topic Re: Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D in Visualization

Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D

stefan — Thu, 11 May 2023 12:22:12 GMT

This is my official attemption to get a tip-of-the-month reward 😉

http://www2.asro.kuleuven.ac.be/asro/English/HOME/SBs/tutorial/tips/ac2c4d.htm

I've allready made a few improvements based on the kind review of Karl Ottenstein. Other suggestions are welcomed.

(There are a few minor corrections, which will be visible on 3/11/2003 - our webserver updates overnight)[/img]

Re: Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D

Djordje — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:39:47 GMT

Stefan,

stefan wrote:
This is my official attemption to get a tip-of-the-month reward 😉

http://www2.asro.kuleuven.ac.be/asro/English/HOME/SBs/tutorial/tips/ac2c4d.htm

I've allready made a few improvements based on the kind review of Karl Ottenstein. Other suggestions are welcomed.

As this is important for many users, please check whether the link in the Tips&Tricks forum is OK; please update me by private message if anything is to be added/removed/updated.

Thanks,

Re: Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D

Thomas Holm — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:13:11 GMT

Just one question: Is that ugly thing a REAL project???

😉

Thomas

(no offense intended)

Re: Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D

Djordje — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 19:39:57 GMT

Thomas wrote:
Just one question: Is that ugly thing a REAL project???

One of the example files.

Re: Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D

stefan — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 08:32:29 GMT

Thomas wrote:
Just one question: Is that ugly thing a REAL project???

😉

Thomas

(no offense intended)

It is included in ArchiCAD 8.0/8.1 and I give a reference to it on the tutorial site. It's not mine, but it is accessible for every ArchiCAD 8 user and is a bit bigger then the projects I use to do, so might reflect real office situation better.

Come on, it's not so bad.

You wouldn't want to see a Skyscraper or dull office building tutorial, do you?

Re: Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:06:52 GMT

pls help

I moved from artlantis to c4d and as a beginer i have this problem

Is it possibe in c4d to reaply materials and assign new one by planes, objescs etc. something like artlantis ?)

i export from ac to 3ds and then to c4d

i have c4d 7xl

Re: Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D

stefan — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:32:34 GMT

NeckoFromSarajevo wrote:
pls help

I moved from artlantis to c4d and as a beginer i have this problem

Is it possibe in c4d to reaply materials and assign new one by planes, objescs etc. something like artlantis ?)

i export from ac to 3ds and then to c4d

i have c4d 7xl

Can you rephrase your question?

You mean billboards: in Cinema4D they can be made by creating a plane, making a material using alpha-mapped pictures.

Re: Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D

stefan — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:36:58 GMT

Addition: I also applied the same picture into the Color channel and disabled the Specular channel.

You might assign it into the Luminance channel to prevent the material being influenced by lighting if you want.

Re: Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:52:40 GMT

Ok, i will try to explain in tihs way

I created a wall i ac and that wall is wood from all sides. Then i export it to 3ds and open it in c4d. That wall is recognize as wood and thats ok. Now i want to set inner side of wall to be brick, outher side to be green. How will i do that.

In artlantis that task will be accomplish very easy, i will go to "windows" then to "reapply materials" and there i have options:planes, paralel planes, object, materials

Re: Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:13:15 GMT

NeckoFromSarajevo wrote:
Ok, i will try to explain in tihs way

I created a wall i ac and that wall is wood from all sides. Then i export it to 3ds and open it in c4d. That wall is recognize as wood and thats ok. Now i want to set inner side of wall to be brick, outher side to be green. How will i do that.

Try to set up materials in AC for "inwall" & "outwall" - keep the material name 8 characters or less. Apply them to the walls in AC as inside material and outside material. Export using materials as option and see if you can see them separately in C4D.

Re: Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:51:21 GMT

Now we are cooking with gas!

Thanks Michael!

This C4D forum will soon be 'the palce to be'. Keep those tutorials coming.

Mark

Re: Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 18:42:43 GMT

Thx for little tutorial, i will try it right away!

Ciao From Sarajevo

Re: Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 18:48:01 GMT

No Problem. You are all welcome.

Re: Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:27:07 GMT

It works, and now i can do the magic!

Next question is about sun, I put the sun object and i cant find anywhere citys, north ? i m only able to move sun with "sun expressions" after i press 10000 icons and hit my mouse hard i was able to move it with move command. So how i can move sun without hiting my keyboard and mouse

What is shotcut for zoom all ?

Where i can turn off autolight option. I was looking in general options but i didt find it?

This is for now, I ll be back !

Re: Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:57:22 GMT

Autolight is only on if there are no other lights in the scene... once another light is added, the autolight goes off. Personally I have never liked the built in sun. I will just create a light and set the type to either Distant or Parrallel. I can then position the light to where it should be. Give the light a slight bit of color and a hard shadow with about 75% opacity in the shadow setting. Then I just fill in with a light dome to simulate some Global Illumination.

I am hoping to get the light dome tutorial up by the end of this week

Re: Tutorial ArchiCAD to Cinema4D

Djordje — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:06:16 GMT

MichaelRensing wrote:
Or if you want to work solely in Cinema to make the changes, I have made an 8 step pdf that explains what to do.

Selection Sets.pdf

The Tutorial is moved to Tips&Tricks:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=519