Controlling Growth Effects in Cinema 4D - Grass, Plants, Anything

This tutorial demonstrates how to create growth effects in Cinema 4D, using light-driven vertex maps and fields to animate cloned plants and other objects. It also covers smoothing, springiness, wind, masking text, and adapting the setup for knives.

Syllabus

- Catching up to the preset scene
- Basic Cloner & adding plants from the C4D Content Browser
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- Adding variation to the grass elements
- Basic growth via "Light". Setting up a Vertex Map
- Additive growth from the light via Freeze Layer
- Growth completing itself anywhere the light shined
- Adding smoothing and springiness
- Inverting!
- Lawn Mower effect
- Masking out Text
- Adding wind & changing out the plants
- Similar setup, but with KNIVES!
- Outro
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