From the course: Cinema 4D: Dynamics

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Visualization

Visualization

I will take a small detour now and show you a little helper that the dynamic system has in Cinema 4D. Let's create a group of the usual suspects, cube, cone, cylinder, and sphere. Let me turn on my lines. I'll select all the objects, raise them above the floor, add the floor, and then as usual select all the objects, right click > Simulation Rags > Rigid Body. If I press play, I will see my usual dynamic simulation unfold in front of my eyes. This is not magic, mind you. It's mathematics. Anyway, a very helpful tool of the dynamic system can be found in the Project Settings > Dynamics tab. And instead of the General tab here, we move to the Visualization. And we can see this little group of buttons. If I press Enable, nothing really happens unless I play my Simulation. Suddenly a huge group of lines and different colors appeared. Little dots here, little axes. Let me explain exactly what this is. First of all, just for clarity's sake, I will click here to deselect all the objects. And…

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