This Five Minute Tip is the inaugural tip and reflects on a video I saw on Greyscale Gorilla a while ago. It uses the Cinema 4D Connect Object to join tow different parts of one object or two completely separate objects. Read on for the video and some more info about the tip.
The Connect Object was merely a footnote in a lengthy list of changes, enhancements, and new features that Cinema 4D R10 brought us. It’s easy to overlook the Connect Object’s usefulness (as I did), but after seeing one of Nick Campbell’s videos over on Greyscale Gorilla, I suddenly remembered how useful this tool is. Here’s an old discussion on C4D Cafe about the different uses of the object.
The tool/object/generator (call it what you will), takes two objects or two disconnected parts of one object and welds the points that fall within a given threshold.
You use it by placing the objects you’d like to connect beneath the Connect Object in the object manager’s hierarchy. From there, you can adjust the Tolerance and any other options you’d like to change.
styluminium
Thanks!
NightHawkItalo
Thanks Mate,very useful
also if you know more technics about Connect Object can u share me with a tutorial please?
Thanks again for sharing
Jamie Hamel-Smith
I’m glad you liked it! Another technique with this object that is not covered in this video is that it works on Splines too. I have not tried it, but I’ve read that you can use it to connect multiple Splines.