Cinema 4D Tutorial - Using Layers to Improve Your Workflow in Cinema 4D

In this tutorial I'll be covering one of the most overlooked features for organization and viewport speed optimization in Cinema 4D...LAYERS! If you've never worked with them before, you will do yourself a disservice to not watch this and learn how much it can improve your workflow! I'll go over the basics of layers, how to add objects to layers, and then break down all of the aspects of each layer and how you can use it to your advantage and optimize your viewport speed to the fullest!
I was once someone who was ignorant of layers and never used them...man am I glad I learned about them! Without Layers, some of my projects would be just plain unworkable because of how bogged downCinema 4D's viewport got.
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[@astuteleen3644]

Awesome lesson. Btw, is it possible that if I have a layer selected, any new objects that I create like a spline would automatically go into that selected layer? Thanks.

[@Hellodentist]

This is awesome! Never knew what layers were for! Thanks for this

[@eyedesyn]

Happy to open your eyes to the power of Layers!

[@content1]

Under the " *View* " tab is the whole Decoding of the letters.

[@vid828]

Cheers bro. That was great

[@cargo4067]

Hey EJ I have a very interesting question for you. Is there any feature in C4d to locate the layer where object is being allocated? When you work on huge files with tons of layers is really difficult to connect one thing with the other visually. It really gets messed up. There should be an option like right click on object and locate layer in the layer manager but I just cannot find it.

[@andershattne]

hitting S with the currsour over the object manager should bringup the objects that the selected.. it's not perfect, but a start.
...if I understood the question propperly

[@serkanyldrm269]

This helped a lot, cheers man

[@eyedesyn]

Great to hear!

[@AndyTanguay]

Good stuff. Concise!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks Andy!

[@TheDede508]

Are you sure E isn't for effectors?

[@TheDede508]

@Ale that's what I'm sayin mann

[@Dezhavu13]

Thank you! This taught a lot beyond just he use of layers.

[@eyedesyn]

Happy to hear that! Thanks for watching!

[@3D学习]

Hi Dude, Thanks for sharing. Is there any method that I can change one object in deferent layers with Xpresso? Thanks.

[@andershattne]

If I'm working soloing a layer, then add a new item it won't show because its not in the solod layer. Any way to add new items to a layer. Magic Solo does this perfecty.. but that's not layers..

[@petrholusa5855]

Are layers really helps to viewport performace? I am not sure that if I have heavy voronoi animation and if I hide it not sure if it's just thre and hidden or really hidden from RAM or somehow.

[@eyedesyn]

It totally does, because with Layers you can deactivate animation, Voronoi, etc from even calculating at all.

[@smyrkphace]

EJ! How can I render just a specific object in redshift. I have some action in the distance, a fraction of the full frame, I just want to render that object in the scene and comp it in after, but I have lights and environment going on. Object ID or puzzle matt just creates a mask right? Im trying to avoid longer render times pre comp. Ideal would be able to set render region and send to pic viewer, but I know thats not a thing.

[@eyedesyn]

you can totally render just in the cropped render region you set in your viewport! Go to your output settings and check on Render Region up near where the Width/Height settings are!

[@smyrkphace]

@@eyedesyn Thanks man!
Ill give it a go!

[@ytmm11]

this was useful, man.. thank you!

[@eyedesyn]

So good to hear that! Thanks for watching!

[@ruigu9108]

How about turning off all the small icons in that row with one click

[@KokoroDenshin]

Thanks mr.Ej

[@eyedesyn]

Hey, thanks for watching!!! :)

[@stefa7424]

The link to watch the full tutorial isn`t working.

[@AniyasFunGaming]

what is the hotkey yo delete a layer

[@NiteshKumar-cs4wo]

Excellent

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks!

[@user-lj7kz5h]

this tutorial is very useful!!:) thankU very much!

[@fanyang9567]

Thank you！man！

[@eyedesyn]

Welcome!!

[@yourfatherdied9330]

how to double layer ?

[@Mateparlov]

very usefull! tnx

[@teemakeroppi4628]

nice, gonna be using layers from now on. but it's funny how many excuses for mac's performance :]

[@eyedesyn]

;)

[@DragonWarpFX]

Thanks :D

[@eyedesyn]

Thank you!

[@lafanfafra]

nice
grazie

[@chulalachannel]

hope I'll be good enough at c4d one day to understand all this.

[@eyedesyn]

Keep learning more and more everyday! You can do it!

[@Givethought]

c4d view port is just slow period they need to fix it bad its not worth 1,500 dollars

[@eyedesyn]

optimize your scenes for better playback!

[@jackran5466]

eyedesyn is an eyeball layer

[@eyedesyn]

hahaha touche