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…

Under the Layout-field you find the Texcel-Density of your islands. Pick the island, press pick, get the number. Open another asset, pick your island/s and enter the same number. press set. Now you have the same Texcel-Density over your different assets. Awesome tool !

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….

Instead of trying to model the knots yourself

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…

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…