9.5.2
Table Of Contents
- CINEMA 4D XL
- CINEMA 4D
- End User License Agreement
- 1. Getting to Know C4D
- 2. Views and Viewports
- Edit Menu
- Zoom in/Out
- Frame Commands
- Configure
- Display Tab
- Film Move, Magnify, Zoom
- Active Object
- Inactive Object
- Filter Tab
- View Tab
- Back Tab
- Back
- World Grid
- HUD Tab
- Cameras Menu
- Scene Cameras
- Link Active Object
- Editor Camera
- Projections
- Display Menu
- Display Filter
- Default Light
- Shading Modes
- Display Tags
- Backface Culling
- Textures
- X-Ray
- View Menu
- 3. Configuration
- Configuration Dialogs
- Configuration Managers
- Graphical User Interface
- Windows
- Tabs
- Icon Palettes
- Command Manager
- Menu Manager
- Quick Access Menu
- Pin's Menu
- Preferences
- Macintosh
- Interface
- Colors
- Viewport
- View
- OpenGL Shading
- Textures
- Software Shading
- Document
- Colors
- Import/Export
- Allplan Export
- 3D Studio Import/Export
- Biovision BHV Import
- CINEMA 4D XML Export
- DEM Import
- DXF Export
- DXF Import
- Direct3D Export
- FBX Import/Export
- FBX Import Settings
- FBX Export Settings
- Additional Options
- Illustrator Import
- Lightwave Import
- Monzoom Import
- QuickDraw 3D Export
- QuickDraw 3D Import
- STL Import/Export
- Shockwave 3D Export
- Texture Export Options
- Light Options
- Animation Export Options
- Options
- Shockwave 3D Limitations
- Cameras
- UZR Export
- Filter Properties
- File
- HTML
- Integrating UZR Files in HTML
- Controlling the UZR Browser Display
- Context Menu Applet
- VRML 1 Export
- VRML 1 Import
- VRML 2 Export
- VRML 2 Import
- Wavefront Import/Export
- Material Preview
- Texture Paths
- Units
- Color Chooser
- Colors/GUI
- Project Settings
- XPresso
- 4. Workflow
- 5. File Menu
- 6. Edit Menu
- 7. Objects Menu
- Cameras Menu
- Coordinates
- Object Properties
- Primitives
- Cone
- Caps
- Cube
- Cylinder
- Slice
- Disc
- Plane
- Polygon
- Sphere
- Torus
- Capsule
- Oil Tank
- Tube
- Pyramid
- Platonic
- Figure
- Landscape
- Relief
- NURBS
- Materials for Hull, Caps, Rounding
- Spline Object
- Null Object
- Polygon Object
- Array Object
- Boole
- Instance Object
- Metaball Object
- Symmetry Object
- Construction Plane Object
- Camera Object
- Light Object
- Particles
- Deformers
- Floor Object
- Sky Object
- Environment Object
- Foreground/Background Object
- Stage Object
- Selection Object
- Sound
- Object Library
- 8. Tools Menu
- Move
- Orientation
- Snap Settings
- Scale
- Rotate
- Move/Scale/Rotate w/Mouse & Keyboard
- Magnify
- Modelling Modes
- Tweak Mode
- Auto Switch Mode
- N-gon Triangulation
- Isoline Editing
- Show Axis
- Camera
- Object
- Points
- Edges
- Polygons
- Object Axis
- Model
- Texture
- Texture Axis
- Inverse Kinematics
- Animation
- Axes
- Coordinate System
- Why HPB?
- Camera Rotation
- 9. Selection Menu
- 10. Structure Menu
- Modelling Modes
- Snap Settings
- Snapping
- Edit Spline
- Chamfer
- Cross Section
- Edge to Spline
- Project
- Round
- Split
- Add Point
- Modes
- Bridge
- Modes
- Bridge Point Mode
- Brush Tool
- Create Polygon
- Edge Cut
- Iron
- Knife
- Magnet
- Mirror
- Set Point Value
- Coordinate System
- Slide
- Stitch and Sew
- Weld
- Bevel
- Polygon Mode
- Edge Mode
- Point Mode
- Extrude
- Extrude Inner
- Matrix Extrude
- Smooth Shift
- Normal Move
- Normal Scale
- Normal Rotate
- Structure Context Menu
- 11. Functions Menu
- Make Editable
- Duplicate
- Measure & Construction
- Transfer
- Randomize
- Reset System
- Align Normals
- Move Down/Up Sequence
- Arrange
- Linear Mode
- Circle Mode
- Center
- Connect
- Current State to Object
- Reverse Normals
- Collapse
- Melt
- Optimize
- Subdivide
- Triangulate
- Untriangulate
- Retriangulate N-Gons
- Remove N-Gons
- Array
- Clone
- Disconnect
- Explode Segments
- Split
- Break Phong Shading
- Unbreak Phong Shading
- Select Broken Phong Edges
- Increase/Decrease HN Subdivision
- 12. Plugins
- 13. Rendering
- 14. Window Menu
- 15. Help Menu
- 16. Coordinate Manager
- 17. Object Manager
- CINEMA 4D Tags
- Expression Tag
- Align to Path
- Align to Spline
- Anchor
- C.O.F.F.E.E.
