How to Rotate an HDR Environment In Cycles 4D
If you are using Cycles 4D and try to rotate an HDR environment how you are used to in C4D, you may be finding that doesn’t work. There is a little bit more to it than just using the Rotate values in...
View ArticleCreate a Custom 3D Packaging Design in C4D
A good way to get started with design and 3D is by creating a 3D packaging design project. It has everything that you need to practice from beginning to end. It can start by working out how the package...
View ArticleEasily Create a Cross-Platform installer for C4D Plugins
If you are developing C4D Plugins you might want to make installation for users a breeze. Having an installer might be a good thing to have. Especially if your plugin requires components in multiple...
View ArticleFast Spline Connector for C4D Gets Even Faster
Mike Udin’s Fast Spline Connector tool for Cinema 4D sees a versions 2 release. The handy panel lets you easily connect spline segments in C4D and extrude into one shape — All at the click of a button....
View ArticleNitroMoFracture Released and it is Amazing
There is no doubt that NitroMan is a prolific tools developer for C4D. There are so many plugins and freebies that make working in Cinema 4D a much better experience in a lot of areas. NitroMoFracture...
View ArticleV-Ray 3.4 Core Tech Comes to C4D
A massive update to V-Ray comes to Cinema 4D, bringing both CPU and GPU rendering and a host of other features. This has been a long awaited update to the rendering add-on, bringing all the The Post...
View ArticleTrack a Moving Object in C4D R18 With the Object Tracker
With the Cinema 4D R18 release came an expanded tracking toolset. C4D has had camera tracking for a while now, with the motion tracker. The same brilliance and ease of use comes to a new The Post Track...
View ArticleMake Working With Cinema 4D’s Reflectance Channel Easy
C4D had the reflection channel replaced by the reflectance channel in R16. So, it is not new. It could be “new to you”, if you shy away from using it to its full potential. That’s The Post Make Working...
View ArticleHow to Transform Point Generators in Fracturing With C4D
This is a really cool effect, brought to us by Jonas Pilz in another Maxon quick tip. It’s pretty easy to transform fracture sources in C4D, when you are using objects as the sources, but how The Post...
View ArticleNew HDRI Link Speeds Up C4D Lighting and Reflection Workflow
A new Cinema 4D plugin from Greyscalegorilla INC. is designed to speed up your lighting and reflection workflow when using third party renderers. HDRI Link represents the first plugin from GSG that is...
View ArticleWatch the Top 5 Cinema 4D Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts are the first line of defence in combatting a project. They can cut down on clicks, make repetitive things quicker, and the more of them you know, they better off you can be! The...
View ArticleModeling a Coiled Headphone Cable in C4D
Michael John from Colorcubic posts a quick tutorial on how to create a coiled headphone cable in Cinema 4D. If you have ever wondered how you would model the long curly-Q’d cable that you sometimes The...
View ArticleModeling a Raised Diamond Pattern in C4D
Adding small details to a larger overall form, while keeping nice topology is always the challenge with modeling. You don’t want to paint yourself in a corner where you need to follow through with...
View ArticleA New Life for C4D’s LON-LAT Connection Kit
The Geo-location toolkit for Cinema 4D has a new home with The Great Summit. You might remember Lon-Lat as a tool that will let you create accurate locations and connections from around the globe. The...
View ArticleUV Paint Will Incorporate MegaScan Feature
Game Logic Design posts an sneak peek into one of the features of the up-coming UV Paint 1.5. The BodyPaint companion for painting and sculpting will get the ability to easily browse and add Quixel The...
View ArticleCreative Uses for the Displacer and Smoothing Deformer
Uwe Schweer-Lambers, otherwise known around as Equiloud offers a look into his displacer and smoothing deformer workflow in Cinema 4D. Equiloud has been experimenting with these two deformers in C4D to...
View ArticleA Quick Start For Setting Up Spline Dynamics
The Pixel Lab posts an introductory look into using Spline Dynamics in Cinema 4D. Joren Kandel shows how you can set up cables, ropes, and other elements that can make use of C4D’s dynamics system....
View ArticleUse Houdini’s Cloud Tools for Quick VDB Clouds in C4D
When asked “What is an easy way to create clouds for rendering in Octane?” Entagma’s Moritz Schwind answered with a new tutorial. You can use Houdini’s Cloud Tools. They are perfect for this. The Cloud...
View ArticleHow To Extrude a Perfect Circle From Any Editable Object in C4D
Are you getting started with hard surface modelling in Cinema 4D? Then you should check out this short 7 minute tutorial from Michael John (Colorcubic). Michael shows a really simple way to form a...
View ArticleHow to Model a 3D Screw or Bolt in Cinema 4D
When modeling, the basics of topology on their own, are pretty clear. When faced with a multi-part object, where shapes merge and blend into one another, it might not be so clear. One example of The...
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