Essential free C4d add-ons for meH
Here's a few little free plug-ins that I've found essential to my workinG on shots everyday...
Xs-tab : Doesn't seem like a big deal BUT when you have to open a menu to switch between project files everytime like all day you'll appreciate this one PLUS you get to see all open projects at a glance...I have it at the bottom of the layout near the status menu...check out his other scripts and plugs too!
Object 2 View: Find it in the "goodies" section of his site... again seems so simple BUT when your working with big scenes and your camera isn't pointing at 0,0,0 this thing REALLY comes in handy when merging new objects into the scene that you want it in front of your camera
OLX: Older versions of C4d used to let you populate the Object menu with your own objects AND this lil thang lets you do that with its own popup menu... I have it's icon on the top of my main window... I store all the objects that I use on a regular basis in it for easy and fast access...
Height 2 Normal: This nice lil shader converts height maps to normal maps for you inside of itself ^ ^ So you don't need an external normal map generation program... just drop your bump or displacement map in it and you've got a normal map...it works great!
When your doing similar tasks all day every day little tools like this make a big difference... its all about workflow! In the future I'll share my layout's and scripts which I've been using to work on the film... I might even share some models and rigs etc ^ ^Brought to you by professional weirdo M dot Strange.