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Reference Manual
CINEMA 4D
Programming Team Christian Losch, Philip Losch, Richard Kurz, Tilo Kühn, Thomas Kunert,
David O’Reilly, Cathleen Poppe.
Plugin Programming Sven Behne, Wilfried Behne, Michael Breitzke, Kiril Dinev, Per-Anders Edwards,
David Farmer, Jamie Halmick, Richard Hintzenstern, Jan Eric Hoffmann,
Eduardo Olivares, Nina Ivanova, Markus Jakubietz, Eric Sommerlade,
Hendrik Steffen, Jens Uhlig, Michael Welter, Thomas Zeier.
Product Manager Marco Tillmann.
QA Manager Björn Marl.
Writers Paul Babb, Rick Barrett, Oliver Becker, Jens Bosse, Chris Broeske, Chris Debski,
Glenn Frey, Michael Giebel, Jason Goldsmith, Jörn Gollob, Sven Hauth,
Josiah Hultgren, Arndt von Königsmarck, David Link, Arno Löwecke, Aaron Matthew,
Josh Miller, Matthew ‘Mash’ O’Neill, Janine Pauke, Marcus Spranger, Luke Stacy,
Perry Stacy, Marco Tillmann, Jeff Walker, Scot Wardlaw.
SDK Docs & Support David O’Reilly, Mikael Sterner.
Graphics & Icons Eric Adermann, Heike Bauer, Dirk Beichert, Jörn Gollob, Janine Pauke, Onur Pekdemir.
Layout Oliver Becker, Harald Egel, Michael Giebel, David Link, Luke Stacy, Jeff Walker.
Translation Oliver Becker, Michael Giebel, Arno Löwecke, Björn Marl, Janine Pauke, Luke Stacy,
Marco Tillmann, Scot Wardlaw.
Special Thanks Kevin Aguirre, Phil ‘Captain 3D’ McNally, NAAM, Kai Pedersen, Christian Rambow,
Holger Schlömann, Bunk Timmer.
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Contents
CINEMA 4D............................................................................................................ ii
MAXON Computer End User License Agreement................................................ iii
1. Getting to Know CINEMA 4D............................................................................3
Important Notes .................................................................................................................................... 3
OpenGL.................................................................................................................................................. 3
Installing QuickTime .............................................................................................................................. 4
What’s New in R9 .................................................................................................................................. 4
Modeling ............................................................................................................................................... 4
Interface ................................................................................................................................................ 5
Selections .............................................................................................................................................. 7
Rendering .............................................................................................................................................. 7
Animation.............................................................................................................................................. 8
Import/Export........................................................................................................................................ 8
Other ..................................................................................................................................................... 8
Starting CINEMA 4D .............................................................................................................................. 8
Quitting CINEMA 4D.............................................................................................................................. 9
Mouse techniques ................................................................................................................................. 9
Hotkeys 1 to 7...................................................................................................................................... 10
The user interface ................................................................................................................................ 10
A Quick Tour ........................................................................................................................................ 12
2. Views and Viewports...................................................................................... 19
Edit Menu ............................................................................................................................................ 20
Film Move, Film Magnify, Film Zoom................................................................................................... 20
Zoom In, Zoom Out ............................................................................................................................. 21
Frame commands ................................................................................................................................ 21
Congure, Congure All...................................................................................................................... 22
Display tab........................................................................................................................................... 23
Active Object ....................................................................................................................................... 23
Inactive Object..................................................................................................................................... 27
Filter tab .............................................................................................................................................. 28
View tab .............................................................................................................................................. 29
Back tab ............................................................................................................................................... 33
Back ..................................................................................................................................................... 33
World Grid ........................................................................................................................................... 34
HUD tab ............................................................................................................................................... 36
Cameras Menu..................................................................................................................................... 36
Scene Cameras..................................................................................................................................... 36
Link Active Object................................................................................................................................ 37
Editor Camera...................................................................................................................................... 37
Projections........................................................................................................................................... 37
Display Menu ....................................................................................................................................... 39
Display Filter ........................................................................................................................................ 39
Default Light........................................................................................................................................ 40
Shading modes .................................................................................................................................... 40
Display Tags ......................................................................................................................................... 42
Backface Culling .................................................................................................................................. 42
Textures ............................................................................................................................................... 43
X-Ray ................................................................................................................................................... 44
Stacked Materials ................................................................................................................................ 45
View Menu .......................................................................................................................................... 45
Panels .................................................................................................................................................. 45
Toggle Active View .............................................................................................................................. 45
Views ................................................................................................................................................... 46
3. Conguration..................................................................................................49
Conguration Dialogs.......................................................................................................................... 49
Conguration managers...................................................................................................................... 50
Other settings...................................................................................................................................... 50
Graphical User Interface ...................................................................................................................... 50
Windows.............................................................................................................................................. 51
Tabs...................................................................................................................................................... 53
Icon Palettes ........................................................................................................................................ 54
The Command Manager ...................................................................................................................... 59
The Menu Manager ............................................................................................................................. 61
The quick access .................................................................................................................................. 63
The Pin’s Menu .................................................................................................................................... 64
Preferences .......................................................................................................................................... 66
Macintosh (Mac OS only)..................................................................................................................... 71
Interface .............................................................................................................................................. 71
Colors .................................................................................................................................................. 73
Viewport.............................................................................................................................................. 74
View..................................................................................................................................................... 74
OpenGL Shading.................................................................................................................................. 75
Software Shading ................................................................................................................................ 79
