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Paint objects onto a surface

Paint objects onto a surface - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Paint objects onto a surface

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another Cinema 4D Weekly. Typically when you want to clone objects onto a surface, it's fairly easy using the MoGraph cloner and cloning onto a surface, but you can see that you are very limited as far as art directing where your cloned objects end up along your surface. Now, there's actually a better way to be able to art direct and precisely place where you want cloned objects to be on your surface. Almost like you can paint cloned objects onto another object, or another object surface. And how you can do this is using hair. All right, so here is our scene. We got the cactus and our spike, and what we're going to do is utilize hair to somehow be able to art direct and place precisely on the surface where we want these spikes to be. So, what we're going to do is we're going to select our cactus geometry and go to Simulate, Hair Objects, and click Add Hair. Now, what this is going to do, if…

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