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tharmine
tharmine
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June 23, 2020
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Cinema 4D plugin missing

  • June 23, 2020
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HI all, 

I accidentaly uninstalled the Cinema 4D plug-in for After Effect, and after an update of After Effect to 17.1.1, I cannot change the 3d renderer anymore.

Can you please tell me how I can install again the plug-in? (because it does not come directly with the AE update apparently). 

Thank you in advance for your help

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    Correct answer Rick Gerard

    Use the Creative Cloud app to uninstall After Effects and then install it again. The C4D rendering engine is an integral part of AE. I'm not sure how you uninstalled it, but it is not a separate part of the installer that can be simply copied and pasted.

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    Mark Omar Mohsen
    Participant
    December 1, 2022

    You can now add the Cinema 4D plugin from the creative cloud app. You can go to the After Effect app and then click on the three dots and select "add on". It's not in the normal plug-in store.

      Void Visuals
      Void Visuals
      Participant
      November 12, 2023

      The same thing happened to me - I accidentally uninstalled Cinema 4D from windows app panel. My problem is that in creative cloud, it shows that Cinema 4D is still installed. So it doesn't let me delete or uninstall it. But when I open AE, I still get the error message.

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      Mark Omar Mohsen
      Participant
      November 14, 2023

      Thank you for your fedback.
      For more clarity:
      - I accidentally uninstalled Cinema 4D - correctly via the windows "app" control pannel
      - I tried to re-install Cinema 4D without having to uninstall & reinstall After Effects. This didn't work.
      - because creative cloud didn't detect that I uninstalled Cinema 4D, I read somewhere that you have to manually delete the "Cinema 4D" folder on C drive, after uninstalling it through windows app control panel. This didn't work.
      - In the end I had to uninstall & reinstall AE like Rick suggested above. This also reinstalled Cinema 4D.


      I am glad it worked out for you in the end. Yes, uninstall & reinstall should always work as Rick suggested. I guess I was lucky when accidentally deleted the Cinema 4D plugin, I was able to add it from the Creative Cloud app without going through this process.

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      Community Expert
      Rick GerardCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
      Community Expert
      June 23, 2020

      Use the Creative Cloud app to uninstall After Effects and then install it again. The C4D rendering engine is an integral part of AE. I'm not sure how you uninstalled it, but it is not a separate part of the installer that can be simply copied and pasted.

        tharmine
        tharmineAuthor
        Known Participant
        June 24, 2020

        Hi, thank you. 

        I was cleaning my C: drive and uninstalling programs and saw C4D, did't make the connection with AE and uninstalled it. 

        After I made the update of AE, but I guess the update was not enough to reinstall the plug-in. 

        I will try your suggestion. 

        Thanks

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        Swauzzy
        Participant
        April 1, 2021

        Did you ever get it to work?

        Thank you.

        Austin

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