From the course: Learning Cinema 4D R19

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Animate a highlight

Animate a highlight - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Animate a highlight

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- [Instructor] Now it's time to add something into our scene that our reflective materials can actually reflect. So, I want to create the effect of a highlight passing over the logo, so let's look at how we'd set that up. So, I'm going to create a polygon. Just come over to here and just add a polygon into the object manager. Let's look at the object properties. Now if we just come out of our main camera, you can just kind of see where this polygon is. Here it is at the center of our scene. Let's just back it up a touch and put it around about here. And what we can do is change the orientation to be minus zed. Now I'm going to change the width to something like 125 and I'm going to change the height to a pretty tall value, so 1,500 will do. Something like that. So, let's just zoom out a bit and this is going to be probably quite far back, so at least a thousand. Okay. So, we want to then animate the position of this. So we're started off over on the right hand side and I'm going to…

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