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Xfrog 4.2 for CINEMA 4D is a Popular Organic Modeling and Animation Plugin Application available for C4D R 9.5 (and earlier) releases of CINEMA 4D, Windows and Max OS X, with native language ports for English, Japanese, German, and French users.
Xfrog 4 for CINEMA 4D, is a port of Xfrog 3.5 standalone software, rewritten as a plugin which is entirely inside CINEMA 4D, which adds several powerful new Objects to the C4D Toolbar. In addtional, with Xfrog 4.2, we have added new features to our core functionality, such as pruning, and directional/vector-based tropism controls.
Xfrog 4.2 for CINEMA 4D, is also partnered with DiTools, another bundle of Objects for C4D users, and we suggest that you consider a combination of Xfrog + DiTools, which adds over 30 new Objects to CINEMA 4D.
Xfrog 4.2 adds a number of procedural Objects to CINEMA 4D. By combining these Objects with each other and with any other Object within CINEMA 4D you can quickly build a wide variety of organic models and animations.
Features
- The Branch Object - easily setting up elaborate multi-level branching structures with numerous parameters to give them a natural look.
- The Phyllotaxis Object - arranges other Objects on an abitrary surface of revolution, according to the rules of nature (golden section). It is, for example, used in the sunflower example above to arrange petals and seeds.
- The Hydra Object - arranges Objects in a circular pattern.
- The Curvature Object - creates Splines which can be used as a basis for naturally curved leafs or twigs.
- The Variation Object - allows you to use multiply different Objects with Branch, Phyllotaxis and Hydra.
- The Tropism Object - lets your spline-based objects (like the Branch, but also the CINEMA 4D SweepNURBS) bend towards an abitrary direction or position.
- The Deviation Object - is a simple way to add natural detail to your Branches, by deviating a Branch Object at the places where other Branches emerge.
Combining these powerful new Objects together with existing Objects enables you to easily create complex organic models and animation far beyond the existing capabilities of CINEMA 4D software.
All the Objects can be animated by varying their parameters, such as number of branches, strength of attraction, gravity, phototropism. With such techniques, a convincing flower can be built and animated very easily, or a tree can be modeled and grown. All of CINEMA 4Ds animation curve editing features can be used, as well as XPresso.
Xfrog software and XfrogPlants are used by many production houses (Disney Imagineering, Digital Domain, ILM, Pixar, Sony Imageworks, etc) and we have thousands of individual customers worldwide. The most popular software is Xfrog 3.5 standalone, however Xfrog 4 usage is rapidly growing. A large number of customers purchase XfrogPlants, our large collections of over 1500 plant models in 21 libraries, all created with Xfrog and shipping in 9 formats of 3D data. .
The Xfrog user group (over 2500 users) discuss a variety of Xfrog topics and trades useful files and information. Ask them if they like us.
Shows - The Incredibles, War of the Worlds, The Polar Express, Batman and Robin, The Time Machine, Blueberry/The Renegade, all used Xfrog or XfrogPlants (or both). All Trees in Polar Express are XfrogPlants except a few.. And they hold up great, especially in stereo IMAX.
Xfrog 4.2 can also create Start and End Caps for Branch Objects. This is especially helpful, when the new Pruning feature is used to cut Branches. Invisible Selections and useful Texture Coordinates are automatically created to apply different Materials to the Branches.
Many bugfixes and a great number of internal improvements are also included in Xfrog 4.2
