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- Our model initially does not look all that interesting. It's just a sort of dull-looking piece of gray plastic, metal, clay? It's hard to tell. Well, that's because Cinema 4D defaults to a very low resolution, low fidelity previewing scheme so you can and make changes very quickly. You see that I am getting some specular highlights, et cetera. So you are getting some clues of what a model looks like. If you really want to see what it's going to look like rendered, that's when you click on the Render View switch. The shortcut is CMD + R on Mac, Ctrl + R on Windows. Click on that. Now I'm getting a better idea of what the default lighting, shadows looks like on this object. In the next chapter, we're going to greatly improve the lighting and texture. In addition to rendering this view, you can also Render to Picture Viewer. The picture viewer is a way of saving snapshots of your progress for doing AB comparisons. I'm going to go ahead and add this to my picture viewer now, so I have…

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