Explore the powerful new Caps and Bevels feature in Cinema 4D R21 through this comprehensive tutorial. Learn how to create stunning 3D text and enhance your workflow with improved constraints, internal bevels, Delaunay cap skinning, and a new bevel preset library. Discover techniques for creating custom bevel profiles and applying caps and bevels to spline-based objects like lathe, loft, and sweep. Follow along step-by-step as the instructor demonstrates various uses of the tool, showcasing its flexibility and efficiency in speeding up your 3D design process.
Create Beautiful 3D Text with Cinema 4D Caps & Bevels
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EJ Hassenfratz : Cinema 4D the Capson bevel system gets a much needed facelift and it makes creating beautiful texts, a snap let's check it out.
EJ Hassenfratz : And this video I'm going to be covering one of the big new updates, the cinema 4d R 21 in that is caps and bevels and how it totally can change the way that you work with not only three texts, but generator, objects like extrude and sweeps objects. Now, if you want to follow along with what I'm working on, be sure to download the project files. The links will be in the description below. All right. So let's dig into the new caps and bevels in our 21, and I'm going to use a MoTeC subject cause that's kind of like the most obvious use case for the new capstan bevels, but keep in mind that you can also access these same cap controls and cap updates in extrudes or sweeps here. So I'll cover that a little bit later, but just want you to be aware that the new caps in bevels are not just limited to mow techs.
EJ Hassenfratz : Okay. So I'm just going to delete those too, but let's go ahead and dig in here. And one of the biggest things is if I want to have just a rounded bevel, this is kind of the default, uh, bevel shape. I just go in just click and drag and adjust this size and you see, we have a nice rounded bevel and it's applied to the front and the back. Now you might think like, oh, woopty, do what's the big deal with that? Actually, that's pretty huge because if you remember in our 20 and below, let me just jump into our 20 here. If you wanted to add a nice round bevel to the front and back of your, uh, Motech subject, you have to go into the caps and remember the start and end caps were separated and you'd have to go to fill it cap on the one, fill the cap on the other one.
EJ Hassenfratz : And if you wanted to adjust each of these options, you'd have to do that for each of the start and end. So it was a lot of just manually changing things, making sure that everything was kind of matching. And there's just so many settings that you had to take care of. Meanwhile, in our 21, they're fused together, they're mirrored. You can control both your start and end caps at once and get really nice. Bevels really easily. Okay. But if you want to have those separate bevel controls, you can still separate them by just checking on the separate bevel controls. And you can go knock yourself out by applying different bevels on your front and back end. So that's a big like quality of life, kind of a enhancer there. Um, but one thing that's really cool is we have the size here. We can adjust the shape depth so we can actually get like more of an inner bevel kind of going on.
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School of Motion
