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Getting Started in Cinema 4D: 11 Introduction to the Placement Tools
Posted: 10 December 2021 11:00 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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Hello,

I’m having a little bit of trouble. When I click the scatter tool, then select the rocks in my object panel, the scatter tool produces nothing but the white and red circles with the blue line when I click and drag.

I’ve tried scattering other objects like the coral but I still get nothing.

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Shawn

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Posted: 11 December 2021 12:12 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Hi Shawn,

I can only reproduce this problem when the Scatter tool is set up this way: Attribute Manager> Object> Object Palette (list is empty!).


Can you check this little screen capture out? Can you repeat this while being in a new Project file?
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/yRh0UNvJITIbhYTGNFIW8NiMZY7samW6Lk2lSpjEXNc

Or is this Quick Tip working for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyGfpnSgd8c

I hope we get some more data with this bit of exploration.

If all fails, perhaps tech support is needed.

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Posted: 13 December 2021 10:42 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Thanks Dr. Sassi,

Your test worked, but it still wasn’t populating in my crab project. I did figure it out however. To the right of the “Scatter Pen” header there is a drop down that says “default”. Mine was set to custom. I switched it back to default and the pen works again. I’m not sure how I got it to custom but I’ll pay attention to that if the issue happens again.

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Shawn

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Posted: 13 December 2021 11:32 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Thanks a lot, Shawn, for the feedback.

Yes, typically, I like to have a scene file, which might have helped find that.

I’m happy that you got it working.

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