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In addition, you can enter math operators into text boxes. See the appendices.
View panel
The View panel is a collection of up to four viewports and is the heart of the program. This is where
you build and animate your 3D models.
Object manager
The Object manager contains all your scene’s elements (objects). You can group objects hierarchically.
For example, you can make a leaf a child of a branch and the branch a child of a tree. If you want to
edit an object, rst select it by clicking its name or icon in the Object manager. The object’s name will
turn red to indicate selection. Most objects have tags that add properties to them such as materials or
Phong shading,
Material manager
The Material manager contains all the materials for the scene. If you double-click on a material icon,
the Material Editor will open so that you can edit the material. You can add a material to an object by
dragging and dropping the material from the Material manager onto the object.
Browser
In the default layout, the Browser is displayed as a tab. The Browser is a library for all les that can be
read by CINEMA 4D. You can drag-and-drop les from the Browser onto other managers to have them
displayed there. For example, if you drag and drop a scene onto the view panel, the scene is loaded;
if you drag and drop a scene onto the Material manager, the scene’s materials are loaded.