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Noise in Lighting
 

Noise, Type, Octaves

Noise allows you to break up both illumination and visibility of lights to give it a little more natural feeling. Noise can be animated as well to create that subtle movement of air and particles that we often see in shafts of light.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 12 2006 03:19 3191
Three-Point Lighting
 
Three-Point Lighting
 
Kai Pedersen Mar 12 2006 16:02 3618
Light Visibility
 

Visible, Volumetric, and Inverse Volumetric

Visibility is what allows you to see actual beams or shafts of light. Volumetric is more accurate then visibility in that it also reacts to objects casting shadows through its beam when bjects are in the way of the illumination. This accuracy is a trade off for speed. Inverse volumetric inverts the effect so only the light passing the object shows a beam.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 12 2006 04:58 3883
Aiming Lights
 

Targets, Aiming, and Looking with a Light.

Lighting can be a tedious task some times, getting lights positioned jsut right and focused on the right spot. Fortunately there are several ways to control lights and modify their position and orientation.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 12 2006 02:20 4876
Lighting Details
 

Shadow Caster, Falloff, Clipping…

The Details Tab allows us to control the actual illumination from a light including falloff,contrast,whether its casts illumination of simply casts shadows.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 12 2006 11:16 3242
Material Editor Preview
 

Size, Rotating, Objects

The material preview initially appears to be a simple sphere which shows us how a material looks on an object. This little preview is extremly customizable to offer you the ability to see how materials look from different angles, on different types of surfaces, and even in different lighting situations and aniamtion.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 12 2006 04:49 2985
Light Types
 

Omni, Spot, Infinite

There are four key types of lights, and four additional variations on the spot and infinite light.

These types allow you to effectively represent most lighting situations possible in the real world. Understanding how each type works is the first step to understanding how to light a scene.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 12 2006 06:28 4172
Viewport Camera Types
 

Overview of the 14 different viewport camera settings.

Overview of the 14 different viewport camera settings.

 
DaShawn Hall Mar 12 2006 02:38 14545
Customizing Viewport Arrangements
 

Shows how to customize the active viewport.

Shows how to customize the active viewport. Also shows how the interface can be customized for the user’s production needs. Shows how to toggle from the standard screen to a full frame viewport.

 
DaShawn Hall Mar 12 2006 02:42 7421
Texture Projection Types
 

UVW, Cube, Spherical

Texture Projection types control how a material is wrapped or projected onto a model. Half the battle in texturing is getting the texture to fit properly and projections are the key to making them fit right.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 12 2006 09:26 5824
Texture Positioning
 

Texture Tool, Texture Menu, Material Tag

Positioning Textures is rather easy once you know what tools are at your disposal.  Two tools, a Menu and a Tag are needed to really bring out the power that CINEMA 4D offers for advanced positionging of textures when using projections.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 12 2006 06:40 5381
Shadows
 

Shadow Maps, Raytraced, and Area

Shadows are what grounds objects, gives them depth, weight, and believability. There are a few ways to generate shadows, each with their own benefits and disadvantages, sometimes speed is more important that accuracy, or control more important then simplicity. Shadows can be changed in colour, intensity, shape, and softness. You can’t have good lighting, without some shadow to contrast.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 12 2006 08:49 3750
Basic UVW
 

Tag, Assign Coordinates, Basic Editing

It is possible to actually edit and assign UV coordinates directly in CINEMA 4D without the BodyPaint Module, this simple tutorial shows how.

It is recommended that you watch the Basic Materials: Positioning first to understand some of the tools used in this tutorial.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 12 2006 05:07 7831
Material Mixing
 

Multiple Materials, Mixing, Alphas

This tutorial looks at the process and different ways in whic you can use more then one material on a single object.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 12 2006 02:46 4154
Illumination Materials Settings
 

GI, Shading, Texture Preview Size…

The Illumination Tab offers settings to control how objects react to several lighting situations such as Global Illumination, Caustics, how the surfaces react to the diffusion of light, and how the Editor represents textures.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 12 2006 07:44 5345
Shaders
 

Overview, Surfaces, Effects

Shaders are the essence of good materials inside CINEMA 4D. This tutorial covers a few of each of the different kinds, Surfaces, and Effects.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 12 2006 17:23 5724
Phong
 

Tag, Angle, Edge Breaks

Phong allows you to control the illusion of smooth shading across a polygon object.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 11 2006 06:02 4116
Modeling Axis
 

Axis, Orient, and Free

The Modeling Axis allows you to move and orient the axis gizmo in several automated and manual ways to make certain modeling functions more convenient.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 11 2006 09:01 5557
Spline Objects
 

Drawing, Shapes, and Text…

Splines allow one to draw lines and shapes, with the added bonus of the lines being able to exist in 3D space. They have many purposes in 3D, the most common of which is to define the shape for more complex 3D geometry.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 11 2006 10:17 9518
Import and Export
 

Preferences, Exporting and Importing of a scene

Vital to working with CINEMA 4D in a production pipeline, the import and export of models and scenes is very simple to do.

This video doesn’t cover the precise details of each preference setting for each format, simply where they are located, the actual process of exporting a scene, and the various ways of importing into a new scene, or into a current scene.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 11 2006 03:22 8423
Primitives
 

Cubes, Cones, and Spheres

The building block of modeling inside CINEMA 4D.  Primitives are an easy way to generate common shapes that can be used as is, or easily customized and made editable for further manual refining.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 11 2006 09:09 5985
Selecting Objects
 

In Editor selection, Selection objects, and Filters

This video covers the various methods you can use to select objects quickly and easily. From using a context menu in the editor, to using an object to store a selection of several objects.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 11 2006 06:09 3390
Modeling Objects
 

Arrays, Symmetry, and Metaballs…

These modeling objects allow you to build complex new geometry out of other geometry.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 11 2006 13:15 10612
Selection Sets
 

Creating and using Selection Sets

Selection Sets allow you to save a selection of points, edges, or polygons, on an object. Using selection sets allows you to easily, restore, hide, or deselect a selection.

 
Kai Pedersen Mar 11 2006 07:21 3746
Switching Viewports
 

Shows how to switch active viewports

Shows how to switch active viewports. Also shows how to use hotkeys to switch the viewport. Shows how to view a full screen viewport

 
DaShawn Hall Mar 11 2006 01:55 3644
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