#Cinema 4d perspective view shortcut full#

These black gutters around images are annoying frankly, because they mean we lose a little resolution. Count the number of pixels gutter: for me it was ~40 pixels (so you lose 80/4096 pixels or ~2% along each axis). Go into your texture folder and make a note of the gutter - the black border around the edges of the texture which result from 'Bake object'. In this method above we started with one huge image, and broke it into tiles in Cinema 4D. position your camera appropriately then click Play. To see properly you'll want to add a Light over the square.

#Cinema 4d perspective view shortcut full#

Drag 'Satellite.fbx' into the Scene and you should be able to see it full res.

Select the materials subfolder and make sure 4096x4096 is selected for each tile.

Examine the 'Satellite.fbx' in Unity (it may take a while to process).

Move 'Satellite.fbx' into the Models folder using a file browse program.

Make a new Unity project and create a new folder called Models.

Main menu: File > Export > FBX and call it 'Satellite.fbx'.

Delete the original Planes (we don't want these exported.

Once finished you'll see 25 new materials appear.

As you watch you should see it render each of the tiles.

TIP: You will probably also want to select a path to put inside your 'tex' subfolder.

In the Bake Object window change the texture width/height to 4096x4096, pixel border to 0 (supersampling should already by 0) and format to TIFF (Unity does it's own texture compression on import, so using pure TIF will be slightly less quality loss) and click Bake.

Select your 'TILES' and in the Object Manager click: Objects > Bake.

But first we need to bake the 4096x4096 tiles. The best way to get a Cinema 4D model into Unity is by export it as an FBX.

Clean up the tiles, and name each appropriately (for example '1,1' for the top left, '1,2' for the one to the right, etc) and put under a single null object called 'TILES'.

Tip: if you had more than 5x5 tiles you might consider writing a Cinema 4D Script or Plugin.

Tip: you may want to create a 5x5 grid over the top to make it easier.

Repeat the previous two step 25 times (total) to get 5x5 large tiles.

Separate this first tile by going Mesh > Conversion > Polygon Groups to Objects.

With the editable/polygon version, use the Polygon selection mode (left toolbar) and Rectangle Selection select the top left group of 16x16 pieces, then Mesh > Commands > Disconnect.

Right click the Plane in the Object Manager, and select 'Current State to Object' (same effect as making a copy then 'Make Editable').

Split the huge plane into 5x5 pieces, each 4096x4096 pixels:

If you're worried about moving your Plane accidentally, you can also add the 'Cinema 4D Tags > Protection' tag, and this will prevent you from selecting it accidentally as you put other stuff over your Satelite imagery.

By default textures only appear in the Perspective view - to fix this right click the plane 'Cinema 4D Tags > Display' then change the Display tag Attributes panel > Tag > Use > Shading Mode > Gourand Shading.

created a single Plane of 20480x20480 meters, then in the Attributes panel set the width/height segments to 80x80 (I to be able to change elevation within the 256x256 tiles).

Optional: Right click the sphere at the top left and select 'Plane Backlit' (this makes no difference to the model, but will remind you it's a flat texture).

WARNING: this doesn't just increase cache, when you hit save you may noticed your filed size increases dramatically too.

Before closing the Materials window, click the Editor option and set the 'Texture Preview Size' to the maximum ( '16384x16384 (1024 MB)') else it will appear very pixelated indeed if binned down to the default preview size.Make sure only Color is checked, and change the Color > Texture to the JPG image.Go Create > New Material in the Materials panel, and name it 'Montage'.Open Cinema4D, and save immediately as 'SatelliteGame.c4d' in the first folder you created.Create a folder 'SatelliteGame' and subfolder 'tex' and put the texture inside the subfolder.In this example I had a square region of 20480x20480 pixels of satellite imagery as a TIF, which I then saved to a JPG 'montage.jpg'. You are thus limited to Unity's max texture size of 4096x4096, and since your texture is probably bigger, you'll need to break it up into squares of at this size or lower. NOTE: If you prefer Blender or some other 3D package, this page may still be useful, but I find Cinema 4D easiest, so I stuck with that. I wanted to create a game using some satellite map imagery, and put that into Unity (game engine), via Cinema 4D. NOTE: This page is a daughter page of: Unity and Cinema 4D