Now, take one of your imported elements, in this case a picture of a watch, and replace one of your lights with that image so it will be in the EXACT same position in 3D space as the light we created specifically for this purpose. When all the lights are turned off, your imported elements will come back to life and appear normal again. First, turn off the visibility of all those lights you’ll use them as 3D position markers. This is because the lights that were imported from your Cinema 4D comp are trying to light your 2D objects as well. You can import all your normal image files into your AE comp, make them 3D layers and they will be seen by the camera, appearing to be in the same 3D space as the rest of your elements in the movie.Īs you add movies or Photoshop elements into your scene as 3D layers, you’ll notice they may be very dark, or even black. This method can also be used to give 3D objects in AE the appearance that they are traveling behind objects in your flat scene render. These can easily be used to mask off your objects by putting one above your comp and choosing Track Matte > Luma Matte. If you drop any of your buffers onto your comp, they should match up perfectly over the objects in your scene.
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You’ll also see RGBA and shadow pass movies. You’ll see another folder in your project window called Special Passes this contains all your Object Buffer renders, as well as any other renders you chose to create back in your Multi-Pass settings in Cinema 4D. Open the composition and you’ll see your movie, an AE camera and however many lights you created in your scene.
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Hopefully the same works for you.Open your new AE file and you’ll see your main movie render, along with a composition. But anyway, after I created an account at My., I had an option to activate the Lite licence, which should show as unlimited.
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Note that to use this you'll need to create a MyMaxon account as well, so just head to My. and create an account there at some point so that you can activate your Lite license via the account login." For me personally, I didn't see those. Once you do this it should present you with the standard Cinema 4D License Manager and give you the option to activate your Cinema 4D Lite license. You should notice that the files you deleted are re-created when Cinema 4D launches, this is because if Cinema 4D cannot find these files on startup it creates them from scratch with the default settings (this is why you need to quit C4D before deleting them).
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Once you've selected those items, delete them and then launch Cinema 4D again. Once you've done that you will need to select three items: The Cinema 4D folder, the "machines_rb_20.prf" and the "teamrender_rb_20.prf" (you need the last two even if you do not use Team Render as Cinema 4D still stores some preferences data in those files).
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Next, quit out of Cinema 4D from the Force Quit menu (this is a very important step as this process will not work if the application is running). Open a Finder window and head to ~/Library/Preferences/MAXON via Finder's Go > Go to Folder command. This is from Maxon themselves: "To fix this issue all you have to do is delete the C4D preferences to restore the defaults. Hey David, I believe I have the solution for you. You don't have to do that "Setup License Server" part.