Cinema 4D Xpresso Tutorial 48: Energy Cable Chain.

In this Cinema 4D tutorial, we build an Energy Cable Chain from the ground up. In order to make it behave as it should, we use a combination of no less than four Xpresso expressions, Align-to-Spline and Target tags. It’s another long one, so buckle up and enjoy the journey! 0:00 - Intro. 0:53 - Setting up the Path Spline. 02:51 - Setting up the main Nulls. 05:08 - Xpresso (Part 1). 07:09 - Xpresso (Part 2). 08:33 - Xpresso (Part 3). 11:04 - A Little House Keeping... 12:10 - Ascertaining the Length of the Path Spline. 13:26 - Making Use of the Annotation Tag. 14:10 - Adding a Rail Spline. 14:48 - Xpresso (Part 4). 17:42 - Xpresso (Part 5). 19:56 - Building the Chain Links. 39:56 - Setting up the Align to Spline Tags. 41:12 - Xpresso (Part 6). 43:14 - Correcting a Slight Problem... 44:16 - Setting up the Target Tags. 45:49 - We Need an Up Vector... 47:42 - Creating the Energy Cables. 49:26 - Xpresso (Part 7). 55:34 - Completing the Energy Ca
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