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Cinema 4D Tutorial How to Create3D Grass

Tutorials August 13, 2008

Ok! This is a Cinema 4D TutorialIve created which will

introduce you to object manipulation, textures, fur and also

general familiarity with the program itself. Im using Cinema4D 10 and you can download the demo directly from Maxon.

Tutorial by Adam Woodhouse:www.adamwoodhouse.co.uk

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Cinema 4D Tutorial How toCreate 3D GrassStep 1 Creating a base

First of all open the Cinema 4D application, which will

automatically create a new scene for you to start working with.

You then need to create a base for your grass to be attached

to, Im going to add a cube and modify it Objects >

Primitive > Cube.Your canvas should look exactly like this

now :

Step 2 Modifying out base

Now we have out cube, we can edit to to be more of a


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interesting shape by firstly clicking it, and in the Attributes

pane, increasing Segments X, Y & Z to a higher number ( I

am going to select 50 and this will enable me to edit the

shape more smoothly )

Im going to manually edit my cube, by selecting the orange

square on the cube and dragging them to a desired position in

the X, Y and Z plains. You can alternatively change the size of

the image in the attributes panel by typing X, Y Z variables,

but lets keep this simple and quick.

Then I am going to hit the C key on my keyboard ( Make

Editable from the menu Functions > Make Editable ) This

allows me to then use the Magnet tool to manipulate my plain

further. Select the magnet tool ( Structure > Magnet ) And

click and drag the cursor on the plane to create any desired

effect.


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I used the tool to add a hilly effect to the plane:

Step 3 Adding texture to the base

We now need to make out base look relatively organic, so we

are going to add a soil type texture. In the materials pane, (

bottom of the screen ) click File > New Material, underneath

where you just clicked a new texture will appear in the shape

of a circle named Mat Double click on the word Mat and

rename it Soil.Double click on the Soil Sphere texture, and a

new dialog box will pop up looking like this :


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Click the arrow where the option for Texture Appears on the

right area of the dialog box. A list will display below, click on

Gradient. You will notice the circle with the texture displayed

in the dialog box will change. What we are going to do now is

change the gradient itself, so double click where the flat

gradient is displayed ( underneath the texture arrow ) and

change the values in the shader properties to something like

this:


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We want to now click the close button on this panel, and apply

the texture to our plane. You need to click and drag the

texture onto out plane, this is illustrated below :

Step 4 Selecting the placement of the grass

Ok if you have got this far you are doing pretty well. We now


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need to click the window icon, which will allow us to see

multiple views of our scene.

Clicking this will change our view to this:

Ok, we only now care about the top right view, click the Use

polygon tool so select Tools > Polygons from the menu.

Now we need to select the rectangle selection tool and select

all polygons in the top right window labeled Top. (Basically

this will be the area the grass will be placed on) So select

Selection Rectangle selection From the menu. Move thecursor to the top right view and in a click drag motion, select

all the polygons until they all turn orange.

Now your view will look like this:


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Now come out of this view by pressing the same window icon

as you did before, however, click the one in the top left (

Perspective view ). You will now be able to see your objectwith only the top polygons selected.

Step 5 Adding the grass

Now we have our top layer of the plane selected, we need toadd grass, ok ok, so I lied to you, its not grass. Its Cinema

4ds Fur Tool, but does a sweet job or replicating grass. All

you need to do now is click from the menu Hair > Fur and

some spikes will appear on the plane in the perspective

view.We are now going to increase the amount of fur, so in

the objects panel, select Fur which will update the Attributes

view. Where you can change the Count Aka, amount of fur.


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Its initially at 10000, but Im going to change mine to 30000,

but you will have to experiment to ensure you will have the

full area covered in grass depending on how large you made

your plane. Also we will change the Randomness of the grass,

by adding a variable randomize setting of 6 degrees.

This might sound like gibberish but experiment with theattributes, and who knows, you might create some really cool

stuff.

Step 6 Add texture to the grass

Thats basically it to be honest, but we will need to add a new


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texture to the grass to make it green. When you added the

grass, a new texture was made in the textures panel. It should

be called Fur Mat double click it to open the texture

dialogAll I am going to do here is change the gradient of the

grass to two shades of green. You can change the thickness

etc via the left hand menu if you want to experiment!

Step 7 Rendering

Thats it! You have made some grass on a plane, if you got

this far congratulations! Now we need to just render the

image to see the final result, so click Render > Render View

From the menu which will show you exactly what you havecreated! I just added a background ( Objects > Scene >

Background ) and changed the attributes to Use color >

Always. Heres my final result!

Cheers,

Adam Woodhouse ( www.adamwoodhouse.co.uk)
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