Adam Trachtenberg
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You can animate any parameter in Cinema that has a small circle to the left of its name in the Attributes Manager. You do that by simply Ctrl + clicking on the circle, which causes it to turn solid red.
You can export cameras and lights to AE using the compositing project file options in the Render>Save dialogue. You’ll have to install the C4D->AE plugin in AE. The plugin is found in your Cinema>Exchange Plugins folder.
After you install the plugin you can open the .aec file that Cinema creates in AE and it will automatically import your Cinema camera, lights, etc.
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You could bake the texture to your object, but you really don’t want to use frontal mapping in this case. You should use flat mapping or UVW mapping to lock the texture to the object.
With NURBS objects, you can apply separate materials to each cap and to each bevel/fillet by typing the following abbreviations into the material tag’s “selection” box:
C1 = Start Cap (Cap 1)
C2 = End Cap (Cap 2)
R1 = Start Rounding (Rounding 1)
R2 = End Rounding (Rounding 2)
If you are using deformers on the text, you’ll also want to give the text object a “Stick Texture” tag, which prevents the material from stretching when the object is deformed.
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I’m pretty sure it doesn’t qualify, but you can call Maxon’s sales office and find out for sure.
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The deformer object doesn’t get a tag itself–it has a slot in the AM where you can drag and drop a morph tag so it knows which one to use.
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The easiest way to do this is to move the time slider with the Alt key pressed (Shift key in older versions). This freezes the animation. So, go to the frame with the position you want, hold down Alt, move the play head to the frame you want to key, and set your new keys.
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You can set keyframes, of course, or if you have Mocca you could also use Posemixer and/or Pose2Pose.
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Advanced Render adds Global Illumination, Caustics, and the subsurface scattering shader. If you don’t use those in the demo you’ll be getting the same thing with the base Cinema module. If you want to be sure, you can go into the demo>Modules directory and remove the Advanced Render folder.
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They are different things, but they work together. The purpose of the deformer is to add falloff capability to Cinema’s morphing toolset. For example, if you’ve created a smile pose and you only want your character to smile on the left side of her face, you can assign the morph tag to a deformer, set the deformer’s falloff to “linear”, and then position the deformer so that smile pose only happens on the left side.
This can be useful directly in animation, or you can use it as a helper to create new poses for the Morph Tag.
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I don’t believe there’s an r9 version of the book. If she was to do a new one I’m sure it would be for r10, so you might find yourself in the same boat.
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I’ve heard that this is a good intro book: https://www.amazon.com/CINEMA-4D-Artists-Project-Sourcebook/dp/1578202426/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-2698639-0456648?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177536500&sr=8-1
Arndt von Koenigsmarck also has “Cinema 4D 10 Workshop” which is fantastic. It’s a more advanced but the tutorials are detailed enough that I think it would work for you.