if you do I’d love you to post it here please

[@yukifu-zw3dk]

Hi John, Thank you for sharing this amazing tutorial to us! May I ask you a quick question? Is there some way to export this amazing animation base on the fish model? I mean export the path of the fish.

[@HASNIISCOBAR]

thank you.

[@user-nx4nl3fi8j]

great work！👌

[@sean.sullivan]

this was fantastic... more tutorials from you please!!!

[@michtoanimations1222]

Great tuto ! i would like to know how do you "constraint" fishes to a text like in your intro. Can you explain please ?

[@johnhansen3129]

instead of using a sphere i used a cylinder with a regualr grid amount. Make it rotate with the Time Effector and attach it to your text spline with the Spline Wrap (as its shown in the tutorial). I recomend to draw the letters with spline tools. For the morphing from a sphere shaped swarm to the Text shaped swarm i used the Matrix object. This tutorial from eye design explains it well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y37XgmemZ7V-pM0

[@michtoanimations1222]

@@johnhansen3129 thank you my lord !

[@shonky]

@@johnhansen3129 Thanks, this helped a lot! I was able to replicate this technique, but how did you do the head? I can't figure that out. Any help would be appreciated!

[@tagore4d]

Amazzing tutorial. So many things I could learn from it. Thanks very much. What is your computer configuration ? that plays real smooth.

[@psina123]

I love this!! Is there any easy way to put this on spline an animate it?

[@くっしー-w5v]

so cool めっちゃいい。

[@chhn6532]

Hi , is possible let trace path become other Object shape ? or it only combine Line object stuff ?

[@johnhansen3129]

check this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnawopuFpMyEsLs

[@chhn6532]

@@johnhansen3129 Cool, you are the one who would response me, the other KZbinr don't give a response even though I wanna pay for earn. Just follow your channel :)

[@amusingdancerivan]

Super Cool !!! How to apply Textures now ?...hm

[@johnhansen3129]

check this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnawopuFpMyEsLs

[@jeremypcleung]

is there something similar on blender or would you be able to do a tutorial for blender? sorry complete cg noob here and I've only touched a bit of blender so far :(

[@johnhansen3129]

Good question! i'm not familiar with blender but I think there should be a way to achieve something similar. Probably with a different approach. On your place I would ask in a Facebook Blender group. I'm sure you will get some useful hints by the community. I would also be very interested in what comes out of it :).

[@TheUmamkeren]

LoL Blender,awokaowkawok

[@DidarAmini]

Hi. nice tutorial. so is this first after 2 years? are we expecting more? :)

[@johnhansen3129]

thank you.I'm happy you liked it :). I will try. It was a joy to do that

[@DidarAmini]

@@johnhansen3129 I really liked it. I am the producer of our studio and I started to learn C4D for almost a year. C4D is really tricky and I have a long way. I was just checking your nice 2017 reel. this is ours: vimeo.com/434194260 I hope you continue and create many nice animations and tutorials :)

[@johnhansen3129]

@@DidarAmini Nice! Cool stuff you got there. And a big variety too.

[@ArnoldVeeman]

Hi John, Awesome tutorial, it really works out the way I hoped. But, When I put a "fish" object above the spline wrap tool it indeed turns abruptly. What can I use as a rail object, another tracer? Thanks in advanced!

[@johnhansen3129]

check this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnawopuFpMyEsLs

[@nevraXmike]

How did you swarm a face like that, in the opening examples?

[@matthewevans5758]

great tutorial!! I’m trying to do this with fishes, but as you noted, they rotate wildly without a rail... I’m not sure what the correct object or spline to use as a rail is??

[@sage_morei]

did you find a solution to this? can't figure out how to align them to the tracer as a rail

[@johnhansen3129]

check this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnawopuFpMyEsLs

[@NIKHIL_SHOt]

More tutorial plzs

[@sean.sullivan]

Don't know why, but these dynamics don't render within of octane.. just curious if anyone else has encountered this problem?

[@johnhansen3129]

Hey youre right. Thank you for reporting this. I testet it an found a solution. It seems that the Dynamics are not rendering as shown in the editor. To avoid this, assign the cloner object to a matrix object. Now remove the cloner from the tracer and insert the matrix object instead. Also make sure that the matrix object is above the cloner in the object hierarchy. That fixed it for me.

[@sean.sullivan]

@@johnhansen3129 seems that it works also with baking the dynamics. Still, some fish seem to go crazy and go into convulsions. lol. But, trying to figure it out... how to make sure they are always going somewhere or have the space to 'swim' around the sphere then they don't act crazy.

[@louvisuals]

are you able to put the fish swarm around custom shapes and logos?

[@louvisuals]

what is your instagram/ twitter?

[@odaisu1]

What you PC configuration ? Hi )

[@johnhansen3129]

Hi, I have nvidia 1080 and 64 gig of RAM

[@veasnasara]

Dear friend Amazing to watch and learn from you Loving it Please do go ahead and do the morphing the video I will definitely give you my full support and shares your channel to all of my friends Many thanks

[@lyndajones1133]

backing music is really not good here. your voice and the music are syncing up which i find distracting from your genuine insight. thanks for sharing.

[@iainhall5477]

superb thanx