Microbion

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This is just a very small plugin I wrote for personal use but in case anyone else finds it useful, you are welcome to download and use it.

Normally I have object outlines (the orange line round a selected object) turned on. It’s useful to see where an object selected in the object manager is located in the scene. However, when building plants in C4D recently, I found that the plant object, with lots of narrow stems and branches, and small leaves, petals and so on were obscured by the outline. You can turn this off in the main C4D preferences, but that means opening the prefs dialog, making the change, and closing the dialog again. That’s too many clicks and unfortunately the outline isn’t an option in the shortcut menu you get by pressing ‘N'. What I wanted to be able to do was a one-click solution to turn the outline off then turn it on again when desired. That’s all this plugin does.

Availability

This plugin is free to download and use, and you can download a copy from the links below.

Important: the plugin is available for Mac on both C4D R2024 and R2025. However, the Mac version for R2025 requires C4D R2025.2 or later. This is due to changes in the build system for macOS - see the articles here and here for more details.

Compatibility

The plugin is compatible with the following versions of Cinema 4D:

Cinema 4D version	Compatible?
R2024	Yes
R2025	Yes (but see the note above for use on a Mac)

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