
As you work through the tutorials, you'll acquire a broad range of skills that can be combined to create top-notch renders using the Standard and Physical renderers. Each chapter builds upon the previous one, covering all the essential aspects of rendering in Cinema 4D, including sampling, shaders, maps, camera and post effects, and lighting. This guide takes a systematic and practical approach to teaching you the fundamentals of rendering, followed by real-world examples to improve your texturing and lighting abilities. Whether you're just getting started with texturing, lighting, and rendering in Cinema 4D or looking to enhance your existing skills, this book has got you covered. It's a valuable resource for novice and intermediate users of the software, providing insights into important concepts and techniques for rendering that can help you produce high-quality outputs.

Hopefully the same works for you.The book "Maxon Cinema 4D 2023: A Detailed Guide to Shading, Lighting, and Rendering" offers a comprehensive walkthrough of every step involved in texturing, lighting, and rendering projects using Cinema 4D. But anyway, after I created an account at My., I had an option to activate the Lite licence, which should show as unlimited. Note that to use this you'll need to create a MyMaxon account as well, so just head to My. and create an account there at some point so that you can activate your Lite license via the account login." For me personally, I didn't see those. Once you do this it should present you with the standard Cinema 4D License Manager and give you the option to activate your Cinema 4D Lite license. You should notice that the files you deleted are re-created when Cinema 4D launches, this is because if Cinema 4D cannot find these files on startup it creates them from scratch with the default settings (this is why you need to quit C4D before deleting them). Once you've selected those items, delete them and then launch Cinema 4D again.

Once you've done that you will need to select three items: The Cinema 4D folder, the "machines_rb_20.prf" and the "teamrender_rb_20.prf" (you need the last two even if you do not use Team Render as Cinema 4D still stores some preferences data in those files). Next, quit out of Cinema 4D from the Force Quit menu (this is a very important step as this process will not work if the application is running).

Open a Finder window and head to ~/Library/Preferences/MAXON via Finder's Go > Go to Folder command. This is from Maxon themselves: "To fix this issue all you have to do is delete the C4D preferences to restore the defaults.

Hey David, I believe I have the solution for you. You don't have to do that "Setup License Server" part.
