Outlines of Cubes / Shapes in C4d

[rolin]

Originally Posted by vjair

make model.... uvmap model...... export template......make content to template.... import video into c4d material.... profit.

That's a great solution! You should add the video to the luminance channel of the material.

[deepvisual]

isnt this the hardest possible way to do it?
once upon a time we just deleted the edges of the cube and moved a white solid behind it..

[rolin]

Originally Posted by deepvisual

isnt this the hardest possible way to do it?
once upon a time we just deleted the edges of the cube and moved a white solid behind it..

once upon a time is so once upon a time

But seriously. The UV map method has the advantage that you can animate everything on a 2D plane in AE. The main disadvantage is indeed that you have to additionally render it in the 3D program to get the final projected video.

[baustellen]

Originally Posted by rolin

Ok, I see. You can't really animate the outlines of a 3D object to achieve something like this and I am afraid there is no quick solution.

You will have to rebuild every path you want to animate (> splines), apply a sweep nurb and animate it.

Here's a quick tutorial…
How to make a growing line in Cinema 4D (Voice tutorial) *EASY - YouTube

Wow, that's the video I also found before but I couldn't believe it is that complicated. Compared to AE! 3d kills the 2d stars
At the moment I tricked a little bit and work with the AtomArray. I moved my model in it and now i got now kind of transparent effect.