Textures ............................................................................................................................................... 79
Colors .................................................................................................................................................. 80
Document............................................................................................................................................ 80
Import/Export...................................................................................................................................... 81
Allplan Export...................................................................................................................................... 82
3D Studio Import / Export ................................................................................................................... 85
Biovision BVH Import........................................................................................................................... 85
CINEMA 4D XML Export ...................................................................................................................... 86
DEM Import ......................................................................................................................................... 86
DXF Export........................................................................................................................................... 86
DXF Import .......................................................................................................................................... 87
Direct3D Export................................................................................................................................... 88
FBX Import / Export ............................................................................................................................. 90
FBX Import Settings............................................................................................................................. 90
FBX Export Settings ............................................................................................................................. 95
Additional options ............................................................................................................................... 97
Illustrator Import ................................................................................................................................. 98
LightWave Import................................................................................................................................ 98
Monzoom Import ................................................................................................................................ 99
QuickDraw 3D Export ........................................................................................................................ 100
QuickDraw 3D Import........................................................................................................................ 100
STL Import / Export............................................................................................................................ 101
Shockwave 3D Export........................................................................................................................ 101
Output Quality................................................................................................................................... 101
Texture Export Options...................................................................................................................... 103
Light Options ..................................................................................................................................... 103
Animation Export Options................................................................................................................. 103
Options .............................................................................................................................................. 104
Shockwave 3D limitations ................................................................................................................. 104
Cameras............................................................................................................................................. 105
UZR Export......................................................................................................................................... 107
Filter Properties ................................................................................................................................. 108
HTML ................................................................................................................................................. 108
File ..................................................................................................................................................... 108
Integrating UZR les in HTML............................................................................................................ 109
Controlling the UZR browser display ..................................................................................................111
The applet’s context menu ................................................................................................................111
VRML 1 Export....................................................................................................................................112
VRML 1 Import ...................................................................................................................................113
VRML 2 Export....................................................................................................................................114
VRML 2 Import ...................................................................................................................................115
Wavefront Import / Export .................................................................................................................116
Material Preview.................................................................................................................................116
Texture Paths ......................................................................................................................................117
Units ...................................................................................................................................................118
Color Chooser.................................................................................................................................... 120
XPresso .............................................................................................................................................. 125
Colors / Gui ........................................................................................................................................ 125
Project Settings ................................................................................................................................. 125
4. Workow....................................................................................................... 131
Asynchronous access to parameters ................................................................................................. 132
Selection rays..................................................................................................................................... 132
Smartpointer ..................................................................................................................................... 133
Multiple selection .............................................................................................................................. 134
Working with Layouts........................................................................................................................ 134
Window > Layout Submenu ............................................................................................................. 134
Initialization Files ............................................................................................................................... 135
Function graphs................................................................................................................................. 136
Function graph context menu ........................................................................................................... 137
Copying and pasting function graphs ............................................................................................... 138
The HUD............................................................................................................................................. 139
Using the HUD ................................................................................................................................... 140
HUD Settings ..................................................................................................................................... 141
Display ............................................................................................................................................... 142
5. File Menu....................................................................................................... 147
To start CINEMA 4D, do one of the following: .................................................................................. 147
New ................................................................................................................................................... 148
Open.................................................................................................................................................. 148
Merge ................................................................................................................................................ 148
Revert To Saved ................................................................................................................................. 148
Close .................................................................................................................................................. 149
Close All............................................................................................................................................. 149
Save ................................................................................................................................................... 149
Save As .............................................................................................................................................. 149
Save Incremental ............................................................................................................................... 150
Save All .............................................................................................................................................. 150
Save Project ....................................................................................................................................... 150
Export................................................................................................................................................ 150
Recent Files........................................................................................................................................ 152
Quit.................................................................................................................................................... 152
6. Edit Menu...................................................................................................... 157
The undo buffer................................................................................................................................. 157
The clipboard..................................................................................................................................... 159
