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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Where does Cinema4D tell you what polygon face you have selected?

« on: 2021-12-22, 17:05:16 »

BigA13:  That worked!  I double clicked a selection tag and the polygon face highlighted.  Before I must have only been clicking once on it.  Thank you so much, along with others that replied! Now I know how to identify what finish is on each individual face which was getting complicated. 

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Where does Cinema4D tell you what polygon face you have selected?

« on: 2021-12-21, 03:00:07 »

See on this new attachment below where it says "Polygon attachment.1"?  That little triangle corresponds to one of the polygon faces in the wall, like the polygon face I drew a circle around in the attachment above; but I don't know which one.  Because if I click on the polygon face in the model, it doesn't tell me which one I'm clicking on.  Thank you.

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Where does Cinema4D tell you what polygon face you have selected?

« on: 2021-12-21, 02:50:43 »

I don't know about the overlapping polygons.  I click on the polygon selection tags on the right and absolutely nothing highlights in the model.  I just don't understand why, if I click on a polygon face in the model, nothing tells me on the screen what polygon face I am clicking on.  I see in the Object manager list on the right all of the polygon tags and finishes corresponding to this wall of rectangles, but I can't make the connection between the two, the model's polygon faces on the left and the corresponding selection tags on the right in the object manager.  Seems I would have to draw a picture of the wall and write down the number of each polygon face as I apply a finish to it and and then see that it corresponds to polygon selection tag 1 or 2 etc. But I imagine Cinema does tell me which one I'm clicking on in the model, and I just don't know where on the screen interface to look for it, where it is shown. Thanks for answering.

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[C4D] I need help! / Where does Cinema4D tell you what polygon face you have selected?

« on: 2021-12-17, 03:47:03 »

When I am selecting a polygon face in Cinema how do I know which poly face I have selected?  Does it tell you which one it is somewhere?  I need to know so I can compare it to the Poly Selection tag and finish in the object manager; so I know what finish it has on it.  I don't find any place on the screen where it indicates which polygon face you've selected, whether 1, 2 or 3, etc.   Thank you.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: How to switch Corona from old to new Cinema4D installation

« on: 2021-01-12, 03:15:39 »

No, wait it was Corona who wrote to me and asked that question.

This is what I replied to Corona:

"I was told I needed to download the new Corona 6 version installer.  Then I ran it and when it asked what kind of installation, I chose Custom, clicked on that, found R23 there and chose that.  Then continued and it was done.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: How to switch Corona from old to new Cinema4D installation

« on: 2021-01-12, 03:06:39 »

Interestingly Cinema4D has reached out and asked me how I had figured out how to add Corona to R23, saying "it may help others with the same problem."  So I told them.  Thank u all.  (Correction it was Corona who has asked me to tell them how I did it, not Cinema4D)

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: How to switch Corona from old to new Cinema4D installation

« on: 2021-01-11, 22:47:15 »

By the way CineMike: The way that my previous topic had ended up being worded, I thought it appeared I had my answer, but I didn't. That's the only reason I started a new topic.  No need to make a remark about it.  Began to seem like your replies were getting in the way for me. 

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: How to switch Corona from old to new Cinema4D installation

« on: 2021-01-11, 10:58:19 »

To start with I didn't know where/what my Corona installer was.  Didn't realize it was this file called "hotfix" in a folder right on my desktop.  I was staring and staring at your instructions Mmarcotic/Jan, not exactly understanding, but then did check out a video on installing corona and saw the guy clicked on that same "hotfix" file and finally realized that was the installer.

Once I realized that, I combined what you said about looking for R23 in the Custom part, with what CineMike said earlier about Corona 6, and figured out what to do.  And now I have it!  Thanks.

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[C4D] General Discussion / How to switch Corona from old to new Cinema4D installation

« on: 2021-01-11, 00:19:00 »

Does anyone know how I would switch my Corona render from my old Cinema4D R21 to my new install of Cinema4D R23?  It's not showing up.  I have a ticket in with Corona Render so hope to have their answer soon but would love to start using it.  P.S. I'm windows-challenged, a beginner, so need a step by step. Thank u.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Switch Corona render from my old Cinema R21 to new Cinema R23

« on: 2021-01-10, 00:43:24 »

Cinemike:  Thank you so much for replying. 

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[C4D] General Discussion / Re: Switch Corona render from my old Cinema R21 to new Cinema R23

« on: 2021-01-09, 19:30:51 »

But I don't know how to "install Corona in your new R23 installation.." I downloaded Corona the first time when I first got Cinema R21 and al went well.  Don't know how to make that happen for new Cinema R23 installation. Don't know what a compile is.  Real novice.

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[C4D] General Discussion / Switch Corona render from my old Cinema R21 to new Cinema R23

« on: 2021-01-09, 05:44:09 »

I have been using a student version of Cinema4D R21, along with Corona installed.  I just got a new 6 month student subscription and they gave me a license this time for Cinema4D R23, and it came with its own installer. I have successfully installed the new Cinema R23.  Now I see Corona is no longer showing up.  How do I switch Corona from my old inactive Cinema4D R21 to my new Cinema4D R23?   Do I have to uninstall or remove it and then reinstall it somehow??  Thanks.

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: How to get the move tool to appear in a zoomed-in view

« on: 2020-10-27, 16:21:47 »

Beansvision:  Thank you very much for the custom video!  I have looked at it a couple of times and am going to try it on a file soon.   

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[C4D] I need help! / How to get the move tool to appear in a zoomed-in view

« on: 2020-10-24, 15:37:14 »

I have a question about the move tool (red green and blue arrows). Sometime it is outside the frame of a detailed (zoomed in) area where I am looking.  Can I get it to come into, snap it into, that zoomed-in area?  Or do I always have to zoom out, find it, and work with it from outside that view??  Thank you.

For example see screen shots below.  I want to move the base into correct position on the left corner, but the move tool is way over on the right end, have to zoom out to see it.

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Neon for corona

« on: 2020-10-24, 13:07:46 »

I don't know about the distance shader, or neon, but I know when I wanted a tube light (light material) recently to look more glowing, when I turned on bloom and glare suddenly it was glowing (some atmosphere around the tube).  As Beanzvision said above.