Cinema 4D XL 6.207 & BodyPaint3D Win32 & Plenty Extras (2000)>>>

BellicoseBloke

BellicoseBloke

My favorite retro 3D package XL6-7... Just uploaded after reconfiguring to minimize 'novice errors'...

https://archive.org/details/cinema-4d-xl6


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Cinema 4D XL6.207 from 2000... With included BodyPaint3D which was one of the best 2D painters back then as well as 3D paint... Claim to fame was BodyPaint used as 2D to paint the background matte paintings of Rome in Gladiator (2000)... It was certainly the only painter that could go 16 K resolution...

This revised upload includes many extras as individual RARs & adjustments have been made to avoid novice error...

1 - In settings 'Use Quicktime' has been turned off to avoid the 'Icon Error' crash if a person does not have QT installed (even free version)... If you DO have QT installed you should engage this feature there are many benefits...

2 - Many plugins have been added including all the Jurgen Meier Coffee Plugs which are parametric generators for many different shapes, You will need to place a smoothing tag on these... Once your parameters are set & you make the parametric 'editable' it is then like any other polygon object...

3 - You will need to set texture paths in the prefs directory otherwise C4D won't be able to find them...

4 - This whole C4D directory can be placed anywhere the two codes you will have to input are in 'Cereal.txt'...

5 - I never use the horrid default grey GUI but left it that way anyway... But there are TIF patterns in the Resource/Patterns folder that you can use to tile a texture on the GUI in prefs 'Use Pattern/Texture' will default to this folder which is DIFFERENT from the main patterns folder... Also in Resource/Icons there is a sub-folder that has some viewport icon strips that I have repainted in different colors in case one uses a darkish color on the GUI but wants a LIGHT colored font the only thing that can/has to be changed is the strip in the parent folder, backup the original black one... Some font colors cannot be changed like in the object & material manager...

6 - Various tutorials included as separate RARs plus some video tuts... There is a 3D Paint tutorial GIF that should be grabbed... I did this in XL7 but it's exact same for XL6... There is no 'Paint Wizard' in these old XLs so it shows you EXACTLY how to get started & once you learn the manual way to start 3D painting you will never want to use a 'STUPID Wizard' which does what it wants & not what YOU want...

7 - These XLs are old, yes... But trust me these are the EASIEST FULL-PACKAGE 3D VERSIONS OF ALL to learn... Later versions - harder... Other 3D like 3ds Max, Maya, XSI, Lightwave... All harder...

8 - Best way to learn BodyPaint is to just start using it instead of Photoshop or PSP or other you can use it for digital illustration or image editing it has layers & both layer & brush blend modes & much more & functions like say pen pressure or width can be assigned to even mouse wheel...

9 - Have not tried the BP-Lightwave connector but have tried the 3DS Max to Bodypaint Connection works well works for 3DS Max 2.5 & 3.1 all the way up to Max 8... Yup, I declare...


One thing I forgot to add is if you wanna run this on windows 7-8-10-11 it should do OK but since your OpenGL is gonna be way past the pale you should turn off 'Use OpenGL' in prefs... I have it on my ASUS Transformer with windows 10 64bit works great...

Here's a matte painting of Rome from Gladiator (2000)-

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My current project modeling Noomi Rapace face-head... It's in XL7 but same deal can be done in XL6 with full 3D paint-

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About some of the best work done in old XLs-

GMattia-C4-DXL7-BP.jpg

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QT in C4D opens up using image & video formats that aren't supported otherwise... Say you wanna bring in a PNG that's a 'cutout' well you can do that with QT installed...

Yes, Gianluca Mattia was quite good... He was doing way better stuff in old XL6-7 than many doing in newer R9-10 but he was never 'featured' in the Cinema 4D Attack magazine which came out starting with R9... Why? Well they can't friggin' SELL new C4D's if they showcase someone doing excellent work in a version way older & Gianluca did not 'upgrade', just learned the old version very well...

He was very good on placing overblown light in strategic ways & also very good at the 3D painting in Bodypaint... Here's a few more these were XL6 all the way, not even XL7-

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Adding a few more different stuff...

Here's a project I had been working on... Jessica Rabbit... The polygon hair is just a placeholder as am gonna give here hair from a hair module...

Jessica-Rabbit-XL7.jpg


Also on these XLs you get a X-Mas Easter Egg on Dec 25th-

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This morning have added-

-Dosch3D Light Effect Scenes XL6.rar
-Low Polygon Texturing Using BodyPaint3D - XL6.pdf
-C4D Often Overlooked Functions.pdf
-Killing Triangles - XL6.pdf
-Lisa Graphics Models.rar

The light effect scenes are an old commercial product, some animated most not such as-

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ANIM004.gif


BASIC717.jpg


ANIM013.gif


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Many of the animated ones look like old After Effects footage & yes, can be rendered out at any resolution & saved as MOV (if you have QT installed) to be used in Adobe After Effects or Combustion or whatever... The static ones commonly have a beat-up sphere in them as a 'placeholder' just to give an example of what the scene might look like with your garbage in it...

I don't know who 'Lisa Graphics' was but she made some very good models back in the day...
 
BellicoseBloke said:
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I don't know who 'Lisa Graphics' was but she made some very good models back in the day...
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Maybe it's this Lisa, a rather interesting character I met long ago on the (now defunct) AC3D forum. Incredibly competent, patient and helpful, never read a bad word from her even to the most despicable troll.
I'm still using with perfect satisfaction her 'poser exporter' ac3d plugin, a great little bridge between my modeling and my posing software.

