Cinema 4D Tutorial - Cloth Simulation Using Soft Body Dynamics

[@mosawi0]

I was looking for many clothing tutorials that are actually practical and I finally got it here , Thank you so much for NOT been like those classic ''typical cloth'' tutorials and showing a new way that ACTUALLY WORKS !!!!! ,

[@eyedesyn]

that means a lot, thanks for the awesome comment and for watching! :) glad this was helpful!

[@kodaharlan3053]

pro tip : you can watch series at flixzone. Me and my gf have been using them for watching a lot of movies these days.

[@houstonrowan9614]

@Koda Harlan Definitely, have been watching on flixzone for since november myself =)

[@katiamoreo4989]

Wow, best tutorials I have seen this far. Finally somebody who, next to explaining everything very clear, makes beautiful stuff in his tutorials. Thank you very much Edward!

[@eyedesyn]

Hey thank you so much! Really appreciate the kind words and happy to hear that I'm explaining everything clearly!

[@AAmar-zm3er]

I do not know how to thank you EJ, I am learning a lot from your tutorials... THANKS BRO

[@eyedesyn]

Comments like this are all I need! Thanks for your support and watching, Ahmed!

[@ellotejake2933]

you tutorials almost change my life，now many friends around me like using Cinema 4D,it is a miracle，although some of them just from irrelevant major，i acquaint many new friends，so i reckon it absolutrly become my precious treasure in my college。

[@eyedesyn]

That's so awesome to hear, glad I could help you and your friends learn Cinema 4D and introduce 3D into your workflow!

[@ellotejake2933]

+eyedesyn i hope i can make friends with different countries who also like Cinema 4D

[@eyedesyn]

Good luck!

[@jenskruger975]

I even didn't remarked the connector in c4d yet. This was completely new for me! Many thanks! Your tutorials are awesome

[@eyedesyn]

Great to hear!

[@hudson8074]

Can't thank you enough for creating such informative and relatively easy to learn tutorials!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching Corrinne! Really appreciate the comment!

[@Doomsdale847]

FYI for viewers of the future, I don't think Nulls support Ghost Bodies anymore, as when I got to that part, the connector did nothing with the null. Instead, I used a regular cube with a ghost body and attached that as A and the rig worked again. Just disable the views on the cube to make it invisible.

[@bduuzis]

Thanks, this helped to me ;)

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for the tip!!

[@hhfhtoolboxgffff]

Came here for this. Thankyou

[@funkygrooves8334]

life saver ! Cheerio !

[@tomashernandez828]

2 hours repeating thinking i missed something!! thanks in OCT 2021

[@JoeBissell]

EJ your tutorials are really helpful!

[@eyedesyn]

Glad they're helpful to you, Joe! Thanks for watching and the nice comment!

[@wick5956]

I am going to have so much fun with this. It runs smoother and looks better in my opinion anyway.

[@eyedesyn]

Awesome glad you like this!

[@menatoorus5696]

Never regret subscribing to your channel. These well done tutorials are national treasure.

[@eyedesyn]

haha appreciate that man!

[@tbsrpr]

I'm learning so much thanks to you, I'm happy I found your channel!

[@eyedesyn]

Glad you found my channel too! Thanks for watching! :)

[@lupitou.-.6032]

Wow I learned more than just dynamics here! Great video

[@eyedesyn]

Awesome to hear! Glad you found it helpful in understanding dynamics and more!

[@ptifur]

It's nice how you keep scattering these musical references in your tutorials! Rat in the cage in the other one ;) Right abo-o-o-out... and the voice in my head continues 'now'!

[@eyedesyn]

hahaha glad you enjoy my dumb music references! :P

[@craveleaks8102]

Thank you so much, EJ. Great Tutorial and great channel to learn dynamics.

[@eyedesyn]

You bet! Glad you enjoyed the tutorials!

[@dimpo87]

You are so Bright person! Thanks a lot for your tutorials! Love them all! And always waiting for new!!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks Dim Po! Really appreciate the kind comment and glad that you're learning from them!

