Scene Elements Overview

A 3D scene is composed of objects of different types like polygon meshes, lights and cameras. Additionally the scene graph of Cinema 4D can contain generators and deformers.

• BaseObject is the base class for all objects, generators, deformers, etc. See BaseObject Manual.
• A CameraObject represents a scene camera. See CameraObject Manual.
• A InstanceObject references another scene object. See InstanceObject Manual.

Other BaseObject based objects like lights etc. can be edited using their parameters.

Tags are used to add data or functionality to such objects:

• BaseTag and VariableTag are base classes for tags. See BaseTag and VariableTag Manual.

Notable tags are:

• The TextureTag, see TextureTag Manual.
• The UVWTag, see UVWTag Manual.
• The NormalTag, see NormalTag Manual.
• The VertexColorTag, see VertexColorTag Manual.