Selection............................................................................................................................................ 161
The drawing pipeline......................................................................................................................... 161
The display order ............................................................................................................................... 164
Settings.............................................................................................................................................. 165
7. Objects Menu ................................................................................................ 169
Attribute manager settings ............................................................................................................... 170
Coordinates ....................................................................................................................................... 171
Object Properties............................................................................................................................... 172
Primitives ..................................................................................................................................... 173
Cone ............................................................................................................................................. 175
Caps .............................................................................................................................................. 176
Cube ............................................................................................................................................. 179
Cylinder......................................................................................................................................... 181
Caps .............................................................................................................................................. 183
Slice............................................................................................................................................... 184
Disc ............................................................................................................................................... 185
Slice............................................................................................................................................... 186
Plane ............................................................................................................................................. 187
Polygon......................................................................................................................................... 189
Sphere........................................................................................................................................... 190
Torus ............................................................................................................................................. 192
Slice............................................................................................................................................... 193
Capsule ......................................................................................................................................... 194
Slice............................................................................................................................................... 196
Oil Tank......................................................................................................................................... 197
Slice............................................................................................................................................... 198
Tube .............................................................................................................................................. 199
Slice............................................................................................................................................... 201
Pyramid......................................................................................................................................... 202
Platonic ......................................................................................................................................... 204
Figure............................................................................................................................................ 206
Landscape..................................................................................................................................... 207
Relief............................................................................................................................................. 212
NURBS........................................................................................................................................... 217
NURBS objects and hierarchies..................................................................................................... 217
HyperNURBS ................................................................................................................................. 217
Weighting HyperNURBS models ................................................................................................... 221
Manual weighting ........................................................................................................................ 222
Modeling with HyperNURBS......................................................................................................... 222
HyperNURBS and n-gons.............................................................................................................. 224
Extrude NURBS ............................................................................................................................. 225
Caps and Rounding ...................................................................................................................... 226
Lathe NURBS................................................................................................................................. 226
Caps and Rounding ...................................................................................................................... 228
Loft NURBS ................................................................................................................................... 228
Caps and Rounding ...................................................................................................................... 232
Sweep NURBS ............................................................................................................................... 232
Caps and Rounding ...................................................................................................................... 237
Troubleshooting tilted contour splines......................................................................................... 237
Bezier NURBS ................................................................................................................................ 238
Caps And Rounding ...................................................................................................................... 239
Different materials for the hull, caps and rounding ..................................................................... 242
Splines .......................................................................................................................................... 245
Spline Object ................................................................................................................................ 245
Curves........................................................................................................................................... 245
Segments ...................................................................................................................................... 246
Create Spline (Curves)................................................................................................................... 253
Freehand....................................................................................................................................... 253
Bezier, B-Spline, Linear, Cubic, Akima .......................................................................................... 254
Spline Primitives............................................................................................................................ 254
Arc ................................................................................................................................................ 256
Circle............................................................................................................................................. 257
Helix.............................................................................................................................................. 259
n-Side ........................................................................................................................................... 261
Rectangle...................................................................................................................................... 263
Star ............................................................................................................................................... 264
Text ............................................................................................................................................... 266
Vectorizer...................................................................................................................................... 268
4-Side ........................................................................................................................................... 270
Cissoid .......................................................................................................................................... 273
Cogwheel...................................................................................................................................... 274
Cycloid .......................................................................................................................................... 276
Formula......................................................................................................................................... 280
Examples....................................................................................................................................... 283
Flower ........................................................................................................................................... 285
Prole ........................................................................................................................................... 287
Special Modeling Tools................................................................................................................ 291
Null Object.................................................................................................................................... 291
Polygon Object ............................................................................................................................. 293
Array Object.................................................................................................................................. 297
Atom Array Object........................................................................................................................ 298
Boole............................................................................................................................................. 299
Instance Object............................................................................................................................. 302
Metaball Object ............................................................................................................................ 303
