Spline Shader Text
Tips & Tricks, Procedural – by: base80
April 4th, 2006
Just a little reminder about the “Spline Shader”.
You can make a texture with a text from within Cinema4d in just a few seconds.
![spline-shader](https://web.archive.org/web/20061026114916im_/http://www.base80.com/tips/render-trick/spline-shader/Picture-4.jpg)
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Cinema4d includes a very handy shader called “Spline”.
It allows you to make a texture with any given spline.
And it also allows you to make a texture with text and that can be very useful.
Here are all the possible settings of the shader. I used color for the letters and the background but any shader will do.
![](http://base80.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/spline_shader.jpg)
Enjoy playing around with it.
BTW: The text can be also be defined in xpresso so you can show frame numbers or any other kind of information.