In this short tutorial, I show you how to change your default option settings in cinema 4D. This is really helpful options that you change every time like screen aspect ratio, render size, or anti aliasing settings.
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Thanks, very useful!
Happy 2011 !
how to see the vedio
Nice tut. happy new year
Thanks Nick!
Merry christmas my friend!!
Please check my motion
http://vimeo.com/17342647
Cool video.music,animation-everything is awesome
Hey Nick,
Speaking of layouts, can you upload the layout you use for r12. Like you did for r11.5 in the GSG light kit.
Or is it already somewhere?
You can get my main layout here: http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2010/09/what’s-new-in-cinema-4d-12-springs/
It’s changed a little bit since then. I’ll try to update it soon.
Great little trick
I’ve managed to trick it in code..
but this is much quicker and easier!
Thanks… and Happy NY. Here;s 8.30pm ATM
Happy new year to you too, Nick!
Have a good one!
You look pretty ‘just out of bed’ btw… :p
It’s a holiday. I’m allowed to be lazy one day a year.
Lol, and right you are
Happy 2011
I’ve been using this for a couple off weeks now… Didn’t I hear it from you, Nick? hmmm
I was also trying to bring up the ‘secret menu’ thing in AE during yesterday’s live stream.
If you hold down the shift key while selecting Preference in AE, you get this ‘secret’ tab added to the list.
Change the cache to ’2′ and it speeds up your render time over 100% (in my case)
I rendered a 60 layer, 4 minute project the other day that would have taken 1hr and 35 minutes but took 16 minutes after I initiated this simple change.
I also found that having the caps lock on during the rendering sped things up even more because it wasn’t wasting processor power displaying the view.
Maybe I can get one of my clients to agree to add a new 12 core to our next contract. That’d be super nice.
Happy New Year to you, Nick (and all the GSG’ers)
Let’s all have a very profitable and fun 2011.
thanx nick another great tip
Happy creative year to all!
Great tip, Nick…
Have a great year y’all!
Nick, I have to say this again man…I LOVE the Light Kit. It makes the renders that much sexier. Thanks and keep kicking ass bro!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCyLTMHPny0&sns=em
Happy New Year to u Nick!!
Thanks,
Happy new year
Great tip Nick! I googled this exact thing about a week ago and found this.
http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php/t-749366.html
apparently “new.c4d” will load when you create a new c4d document while the program is already going, and if you create a file called “template.c4d” in that same directory, it will be loaded on startup.
happy new year Nick and thx again for this new little but useful tut !
S3B
This is great.
It works when You ad object change “select only visible” in live selection tool, delete object and save as new.c4d
To change that default was my wish for long time.
Happy new.c4d year to all of You
Happy new year, Nick. Keep the quality vids and positive attitude flowing!
Gracias al Gorila por sus volados, tener la grandeza de enseñar a los demas es una virtud
jajaja Man usted es tico???
Esa palabra “Volados” suena mucho por acá!!!
It works great with hud settings too. I use it to add a axis scale to the hud in all the views.
Thanks
Great tip!
I don’t know where to find this answer so maybe one of you guys know… How do you figure out the size of a selection or face once it is already converted. Example: make a cube 100cm then covert it by pressing c. now if i want to know the dimensions of of the cube. Any Ideas? thanks!
You can use the measure tool for that.
Hey Nick,
Thanks for the awesome site. I have a question on how to change the default key command for setting a keyframe for animations.
Right now default is (I’m using Mac) both command+mouse click and control+mouse click to set a keyframe when hovering over the keyframe circles.
I want to be able to just simply mouse click the circle to set a keyframe.
Funnily enough when in Command Manager and using Shortcut filter pressing either control or command to search; results in nothing so figuring out how to fix this has been a challenge.
I actually wrote to MAXON asking for help in R11.5 in how to do this with no reply
If you do not know how to do this, would you please request that Maxon change this to default for the next revision please?
Making the default just mouse click to set keyframes would be better and more After Effects like.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Thank you forall your work and great tuorials!!
One other question … What kind of microphone you use for your videos ?
Happy new year !
Happy newyear tiny greyscale monkies!
Hey,
while I was playing with Cinema,I did something(propably pushed the wrong button) and now my navigation keys aren’t working properly. 1 and 2 keys both zoom, but 2 does this weird thing while zooming: http://img152.imageshack.us/i/41619606.jpg/
and 3 key doesn’t rotate properly: http://img408.imageshack.us/i/98332239.jpg/
How can I fix this? I already tried reinstaling cinema- didn’t help.