Metaball Tag ................................................................................................................................. 305
Symmetry Object .......................................................................................................................... 306
Construction Plane Object............................................................................................................ 307
Cameras........................................................................................................................................ 309
Camera Object.............................................................................................................................. 309
Depth Of Field .............................................................................................................................. 313
Adjusting the camera interactively............................................................................................... 314
Animating camera movements..................................................................................................... 315
Cameras Menu.............................................................................................................................. 316
Scene Cameras.............................................................................................................................. 316
Target Camera .............................................................................................................................. 317
Lighting ........................................................................................................................................ 319
Light Object .................................................................................................................................. 319
Shadow......................................................................................................................................... 329
Details........................................................................................................................................... 339
Visibility ........................................................................................................................................ 353
Caustics......................................................................................................................................... 359
Noise............................................................................................................................................. 359
Lens Effects................................................................................................................................... 361
Glow editor................................................................................................................................... 366
Glow properties............................................................................................................................ 367
Ring properties ............................................................................................................................. 367
Beam properties ........................................................................................................................... 368
Other properties ........................................................................................................................... 369
Lens editor .................................................................................................................................... 370
Scene ............................................................................................................................................ 371
Target Light................................................................................................................................... 372
Sun Light....................................................................................................................................... 373
Sun tag ......................................................................................................................................... 374
Using the Sun tag with other object types................................................................................... 375
Making gels .................................................................................................................................. 376
Particles........................................................................................................................................ 377
Baking Particles............................................................................................................................. 379
Emitter.......................................................................................................................................... 380
Emitter Tab ................................................................................................................................... 382
Include Tab ................................................................................................................................... 383
Modiers ...................................................................................................................................... 383
Attractor ....................................................................................................................................... 385
Deector....................................................................................................................................... 386
Destructor..................................................................................................................................... 388
Friction.......................................................................................................................................... 389
Gravity .......................................................................................................................................... 390
Rotation........................................................................................................................................ 391
Turbulence .................................................................................................................................... 392
Wind ............................................................................................................................................. 393
Metaparticles................................................................................................................................ 394
Deformers .................................................................................................................................... 397
Bend.............................................................................................................................................. 398
Bone.............................................................................................................................................. 400
HyperNURBS and bones................................................................................................................ 400
Fixation ......................................................................................................................................... 404
Display .......................................................................................................................................... 405
Laying out a bones hierarchy........................................................................................................ 405
Restricting bones using polygon selections or vertex maps......................................................... 409
Bulge............................................................................................................................................. 410
Explosion FX ..................................................................................................................................412
Explosion .......................................................................................................................................413
Cluster........................................................................................................................................... 414
Gravity .......................................................................................................................................... 416
Rotation.........................................................................................................................................417
Special ...........................................................................................................................................417
Explosion ...................................................................................................................................... 418
FFD................................................................................................................................................ 419
Formula......................................................................................................................................... 420
Melt .............................................................................................................................................. 422
Polygon Reduction........................................................................................................................ 424
Further usage advice .................................................................................................................... 428
Hints and tips................................................................................................................................ 429
Shatter .......................................................................................................................................... 432
Shear............................................................................................................................................. 433
Spherify ........................................................................................................................................ 435
Spline Deformer............................................................................................................................ 436
Spline Rail ..................................................................................................................................... 440
Example ........................................................................................................................................ 442
Taper............................................................................................................................................. 446
Twist .............................................................................................................................................448
Wind ............................................................................................................................................. 450
Wrap ............................................................................................................................................. 452
Managing Your Environment ...................................................................................................... 457
Floor Object .................................................................................................................................. 457
Sky Object..................................................................................................................................... 457
Environment Object...................................................................................................................... 458
Foreground Object, Background Object....................................................................................... 460
Stage Object ................................................................................................................................. 462