- Compositing
- Exclusion
- Display
- Fix
- FlashEx
- File Menu
- HyperNURBS Weight
- IK
- Kinematic
- Look at Camera
- Metaball
- Motion Blur
- Phong
- Protection
- Restriction
- Shockwave 3D Double-Sided
- Stick Texture
- Stop
- Sun
- Target
- Texture
- Vibrate
- WWW
- XPresso
- C.O.F.F.E.E. Error Tag
- Edit Menu
- Hide Objects
- Invert Object Selection
- Objects Menu
- Scene Information
- Fold All
- Unfold All
- Fix Bones
- Reset Bones
- Bake Particles
- Tags Menu
- Texture Menu
- 18. Material Manager
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- Material List
- Function Menu
- New/Remove Material Group
- Rename
- Material Editor
- Channel Shaders
- Basic Properties
- Shader Properties
- Working With Shaders
- Color
- Noise
- Shader Properties
- Types of Noise
- Gradient
- Using Gradients
- Interpolation
- Other Properties
- Fresnel
- Render
- Filter
- Fusion
- Layer
- Using Layer Shader
- Colorizer
- Posterizer
- Chan Lum
- Shader Properties
- Backlight
- Distorter
- Falloff
- Lumas
- Specular Pages
- Anisotrophy Page
- Normal Direction
- Projector
- Proximal
- Ripple
- Spectral
- Spline
- Vertex Map
- Brick
- Checkerboard
- Cloud
- Cyclone
- Earth
- Fire
- Flame
- Galaxy
- Marble
- Metal
- Planet
- Rust
- Simple Noise
- Simple Turbulence
- Starfield
- Stars
- Sunburst
- Tiles
- Types of Tile Pattern
- Venus
- Water
- Wood
- Volumetric Shaders
- Fog
- Terrain
- Former SLA Volume Shaders
- Banji
- Transparency Page
- Banzi
- Wood Page
- Cheen
- Gradients Page
- Transparancy Page
- Danel
- Mabel
- Veining Page
- Nukel
- Fusing Page
- Alpha A Page
- Other Material Channels
- Specular Pages
- Reflection page
- Environment Page
- Ambient Page
- Roughness Page
- Anisotrophy Page
- Esotherica Page
- Illumination Page
- Assignment Page
- Texture Mapping
- 19. Timeline
- Animation Toolbar
- Animation Menu
- Context Menus
- Objects Area
- Manual Mode
- Moving Time Slider
- Layer System
- Timeline Ruler/Preview Range
- Markers
- Recording Animation
- Keyframing: Record Button
- Keyframing: Attribute Manager
- Autokeying
- Keyframing: Timeline
- Selecting Elements
- Rectangle Selection
- Selecting Vector Components
- Copy & Move With Drag & Drop
- Moving Animations Hierarchically
- Moving Tracks/Sequences/Keys
- Selection Handles
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- View Menu
- Filter Menu
- Objects Menu
- Sequences Menu
- Layer Menu
- 20. F-Curve Manager
- 21. Attribute Manager
- 22. XPresso Editor
- 23. Structure Manager
- 24. Picture Viewer
- 25. Script Manager
- 26. Content Browser
- 27. Appendices
- Index
810 • CHAPTER 18
MATERIAL EDITOR • 811
Material preview context menu
To change the display settings for the preview, right-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) on
the preview and choose the new settings from the context menu that appears.
Animate
Enable this option to switch on animation for the preview.
Open Window
This command opens a window containing a material preview that you can scale as desired. The
window also has a context menu that lets you choose which scene is used to create the preview (e.g.
sphere, torus) and whether the preview is animated. With the Auto option, you can ensure changes
made to the material are updated automatically. If the option is disabled, you must manually click on
Update. Materials and shaders can also be placed here via drag and drop.
Default, Small, Medium, Large, Huge
Here you can choose the size of the material preview. The Default setting corresponds to the Default
Size specied in the preferences on the Material Preview tab.
Material Preview Object
Follow these steps if you want to create a custom object for your material preview:
Copy a scene and the “xtenv1502.jpg” le from the CINEMA 4D ...\resource\
modules\xtensions\preview_scenes directory to the CINEMA 4D ...\library\
materialpreview directory.
Rename the copied scene le (keep the .c4d extension). This name will appear
later in the material preview menu.
Open the scene le and replace the “Object” object with your own object
(must be named “object” as well). Restart CINEMA 4D and the new preview
object will be available.
Reset Rotation
You can rotate the preview shape, as mentioned earlier, by right-dragging (Windows) or Command-
dragging (Mac OS) or Shift-dragging the preview. The Reset Rotation button restores the preview
shape to its original angle.