Mesh To Spline Quick Start

Mesh To Spline is live!
Unleash the power of splines in this new plugin for Cinema 4D from Rocket Lasso.

Learn how to use Mesh To Spline by stepping through a series of use-cases.

Unlock edges, polygons, and outlines from your meshes as parametric splines using the new Mesh To Spline tool from Rocket Lasso. Create the splines exactly where you want them through Fields, Selection Tags, angle thresholds, and facing angles from any mesh. Extract splines from even animated meshes where more power is unleashed with splines that stick directly to the surface of your characters. Favorite 3rd party renderer doesn't have anything like Sketch & Toon? Create complex stylized looks by outlining models, finding hard edges, showing only the front or backside, or simply drawing every single polygon. Speed up your final renders by utilizing the speed of C4D's native Hair Render or Sketch & Toon on splines. Or the blazing speed of rendering a spline through your favorite 3rd party renderer.

Favorite 3rd party renderer doesn't have anything like Sketch & Toon? Create complex stylized looks by outlining models, outlining polygon groups, finding hard edges, or just drawing every single polygon.

Don't mesh around. Mesh To Spline.

Follow!

Software used:

[pixelasm]

8:05 culling the splines based on backfacing polys is a great thing as this increases the readability of a mesh. Clever addition! Also nice that you implemented presets for front, back etc. for great convenience.

[jaimemagpayo]

Very nice! New way to approach and play text on C4D.

[vladan.Poison]

Hi Chris. great job ! I watched the tuts and i waited to see how MTS handles a tri-meshed object. Well, you have nailed it manually (running guy example @ 37:00) however this is abstract solution and it does the trick by all meants, but, what if 90% of my assets that client wants to be purchased are triangular ? Could you maybe make another 3 minute tut to show it ?
Thanks.

[JWMD_]

Hello Chris! Amazing plugin :). Thank you so much for your enthusiasm!!! Could you explain how you set up the reveal animation of the car with the fields? i can't get it to reproduce. There is nothing in the examples either. Thank you very much!

[Peepeepoopoo.podcast]

In the T-Rex mode, you used a baked down Alembic. Could you just have easily have used the un-baked rig and maintained selection tags?

[JO_Artificial]

I often thought of doing this to animate my model reveals.

[jankarl]

It's like the free edge to spline plugin noseman made but with a few more features! I'm not sure it's worth $97 though, that's almost a two month gsg plus membership

[ArgoBeats]

Wonderful plug-in, Chris, you guys are totally revamping the spline module in C4D!
Please design some kind of plug-in for spline dynamics/softbody/springs, too, currently so limited and not so intuitive to use in C4D!