Selection Object ........................................................................................................................... 463
Sound ........................................................................................................................................... 465
Playing and scrubbing sound ....................................................................................................... 465
Loudspeaker ................................................................................................................................. 465
Mono Microphone........................................................................................................................ 468
Stereo Microphone ....................................................................................................................... 471
Stereo ........................................................................................................................................... 472
DTS 5.1.......................................................................................................................................... 472
DDS EX 6.1.................................................................................................................................... 473
SDDS 7.1........................................................................................................................................ 474
Object Library ............................................................................................................................... 477
Adding models to the object library............................................................................................. 477
Turbo Squid community................................................................................................................ 477
8. Tools Menu....................................................................................................481
Move.................................................................................................................................................. 481
Moving multiple objects.................................................................................................................... 482
Attribute manager settings ............................................................................................................... 483
Orientation ........................................................................................................................................ 484
Snap Settings..................................................................................................................................... 486
Scale .................................................................................................................................................. 486
Scaling multiple objects .................................................................................................................... 487
Attribute manager settings ............................................................................................................... 487
Rotate ................................................................................................................................................ 488
Rotating multiple objects .................................................................................................................. 489
Attribute manager settings ............................................................................................................... 490
Move, Scale and Rotate with mouse and keyboard .......................................................................... 490
Magnify ............................................................................................................................................. 491
Modeling modes................................................................................................................................ 491
Tweak Mode ...................................................................................................................................... 492
N-gon Triangulation .......................................................................................................................... 493
Use Isoline Editing ............................................................................................................................. 493
Show Axis .......................................................................................................................................... 494
Camera .............................................................................................................................................. 494
Object ................................................................................................................................................ 496
Points................................................................................................................................................. 496
Edges ................................................................................................................................................. 497
Polygons ............................................................................................................................................ 497
Object Axis ........................................................................................................................................ 498
Model ................................................................................................................................................ 499
Texture............................................................................................................................................... 501
Texture Axis ....................................................................................................................................... 501
Inverse Kinematics............................................................................................................................. 502
Multi-target kinematics..................................................................................................................... 504
Animation.......................................................................................................................................... 505
The Axes ............................................................................................................................................ 506
Coordinate System............................................................................................................................. 506
Why use HPB?.................................................................................................................................... 507
Camera Rotation................................................................................................................................ 509
9. Selection Menu ............................................................................................. 513
Selection Filter ....................................................................................................................................513
Select Tool ..........................................................................................................................................513
Object tab.......................................................................................................................................... 514
Tags tab ..............................................................................................................................................515
Create Selection Object ......................................................................................................................515
Main selection tools ...........................................................................................................................515
Live Selection..................................................................................................................................... 516
Rectangle Selection ........................................................................................................................... 516
Lasso Selection .................................................................................................................................. 516
Polygon Selection ...............................................................................................................................517
Attribute manager settings ................................................................................................................517
Mode (Live Selection) ........................................................................................................................ 518
Loop Selection ................................................................................................................................... 521
Attribute manager settings ............................................................................................................... 522
Ring Selection.................................................................................................................................... 522
Outline Selection ............................................................................................................................... 523
Fill Selection....................................................................................................................................... 524
Convert Selection .............................................................................................................................. 524
Select All, Deselect All ....................................................................................................................... 525
Invert ................................................................................................................................................. 525
Select Connected............................................................................................................................... 525
Grow Selection .................................................................................................................................. 526
Shrink Selection ................................................................................................................................. 526
Hide Selected..................................................................................................................................... 527
Hide Unselected................................................................................................................................. 527
Unhide All .......................................................................................................................................... 527
Invert Visibility................................................................................................................................... 527
Set Selection...................................................................................................................................... 527
Attribute manager settings ............................................................................................................... 528
Set Vertex Weight.............................................................................................................................. 529
10. Structure Menu ...........................................................................................535
Modeling modes................................................................................................................................ 535
Attribute manager settings ............................................................................................................... 536
Snap Settings..................................................................................................................................... 537
