Cinema4D won't let monitor sleep

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Apr13

Cinema4D won’t let monitor sleep

2 years ago

Cinema has an option in the program’s preferences that suppresses MacOS’ sleep functionality. This is useful when a rendering takes a long time.

But this function also prevents the monitor from sleeping, which is not very energy-efficient.

After weeks of trying to figure out what keeps my monitor from switching to standby after 20 minutes, I found the option in Cinema4D and turned it off. I use a little tool called Caffein to prevent the display form sleeping when I need it to stay on.