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1. Introduction to the course: Hello guys, my name is Nico, and today I have a pretty short by real essential
tutorial for you. Today we are going to
be learning how you can customize your own
layout for Cinema 4D. So we're going to
cover everything, where to put the icons, what is a layout? How you can customize your
own layout pretty fast. And also how you can save
that layout in a file. So if you have any
issues with Cinema 4D or you have to re-install it, or any kind of promise
that you may encounter, you can load that file
and reuse it again. So this layout is going
to help you work faster, improve your workflow and have better and faster artworks. So every time you
open your Cinema 4D, you will have your
most used tools on hand so you can use it pretty fast and you
can improve your time. I hope you learned a lot. And let see you in
the next video.
2. Get to know layouts: Welcome back guys. So here we are at my own personalized
layout for Cinema 4D. And as you can see, you're going to be looking at a lot of whole new icons that you wouldn't have in
your regular layout. Okay, So why would you want to have your
own personalized layout? Having your own customized
layout will help you improve your workflow times
and you will be able to create faster art. Work pretty comfortable in
the environment that you are. That is, your layout, right? So let's say, for example, that we want to
create a material in my layout and let's
see how fast it is. So to create a material
in this layout, here I have all the tools regarding obtain and how
to create materials. You will just have to click here, and that's pretty much it. I have my icon to create
little material and I can start editing through
here, through here, right? But what about if I didn't
have that icon here? I'll just have to go
to the longer path, which isn't the
non-customers path. And for that, I'll
just help to go to obtain live viewer window. This will open an under here. I will just have to
go to Materials, create material
and that material, and here I have
the same material. So what's the difference? With my own personalized layout, I was able to create this
material will just one-click. And without my
customized layout, I will create this material for like ten times the
amount of clicks, right? So the idea here for you to have an overall better workflow, faster workflow,
and for you to work perfectly fine and comfortable
in your own layouts. So let's hit over to the
standard layout and let's create and customize it to be your own for you to work better.
3. Customize your own layout: So let's start customizing
our own layout. So here, as I showed you, you have my personalized layout. Here we have all the
tools regarding obtain. Here I decided to
put my brushes, and here I decided to
put all the Forrester and obtain viewers so I have quick access to obtain hear forester all
regarding the trees, plants, and everything else. And here I also have
my obtain viewer in real time so I can
see a preview of my render while I'm
working in the viewport. Let's get to the first
thing you will see when you open Cinema 4D with no
personalized layout. So this is the Startup
Layout that obtains. Cinema 4D provides you. And it's not a bad one, but
you don't have any tools. You have just a few tool
for creating materials, maybe defectors, some selection tool
which are pretty useful. Let's say you want here D
obtain tools or maybe forester. So for that, you will just
have to hit over windows. Customization is pretty
straightforward. And then customized palettes. And as soon as you open
customized palettes, you will be seeing
these options here, which weren't there before. And these are all groups. So you can start
moving your options. You can just start tweaking the ones which
are already here. And this is going to help
us organize the options, are the tools, are the
brushes that we want here. So let's say that
we were talking, that we want forests
are over here. So we have two options here. You just can go to Windows
and authority to extensions, and just grab the Forrester
and drag and drop it here, but not that way. Just come again two sections
and just grab it from here. You know, these lines, these dotted lines
here helps you also to grab that node of elements. And you can just
grab and drag from the three dots line and just put it whenever you want
so I can put it there. Or you could just in this
same customized palette, you can just write
Forrester and you can grab it from here and put
it anywhere you want to. Okay? So you can also use this, which is a group separator
to start separating groups. Let's say here we want
just the Forrester tools. And then, let's say here. And let's say you want maybe I don't know when to
obtain area light over here. So you have after
you close this, you have your icons there. You can also make
your icons bigger. So let's say you want
to see this online bigger because you just got to do it for
every icon over here. So you just go to an empty place in every
bar, let's say here. And you just go to Icon Size. And here we are at medium icons. You can put large icons. Here you have your
icons more visible and more well optimized
for your patient. Okay. So regarding obtain because I know that most of you work with obtained
and if you don't, it's a cool thing to try. Then again, we go to obtain, we open the live viewer window. So let's say we want to have this live viewer window here. You put in your left. So you can see a real time render and you can
just work looking at real-time results
because that is something really good for
you if you're creating maybe every day yard
of quick renders. I didn't have to be open in another window just
to see the render. You just can grab
this live viewer from these three lines and just drag and drop it actually
anywhere you want. As you can see, we are getting these lines as we move
around the layout. But let's say we wanted
here. So there we go. We have our render viewer here. So let's say we created
this and also we put some, let's say some
Obtained Daylight. So we can just go here. And as we move around
in our viewport, we see the real result
that we are getting. And that is going to help us working faster because
we are going to be seen the real results onto the
left and create more art. So the last thing
you want to know is how to save and how
to load these layout. So let's go over there.
4. Saving your layout: So the last thing
we wanna do is we want to save this
layout both to have another file so we can just
loaded whenever we want in case we just have Travels which Cinema 4D
or we have to install it. And we have to save
this layout as our custom user layout for
every time we open Cinema 4D. So that is pretty
straightforward to just head to Window
customization. And here you have all the tools. You can see some
layouts that you have already created menu
for rigging and other. So for example, this
is my own layout. And here we have the
options that we need. So let's say we want
to save this layout. You just go to saved layout. And let's create
here our template, Let's say my layout one, I saved my layout there. So after that, you will
have to come here again, customization and save
as a startup layout. So once you click this, your layout is going
to appear here. Now I have it without saving it because we're just
in this session. So every time you
open Cinema 4D, you will have it as your
startup user layout. Because as you can see
on the ocean here is your startup user layout. So every time you
open Cinema 4D, you will have these tools
right in front of you, right there for you to
start working with. So if you have any
kind of issues with Cinema 4D or you
have to install it and you lost your layout
and you don't want to start customizing
everything again, you just have to go here
node layout and just load the layout we created and we just save in a separate file. So that's pretty much
it regarding layouts. I hope it helped for you.
5. Outro: Okay guys, I hope this
course helped to you. Now you have your own
customized layout and you are going to be able to work faster and you're going
to improve your workflow. So I have a lot of more
courses here at Skillshare, so check them out. It will be my pleasure for
you to learn from them. And I see you in the next one. Bye.
Nico Fernandez, Digital Artist
