However, you will want to scale the whole sphere. That appear on the sphere, you will scale according to that particular axis (x, Select the 'river' sphere and then select the Scaleīy clicking and dragging the coloured points To make things easier, click on the Middle Mouse Button to bring River, you need to shrink one of the spheres (the one with the colour of the 4. How to Create the River Step 1īefore you start drawing out the shape of the Sphere to apply the colour (as we did in step 4). Once you've chosen the colour, close the material editor. This time we want to chooseĪ different colour for the river (you can see the colour I have used below). Step 5Ĭhoose the second sphere from the menu on the Now Click-Drag the material onto your sphere to apply the material colour. (you can see the colour I have used below). Choose the colour you want for your planet In the material editor, you will have access to a variety of options that willĬhange the appearance and properties of the shapes that you create. Step 2ĭouble click on the small sphere icon that appears. To do this, click on the Createīutton at the bottom left of the screen. Will help to distinguish between the two easily. Now let's add some colour to the spheres, which
The cursor down and release to create a duplicate sphere. You should see a small 'plus' symbol appear near your cursor. Toĭo this, Control-Click-Drag on your sphere object on the right of
Next you will want to duplicate our sphere. (radius, segments, type, render perfect), so make sure you are happy with your sphere setup before moving on to this step. Once you do this, you will not have access to the previous options Selected and simply click on the Make Editable button in the top right of Sphere, we will need to make it editable. In order to make any further changes to our Now we have the basic shape for our 3D Mini Planet. In the drop-down menu, choose Icosahedron.
Here we can select the type of sphere we would like to use. The sphere options should appear again in the bottom right of the screen. Select the sphere again by clicking on it. From there, choose Gouraud Shading (Lines). Polygon lines, click on the Display button, which can be found Sphere in the low poly style (otherwise it will appear smooth when we render). Hitting delete or Backspace on your keyboard. You can do this by clicking on it to select it and then
This tutorial, I have changed the Segments to 15, but feel free to Under the Object tab, we can scale the sphere up from 100cm to 250cm. Once the sphere has been created, you can thenĬhange the properties of the sphere in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. Select the Sphere tool by clicking on it. This will reveal a sub menu where you can click toĬreate more objects. Left Click and Hold on the blue AddĬube Object button. Here you will find almost all the tools that we will Open your Cinema 4D and take a look at the top Some of the skills you will learn will include creating basic 3D shapes, manipulating them, and using basic lighting and rendering. We will use the popular low poly style for this project. Use it for your video games, graphic design and illustration projects!
Looking to learn Cinema 4D quickly and easily by creating a 3D Mini Planet? You can do it in this simple and fun tutorial, where we will go through how to create it step by step.