Snapping ........................................................................................................................................... 538
Edit Spline.......................................................................................................................................... 542
Attribute manager settings ............................................................................................................... 546
Attribute manager settings ............................................................................................................... 547
Cross Section ..................................................................................................................................... 548
Attribute manager settings ............................................................................................................... 549
Edge To Spline ................................................................................................................................... 550
Project ............................................................................................................................................... 550
Round ................................................................................................................................................ 552
Split ................................................................................................................................................... 553
Add Point........................................................................................................................................... 553
Bridge ................................................................................................................................................ 555
Using the Brush tool .......................................................................................................................... 559
Create Polygon .................................................................................................................................. 562
Edge Cut ............................................................................................................................................ 565
Iron .................................................................................................................................................... 566
Knife .................................................................................................................................................. 567
Magnet .............................................................................................................................................. 570
Mirror ................................................................................................................................................ 573
Set Point Value................................................................................................................................... 575
Coordinate System............................................................................................................................. 577
Slide ................................................................................................................................................... 578
Weld .................................................................................................................................................. 581
Bevel .................................................................................................................................................. 582
Polygon mode.................................................................................................................................... 586
Edge mode......................................................................................................................................... 587
Point mode ........................................................................................................................................ 587
Extrude .............................................................................................................................................. 588
Extrude Inner..................................................................................................................................... 591
Matrix Extrude................................................................................................................................... 594
Smooth Shift...................................................................................................................................... 597
Normal Move ..................................................................................................................................... 598
Normal Scale...................................................................................................................................... 599
Normal Rotate ................................................................................................................................... 599
Structure Context Menu .................................................................................................................... 600
11. Functions Menu...........................................................................................605
Make Editable .................................................................................................................................... 605
Arrange.............................................................................................................................................. 605
Linear Mode....................................................................................................................................... 606
Circle Mode........................................................................................................................................ 608
Center .................................................................................................................................................612
Connect ............................................................................................................................................. 613
Current State To Object ..................................................................................................................... 613
Duplicate ........................................................................................................................................... 614
Measure & Construction.................................................................................................................... 615
Transfer.............................................................................................................................................. 619
Randomize......................................................................................................................................... 619
Reset System...................................................................................................................................... 621
Align Normals.................................................................................................................................... 623
Reverse Normals ................................................................................................................................ 624
Move Down Sequence, Move Up Sequence ...................................................................................... 625
Collapse ............................................................................................................................................. 625
Melt ................................................................................................................................................... 626
Optimize ............................................................................................................................................ 627
Subdivide........................................................................................................................................... 628
Triangulate......................................................................................................................................... 629
Untriangulate..................................................................................................................................... 630
Retriangulate N-gons ........................................................................................................................ 630
Remove N-gons ................................................................................................................................. 630
Array .................................................................................................................................................. 631
Clone ................................................................................................................................................. 633
Disconnect......................................................................................................................................... 635
Explode Segments ............................................................................................................................. 635
Split ................................................................................................................................................... 635
Break Phong Shading......................................................................................................................... 635
Unbreak Phong Shading.................................................................................................................... 635
Select Broken Phong Edges ............................................................................................................... 636
Increase/Decrease HN Subdivision..................................................................................................... 636
12. Plugins .........................................................................................................639
Execute Last Plugin ............................................................................................................................ 639
ASCII Animation Import .................................................................................................................... 639
FlashEx............................................................................................................................................... 642
General tab........................................................................................................................................ 643
Background tab ................................................................................................................................. 646
Lines tab ............................................................................................................................................ 646
HTML tab ........................................................................................................................................... 648
FlashEx Tag ........................................................................................................................................ 648
FlashEx FAQs......................................................................................................................................648
SpaceMouse ...................................................................................................................................... 650
13. Rendering ....................................................................................................653
Render Alerts ..................................................................................................................................... 653
Missing textures ................................................................................................................................ 653
Missing radiosity solutions ................................................................................................................ 653
