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Now animating in CINEMA 4D is all about keyframes and keyframes are manipulated in the timeline. Before we can get over to the timeline to take a look at that process, we need to have some keyframes to work with. What I'm going to do is animate this word KEYFRAME traveling along the Z axis and spinning from off into distance to its mark here at the center of the world. Want to speed up your C4D workflow? You're in luck: This clip offers an overview of Cinema 4D's most useful keyboard shortcuts. Whether you're new to MAXON's popular 3D modeling application or are just looking to get better acquainted with Cinema 4D and its various features and functions, you're sure to enjoy this free video software tutorial.
The Arnold Shader Network Editor shares similar functionality with the CINEMA 4D, however, it is limited to work only with Arnold shaders.Note that there is an Arnold group in the standard XPresso Editor, however, these nodes are not valid and have no effect. There's a technical reason these nodes cannot be hidden.To open the Arnold Shader Network Editor, click on the Open network editor. Button under the Material tab. You can also use the middle mouse button or press Alt + W and O in the Material Manager on the selected material. Arnold Shader Network Editor window.
Standard shader's output connected to Arnold beauty input port.The editor has three sections:. You can see the preview of the whole network on the left and a tree of available shaders. Arnold shader nodes and supported C4D shaders are listed in the tree and are grouped by functionality. All groups have a color assigned to them so that you can quickly identify the shader type in the editor. These colors are hardcoded and cannot be changed, however, you can set your own title color for any shader nodes in the network.The tree has a filter field for quickly navigating through the various shaders. When you start typing, shader nodes containing the given substring will only be displayed. You can also use arrow keys to navigate in the tree.
To create a new shader just press the 'Enter' key.The work area is in the center of the dialog. This is a graph view editor where you can connect shader nodes together via linkable attributes (called ports). You can drag & drop any shader from the left tree to the work area.
To connect shaders you have to click on the Output port and drag the mouse to the blue corner of the other shader. A menu will appear listing the available parameters that you can connect to. Parameters of the selected node are displayed on the right side. You can change any values here.
Note that if a parameter is linked then it's not visible here. You have to disconnect it first to edit the constant value of the parameter.If you just need to quickly change some parameters of your shader you don't have to open the network editor.
The Arnold Shader Network Material allows you to select any shaders of your network and displays its parameters as they are displayed natively in the Attribute Manager. You can drag & drop image file textures from an external file explorer directly onto the editor window and it will automatically generate an image shader.You can also drag & drop a Vertex Map Tag from the object tree onto the editor window and it will automatically generate a vertex map shader.The menu bar of the editor window contains useful commands and settings. Edit. Delete unused shaders: removes all shaders from the network which are not connected to any output port (e.g. Arnold Beauty, Arnold Displacement, etc.).
Create reference: moves the selected shaders to a new Arnold Material and replaces them with a of that material. The shaders must be connected. Automatic node optimization: when enabled the shader automatically expands if a connection is added or removed. When you remove an existing connection, the port is automatically removed. Auto connect after delete: when enabled the first input of a shader is automatically connected to its outputs when the shader if removed, keeping the network together. Auto file browser when creating an image shader: when enabled the file browser pops up automatically when a new image shader is added to the network.View.
Show attributes: when enabled (default) the attributes of the selected shaders are displayed on the right of the editor. When disabled the Attribute Manager is used instead. This is useful to save space for the editor area for example when the editor is docked. Show shader list: controls the visibility of the shader tree on the left pane. You can use the Ctrl + TAB keys to add a shader when the shader tree is hidden. Detach material preview: opens the material thumbnail in a separate dialog which you can dock anywhere in the UI.
See the section for more details about the preview.Texture. Show histogram: opens a histogram view in the right pane.
See the section for more details.Write texture.: allows you to write out the modifications of a texture (e.g. UV transform, color correction, mix, etc.). This feature is to prevent duplicating the network in photoshop when you want to further edit a texture. Just simply select the shader which you want to write out and execute the Write Texture. command. A dialog opens to set up the output path, format and resolution. This feature is valid only for textures, you can not write out surface shaders (e.g.
Standard, curvature, etc.) or procedural textures (e.g. Noise).Help. Info.: opens a small dialog which describes the available commands in the network editor. User Guide: opens this manual in the browser.The following commands are available in the shader network editor by a shortcut. To see all the commands just press Alt + W. Set beauty root shader: Connects the selected shader to the beauty port. This is useful when you want to quickly visualize a part of the network in the IPR.
shortcut: Alt + W and 1. Set displacement root shader: Connects the selected shader to the displacement port. shortcut: Alt + W and 2. Set viewport root shader: Connects the selected shader to the viewport port. This is useful when you want to visualize a part of the network (e.g. Textures) in the viewport. shortcut: Alt + W and 3.
