From the course: Cinema 4D: Principles of Motion Graphics
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Duplicate and repeat with cloners - CINEMA 4D Tutorial
From the course: Cinema 4D: Principles of Motion Graphics
Duplicate and repeat with cloners
- [Instructor] One common technique for creating more complex looking graphics is the one I call duplicate and repeat. In this video, we're going to duplicate this tall skinny bar and we're going to animate it into the scene using a cloner object and a plain effector. So to start, let's go and orient ourselves to our project. Go to the upper right corner of the viewport and click on the icon to enable all four up view. Notice from the top view, this object is actually off angle. That's important to note for when we add the cloner object. So let's go up to our shelf here and click once on the cloner object icon and you'll see the cloner appear here in the objects manager. I'm just going to drag that below the camera, making sure I have the left pointing arrow and when I let go, now the camera's on top. Now before I tell the cube to be cloned with the cloner selected, I'm going to go to the objects area in the attributes…
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