CS accoutrement are one of the coolest plugins for Cinema 4D that add adapted effects, adapted controls, adapted lighting with the complication hidden, active in the pre-built apparatus for you. It's harder to say what it would yield to actualize all these for yourself or what it would amount to buy them from a Cinema 4D shop. Fortunately, CS accoutrement are free. Chargeless to download, with chargeless tutorials and a accumulation of chargeless arena files from a array of sites.
So area do you get the chargeless CS accoutrement for installation? There are several places but a admired that follows up with tutorials and arena files and a lot of added Cinema accoutrement is the Nick Campbell site, ala the 'greyscale gorilla'. These accoutrement are aswell accessible at columnist Chris Smith's site, 'CirlcesofDelusion' or begin calmly at added locations through a Google search.
There are absolutely just a few accomplish to installing CS Tools, a lot of of these for creating a card so you can admission these accoutrement as you would any added Cinema 4D affection and extenuative the new bureaucracy you create. After you download the tools, you charge to abode them in the library, altar folder. On my arrangement this is "C\:Program Files\Maxon\Cinema 4D R12\library\object". Abode the capacity of the downloaded zip file, all the CS Tools, C4D blazon files into this directory. There is a certificate included in the download which spells out the the accession aisle with added addendum and a abrupt account for the alone tools.
After downloading the tools, you charge addition about accessible plugin which enhances your card capability, the 'OLX' plugin from 'Biomekk'.
The 'Biomekk' sites describes their plugin:
"OLX is a Cinema 4D plugin which replaces and extends Cinema's congenital in Article Library functionality. Not alone does OLX abutment submenus, but it supports abstracted libraries for documents, scenes, objects, materials, cede settings, layouts, advice files, and keyboard shortcuts."
The fun allotment about Cinema plugins is that you archetype the plugin source, archetype it to the plugin agenda for Cinema 4D, afresh restart it. There is no cipher compiling, no adapted agreement to accomplish accordant with altered releases. You download the adaptation that matches your operating arrangement ( i.e. Mac, Win 32 or Win 64), archetype it to the plugin agenda for Cinema 4D and restart the application. That's it.
Once you accept downloaded the 'Biomekk' card code, affected to the adapted Cinema plugin directory, and restarted Cinema 4D, you will see the new 'OLX' card options beneath your 'Plugins' card with the top card options listed in Cinema 4D.
Now accessible the 'OLX:Settings' card option, the aboriginal listed in the new 'OLX' menu; and set the area of your article library entries. The absence ambience is 'C:Program FilesMAXONCINEMA 4D R12libraryobject' in Windows 7 and a Cinema 4D absolution 12.0.
Here we accept told the 'OLX' card systems area the 'CS Tools' are located. Now we wish a card option, a card figure that will let you accessible and admission the tools. You use the 'OLX' card for this too.
One of the appearance you are alien to aboriginal in your Cinema 4D acquaintance is the adeptness to adapt your interface. A lot of apparatus sets, card bar sets accept a little accent bar at the top that you can 'attach' with your abrasion and annoyance away. There ability be a card set you wish to plan with a lot, so you abstract it from it's accumulation and artlessly berth on your plan interface area it is convenient.
We wish to abstract one of the 'OLX' card options to add to the custom card we are creating so first, accessible the 'Plugins->OLX', attach to the highlight bar at top of card options, annoyance this card set alfresco area you can see all the options it offers. Right bang on this card set and accept 'Edit Palettes'. With the card options accent in blue, accept the 'OLX:Merge Docuements', annoyance this figure up to your figure card set next to your 'Globe' agreeable browser. Now you see a new card figure on top, the 'CS Tools' icon.
You've just customized your Cinema 4D card system! Issue the 'Edit Palettes' command afresh to abutting and 'unselect' them. Not alone accept you customized your card arrangement but if you bang on the 'CS Tools' figure you just created, you see all the 'CS Tools' presented to you.
Now that you accept customized your Cinema 4D layout, you wish to be abiding and save it. On the top card options choose, 'Window->Layout->Save Blueprint As' and access a allusive name, like 'CS Tools' for example. If you haven't afflicted annihilation else, you will be extenuative the accepted workspace blueprint you commonly plan with in Cinema 4D added the new added card advantage that presents your new CS Accoutrement to you. If you barrage Cinema 4D, the top larboard card icon, 'switch layout' presents all the predefined layouts such as standard, animation, modeling, and now, your new custom menu: 'CS Tools