• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Points have vanished

  Posted by Luke Jackson on February 4, 2011 at 10:48 pm

  Hey all,

  Currently trying to work on a project of mine when I go to add some points in a polygon object using the Add Point tool like normal, except when I click to add a point. You can’t see the point. At all.

  I know it is being placed because you can see it updating but you can’t actually see the point, only if you go over it with the live selection tool can you actually see it being highlighted, but then you still can’t see it selected.

  I am using C4D 11.5 and I have played with the colour settings and anything I can think of.

  Thanks

  Alan Flood replied 15 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

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  Brian Jones

  February 7, 2011 at 4:39 am

  OS? Graphics card? Still do it after a reboot etc?
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  Jonah Michael

  February 7, 2011 at 10:59 am

  Try going to Edit -> Configure. Then select the ‘view’ tab in the menu that opens. Looking at the options, you should see ‘point handle size’ and ‘select point size’. Are they at value 1? Try changing to 10 and see if you see the points then.
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  Luke Jackson

  February 7, 2011 at 2:46 pm

  Just reinstalled Cinema4D and that seemed to fix it, still not sure what actually caused the problem.
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  Alan Flood

  February 17, 2011 at 10:13 pm

  It’s most likely you had the points hidden – perhaps you accidentally hit one of the hide selection options? I don’t know but I do know I’d done that before. I was hiding selected polygons and what happened was I switched to point mode but forgot I was still in point mode. Then when I hit the ‘invert visibility’ button apparently nothing happened – but I had in fact hidden all the points because none were selected so the invert made them all hidden. So I switched back to poly mode none the wiser at this stage and inverted the visibility of those and continued on working. It wasn’t until I went back into point mode that I found all my points had disappeared and it literally took me hours of fiddling around to finally figure out what had happened. It was one of the most frustrating time i ever remember when using cinema. All the other models I opened had their points visible so knew it wasn’t a problem with Cinema itself. It was just that model. I was truly stumped and it was such a simple thing really. After hours or hair-pulling I went into point mode and selected ‘unhide all’ and voila! there they were 🙂

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