Kurulumun

On 20 Feb, 2013
Cinema 4D Tools
By : rendertom
With 26 Comments
Views : 125761

Kurulumun is Python driven Cinema 4D plugin that generates curly splines. Heavily inspired by Structure Synth’s Nouveau variations it brings ability to Cinema 4D to generate curly parametric splines, that twist 90 degrees around a random axis.








Kurulumun is using MoSpline object with L-System mode, so MoGraph module is required for plugin to work.

Workflow is straight forward – define random seed, set number of branches and drop a Profile spline – and you get a Kurulumun spline. There are some more settings present, that define number of segments (that is responsible for number of half-arcs), scale, tension, mesh subdivisions and such. Really easy to use.

Profile spline can be any kind of spline that you can image, however it must be a closed spline.

This is a personal exploration project that took too much time to develop. However, I am no programmer, so if you encounter any problems/errors/glitches or any other kind of misbehavior, please be so kind to report back to me. I’ll take a chance to fix it. Also if you come up with some awesome looking peace, please don’t be shy and drop me a preview – just to keep my juices flowing that makes me happy and alive:) Any how, this plugin is FREE.

Credits:

Audio composition – ”Everlasting” by Scott Wills. Big thanks to you man.

Download Kurulumun v1.2 Requirements: Cinema 4D R12 – R19;



Are you having fun with this plugin?

then you know what to do



Gallery

Rich Nosworthy and Nicola Gastaldi shared some of their incredible work that uses Kurulumun plugin. Thank you guys for spreading the word.









  • tehri

    Thx a lot! Beautiful renders possible with this tool!
    Enjoy! (°v°)

  • http://www.huemanelement.com vic

    very generous to give this out to the community, thanks Tomas!

  • http://shalomormsby.com Shalom Ormsby

    Thanks for the cool free plugin. I helped spread the word by posting it here:
    http://pinterest.com/shalomo/3d-tutorials-assets-cinema-4d/

  • Manny

    Awesome plugin, thank you! Question are the sound effects included?

    • rendertom

      I am glad you like it. Sorry, sound track is not included, as it is commercial one. If you like it, you can get it here. Cheers.

  • Triatleethans

    Thank you , it is a nice plug in

  • kris

    could you do a full tutorial on how to setup, light and animate this exact render you have done?

    cheers mate!

    • rendertom

      Hi Kris. I’ve included all original project files in main zip file, so you can take apart project to see how it’s done. Cheers.

  • http://hypoetical.net hyp

    i made this with kurulumun:

    http://hypoetical.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/hyp-postcard-flyer.jpg

    thank you for creating such an awesome tool.

  • rhon

    Hi! does this work on Mac OS X Mountain Lion?

    • rendertom

      Yes it does.

  • MoshPit

    Hi Tom,
    first: thank you for sharing your stuff,
    but: does this plugin don’t work in C4D R15? I’ve putted it in the plugins folder (as usual), but it won’t show up in the plugins menue :(
    Or has ist to go into:
    Preferences folder -> plugins won’t work either…

    best regards

    • rendertom

      Hi. Please make sure you have latest version (Kurulumun v1.1) of the plugin.
      Previous version (v1.0) didn’t run under R15, but latest one runs without any problem on MacOSX with C4D R15.

  • http://www.aacm-al.org Oltion

    Thank you Tom

  • Alex Peri

    Thanks a lot Tom, it’s very generous from you, awesome plugin, ! :)
    Cheers. Alex

  • michael

    What I have been looking for minus all that Python knowledge. How could one use this to wrap around other objects? Have more control over the vine direction?

    • rendertom

      Hi Michael. Sorry, it’s not possible. Vine direction is totally random, so there’s no way to make them go where you want.

  • Z-Licious

    Great plugin, would be nice though to have some fillet edges. Great work, Thanks!

  • Lloyd

    Hi Tom, amazing work and thank for the plugin…if i create work from it I will give reference to you.

    • rendertom

      Thanks Lloyd. Would love to see what you can come up with.

  • Lukas

    Hey tom, i have a problem….i installed Kurulumun v1.1 but i doesnt show up in the plug-ins ? what can i do :(

    • rendertom

      Lukas, please provide at least some information on what OS and what C4D version you are running. That would speed up things dramatically.

  • Edd Winn

    Hello Tom, this doesnt work for me, it didn’t show the spline, working on C4D R18 prime v. 18.057 on windows 10

  • Andrew Chepurko
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    R20 support?

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