As you will notice, you created 3 dials (with sliders) with nice names, BUT, when you change the settings, NOTHING happens.
This is because the dials arent connected yet with any properties. They just dont know what to change. So we are now going to connect them with the right properties, so they now what to change.
This is done in Xpresso.
So you have to add an Xpresso tag to the objec (actually it doesnt matter where you put it, but its just the most logic place. So, right-click on the capsule object, go to the Cinema4D Tags and go all the way to the button to click on the Xpresso tag.
This will put a tag behind the capsule object and will open the Xpresso editor window. Here we are going to connect the dials created in the capsule object and the deformers in the object menu (child of capsule, but existing on there own).
To do this you drag the capsule object into the Xpresso editor window and you do the same for the 2 deformers.
So now you will see 3 little windows in the Xpresso editor each with a blue side (input) and a red side (output). Arrage and scale the windows a little like i did:
When you left-click on the red square at the right of capsule you get all the possible parameters that can be used as an output. There values can thus be used as an imput for other objects. All the way down you will see the 3 properties you just created with the "user data" function. Click on one of them then repeat for the others. Now you see all 3 outputs.
If you forgot the parameter we are changing, just to remember, click on the bend deformer f.ex. and see what the names were of the parameters.
Now, left-click on the blue rectagmes and choose the appropiate parameters for both deformers in the Xpresso editor window.
The blue arriows show the links we have to make...
To connect left-click and drag from the red dot to the appropiate blue dot.
This is the endresult in the Xpresso editor, after that you can close the window. If you need to reopen, just double click on the tag in the object manager.
now when you move dials, you change the settings, so lot less to click...
Edited by Scythar, 04 January 2008 - 09:16 AM.