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  • 5. Juni 2025

    Octane Displacement with Alpha

    If you have problems/errors with your opacity channel in combination with displacement in c4d octane, it could be that you are using the exact same texture which results in some kind of fade out effect. You have to modfiy the opacity image in a way that your black and white colors are a little bit…

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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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  • 12. 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 Octane Material White Error

    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…

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  • 12. Mai 2025

    3D Model Knots

    Instead of trying to model the knots yourself

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  • 12. Mai 2025

    UDIM Tiles import into C4D Octane

    I organized my UDIMs in a Mesh with Rizom UV in 2 columns and 4 Rows, for better a better overview. Looks like this 1001, 1011, 1021, and so on. In Substance Painter there was no problem, but when i tried loading the texture in octane for cinema4D, the pattern was not recognized and i…

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  • 12. Mai 2025

    Rizom UV

    Export UV Map as png, jpg, bmp, .. go to „Files – Export UV“ for Photoshop or any other programm with UDIM Tiles.

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  • 12. Mai 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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  • 12. Mai 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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  • 12. Mai 2025

    C4D R25 update selection shortcut / script

    ( You can create a shortcut to the script )

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  • 12. Mai 2025

    Quicktip: c4d – workflow with multiple materials

    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 to…

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