comments welcome..
spelling mistakes are staying.... cant be bothered to fix em.
i have never seen a tute on this before. so above is all figured out using this great program.

AND EXAMPLE OF WHAT CAN BE CREATED >>>

Hi SHIVMOO

Just wanted to say I don't use this software but love the way you have set this tutorial out its done nicely

And you avatar is very kewl.

thanks..
i still have to add stuff and finish it off.... will do tat in v2... i can wait a bit for poeple to get used to it first tho..

if I ad the explosion and the animation than it does nothing

Hi Shivmoo! Just wanted to say thanks for posting this awesome tutorial! Very well written and detailed... thanks a lot for posting it!

Faken

Bit off-topic but, what windows theme is that?

hey just as a side note......in the tutorial at the end when you say to add the nurb inside of the explosion.......its actually the other way around you need to put the explosion inside of the nurb.......but great tutorial helped me alot!! thanks man

"i am a big newb to this "
i exploded it ok
but how can i set some delays before it explodes and how can i save it and host it
please help

nice tut

i have exactly the same thingss as maverick...

I've got a major question involving said tutorial, I can't seem to find a way to preserve transparency when coming out've cinema4d. For instance say I wanted to do an animation of my name exploding for a signature, how would I make it transparent and show little more then the fragments of the name and such?

sorry dudes... completely forgot about this... somehow.. dont ask how ...

ok then...
"i exploded it ok tongue.gif
but how can i set some delays before it explodes and how can i save it and host it
please help "
you are probably not reading these anymore (cant blame you.. as ime pretty rubbish at helping)
dum de dum--------(do this instead of doing the animation piece)
ok then.... go to the object you want exploded.
click the object deformer(the explosion)
go to the frame you want the explosion to start on.. and then right click on the little dot thing to the right of the strenth tab(see step 3 under animating area)....MAKE SHURE IT IS ON 0...and then right click on it and select animate and add key frame..
then go to the frame you want the explosion to end on and select 100% strength and again make another keyframe..
if you want to reverse the explosion just create another keyframe after the 100% strength with a 0% and create another keyframe.
to change the amount of frames you have press ctrl+d and select a higher or lower frame to end on... default is 90 (on mine it is anyway)
there you go... you can now change when you do the explosion.
remember. key frames will need to be deleted afterwards..

to liquid- i have no found a way of doing this either. i found it was a good idea to make the text.. make shure it explodes.. then create a cube or a sheet and stick that behind it... then stick some form of material onto it. (that you want on the sig) and then render that... you can also give it the material of your sig. but that would take a while to do and i am just going to bed

as i said before... sorry i did not reply sooner...
i believe that poeple should find things out for themselves.. and in the process of doing that they find other cool things they can do with the program.. also it breeds originaltiy as poeple dont follow a "tutor" ect....

play and have fun:) and above all... dont give up after 5 minutes.. explore the program. the worst that can happen is it crashes... (remember to save allot) as it is not likely to affect anything outside of the program

um i dont know how you can import a gif from c4d into photoshop or save it as gif on its own, plz help the noob :/.

saving as a gif....
why not save as an avi or a quicktime movie and import it using image ready...

and dont call yourself a noob.. everyone starts somewhere.. its just a case of learning till you get it... if you put yourself down to much you will stop believing you have ability...

shall post an update to above if you want...

Nice tut there Shivmoo. Got stuck in da middle but was able to figure out the mistake i made

Really kewl way to present a tut

thanks... i should probably be making somemore for my site.. which i put online in about a week.. finished or unfinished.... so i set myself a deadline... just hope i can stick to it

thanks
Just joined the site because of this tutorial.
Nice tut man. to bad you didnt explain how to do the animation which you have in your example sig..can you explain how to make the letters move ( short ) just wanna know which tool etc you used.

also very nice sig you got there..

btw: i have a problem with the explosion. the exploding effect works but when it explodes i see all these little pieces flying but the text is also still there..lol

HI SHIMO, YOUR TUTORIAL IS VERY GOOD, I'M NOT AN EXPERT BUT I NOTE THAT EXISTS AN ERROR...



IF I PUT IN MY PROJECT, THE EXPLOSION AND AS A CHILD THE OBJET "TEXT", THIS DONT WORKS... BUT IF I PUT THE OBJET AS PARENT... THAT WORKS VERY GOOD



ANY WAY YOUR TUTORIAL IS GRATE...

No need to write your post in uppercase. *hint**hint* press caps lock key

hmmm when i play the animation theres no explosion or anything and it says it stays at 100% tho when i move the sldie myself the strenght decreases but u still dont see an explosion...

here is my try at this

When i press autokeyframe and record which frames i want it to explode and come back. I play it and it doesnt play all the frames only something like from 30-70F not 1-90F. Is this normal?