aescripts + aeplugins

James Scott

This is a clever plugin. I have a quick question about the demo video. At 52 seconds into it you select the cube and drag it vertically and it slides through the deformers. How is this working? When I try to do the same, the cube and deformers all move together.

Gianni Lorusso

Hi James,

Thank you for the question.

The answer is very simple. It is a "shortcut" of C4D.

If you want to move something without moving the child objects just press the 7 key.

James Scott

Gianni Lorusso said:

Hi James,

Thank you for the question.

The answer is very simple. It is a "shortcut" of C4D.

If you want to move something without moving the child objects just press the 7 key.

Thanks Gianni. It's good to learn something new.

I tried that and it works great, but there doesn't seem to be a way to keyframe that movement. After keyframing the cube and its children still move together. Any suggestions?

Gianni Lorusso

Hey James, you need to change the configuration.

Insert the cube and the bends as children of a null object, as you can see in the picture attached.

James Scott

Thanks Gianni, that works perfectly. It seems that using the 7 key to move an object without its children is simply a means of repositioning it and not for animation, while your last response shows how to inable keyframing the move.

Gianni Lorusso

Exactly!

James Scott

Thanks for a great plugin Gianni. I am curious why it only works with bend deformers. Is there some reason the tag can't be updated to work with other deformers?

Gianni Lorusso

Thanks to you James!
Because it is one of the most used and difficult to use and I have often wanted to concatenate them, so I created this tool.
Which deformer are you thinking about?

James Scott

Gianni Lorusso said:

Thanks to you James!
Because it is one of the most used and difficult to use and I have often wanted to concatenate them, so I created this tool.
Which deformer are you thinking about?

I was just extending your example of concatenated bend deformers by positioning other deformers like twist and bulge after them and animating an enlongated cube through them all. It makes for a great effect. It is time consuming to align the deformers in the proper position, so it would be great if the plugin could be used to stack any type of deformer.

Gianni Lorusso

I promise I will try to add this functionality.

James Scott

Gianni Lorusso said:

I promise I will try to add this functionality.

That would be fantastic!

Thanks

James Scott

Thanks for the update Gianni.

Gianni Lorusso

Thanks to you, James.

Kevin Snyder

Thanks for the update! Looks amazing!

Gary Nicholson

I don't know if this is a bug or working as intended but if I use to many deformers to form a shape, the deformers further down the chain start effecting the previous deformers. This breaks the shape I want for the animation. I would upload a pic but can't see an upload for these comments.

Gianni Lorusso

Gary Nicholson said:

I don't know if this is a bug or working as intended but if I use to many deformers to form a shape, the deformers further down the chain start effecting the previous deformers. This breaks the shape I want for the animation. I would upload a pic but can't see an upload for these comments.

Hi Gary,

the behavior you describe is almost certainly strictly related to how deformers work. As mentioned, inserting more bends could be difficult to manage, but it depends on how the deformers work, not on the plugin that simply creates a stack. If you have C4D R20 you could try to restrict the deformation using Fields.

Gary Nicholson

Thanks for the reply Gianni, I thought the limit would keep the bend influence contained. I'll probably just go with spline wrap for this project.

James Scott

Will you be updating it to work with R23?

Gianni Lorusso

James Scott said:

Will you be updating it to work with R23?

I will do, James!

James Scott

Gianni Lorusso said:

James Scott said:

Will you be updating it to work with R23?

I will do, James!

Great. Thanks

jesse holden

Is this working in R25? Wanted to check before purchase

Gianni Lorusso

jesse holden said:

Is this working in R25? Wanted to check before purchase

Yes, it works.

Thanks for your interest.

nick homes

Hi Gianni,

I cannot see the demo version of  Stack the Bend1.3 within C4D 2023.2.2, after following your install instructions - even though a pop up window comes up on starting C4D, that tells me i'm running the plug-in in trial mode. Any ideas please? (Mac, Ventura 13.6)

Gianni Lorusso

nick homes said:

Hi Gianni,

I cannot see the demo version of  Stack the Bend1.3 within C4D 2023.2.2, after following your install instructions - even though a pop up window comes up on starting C4D, that tells me i'm running the plug-in in trial mode. Any ideas please? (Mac, Ventura 13.6)

Hi Nick,

unfortunately the demo version doesn't work with the latest versions of c4d. The licensed version works instead.

Johannes Krause

Hi Gianni!
I bought your tool recently for a project I am working on, thank you for developing it!

I commented earlier but I am editing my question:

I have run into a problem: I am using three bends to bend an object (a wallet) and I am also using point restriction tags to bend only parts of it. This is working great. Now I created a stitching seam on the wallet using the edge-to-spline command and a cloner that creates stitches along the spline. When I copy the bend deformers onto that spline and select the appropriate points for the restriction tags, the other two bends dont come into effect. If I delete the restriction tags, the bends are working, but the bends are of course different to the main object's bends.

Is this a limitation or am I doing something wrong?

Thank you!

Johannes

Gianni Lorusso

Johannes Krause said:

Hi Gianni!
I bought your tool recently for a project I am working on, thank you for developing it!

I commented earlier but I am editing my question:

I have run into a problem: I am using three bends to bend an object (a wallet) and I am also using point restriction tags to bend only parts of it. This is working great. Now I created a stitching seam on the wallet using the edge-to-spline command and a cloner that creates stitches along the spline. When I copy the bend deformers onto that spline and select the appropriate points for the restriction tags, the other two bends dont come into effect. If I delete the restriction tags, the bends are working, but the bends are of course different to the main object's bends.

Is this a limitation or am I doing something wrong?

Thank you!

Johannes

Hi Johanes,

if you can open a support ticket and send me the file I'll try to find the solution.
https://aescripts.com/contact/?direct=1