Controlling Growth Effects in Cinema 4D: Grass, Plants, ANYTHING!

Scene files and more! via Patreon: / rocketlasso
In this tutorial for Cinema 4D Chris goes over methods to controlling growth effects as if a light was shining on the ground. From there it can additively grow, spread to edges, and create some crazy animations.
Scene Files for this tutorial via Patreon: / scene-files-in-39072464
Time Stamps
00:00:34 - Catching up to the preset scene
00:01:28 - Basic Cloner & adding plants from the C4D Content Browser
00:04:55 - Scene files and more via Patreon: / rocketlasso
00:05:02 - Adding variation to the grass elements
00:06:40 - Basic growth via "Light". Setting up a Vertex Map
00:12:43 - Additive growth from the light via Freeze Layer
00:15:55 - Growth completing itself anywhere the light shined
00:18:58 - Adding smoothing and springiness
00:21:33 - Inverting!
00:23:04 - Lawn Mower effect
00:26:48 - Masking out Text
00:30:08 - Adding wind & changing out the plants
00:34:58 - Similar setup, but with KNIVES!
00:36:43 - Outro
00:37:00 - Did this help you out? Want to support? / rocketlasso
Thanks everybody!
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Music: www.ronaldjenkees.com/
Software used:
Cinema 4D maxon.net
Get access to bonus streams, scene files, and more. / rocketlasso

[@bluestaar100]

The ending with the knifes was 🔥🔥🔥

[@EpicJCreations]

As always Chris, this tutorial was amazing! Such incredibly helpful information in it, and all while inspiring us to make our own thing and build something new and awesome with what we just learned! A++ my friend!

[@havi32]

Great work, Chris! Thanks so much.

[@adamross2208]

Crazy awesome tutorial Chris.

[@doubledeecreator2181]

I Love This, Thanks A million for this tutorial.

[@altberg__]

thanks a million chris for everything. much love!

[@royal__dog2590]

Thank you so much🔥keep it up bro you are the best

[@hazonku]

That was super AWESOME!

[@christianflores]

thank you so much for making this video. I appreciate it. :)

[@pushcreativity]

Just excellent, as usual!!

[@SlingoRyan]

Thank you man, this is so cool !

[@adamfilip]

Awesome, thank you!

[@render4dcafe]

The best fields tutorials are in this channel 🤘

[@3deoskill]

always crazy ideas , thanks

[@graphic-nations]

Amazing you are one of the best instructor

[@shegiranuvo]

super tutorial, helps a lot!

[@maximelamouroux3494]

Usually i never write comments. But this time i had to say that it was one of the best tutorial i have ever seen. It's very clear all along, and you are pushing us to try ourselves with different techniques to make our own things. Thank you very much for this amazing tutorial !

[@raneemFX]

Chris is always Next Level 👌

[@ArgoBeats]

15:56 ! Great one, Chirs!

[@michalbetta964]

Great video!!

[@C4DRS4U]

Excellent tutorial. Fields have been in C4D for a while but I have not gotten around to look into them. Maybe I should. ;-)

[@rosengrozev3326]

Crazy crazy techniques as always! Thank you, Chris, it is so appreciated !!!

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@Zev Arlo Instablaster :)

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[@messiahtheo7229]

@Zev Arlo You are welcome xD

[@fabriziopacifici7531]

As always you're a genius on complicated things made easy. I am a fan. And I hope you guy are developing a plugin to implement the Subdivision Surface object just enough to make easy work on hard surface models (as happens in maya or blender).

[@juangambino634]

Deep and easy with you, fantastic!

[@RocketLasso]

Thanks Juan!

[@oxocanDOTcom]

Chris, this is not even cool, IT'S AMAZING!!!!!!! Super cool, easy to follow techniques!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE!

[@amusingdancerivan]

Super Cool !!! Thanks A lot !!!

[@andrewswift7428]

Excellent!

[@3drenders_]

this is WOW!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!

[@JustinMarimon]

Another great tutorial. Thank you for your hard work, as always. (KZbin compression REALLY hates that grass)

[@johnalbertson79]

It really hates IPR windows too.