[@m.luyckx5830]

For some reason the connector isn't working for me, everything is followed as in the tutorial, ghost body and everything, weird

[@maximin85]

Im so thankfull for this video I needed a cloth tutorial for my last year graphic design project about an adidas campaign Be sure I'll show you the result !

[@utkn]

Another wonderful video, I am not really interested in animations, I do stills mostly, but it's still equally as helpful since you don't base it just around animating. You're awesome :)

[@markbrim7678]

Dude! it was just about time for your video to be watched and learned! Thanks a million eyedesyn! hopefully this will work in my clothes experiment today ^___^

[@eyedesyn]

Hope it helps my man! Thanks for watching and glad you learned something from this one!

[@stevennasr4410]

EJ Thanks man for ur amazing tuts! My collider body is going threw my plane and I can't seem to make it stay on top of my collider body!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any tip for that????

[@mayorc]

The cloth stretched when you lifted the PULL Null, what parameters do you have to fix to avoid the stretching in that case ? You are mentioning the friction, that could be useful but still it shouldn't stretch that much if you consider it could got caught you still would have the chance to stretch it like that, so it should old the structure or also it would be nice if the cloth would create an opposing force and influence the PULL Null ability to move.

[@EvanRogers1]

@eyedesyn, Aside from all the awesome tech and art direction information you include in your tuts, your personal positivity is infectious. Thanks for kicking my day off with a fresh tutorial and a smile!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks so much for the awesome comment, Evan! Really appreciate those kind words and you watching. Glad I could help in your learning journey! :)

[@jpgze]

Great tutorial, as always!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks Jose! Glad you liked it!!

[@papaynugroho1028]

Nice tutorial dude, it help me a lot thanks !

[@eyedesyn]

happy to hear it, thanks!

[@jinleung3994]

Hello EJ, thanks for the very helpful tutorial, I just purchased the project files, and wondering how do you make the HDRI image, it looks so cool. If there is a tutorial it would be great, thanks again.

[@rthur.]

it looks like a cool magic trick.... thank you for sharing.... i really enjoying your videos....

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks Arthur! Happy to see you in the comment section all the time! Cheers!!!

[@HuyLe2607]

Thank you very much EJ. I've learned a lot from you. Keep it up.

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks Huy Le! Happy to help you learn! Thanks for watching!

[@ilariamast]

i first like and then watch. you rock man!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for the watch and the nice comment!

[@zivfinkel1]

awesome tutorial man. as usual! can you make one on how to create this type of red/blue lighting??

[@eyedesyn]

It's all in the HDR image applied to a Sky object with a fully reflectent material, turn on the GI and boom!

[@mgardner70]

Great tutorial!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks so much!

[@EquestrianSport]

Dude, your the man. Thanks for your efforts

[@eyedesyn]

thanks for the kind comment and for watching!

[@hihihing7302]

I was so touched..... Thanks bro!!!!!!!

[@HasibKhorami10]

Nice One Bro Keep Posting I love it :)

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching Haseeb! Glad you're digging the videos!

[@thomaslivigni9058]

Thank's so much for this tuto ! But when I move my null nothing is happening, my plan (cloth) doesn't follow it.. I tried to restart and connect it again but it still doesn't work.. If someone have the solution.. (I use R21 version)

[@motionislive5621]

Yannick Brüggemann its been a while but still... it seems like newer Versions dont work with null objects. i Used geometry and then it behaved like expected.

[@tommylunaire]

Wow, the texture of the objects is epic! How is it called? How it's made?

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks! Actually the texture is 100% reflection of a colorful HDR image! Its all in the HDR!

[@Axel-uc4uw]

would be best if you could make the full video in future, including how to make the object! cause i am new to it! good video!

[@eyedesyn]

The object was just a couple Torus and a plane object, the reflection material is just a material with 100% reflection and an HDRI that is red. Good luck!

[@schuzpuma]

anybody else had problems with the connector and the NULL not generating any dynamic or pull or anything? I'm stuck.

[@yannick1508]

its been a while but still... it seems like newer Versions dont work with null objects. i Used geometry and then it behaved like expected.

