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

If you have to render an object with different materials, you can either change everytime the material by hand or you can use this little xpresso script and „takes-manager“ to automate your renders. There are for sure other methods, but this works quite well for me. (In my case i had like 30 different products…

double-click on the button in „edit palette“-mode

https://realaturtur.gumroad.com/l/variabletokensc4d Variable Tokens plug-in for Cinema 4D gives a ten (10) token slots that you can use as you wish. Created for advanced Cinema 4D users who need versatile tokens. Required Cinema 4D version R21 -> 2023 by Arttu Rautio

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…

i had this problem for ages, but it seems nobody else.now i found a solution. At least in the universal material control the metallness with an extra node (float, image, … ). Then the function „solo texture“ also works in metall materials for roughness,. bump, and so on. Cinema 4D R23, Octane 2020.1.5-R4

Cinema R19.024 If you want to render your HUD-Display in the Software OpenGL or Hardware OpenGL Renderer or in your viewport Playback from Cinema 4D you first have to activate the HUD-Render option in the rendersettings -> Options from the „Standard“ renderer. Then switch back to your Preview Renderer If its not rendering then you…