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Creating copies with the Instance array

Creating copies with the Instance array

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Creating copies with the Instance array

Now we're in Chapter 3_10.C4D and what we're going to do is have a look in this menu here in Cinema 4D. Now you may notice that these object items are all color coded and let's just talk a little bit about that. The first color you'll notice when looking in the Object menu is blue and this represents parametric objects. Objects that have parameters, that can be adjusted in the Basic Settings over here. And these arcs and rectangular splines that I created are also parametric objects. And they usually have an Object tab where you can adjust the basic properties for them. And you can see if I open up the Splines tab, here are my Parametric Splines. These all have parameters and they get very easy to adjust them. Whereas, these are more like kind of freehand shapes and you reduce the points to adjust them. These have parametric controls to adjust things like the size, the height, the rounding values. Then we have these green objects and these are usually generators. So we had to look at…

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