Pro Tip #1: Rigging Gears and Pistons in Cinema 4D

This is a concise tutorial about how to make gears rotate at exactly the right speed, how to use constraints to rig a crankshaft and piston, add user data to drive the speed of your animation, along with a load of nifty Cinema 4D workflow tips. It’s a quarter of an hour you’ll never want back. 0:51 Aligning the Gear Axes 2:00 Adding User Data 4:31 Controlling Rotation with Xpresso 9:07 Parenting the Conrod and Piston 11:49 Constraining the Conrod and Piston 17:00 WTF!! I used 3DKiwi’s technique for riggin