Optional module - Maxon Computer

186 CINEMA 4D R11 Quickstart
Experiment with the Muscle object’s settings. As previously mentioned, you can change the shape of the muscle
on the States tab using the curves. On the Settings tab, you can, among other things, move the muscle’s offset
without affecting the start and end pin.
As this tutorial demonstrates, adding muscles to your characters is a relatively simple task. Now there’s nothing
to stop your characters from showing off their muscles.
8. Quick Tutorial – VAMP
Vamp is a very powerful tool for transferring information from one object to another. It can transfer not only
selection information, Texture tags and vertex maps but also morph data and UVs. A short example will help
to explain why this tool is useful.
Open the file “QS_Vamp.c4d”. In the editor, you’ll see a sphere with a red cap, and in the Object Manager,
there’s a second object in the scene that has been set to invisible. This hidden object is a simple cube. We want
to transfer the red texture and morph data from the sphere to the cube.
Select the sphere’s Morph tab in the Object Manager. Set the “laugh” slider in the Attribute Manager to 100%
and notice what happens in the editor.
The ball is now smiling at us! Suppose we want to make the cube smile the same way using the sphere’s smile.
Choose Character/Vamp in the main menu. A window opens containing several settings.