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 and HPB to Zero and hit apply.
Reset your workplane to Y (default)
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…
double-click on the button in „edit palette“-mode
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….
I saw this quad-solution somewhere a long time ago and can´t find it anymore, so i tried to replicate it.How to make the threads .. i think there are enough other tutorials out there.