[@motionislive5621]

@@yannick1508 Thank you !

[@bluestaar100]

followed every step and also used cube instead of null and still doesn't react when attempting to pull cloth off

[@muhammadalif8819]

Hi, how to create that background, the HDRI Sky ?

[@danielaguilar6730]

From 16:00-16:20, got completely lost in how these steps were taken. At 16:06 it looks like the pull null that was created just suddenly disappears and then he continues to group objects. Can someone please enlighten me on how the actions taken between 16:00-16:20 are achieved. Thank you!

[@SakshamThukral]

How do you not have ATLEAST 100k subs yet ??

[@eyedesyn]

Hope to get there some day! :) I'm just fortunate and thankful for all the subs I have!

[@SakshamThukral]

eyedesyn Yeah you deserve it man!! You're a great teacher.

[@kikuyumboku9969]

Can this be used for character clothes?

[@tubelator]

You almost saved my life! thanks

[@eyedesyn]

Almost!? haha ill try harder next time!

[@tubelator]

@@eyedesyn today it did it again. I forgot and I saw my own comment lol :))))

[@paranoidandroid00]

I've tried this with a diferente model (a pointy one) and the cloth gets cut, can you help me? By the way, thank you so much, you are the best.

[@eyedesyn]

Cut? Do you mean that the geometry intersects? Try upping the dynamics samples in the Expert Dynamics tab and that should help!

[@ikembyikem]

@eyedesyn Can anyone help me please? I have tried doing this tutorial in Cinema 4D R21 and when I get to the Connector stage of the tutorial it does not work. 1. I tried using a Null with a Ghost Body as A. The Null doesn't work. 2. I tried using a Cube with a Ghost Body as A. The Cube doesn't work. Any help would be much appreciated!

[@nileuniversitymasscomm]

my cloth do not get off the solid. it get elastic and it just sticks

[@kimasdf58]

Thank you for the tutorial! I want to use this soft body dynamics on my high poly wood chair like blanket but when I applied soft body tag and collider body tag on each objects and played it, it collides but pass through the chair at the same time.. What should I do in this case?

[@isrhaul]

thanks so much, i try to do the same but over a head and the cloth is trespassing the head like it cinema 4d can't detect the limits of the object down the cloth, can somebody help me pls

[@eyedesyn]

Up the expert settings in the dynamics settings, I show this in the video!

[@isrhaul]

@@eyedesyn thx for the response, im in the dynamics of the tag soft body in the plane and i dont have the option "expert" my version c4d is r16

[@eyedesyn]

Hit Command or CTRL + D to open up the Project Settings and you should see a Dynamics Tab, click on that and you should see an Expert tab there in the Attributes manager.

[@pietroalessandrini]

What if you want to anchor the cloth like cloth belt

[@R23_YGN]

Thank you This is what I need

[@saqibhussain1472]

you are my teacher :)

[@eyedesyn]

Glad I could help!

[@YupYupNah-z3e]

I'd love to see a quick version of this for Octane (materials). How you setup the HDRI with a grad like that.

[@GymnoWithWaffles]

I really love the way you say ''cloth'' for some reason lol

[@lashaghlonti8113]

can you record video how to make tank treads or wheel ?

[@eyedesyn]

Hope to in the future! :)

[@Marcofrades]

We need to know how to make that metal texture with the cool reflectance please make a tutorial about it :D

[@eyedesyn]

Check out my latest tutorial for some metal material making!

[@walterderosa1009]

Really, really coo but, how can I have the cloth more close to the objects and how can I have to much details about the covered object. I am using a car and I would like to know what kind of parameter I need to play with to have a better result

[@eyedesyn]

Dynamic Expert settings would be where you'd find that as well as the Collision tab - Size Increment. Make it a negative number and see what happens!

[@walterderosa1009]

@@eyedesyn Really thanks for your reply. I will try. Best, Walter

[@annierosa6487]

How do you get the nice gradient like materials?

[@weya1557]

Hello, can you do a tutorial about all those amazing textures you use in general please ?

