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Animating the time scale in Cinema 4d.
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In cinema 4d I want to animate the time scale so that it slows down midway through the thing I’m animating. When I press ctrl + d to go to project settings, I set the timescale at say 50% and then click the keyframe button to make a keyframe. It makes a keyframe but when I preview the thing in the window it still runs at normal speed, I’ve searched google for about an hour and a half now and I found some tutorials but they just click the keyframe button and it works for them. I have no idea why it doesn’t work for me. Why?
I don’t know anything about c4d sorry, but is there a way to ‘ease’ the motion so that it is not linear?
Last edited by Special_K,
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I don’t know anything about c4d sorry, but is there a way to ‘ease’ the motion so that it is not linear?
Doubtful.
It uses a lot of physics, so for instance if a shard was flying through the air and you eased the motion it would just drop to the ground.
Last edited by Phrozen,
I guess I could try time remapping in after effects, but for what I’m trying to do that would be hard.
If you want to add time scale keyframes you have to ctrl+click on the time scale (on the little circle next to it), did that?(it should turn red)
If not, click on the frame right before you want to start slowing down the animaton, set time scale to 1 and add a time scale keyframe. Click on the next frame, set the time scale to 0,5 and create an other keyframe. It now should slow down the animation at the selected frame.
If yes, right-click on time scale and go to animation->show track. There’s the timeline for the dynamics, you should see the keyframes there. If you do, but it’s not working then I have no idea
I don’t know if this is the proper way to do it, I did it this way
Last edited by Bytek,
I’m using version 12 so it has the timescale in percentages, I ctrl + click the circle nest to the time scale and it turns red and I change it to 50% and make a keyframe, I play it, it’s normal speed, I right click time scale>animation>show track the keyframe is there with the value 50% but it still runs at normal speed.. wtf?
I have no idea about 12, so i can’t really help
Watch these tutorials, they might be helpful:
http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2010/03/how-to-speed-up-and-slow-down-your-animation-in-cinema-4d/
http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2010/02/stopping-time-how-to-make-the-matrix-effect-in-cinema-4d/
(Or just switch to c4d 11.5)
Quoted from Bytek
I have no idea about 12, so i can’t really help
Watch these tutorials, they might be helpful:
http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2010/03/how-to-speed-up-and-slow-down-your-animation-in-cinema-4d/
http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2010/02/stopping-time-how-to-make-the-matrix-effect-in-cinema-4d/
(Or just switch to c4d 11.5)
The first tutorial is what I mean :D He just flies through it whereas I get problems (thats the tutorial I watched first)
Edit: thanks bytek :DDDDDDDDD helped me out a bunch spent about 4 days trying to figure this out. <3
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