• Rose
• Quickie Flower
• Old Gnarly Fantasy Tree
• Billboards
• Bush
• Lowpoly Tree
• Sunflower
• Import .XFRs
• Waves
• Wind1
• Wind2
• Xfrog and DiTools
• XfrogPlants
• Rendering techniques

Model a Rose

Model and animate a rose using Xfrog 5 for Cinema 4D
Part 1 – Modeling the Rose
Here we create and setup a rose for animation.

Part 2 – Building the Animation
Creating growth and sprouting leaves.

Part 3 – Animating the Blossom
Building and adjusting the animation.

There are also example files available for this tutorial: Download Rose tutorial files

Quickie Flower

Build a flower in Xfrog for C4D in about 10 minutes!

This quick and fast The blossom will be okay for Highpoly / closeup and for midpoly purpose! Start with scene file step1 which contains the materials for the scene files flowers and contains all the needed bitmaps. The video tutorials takes a little more then 10 minutes, we hope you have fun with this one. Hint: when you are satisfied with the look of the highpolycenter, you might want to convert the center to one polygon object. This can save a lot of calculation time inside the editor window. During rendertime this conversion happens anyway, so if you do not have to change the center, convert it to polygons.

Watch the video tutorial here.

There are also example files available for this tutorial:
Download 10 Minute Flower tutorial files

Old Gnarly Fantasy Tree

A small collection of tips tricks and video tutorials to help create gnarled trees.

Watch the entire the video tutorial series on Vimeo:
Roots: Part 1 | Part 2
Tree: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

Download scene files for this tutorial
See an overview of the stages in this pdf guide

Billboards and Perspective Renders of Plant Libraries v2

This little workshop will give you some ideas, how to make use of the billboards and perspective renders that you can find on XfrogPlants libraries.

Watch the video tutorial

There are also example files available for this tutorial: Download Billboard tutorial files

Bush

This tutorial comes in three parts, showing you how to model a detailed shrub
The first clip covers the cretion of the basic branching structure. During the second clip we will focus on finetuning the branching structure and adding leaves to the plant. During the third part we will further refine the shape of the bush and also talk about level of detail handling.

Watch Part 1 of the video tutorial
Watch Part 2 of the video tutorial
Watch Part 3 of the video tutorial

There are also example files available for this tutorial: Download Bush tutorial files

Lowpoly Tree

This tutorial covers the creation of a tree with lower polygon counts.
Clip one shows how to build the billboard branching structure and how to create a billboard texture from that geometry. The second clip covers the modeling of the tree itself.

Watch Part 1 of the video tutorial
Watch Part 2 of the video tutorial

There are also example files available for this tutorial: Download Lowpoly Tree tutorial files

Sunflower

During part 1 of this workshop we will build the stalk and the leaves of the sunflower. Afterwards we concentrate on the blossom of this plant. The third clip introduces animation of the sunflower – the blossom should follow a sun object.

Watch Part 1 of the video tutorial
Watch Part 2 of the video tutorial
Watch Part 3 of the video tutorial

There are also example files available for this tutorial: Download Sunflower tutorial files

Import Xfrog 3.5 to Xfrog 5

Xfrog 5 offers the possibility to import Xfrog 3.5 hierarchies. But because Xfrog 5 has been entirely rewritten and many “flaws” of Xfrog 3.5 have been removed, this import is not always smooth. Additonaly many complex hierachies of Xfrog 3.5 can be extremly simplified, because of new features like the Variation object.
The following two clips show you the basic steps and some hints, how to import an *xfr file into Xfrog 5 and how to optimize the hierarchy.

Watch Part 1 of the video tutorialWatch Part 2 of the video tutorial

There are also example files available for this tutorial: Download Transfer tutorial files

Waves, Iteration and more

This time we will create an abstract animation. Simple equations will be of help to control the movement.

Watch Part 1 of the video tutorial

There are also example files available for this tutorial: Download Wave tutorial files

Wind 1

This is a three part tutorial. During the first clip we will discuss the noise function inside a curvature spline. Then we will start to finetune the equation and add Xpresso scripting on top of that. Finally we will add a Tropism object and use even more scripting.
Don´t be scared, it sounds complex, but it isn´t!

Watch Part 1 of the video tutorial
Watch Part 2 of the video tutorial
Watch Part 3 of the video tutorial

There are also example files available for this tutorial: Download Wind 1 tutorial files

Wind 2

This workshop shows a different approach to simulate wind. It uses a noise function to make the leaves shake in the wind, the tree is deformed by a Bend deformer.
Of course this approach could be combined with the techniques of the Wind 1 tutorial.

Watch the video tutorial

There are also example files available for this tutorial: Download Wind 2 tutorial files

Xfrog and DiTools

DiTools is a very usefull collection of plugins and shaders for Cinema4D. It´s even possible to combine Xfrog with DiTools. For this purpose some “hooks” have been build into DiTools, so that both plugins can communicate.
The first clip shows how to build a patch of grass. During the second clip, DiCloner will be used to distribute the Xfrog grass onto a surface. Finally we will make use of DiPainter to paint a distribution.

Watch Part 1 of the video tutorial
Watch Part 2 of the video tutorial
Watch Part 3 of the video tutorial

There are also example files available for this tutorial: Download Xfrog and DiTools tutorial files

XfrogPlants inside Cinema4D line

XfrogPlants DVDs contain plants in native Cinema4D file format so it is very easy to bring those plants into your scene – just browse to the wished plant and load, that´s it.

Of course you can edit the plant materials and even replace the used textures with custom bitmaps..

Watch the video tutorial

Rendering with Cinema4D

This workshop will show you some techniques to get the best out of your Xfrog plants renders using Cinema4D.

Jump to the Rendering techniques workshop