[@eyedesyn]

I try to do some tutorials with the material creation, and should have with this one as it's simply a material with 100% reflection turned on. all the sexiness comes from a redish HDR image applied on a sky object!

[@cullenhassel8131]

Does this not work with animated objects? when I put it the cloth over an animated figure it just falls through?

[@eyedesyn]

It should work with animated objects. Make sure you apply a Rigid Body Dynamics tag to the moving object and for the Dynamic Shape use a Moving Mesh method and that should take into account the moving object. Good luck!

[@juwadmalik]

my pull null doesn't work, first time i tried it did but now nothing, ghost tag is still on the null any idaes?

[@eyedesyn]

Perhaps you missed a step? Be sure to make sure you didnt miss one!

[@juwadmalik]

eyedesyn it was just a bizzar glitch when i tried again in an actual project it worked. Thanks man

[@eyedesyn]

Glad you got it sorted! Thanks for watching!

[@DIlaaeB]

Can you upload the contents of Light Studio? The rendering result is very different from what i expected. Your tutorial is always useful and will help me a lot. Thank you.

[@eyedesyn]

its a paid HDRI so I cant upload it but id search the internet for free HDRI's and mess around with the HUE and Saturation values to get a nice red composition

[@DIlaaeB]

Thank you. Your tutorial is Always help me a LOT!

[@SpecialKLo_]

Hey Guys. Hey Ej. I was in your Miami MoGraph presentation. Thanks for taking the time and building this community. Im sure a lot, as well with others, we greatly appreciate you sharing all your insights. Aside from the crashy computer, (lol) i came out a little more knowledgeable. I was wondering, i see you use SOFT BODY but i come to find out that my C4D R19 Broadcast version doesn't have that in the program?!?! i see you tend to use it over cloth because you feel as you can control it a little better and don't have to mess around to much with settings and what not. is there any way i can make it as simple as your present it here without needing to use SOFT BODY. Also if anyone knows how i can get around C4D R19 Broadcast to get updated simulation dynamics tags that would be great!!! Thanks

[@eyedesyn]

hey! thanks for coming out to the meetup! always a pleasure to hang out with the mograph community! damn PCs! haha OK so broadcast version doesnt have dynamics, only Studio versions. you can use cloth for this setup, my cloth inflation tutorial may be helpful for you to watch! cheers!

[@Brandonbraun]

trying to rig this but having the plane fall on cables i made with reeper. the cables are editable, but the plane eventually falls through them. cant figure out whats up... -_-

[@TheExplicit2o]

When I put the ghost body onto my Pull Null object and try to pull the cloth it still does not work... I honestly followed every step. Help? ahaha

[@emyh24698]

for some reason that happened to me too, ended up changing to ghost body object to a tiny sphere and it works. Just need to make sure you make the sphere invisible!

[@TheExplicit2o]

@@emyh24698 Great! Thank you so much for the help. Gonna try it later tonight :)

[@remixx9042]

@@TheExplicit2o did it work? I can't get mine to work, tried everything!

[@TheExplicit2o]

@@remixx9042 hey, I did what emyh24698 said she did and it worked. Have you tried that?

[@remixx9042]

@@TheExplicit2o yeah I tried it and it still didn't work :/

[@artathearta]

Hmm.. can't quite get the null object to act on the cloth... I've done everything necessary, just won't work.

[@markzalavari1780]

Thank you very much! Just would like to fix some points on the soft body and fix it and move as it does at the cloth > dresser > Fix points. Could you help me? thx

[@eyedesyn]

Not sure I'm getting your question...I show how to use Connectors for fixing points that would be very simliar to the Fix POints in cloth

[@BigAl444]

I know this video is 3 years old now, but I’d like to know if it’s possible to use a soft body object in place of cloth for a banner unfurling or a flag? Not sure there’s a way to belt it in place.

[@eyedesyn]

You can belt using multiple fixed constraints but i think for this you will find an easier time using cloth!

[@xia1096]

hey, Thanks for the toturials, but i want to know how do you make the meterials ? or is there another tutorials for the meterials ?