This feature is also a life savior in Europe since we use PAL which has 25 frames per second. The default fps is 30 so it’s nice to fix this one both from the scene settings and from the render settings.
Oh.. and have a nice year 2011!!
Yes I did that too!
It’s also possible to save several render settings in one file. For example for testing and final renders. (It’s in the bottom left part of the output settings screen)
Also you can save anything you want just like a normal scene file, like default shaders or light setups you always use.
Happy New Year Bro! you have been most helpful in 2010 .. i just came back from a heavy dose of chilling.. in between some Lsd .. i was compositing background almost every thought i had.. no antialiasing issues
.. so have been an integral part of my 2010.. i have improved my design work.. and have recieved a lot of positive feedback all thanks to you..
your determination.. energy.. and desire to keep learning and sharing.. is like.. good.
dont stop the rock.. god bless.. 2011 will see you higher
Thanks, Poly! Happy New Year!
Happy new year Nick and a big thanks for what you do. You really make our simple C4D users life easier !
Keep up the good work !
Thanks for this post. This will definitely same some frustration.
Happy New Year!
I made a video based on your candycane tutorial, but since I’m a new subscriber, I accidentally posted it as a comment to your Vimeo page rather than to your blog. Rookie mistake. Anyway, the link is below.
http://vimeo.com/18337420
In my video, I discovered that I didn’t know how to create an object buffer for particles created by an emitter. Should I just put a compositing tag on the emitter itself?
I ended up trying to fake a mask in After Effects – to mediocre results.
Hey Nick Campbell,
Regarding the purchase of Cinema 4d and following along with your tutorials,
is Cinema 4d Prime fine okay?
I am using blender now, and I dont have 2,600.00 to spend and i dont know if Cinema Broadcast edition is even worth it?
Really would appreciate your input, thanks -your fan -Nick
Unfortunately, all the dynamics stuff is only in Studio.
http://www.maxon.net/en/products/general-information/general-information/product-comparison.html
I would recommend you at least get broadcast. It adds on a TON of great stuff like Global Illumination and Ambient Occlusion that I use in tutorials all the time.
Hey Nick,
i’ve been watched all of your tuts
and would like to ask you to make a tut
that Xplains how to make a vid like that:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1775955675825
watch the end
Happy New Year Nick! Thans for all your work in the tutorials and stuff!
Hi Nick, I am from china and I know there’re many people live in china like your tutorials very much, but unfortunately vimeo now is in the chinese government BAN LIST, so… Can you take some time to upload your video to youtube? I can still visit youtube via some tools, hope it can be done…
Sorry, Most of my videos are longer than the youtube 15 minute limit. I’m thinking of finding another way to get tutorials to people who can’t watch them easily. Maybe a USB drive?
Thank you very very much!
thanks again for the great tutorials Nick
here’s a question I had, open to anyone: I have a new computer with lots of processing speed/ram, but it seems to take quite a while to render basic things (like the text stripe fillet tutorial). I’m not using a ton of lights or anything complex like GI. Are there any ways I can manually set up C4D to make sure its taking advantage of all my computer power? Haven’t found any great answers online. Running a demo of C4D R12.
Cinema uses all available computer power by default, actually.
weird! maybe its some of these lights then. or maybe my perception is distorted by your awesomely fast render times.
thanks for the reply Nick!!!!
I somehow messed up and now whenever i open cinema it loads a scene with a floor and some lights.
I then tried to make a new empty “new.c4d” file and overwrite the messed up file.
But cinema still loads the scene with the floor and lights.
i also tried to delete the “new.c4d” file and make a new file from scratch. But somehow cinema STILL loads the file that has been deleted and removed from the Trash bin. Weird!
anyone know how i fix this?
Does Cinema store some data about the default project some other place???
Thanks so much!!! I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out how people always had their units set to Meters by default.
It says I dont have permission to save in that folder and that I need to contact the administrator. Is there a solution to this?
BTW: I’m using Windows Vista
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I love your tutorials. I just have one problem: your uhhhs and umms. It’s veyr distracting sometimes. Here’s an awesome link that helped me in school: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/how-to-cut-crutch-words-when-giving-a-speech.html
my spelling is distracting, too.. whoops!
i am having problems getting this to work in r13, anyone else or just me?