Make sure to enclose it in quotes because the path does include spaces. So what we're going to have to do is actually type this path in.
But that doesn't work because it's an administrator command prompt. Now, normally you could just drag this over into the command prompt. It's inside your Cinema 4D application directory, Resource, Libs, Win64, and it's Win_thumbnail.dll. The DLL we need is located inside your Cinema 4D path. Now what we need to do is tell it which DLL to register. That basically registers a DLL with Windows.
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What we're going to do is run a built-in windows command called "regsvr32", R-E-G-S-V-R 32. You should get a command prompt window here that says "administrator: command prompt".
Wherever you see Command Prompt highlighted, go ahead and right-click that and choose Run As Administrator. To do that, hit the Windows key and type "cmd". What you need to do is launch a command prompt in Administrator Mode.
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So let's look at how to fix that really quickly. So if it can't find that library, then you're not going to see thumbnails in Explorer. There's a special file in there that actually enables these thumbnails to be displayed. But I've got a special tip for the Windows users, and that is sometimes Windows loses track of your Cinema 4D installation. Now I have the image from Photoshop with text to really clearly establish what is the Finish file for this project, and I could do the same thing with the Start file as well. We'll go into Cinema 4D, and now we'll just choose to paste from the clipboard. Now what we'll do is choose to select everything and choose Edit, Copy, Merge. We'll go into Photoshop, and here I've taken our final render and I just typed the word "start." In fact, this is actually the finish file. I'm going to save the file, and we can look and here we have that thumbnail in our Windows Explorer view. Hit Open, and now you can see that we've got a nice final render saved as the thumbnail. We'll go ahead and grab this off of the desktop. So rather than just using the editor render of this, let's actually load the final render that I created. Another option is you can actually load a thumbnail from the file. So, that's one option that you can use to control your thumbnails. If I go out of the camera and save again, you can see that the thumbnail didn't change. So if I save the file, you can see that now we're back to our original thumbnail. But it's not going to automatically save. Now it's going to copy the editor as it currently is when you execute that command. What if you don't want that to automatically save every time you change the scene? Well, another option is you can go in here and choose to Copy from Editor. In fact, just to drive the point home, here in Windows Explorer the thumbnail updated as well. So, for instance, if I go out of this camera, so we've got a view like this and I hit Control S to save, you can see that the thumbnail updated here.
By default, Cinema 4D will automatically save a picture of the editor every time you save the file. What you may not notice is the drop-down that appears beneath that thumbnail, and this allows you to adjust what the image is. If you scroll to the bottom of the Info tab, you'll see the thumbnail for the file here in the Attributes Manager. Hit Control or Command D in order to bring those up, and go to the Info tab. So what we can do first of all is go into Cinema 4D and make sure that your project settings are open in the Attribute Manager. So we're going to make that a lot more clear. These two projects are a great example, because you can't really tell the difference between the start and the end file based on the thumbnail. So the quick tip for today is that you can actually change the content of this thumbnail.
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Or if we go into cover flow on Mac OS, you can also see the images here in the cover flow view. Here you can see that in list view we can see the preview over here in the preview pane. You can see that when you're in the icon view of Explorer or Finder, and also if you're in list view and you have the preview pane active, you can see it there.
C4d file mac os#
That means that when you're browsing your projects in Windows Explorer or Mac OS Finder, you can easily distinguish the contents of the various projects. Cinema 4D automatically embeds a thumbnail in each C4D project file.