[@eyedesyn]

It's a totally reflective material that is reflecting an HDRI! Reflections look good solely on the environment its reflecting

[@junyunc608]

cool! I'm new to C4d, i wonder how you make these fancy material on the torus and sphere. do u have a tutorial about this? thanks man!

[@eyedesyn]

Hey Juon! I opened up the material editor for those materials, they're just really reflective materials, so the actual HDRI I used plays a big part in how this looks. I'd check out my Lighting with HDRI tutorial to learn a bit more! kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6uwdXuKeKp2Y80

[@alikarama1]

Nice One ........... I love it

[@eyedesyn]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!

[@user-jf3kr5gt4e]

Thank you sir. Can you teach me how to make that texture??

[@eyedesyn]

I showed the material in the video, it's just 100% reflective material. The HDRI that is being reflective is creating most of that look

[@foreigner2017]

Is there any way to make it the other way around? Like having objects to fall on the cloth?

[@eyedesyn]

sure, by adding a dynamic tag to the spheres that allow it to fall and have the cloth be the collider

[@jamesdawe8344]

The objects keep breaking through the cloth when I try this with all the same settings, and after playing with various soft body settings I can't solve it?

[@TheDJkarsy]

Bruh I love your tutorials but where that hdri sky and background tutorial at :P (I'll make a quick search now to see if you have one). Thank you for this though, it's great to see that there are so many ways of achieving the same things depending on what tools you're using!

[@blmb4950]

我也是想要材质的教程，那太美了

[@sklgy]

What is the difference between using soft body dynamics and the cloth tag?

[@eyedesyn]

Totally different systems. Cloth Engine is one, and Dynamics Engine is the other, and they don't play well together.

[@joshcastle2619]

mine object cuts through the cloth when they collide. does anyone know what setting to change

[@eyedesyn]

In the Coth's expert settings, up the Point/Edge/Polygon EPS to 2CM or so and see if that helps! the EPS is like a force field around those bits that give a buffer room for collision and should help prevent geometry intersections!

[@joshcastle2619]

eyedesyn thank you sir

[@eyedesyn]

@Josh Castle of course!

[@olgapichugina62]

Yes it is beautiful, it is possible and to bring flying flying))) Where is my lion? Thanks for the nice lesson!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching!

[@Arthur_Feng.]

It`s So Wonderfull!!!!!!!

[@eyedesyn]

Thank you!!!

[@gadangfawwaz6389]

Tysm bro, but can you upload the 3 materials in this video? I want it, purple metallish, i was searching in youtube and nothing tutorial about that color except using octane render, but my pc doesn't support octane render. Thanks :)

[@eyedesyn]

It all comes from the HDRI I used, nothing fancy!

[@JayBaggio]

sadly my C4D keeps messing up the dynamics. All of the sudden the plane loses it's cloth appearance (flexibility) and just turns into a solid plane or it just goes through the torus and sphere without any collision so I couldn't do the tut properly. Just so I know, why do you need to cache the simulation before rendering? what is the purpose?

[@bfg831]

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[@eyedesyn]

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[@bfg831]

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[@eyedesyn]

:)

[@catalintodoran4302]

Pls man can u tell me if u bought cinema4d or if u didnt pls tell me of where can i get , i saw u have more options than me and i cant do what u show us in your tutorials?

[@eyedesyn]

Please don't ask for hacked or free C4D here. I bought the Studio version of Cinema 4D and that will have all the options

[@marypark3531]

how did you make that multi colored metal shader?

[@eyedesyn]

That's a 100% reflective material and it's reflecting an HDR image that is red and purple, its all from the HDRI!

[@maxgermesov.motiondesigner5516]

Hey guys! Can anyone help? The collider body penetrates soft body after the collision happens. How can i fix it?

[@eyedesyn]

Check to make sure you have your collider body on the object as well as up the collision margin in the expert dynamic settings!

[@bag_spras]

how long does it take to render in your machine?

[@eyedesyn]

This scene took about 30 seconds per frame.

[@shelleyniu1080]

How did you create two colour reflections on the material with hdri sky?

