$cinema 4d fractals$

$cinema 4d fractals$

Very simple to set up and now you have these nodes in place, try adding in a different distribution type and connecting that into your Matrix Op. Switch to Project Settings (Ctrl-D), then choose Scene Nodes tab. If your redraw is horrendous, then you’re probably using the old viewport settings. Once the screen has redrawn though you can move around nice and smoothly. 150 x 150 x 150 gets you a nice result, but it might take a few seconds to calculate. Try keeping the count to 50 x 50 x 50 to start, then once you get a feel for the parameters, push it higher on one axis at a time. I’m not sure if that’s because it is tech demo or whether this fractal is computationally expensive. Now mess with the parameters for the mandelbulb, beware of setting the count too high, for some reason this distribution is a lot slower than many of the other distribution nodes.

$cinema 4d fractals$

If you don’t see much detail then maybe your cube is too large, select the node and change the size in the attribute manager. As soon as you connect the output to the scene, the viewport will refresh and you should see the mandelbulb distribution of cubes. Your setup should look like the screenshot below. Finally drag the Op Output from the Matrix Op onto the Scene port. We feed the Primitive Op into Op Input and feed the Distribution Data into the Matrix input. Next we need to link the distribution data to the cube. This node allows us to change between all the primitive shapes available.

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To add a cube for distribution, we add a Primitive Op(erator). The viewport will still look quite boringly empty, but that is because this node is only for Distribution. If you press C again and type distribution, then you will see all the distribution nodes currently available. It is a little bit like a specialised Cloner, it only does this distribution type.

$cinema 4d fractals$

This node is a distribution node, so you will see controls for count, offset, etc. With this node selected the attribute manager will update to show available parameters. Type mandelbulb and then drag it onto the Node Editor.

$cinema 4d fractals$

Cinema 4d fractals