Understanding the CINEMA 4D Lite interface (CC 2014.1)

- Now is the time where we look a little more closely…at the interface of Cinema 4D.…To do that, we need to open our Cinema 4D file.…In the project panel make sure you have…intro.c4d selected…then go up under the Edit menu…and choose Edit Original.…Now that we're in Cinema 4D,…let's take a look at how the interface is setup.…Across the top we have a toolbar…and the toolbar is divided up into sections.…We'll start over here on the left.…These are our selection tools.…I can select any object in the scene…and then move, scale or rotate that object.…

This next section here…will allow me to constrain those movements.…This middle section allows me to render…what it is that I'm looking at.…and then on the right side of the toolbar…these are our creation tools.…I can create things like cameras,…lights or cubes…or other primitive objects.…So here let me go ahead…and just click once to add a cube into the scene.…Once you've added an object into the scene…what I would call the most important part…of the Cinema 4D interface gets highlighted,…