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Free Shatter Object Presets for Element 3D

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By Aharon Rabinowitz
August 16, 2012

Hey folks – so I’ve been Playing around with Videocopilot’s Element 3D, and really enjoying breaking objects apart. Since I realize that so many of the people getting started with Element are new to 3D, I wanted to give you all some fun stuff to shatter. These are just some basic primitives that I have shattered up into iterations of 200, 500 and 1000 pieces. And to make it even better, there are 2 materials – an inside and an outside. That way when it shatters, you can do some cool stuff like the image above.

You can download the shatter object presets  HERE.

Watch this tutorial to learn how to use the Element Model presets:

Though I may not be doing this is the best way possible, watch this tutorial to learn how I shattered these objects and how you can too:

Get the Xplode plugin HERE.

If you know texture mapping in C4D, and you open the C4D files, you’ll notice that there’s some oddness with the materials in each shattered object where some of the MAT’s are reversed, and they have bad UVW mapping. That’s what causes the issues I tried to work around in the video. Ron Trevino showed me how to fix this, but it has to happen one material at a time. With objects that have a 1000 pieces, it’s a lot of work. I reached out to Xplodes creator, and he’s working on a fix. Still, even as is, I think these will help get you started.

If people are really into these, I’ll add more primitives.

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  1. John Dickinson said
    on August 16, 2012

    Thanks Aharon!

  2. Ryan Summers said
    on August 16, 2012

    Excellent stuff Aharon. Until Element does shattering natively, this is a great primer for people!

  3. Marc Pearson said
    on August 16, 2012

    Sweet! Thanks Aharon!

  4. blackwatch said
    on August 17, 2012

    praise you child

  5. Steve martin said
    on August 17, 2012

    Sweeeet

  6. illd said
    on August 17, 2012

    good stuff – thx Aharon!

  7. mjt57 said
    on August 20, 2012

    Thank you!

  8. Ian Vernon said
    on August 20, 2012

    More please :)

  9. Ben said
    on August 28, 2012

    thank you!

  10. Andrew said
    on September 7, 2012

    Where do we download or purchase these?

  11. Orkid said
    on September 22, 2012

    Hi & Thanks About this tutorials
    Please Make it By 3D Max…in 3D Max what do we do to Shatter Object??????????

  13. abhi.. said
    on September 28, 2012

    thanks bro … great tutorials.

  14. Adrian Jensen said
    on November 5, 2012

    Oh wow. This is really nice of you.

Continuing the Discussion

  1. Blog by Eran Stern » Forgotten Digital Juice tutorial linked to this post on August 17, 2012

    [...] time in this business and in the meantime we received better 3D effects that allow creating an interesting three-dimensional shatter with much more power and speed, however, I think that this tutorial may still be relevant due to [...]

  2. How To Shatter Or Fracture 3D Models For Use In Element 3D | Element 3D Tutorial - linked to this post on October 3, 2012

    [...] Aharon Rabinowitz created an excellent tutorial on how to break apart 3D objects using Cinema 4D, using the Xplode plugin. He used this workflow to create a series of free Element 3D shatter presets. The presets include 6 shattered primitives – a cube, capsule, sphere, diamond, cylinder & pyramid. He also offered 3 versions of each primitive split into 200, 500 & 1000 pieces, so that you have an option depending on how powerful your graphics card is. He also kindly went to the the extra effort of assigning 2 different materials to each piece, so that you can have an inside and an outside texture. This really allows you to create some cool looking animations once the objects are in Element 3D. You can get his free shatter presets here. [...]

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