Heey It's my first time here,
I’m trying to recreate a smear effect in Cinema 4D, similar to Blender’s Smear plugin or the old CA Motion Stretch Deformer. I’ve been experimenting with both Xpresso and Scene Nodes to build a reusable setup — one that works with PSR or PLA animation, affects points directly, and can be combined with other deformers like Jiggle, without needing to bake to Alembic.
The goal is to just replace the object, tweak some User Data, hit a button — and get clean, stylized motion stretch.
I’m sure this effect can absolutely be done and made powerful and production-ready. But I simply don’t have enough experience yet with Xpresso or Scene Nodes to build it properly.
And if I’m not being too ambitious — I’d love to also include a way to limit the smear effect using a Vertex Map or Fields, just like the old CA Motion Stretch Deformer did. Really grateful for this amazing C4D community. Glad to be here !
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