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Formatting text in CINEMA 4D

Formatting text in CINEMA 4D

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Formatting text in CINEMA 4D

The formatting tools for text in Cinema 4D are fairly basic. I'm in Gears O2.C4D from the chapter six folder if you want to follow along. And I'm selecting my text layer here and you'll see down in the attributes manager in the object tab. I have a few options for formatting my text. But not many. Things like all caps isn't available so if I want to make these capital letters or upper case letters. I need to actually hold down Shift, or Caps lock, to type them. Okay, I've put in an extra letter there. So, there's no all-caps option to easily switch on and off. As I said, the fonts are pretty much all there, but you have to scroll through them. There's no way of quickly typing in a font name and finding it, and you'll see here I've got quite a few on my systems if I want to change to Arial Black it takes me quite a while to do that really although it looks better on Arial Black. So I'm going to leave it on Arial Black. You have alignment options, you've got left, middle and right. I…

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