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  • 4. Oktober 2025

    Convert C4D octane back to C4D Standard Shader script

    script takes only the albdeo/diffuse channel

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  • 22. Juli 2025

    3D Connexion Space Mouse and Cinema 4D

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

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  • 8. Juni 2025

    Spacemouse and Cinema4D

    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…

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  • 20. Mai 2025

    Substance painter brush paints over multiple UVs

    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

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  • 12. Mai 2025

    Cinema 4D delete button from palette

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

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  • 12. Mai 2025

    macro paper reference

    some macro photos of a paper book as reference for material creation. high-res-download: https://stefaneder.at/wp-content/uploads/2025/macro_paper.zip

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  • 6. Mai 2025

    Octane Solo Texture Node not working

    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

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  • 6. Mai 2025

    Cinema4D Objekte lassen sich nicht mehr bewegen

    Ich hab das update von R21 / Octane 2020.1.4 auf R23 / Octane 2020.1.5 gemacht und bin dann plötzlich vor der Tatsache gestanden, dass ich viele Objekte in einer Szene die Koordinaten per Koordinatenmanager nicht mehr bewegen, drehen oder skalieren konnte, so als ob eine Schutz-Tag auf allen angewendet werden würde. Nach ewigen hin und…

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  • 6. Mai 2025

    reference photos screw

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  • 6. Mai 2025

    Rizom UV Lab – Quicktip

    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 !

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  • 6. Mai 2025

    Cinema 4D – different alignment of Clones objects with Change Point Order

    Today i have to use the command „Change point order“ (Punktreihenfolge ändern) for the first time. On an object the clones didn´t rotate all in the same direction … why? … i have no clue. –> notice that i have activated „Align Clone“! the command that helped was „Change Point Order“. Mark the polygons with…

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  • 6. Mai 2025

    Cinema 4D – How to align an object with workplanes

    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…

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