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Adding movement with the Spline Wrap

Adding movement with the Spline Wrap - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Adding movement with the Spline Wrap

The Spline Wrap object is a special deformer that allows you to distort or wrap an object along a spline. It can be use for all kinds of fun things. In this case, we're going to use it to add motion to the movement of our fish. In the previous movie we created a moving fish with the Wind Deformer and when I hit Play here you can see that we've got a great looking animation to our fish, but he's not moving anywhere. He's just swimming in one spot. The Spline Wrap object can be used to give some really convincing movement to our fish. The way the Spline Wrap works is it's a deformer so it's need to be working with parent or peer. But also needs a spline in order for it to function. Before we add a Spline Wrap to the scene, let's draw a new spline to have our fish swim along. So I'm going to switch to the four-way view and in the top view let's back out just a bit and I'm going to draw a B spline. Now I normally use B splines whenever I'm creating splines for motion paths. The reason is…

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