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  • Use Color is defaulting to Off

    Posted by Anika Massell on June 23, 2017 at 5:20 pm

    Hello, I am a newbie to C4d and “use color” in the basic menu is automatically switching from on to off and display color switching to default grey when I try to play my animation. It also renders in the default color. ???? This was not happening before, not sure what changed. Please help.

    Thanks!
    Anika

    Anika Massell replied 9 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Steve Bentley

    June 28, 2017 at 6:05 am

    Hi Anika,
    Have you been working with the auto key frame option turned on? It sounds like you made some changes and that got recorded as a keyframe and now as you go back and forth through the time line those key frames are changing your settings in the basic menu for that object. Is there a red dot beside the attributes that change? Anything other than a dull gray radio button means a key frame has been set somewhere in the time line.

    The auto keyframe button (depending on your version of C4D) will be in the main timeline slider area near the play and next-frame buttons – it looks like two brackets inside a red circle (next to the skeleton key symbol) With that button turned on every change you make records a key frame.

  • Anika Massell

    June 28, 2017 at 6:31 pm

    Thank you so much Steve!! I was loosing my mind … truly appreciate the response.
    And all is well with the world again.????

  • Anika Massell

    June 28, 2017 at 7:21 pm

    Losing. I guess I was truly “loosing?” my mind!????

    Anika

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