Swirl

What is it about?

This page documents the Swirl deformer, a node-based asset capsule in Cinema 4D. It twists geometry around an axis with a height oscillation like a water vortex, and fades out automatically with distance — handy for whirlpools, soft-ice swirls or stylized tornado shapes.

Note:There are also Cineversity videos for these special Node capsules, which demonstrate their practical use. Follow this link to the corresponding overview page.

This node works like a deformator and adds a twist and a height oscillation to the introduced geometry, similar to a water vortex. The effect runs out automatically with increasing distance from the Y-axis of the deformation matrix and can therefore be automatically restricted to a limited section of the geometry.

Some examples of the shapes that can be achieved with the Swirl Modifier.