From the course: Cinema 4D: X-Particles and Redshift Techniques

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Incubating to infection

Incubating to infection

From the course: Cinema 4D: X-Particles and Redshift Techniques

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Incubating to infection

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- [Instructor] One of the most interesting modifiers in X-Particles is Infectio modifier. This modifier allows for some really interesting organic changes within an XP system. In this lesson, we'll be using the XP Infectio modifier to freeze our particles in place, add a connecting trail to them, and then make the particles change color as they die off and age. Let's go and jump in and get started. In order to use the XP Infectio modifier, we need to add it to our object list. So we'll go to modifiers, and it will be under control modifiers, and XP Infectio, which is right here. And we'll go and play that simulation back. You'll notice that nothing happens right away. That's because we need to add a new seed object. The seed object is basically just a little circle here that tells the XP Infectio modifier where to start. I'm going to grab the seed object and move it to the outer reaches of our star and I'm going to…

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