No idea what has become of her since: I couldn't find any contact link, the site looks like a graveyard :(
 
BellicoseBloke said:
This morning have added-

-Dosch3D Light Effect Scenes XL6.rar
-Low Polygon Texturing Using BodyPaint3D - XL6.pdf
-C4D Often Overlooked Functions.pdf
-Killing Triangles - XL6.pdf
-Lisa Graphics Models.rar

The light effect scenes are an old commercial product, some animated most not such as-

BASIC322.jpg


ANIM004.gif


BASIC717.jpg


ANIM013.gif


BASIC534.jpg


ANIM005.gif


Many of the animated ones look like old After Effects footage & yes, can be rendered out at any resolution & saved as MOV (if you have QT installed) to be used in Adobe After Effects or Combustion or whatever... The static ones commonly have a beat-up sphere in them as a 'placeholder' just to give an example of what the scene might look like with your garbage in it...

I don't know who 'Lisa Graphics' was but she made some very good models back in the day...
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Great job! This looks beautiful and is insane considering it was made on XP!
Haven't tried out most of the graphical editing programs from you (mostly used the utilities), but they seem to be great! If you have any tips for beginners, please tell me anything you'd like to!
 
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Martingonn said:
Great job! This looks beautiful and is insane considering it was made on XP!
Haven't tried out most of the graphical editing programs from you (mostly used the utilities), but they seem to be great! If you have any tips for beginners, please tell me anything you'd like to!
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I guess I'm not quite getting that, perhaps if you can more clearly explain... I have Nendo on every machine including 9 without A/V & have never had it 'disappear'... Installed it is always at

C:\Program Files\Izware\Nendo or D:\Program Files\Izware\Nendo or whatever your drive letter is...

BTW there are modeling scripts in there with extras in the package you can run from the help menu... These are actual modeling when running so you can stop the action at anytime & take over the modeling... Also though when the modeler recording hit an error & had to clear it YOU will have that error & have to clear it too...
 
Chiron said:
Maybe it's this Lisa, a rather interesting character I met long ago on the (now defunct) AC3D forum. Incredibly competent, patient and helpful, never read a bad word from her even to the most despicable troll.
I'm still using with perfect satisfaction her 'poser exporter' ac3d plugin, a great little bridge between my modeling and my posing software.

No idea what has become of her since: I couldn't find any contact link, the site looks like a graveyard :(
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You must know your stuff that's a very good educated guess I'll bet that is the Gal as seems same generous but looking about I saw no mention of C4D maybe she moved on after XL6....

AC3D pretty good modeler I have seen some very good work especially by that guy who's name starts with 'Thor"???? He had a site called Moron Studios with some of the most detailed modeling I ever seen done in AC3D... and this was from snapshots back in 2008 -2009 I think...
 
BellicoseBloke said:
I guess I'm not quite getting that, perhaps if you can more clearly explain... I have Nendo on every machine including 9 without A/V & have never had it 'disappear'... Installed it is always at

C:\Program Files\Izware\Nendo or D:\Program Files\Izware\Nendo or whatever your drive letter is...

BTW there are modeling scripts in there with extras in the package you can run from the help menu... These are actual modeling when running so you can stop the action at anytime & take over the modeling... Also though when the modeler recording hit an error & had to clear it YOU will have that error & have to clear it too...
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I think you didn't see my updated message. I managed to find it under "Izware", had default install, then edited the message... idk what happened on XP Forums' side...
 
Cracking on here without using archive.org>>>

Have packaged up Dosch3D Background Stages which all work in XL6, there seems to be a ton of them... Also included Cinema 4D Demo Reel from 2001 which looks like all XL6 maybe a few XL7... I have made a screensaver of this also... Included Phil McNally's 'Pump-Action' XL6 animated movie from 2000, it's a very small MOV but very good composition all XL6... If it were bigger I woulda made a screensaver out of it too...

Any link will do-

https://workupload.com/start/2EnPyxhpSYV

OR

https://send.now/q0bnrktam3p5

OR

https://www.sendspace.com/file/o5hmdd

OR

https://gofile.io/d/1AcavC



Here's just 10 of a TON-
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BellicoseBloke said:
Cracking on here without using archive.org>>>

Have packaged up Dosch3D Background Stages which all work in XL6, there seems to be a ton of them... Also included Cinema 4D Demo Reel from 2001 which looks like all XL6 maybe a few XL7... I have made a screensaver of this also... Included Phil McNally's 'Pump-Action' XL6 animated movie from 2000, it's a very small MOV but very good composition all XL6... If it were bigger I woulda made a screensaver out of it too...

Any link will do-

https://workupload.com/start/2EnPyxhpSYV

OR

https://send.now/q0bnrktam3p5

OR

https://www.sendspace.com/file/o5hmdd

OR

https://gofile.io/d/1AcavC



Here's just 10 of a TON-
XL6-BGSTGE.gif
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Thank you! If you cracked them, could you help me with Halo CE CD check? I have the game already installed with legitimate key, so that wouldn't be piracy.
 
Hell, I can't crack anything... You must've latched onto my 'Cracking on....' NO, I meant it like British folk which means 'Moving on...'... I have never cracked anything but I did get Nichimen Mirai working which was a task....
 
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