Render View ...................................................................................................................................... 653
Render Active Object......................................................................................................................... 654
Render Region ................................................................................................................................... 654
Render To Picture Viewer................................................................................................................... 654
Batch Rendering ................................................................................................................................ 655
Make Preview..................................................................................................................................... 656
Render Settings ................................................................................................................................. 657
New Render Settings ......................................................................................................................... 657
Delete Render Settings ...................................................................................................................... 658
Flush Illumination Caches .................................................................................................................. 658
Bake Texture ...................................................................................................................................... 658
Tag Tab .............................................................................................................................................. 660
Options Tab ....................................................................................................................................... 664
Sky Textures....................................................................................................................................... 670
Details Tab ......................................................................................................................................... 673
Bake Object........................................................................................................................................ 674
General .............................................................................................................................................. 677
Output ............................................................................................................................................... 681
Save ...................................................................................................................................................684
32-Bit / HDR Formats ......................................................................................................................... 685
Antialiasing........................................................................................................................................ 695
Antialiasing........................................................................................................................................ 696
Antialiasing and adaptive raytracing................................................................................................. 699
Radiosity, Caustics ............................................................................................................................. 699
Effects................................................................................................................................................ 700
Object Glow....................................................................................................................................... 701
Lens Effects........................................................................................................................................ 701
Remote .............................................................................................................................................. 701
Median Filter...................................................................................................................................... 702
Sharpen Filter .................................................................................................................................... 702
Soft Filter ........................................................................................................................................... 702
Object Motion Blur ............................................................................................................................ 702
Scene Motion Blur ............................................................................................................................. 703
Cel Renderer ...................................................................................................................................... 705
Color Correction ................................................................................................................................ 708
Options .............................................................................................................................................. 708
Multi-Pass.......................................................................................................................................... 714
QuickTime VR..................................................................................................................................... 722
Movie Formats................................................................................................................................... 724
14. Window Menu............................................................................................. 729
Layout................................................................................................................................................ 729
Command Manager........................................................................................................................... 730
Menu Manager .................................................................................................................................. 731
New View Panel................................................................................................................................. 732
Object Manager................................................................................................................................. 732
Material Manager .............................................................................................................................. 732
Timeline ............................................................................................................................................. 733
F-Curve Manager............................................................................................................................... 733
Attribute Manager............................................................................................................................. 734
Picture Viewer ................................................................................................................................... 734
Coordinate Manager.......................................................................................................................... 735
Structure Manager............................................................................................................................. 735
Content Browser................................................................................................................................ 736
Console.............................................................................................................................................. 736
Global Status Bar ............................................................................................................................... 736
Selection Info..................................................................................................................................... 737
Structure Info .................................................................................................................................... 737
Other Scene Windows ....................................................................................................................... 737
15. Help Menu ................................................................................................... 741
MAXON Online ...................................................................................................................................741
Help (CINEMA 4D) ..............................................................................................................................741
Personalize..........................................................................................................................................741
Info .....................................................................................................................................................741
16 Coordinate Manager .................................................................................... 745
17. Object Manager........................................................................................... 749
Drag-and-drop .................................................................................................................................. 750
Mouse techniques ............................................................................................................................. 751
File Menu ........................................................................................................................................... 751
CINEMA 4D Tags ................................................................................................................................ 751
Expression tags.................................................................................................................................. 752
Align To Path ..................................................................................................................................... 753
Align To Spline ................................................................................................................................... 754
Anchor ............................................................................................................................................... 756
C.O.F.F.E.E. ......................................................................................................................................... 756
Compositing ...................................................................................................................................... 757
Exclusion............................................................................................................................................ 759
Display ............................................................................................................................................... 763
Fix ...................................................................................................................................................... 764
FlashEx............................................................................................................................................... 764
HyperNURBS Weight.......................................................................................................................... 765
IK........................................................................................................................................................ 765
Kinematic........................................................................................................................................... 766
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