[@hhfhtoolboxgffff]

Material, Colour, add noise texture, turbulance, bump up the contrast, turn up relative scale, choose 2 colours

[@shelleyniu1080]

@@hhfhtoolboxgffff thanks man

[@Achildsan]

hey EJ my objects keep coming thru the cloth at the edges, any advice please?

[@eyedesyn]

Hello Amos! I would increase the samples in the Expert tab of Dynamics, I think I cover that in this tutorial! Good luck!

[@Achildsan]

thx buddy i had to massively bump it up, i tried using your numbers

[@claramazzoleni1918]

Hello? thanks for your tuto . it was very helpful. I m debutant on C4D and your explications are really cool even for french people ;). How did you make this pink background? thanks you

[@eyedesyn]

Great to hear! :) The pink background (or any background) can be made by adding a Background Object and adding a material to it with color in the luminance channel.

[@claramazzoleni1918]

@@eyedesyn Thanks so much for you quick answer. I ll try it

[@eyedesyn]

good luck!

[@claramazzoleni1918]

hahaha just one more question. what is the texture that you create for Hdri sky? :s

[@eyedesyn]

Its in the GSG HDRI Pack!

[@Casperlajensencom]

Great tutorial man! I'm in R19 and the connector with the null attached to the plane doesn't seem to react. I've followed along every step of the way, but the null just won't pull the cloth with the connector+null. Do you know what could be the reason for the null+connector not to work? :) Thanks in advance.

[@eyedesyn]

Interesting...not sure what the issue could be, the functionality should be the same, AFAIK

[@Casperlajensencom]

eyedesyn is there another way to pull the cloth that way besides using a belt cloth tag? Or do you recommend this as a substitute? :) thanks for your reply

[@yannick1508]

its been a while but still... it seems like newer Versions dont work with null objects. i Used geometry and then it behaved like expected.

[@guillaumewalle]

@@yannick1508 ... thanks !

[@nflnrk4550]

thanks mann

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching!

[@Asigron]

Thank u again :)

[@eyedesyn]

No, thank YOU!

[@j4nu5xxx]

somehow the plane objects renders as a normal plane and not deformed (in preview render it shows deformation) any idea how to fix this ?

[@eyedesyn]

Make sure you cache your dynamics! If you try to render at a frame somewhere in the middle of the simulation, it wont calculate correctly, which is what I think may be happening.

[@j4nu5xxx]

eyedesyn thanks for the fast answer, your awesome! :) gona try it this way then 👌

[@eyedesyn]

Good luck!

[@theuday99]

my plane keeps going through the objects a little ,so it doesnt give the result as wanted

[@peped6607]

Cool!

[@KS-kf1me]

3:50 CMD+D

[@juanmanuelgonzalez7637]

You saved my life

[@AnimacioKeszites]

How can I convert the result to editable polygons and export this to OBJ Sequence (for ex. with Riptide Pro)? If I convert it to polygonal, it doesn't work. Without converting to polygonal the objects are invisible after using Riptide. I want to export this to Element 3D.

[@eyedesyn]

You can export out as alembic and it would bake down everything to PLA. Not sure how Riptide works but I know there's a lot out there on converting C4D files to baked down version for use in Element 3D

[@AnimacioKeszites]

Yes!!! Solved! Thank you for your tutorial and help!

[@eyedesyn]

nice!!! glad that helped!

[@altberg__]

nice. :) thanks alot. but one question. when i got an daz model with around 50k polygons for example. why does it always break / tear apart the plane? too much polygons?

[@eyedesyn]

Sounds like too many polygons for sure!

[@netdoom]

How do you get the C4d file for this? I'd love to just get those lights and material settings for that look for a person project.

[@eyedesyn]

Hey Tom! I don't give away project files because I like to encourage people to learn how to do it themselves through practice. The materials are simple reflective surfaces and the look is all from an HDRI and GI. Watch this tutorial to understand more about HDRI and GI to light your scenes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6uwdXuKeKp2Y80

[@karenamroyan6263]

Thanks for tutor !

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching Am!

[@lagartox24]

how to create the hdri sky??

[@eyedesyn]

Create a Sky Object, place an HDR image material on the Sky, voila!