Connect shader: Allows you to easily connect the selected shader to another shader in the network. Useful when the shaders are are far away and it's difficult to drag the output with the mouse.
If multiple shaders are selected the command tries to connect the first selected shader to the others. shortcut: Alt + W and C. Delete unused shaders: Removes all shaders from the network which is not connected to any output port (e.g. Arnold Beauty, Arnold Displacement, etc.).
shortcut: Alt + W and D. Show/hide histogram: Enables or disables the.shortcut: Alt + W and G. Create reference: Moves the selected shaders to a new Arnold Material and replaces them with a of that material. The shaders must be connected. shortcut: Alt + W and I.
Assign texture: This command creates an image shader with your texture connected to a selected parameter. It shows a menu where you can select a parameter of the selected shader. It then opens a file browser to select your texture. If multiple shaders are selected you must select one of them from the menu first.
When no shader is selected you must select one from the network first. shortcut: Alt + W and T. shader context menu: Operator Assign Texture. Write texture.: Allows you to write out the modifications of a texture. See the section.shortcut: Alt + W and WYou can change the above shortcuts in the Window Customization Customize Commands.
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You can search by name or shortcut or sort by Plugin and find the C4DtoA commands. You can use the following actions to quickly edit the network:1. Add new shader.
Press Ctrl + TAB (make sure the Arnold Shader Network Editor window is active). Start typing the name of the shader you want to create or select from the list by the up/down arrow keys. Press Enter to select the shader. The shader is added to the network at the mouse cursor or at the center of the window. If a shader is selected when you press Ctrl + TAB then the new shader will be automatically inserted after or before the selected shader (depends on the shader type). Select the parameter from the popup to connect the new shader to/from by the up/down arrow keys. Press Enter.
The new shader is inserted after/before the selected one. You can press Esc if you don't want to insert the shader. Hold SHIFT when clicking on connection7. Duplicate. Press Ctrl and drag the selected shader(s).
To duplicate the input connections of a shader press Ctrl+Alt and drag the shader.8. Drag with children. Select the root shades of the hierarchy you want to move. Press Shift and drag the shaders with the mouse.9. Drag with parents. Select the leaf shades of the hierarchy you want to move.
Press Shift + Alt and drag the shaders with the mouse.10. Add a port by drag & drop. Select a parameter from a shader in the Attribute Editor.
Drag & drop it to the shader node.11. Shader selection. Press Page Up to select the next shader in the network. Order is defined by the connections.
If nothing is selected then selects the last shader from the root. Press Page Down to select the previous shader in the network.
Order is defined by the connections. If nothing is selected then selects the root shader.You can use the Help Info.menu in the network editor to get information on the available editing actions. To display the output of a shader in the viewport you have to connect it to the Arnold Histogram port. The graph shows the pixels distributed by the selected property which could be:. RGB: relative luminance in colorimetric spaces.
R: the red channel of the pixel. G: the green channel of the pixel. B: the blue channel of the pixel.
Luminance: brightness (luma).Because the input of the histogram could be any shader from the network the sample resolution has to be defined manually. The default is 800x600 which gives a proper result in most cases. Higher resolution needs more time to process. SamplesWhen the mouse is moved over the histogram the number of pixels at the level under the mouse pointer is displayed under the graph. By Ctrl + click you can add a fix sample point to the histogram to follow how the pixels of a given level changes after modifying the shaders.
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You can also create any custom preview scene you like. Just create a new scene or open and edit an existing one from C4D INSTALL/library/materialpreview. In the scene, set the renderer to Arnold Renderer and specify your settings. You can use any setup like you do in a normal scene, however, there are some special rules:.
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Add an empty Texture Tag to your main object (which can be a Null object with child objects). Set the name of your front light to LightFront, your back light to LightBack. (Used when previewing a light filter.).
Change the name of your background plane to Background. (Used when previewing an atmosphere or environment type material.).
This is probably a pretty amateur question, but I've yet to find the proper way to do it.so here we go.Let's say that I have an editable sphere and I'm selecting certain polygon faces to map a material. After selecting the area I'd like to apply that material, I use 'set selection'. Nothing in question there, but when you DO set the selection, C4D automatically selects that polygon tag, and if you're working on a project at 3AM, it's pretty easy to accidentally set a new selection to the previous tag making the first selection disappear.So, is there a way to have it release that tag so that I don't have to manually deselect the polygon tag selection while building selections to apply textures to?Like I said, it's probably elementary, but I can't seem to find the answer I'm hoping for in the literature.THANK YOU!!!