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

I have no idea why or any better solution until now, but if you are experiencing that your materials are only white in the octane liveviewer you can try to change the projection-style of your material from (standard) uvw-mapping to spherical mapping (or any other type) in the c4d attribute window. Looks like this is…

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

If you have a bitmap (jpg/png/…) sequence as preview in After Affects and then replace it with an 16-bit oder 32-bit exr-sequence it could happen that the colors are way off, too dark and no gamma or exposure correction is really helpful then you could possible fix it, with the „interpret footage“-option. right-click on your…

DE: PSR und „Eingefrorene Transformation“ After years working with cinema 4d, i finally looked up the „freeze transform“ option … which is not only useful for animation, also for exact rotation or modifying coordiantes and its great. usually i put the object in a null-object and had the same-effect, but this is better and faster….

Grober Arbeitsablauf: Denn Motorradhelm habe ich mit Photogrammetrie digitalisiert und dann in Cinema 4D als FBX importiert. Mit ein paar Referenzen von der Lego-Animation-Serie gings an das Modellieren des Visiers und der zusätzlichen 3D-Teile am Helm. 3dee.at in Wien hat mir die Anbauteile dann mit FDM/FLM Material ausgedruckt, … schleifen, spachteln und nochmal schleifen. Zum…

Instead of trying to model the knots yourself