[@sgmazawi]

thx !!! very helpful !!!!!!!!

[@Nevescreative]

Nice!

[@oxocanDOTcom]

Nick, Chad and yourself are like the Holly Grail of the 3D World! :))

[@philgee5220]

Chris S, you're a genius :-)

[@frigbychilwether]

Hi, really useful techinque you demonstrated here thanks. A question though, is there any particular reason you always save new versions manually rather than use save incremental ?

[@danielschmid8530]

"The freeze will keep them growing" is something you don't hear very often outside of C4D. Stellar video!

[@aliamirian15]

that was great

[@infojaviernova]

Wow! No words for this... 8)

[@mrkimonojr9400]

GREAT TUTORIAL AS ALWAYS. Quick question can we use this method with TURBULENCE FD ? it be awesome if you can make tutorial on that

[@scarabrae]

Hi Chris. I'm returning to C4D from Houdini after more than a decade break and I'm a little lost in transferring my knowledge from Houdini back into C4D. It it possible [I'm sure it must be] to paint a vertex map on geo. For example, painting a vertex map on a landscape object in order to then tell the RS Matrix where specifically to scatter trees, etc? So that I can art direct? Sorry, I know this is not directly related to this really cool video! Thanks.

[@joserororo9240]

....Wooow..., que bueno...!!!, un saludo

[@petrholusa5855]

You crazy, Lasso!

[@petrholusa5855]

It's just shame that viewport has annoyingly slow FPS.

[@UtkuNamlises]

Hi Chris i learned a lot from this tutorial and as a practice i was trying to achieve this grow effect with balls shooting from above to the soil. I made a sphere parenting a spherical field and put it in the cloner with a rigid body and used an emitter as a Object of the Cloner. However when i run the animation clones of the original object did not painted the vertex as i expected it only considers the reference object so my clones did not triggered the grows on the surface. Can you give me any advice on that? Thank you!!!

[@KenanErenArt]

Hi Chris, How can we cache the vertex map animation :)

[@vandaleyez2]

i'm on r25 and things aren't working the same way as in the tutorial when placing the vertex map into the plain effector's field. all the grass just scales back up. things sort of work if i place the cone field instead. the invert modifier also works but i can't use the vertex map anymore since i only dragged the cone field into the plain effector. is there something i need to do differently? i tried placing the invert mod and cone field into a folder within the plain effector, which then allowed me to use the freeze modifier but it doesn't work the same. it also starts bugging out like crazy when i select auto update...

[@brandonblair6529]

Does any level of pateron get scene files or just the most expensive one?

[@zavugaderek3306]

Teacher Chris thank you. God bless greyscallgorillas

[@alra1033]

Hi! I know this is an old video, but is there a way to invert in the middle of the animation? So lets say I grow the grass, and then the next time I shine the light on something, I want it to shrink. I've been trying to get that to work but no such luck. Thanks if you get around to reading this!

[@RocketLasso]

Hmm, interesting question. Would be good to hit me with during a live stream!

[@alra1033]

@@RocketLasso ah I missed the one you streamed yesterday. Do you stream on Twitch and then post it to KZbin?

[@pzdmc4d]

Nice you like the grass, you probably know why :-), thanks

[@slackears]

Nice Models, thanks for all the hard work on the C4D content

[@RocketLasso]

There are special discounts on all my plugins if you are supporting on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/55690013

[@TheEpicAB]

Is there a way to do this in R19?

[@Naresh996]

Hi Chris,could you do some car crash scenes... I am eager to learn some accidentally stuff 😅

[@blueproductions5425]

Great work Can we download the Tre please

[@blueproductions5425]

I mean tree

[@ideascortes]

This gave me a bit of a nose bleed but I learned a lot!!!

[@Adenomamusic]

Is S22 necessary? Haven't watch it yet.

[@RocketLasso]

Nope, R21 should work just fine I believe.

[@anselbaron903]

真的太厉害了，牛逼plus。

[@abinari]

o r d e r - o f - o p e r a t i o n s

[@Willopo100]

For me this runs very slow. I am using forester assets. They arent even high poly. Machine a beast.

[@_o__o_]

growf