Maxon Tip 327: How to unleash the power of numeric input fields in Cinema 4D

Sometimes your brush oder eraser paints over UV parts that you don´t want to paint … change Aligment in the brush-tool from Tangent to UV to fix the error

If you have Problems navigating or configure your spacemouse in Cinema4D, try to start Cinema4D and at the same time 3DConncexion Home / Settings / advanced Settings (or something like that) . Now the advanced Settings for Cinema4D show up and you can change things. If C4D is active or otherwise it will change another…

Ein Spline wird mittels Kamera-Ansicht (wichtig) in die entsprechende Richtung projiziert. Also in Vorne, Oben, etc … Ansicht wechseln und dann einen Spline per Befehl – „Mesh – Spline – Projizieren“ auf das Objekt anpassen. Er wird wohl teilweise in dem Objekt verschwinden, also muss man ihn eventuell wieder etwas zurück bewegen um ihn zu…

One method i use quiet often is to align an object with the workplane. In this example i want to align the cylinder to the cube. Align the axis of your objects first if you have a specific target! Select your target object, go to „Tools – Workplane – Align Workplane to Selection Set X,Y,Z…

If you have distorted, a see-through-effect or just a strange view behaviour of your mesh in substance painter you should check your polygon-normals. They can cause an error if their direction is reverse. Painting should also be producing only errors, also with a correct uv-layout.

Sometimes the Space Mouse just stops working in C4D. Until now everytime the Solution was to update your 3D Connections drivers. (May 2025)