Anyone use Cinema 4d?

Tadao215

Hey guys,

I'm trying to give myself a crash course on cinema 4d r12 for a job. So far I can create primitives, edit them as polygons and add deformers. The problem is, im having trouble trying to edit these polys after i've added a deformer.

does anyone know how to model with polygons in cinema 4d?

Tadao215

also, how do i smooth polygons? Im searching for something like a turbo smooth..

gsokol

I messed with Cinema4d wayyy back in college.

Can't tell you too much, but from what I remember, to get smoothing like turbo smooth, you use what they call hyper nurbs.

Kwramm

yup. make the hyper nurbs a parent of your poly object.

Parent objects (modifiers) apply their modifications down to all their children. Many deformers and other modeling tools in C4D operate by that principle. Just make a new deformer and drop all the objects required onto them to turn them into children.

For polygons there used to be a separate polygon object where you would start from scratch by making a single poly and then you'd attach and extrude more polies, use cutting tools, etc. There's also a command somewhere (not a deformer) to turn default objects (spheres, boxes, etc) into poly objects. I think that's in a menu somewhere.

It's been a while since I messed with C4D. You could also try cgtalk - their c4d forum is pretty active.

Tadao215

thanks guys, very helpful :thumbup:

MeintevdS

http://www.c4dcafe.com/ipb/

Try there, they have useful video tutorials and a nice community. (<well when I used to use cinema4D anyway).
You're free to pm me with questions I just haven't used it in idk.. 4+ years now so I might not be of a lot of help.