Viewport Display
Play
This option defines whether an animation will play in all 4 Viewports (enabled) if you open the 4-panel view or if the animation will only play in the active Viewport (disabled).
Refresh Attributes on Playback
If enabled, the corresponding parameters will be updated continuously in the Attribute Manager while the animation is playing.
This can help to prevent viewport slow-down when working with complex scenes.
By default, a small axis icon is displayed at the bottom left of the Viewport. You can display this in all for Viewports or not at all.
Type defines which axis should be displayed: Object or World Axis. This serves orientation purposes, e.g., if the World Grid is turned off.
This defines the scale of the axis.
Text defines if the axis name (X, Y or Z) should be displayed.
Here the grayscale gradient shown in the Viewport can be switched to a single-color surface.
If it bothers you that the Workplane is displayed in front of a given object: Disable this option. The Workplane will then never be displayed in front of an object from the view of the camera. It will be hidden. This function can also be activated temporarily in the Viewport's Options menu.
Defines the size of the axes as well as the Axis, Scale and Rotation Bands.
This refers to the selection of the Axis or Scale tool for visible Bands with which you can move along planes. These can also be hidden.
Screen Rotation Circle Scale[0..300%]
Use this value to define the size of the virtual rotation circle. This is the (thin) circle that is shown when the Rotation tool is selected to freely rotate the object (see also Rotate).
If the Rotation tool is selected, the red, blue and green circular bands will be displayed in the Viewport, which you can use to rotate the planes accordingly. These can also be hidden. If they are hidden, spherical handles will be displayed on the axes, which can then be used to rotate them.
If the Rotation tool is selected, the red, blue and green circular bands will be displayed in the Viewport, which you can use to rotate the planes accordingly. How wide these bands are can be defined here.
Here you can define if the points of the selected object should also be displayed when in Use Edge mode.
Selected Point Size (px)[0..10]
When in Use Point or Use Edge mode, polygon and spline points can be displayed. These settings define the size of the selected or unselected points separately.
Selected Edge Thickness (px)[0..10]
When in Use Edge mode, object edges are displayed with the thickness defined here. This can be defined separately for selected and unselected edges.
Here you can define the thickness with which the splines will be displayed (is not supported by MacOS).
Defines the length of the polygon and vertex Normals.
Viewport Elements
Object Selection
Selected objects can be displayed with a colored outline (the thickness of which can be adjusted using the Outline Size setting). The Child objects of a selected object will be assigned a slightly thinner outline. This option enables or disables the display of these outlines.
Outline Thickness (px)[1.00..10.00]
Here you can define the thickness of the outline (and of this one: Object Highlighting).
If the Outlines option is disabled, the selected objects will be assigned a bounding box if this option is enabled. If the Include Children option is enabled, bounding boxes will also be assigned to all Child objects.
Enable this option if a selected object should be displayed including its wireframe. If the Include Children option is enabled, this will also be done for all Child objects.
System
These values specify the ratio of a pixel's on-screen width to its on-screen height. the monitor aspect for most monitors is 1:1.
However, some display media use a pixel ratio other than 1:1. This will lead to distortion unless the pixel ratio is adjusted accordingly.
For example, circles will appear to be ellipses. To calculate the pixel ratio manually, expand the editor window to fill the entire screen. Select the side view and create a cube. Measure the width and height of the cube with a ruler and enter the value into the value field.
Here the display of colors, shaders, etc can be turned on or off in the Viewport in consideration of the linear workflow.
In the following you will find information regarding Color Management.
Define the ICC hardware profile for your display hardware (most often a monitor) here. Everything that Cinema 4D displays on your monitor - Viewport, color selector, rendered images in the Picture Viewer, etc. - will be displayed using this color profile (the same settings can be found in the Image Color Profile settings when saving rendered images).
ICC profiles can be obtained from hardware manufacturers. These values can also be incorrect due to variations in the manufacturing process. If you want to make 100% sure you have the correct color profile you must calibrate the device yourself using the appropriate calibration device.
In most cases you will not have to modify these settings because your computer's operating system will use its default monitor profile. However, this automatic calibration can be (or become) faulty. In such cases you can adjust the profile manually.
Clicking on the button at the right will make a selection menu available with the following options:
Cinema 4D will ignore the monitor's color profile and use uncorrected RGB values for display.
This command does not save the monitor profile to the Preferences but loads them from the computer's operating system each time the application is started.
Here you can manually load an ICC profile (if you have calibrated your monitor
you will be given an ICC color profile file that can be loaded here but which will normally be supplied by your operating system automatically). If an image or a video with an integrated profile is loaded here, this image or video will be used.
Saves the current ICC profile as a file.
The operating system's current monitor profile will be read (when command is selected) and saved to the Preferences.
An sRGB profile (which should always be used if no other profile has been specified) or a Linear profile can be defined.