From the course: X-Particles 4 for Cinema 4D Essential Training

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Naming and organization

Naming and organization

From the course: X-Particles 4 for Cinema 4D Essential Training

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Naming and organization

- [Instructor] Naming objects appropriately is an important practice for any project you're working on. It doesn't have to be just in Cinema 4D. And let's just look at this X-Particles system here and okay, well, we can see a few things going on. But it's not exactly clear what's happening. If I play through, we'll just get a sense of what's happening in this scene. So there's some particles being emitted and then something happens, they all fall down. It looks like they're changing into a different group. But let's just start naming things appropriately. So we can look at the modifiers to give us some idea of what they're doing. So this speed one, we know it's the speed modifier, but what is it actually doing? Okay, it looks like it's slowing down the particles. So we can just name that Slow Down. And then we're using the explode to do something. Okay, looks like it's triggering an action, so you could have a note here. You could right-click and choose an Annotation tag. You don't…

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