Tips & Tricks, Textures, and Tutorials for Cinema 4D and Xpresso
Procedural, Hair, MoGraph – by: base80
July 22nd, 2008
Sorry for the long absence… But here is a new tutorial about Cinema4d.
This time of year we have to mow the lawn. Maxon has a great tutorial about that, but I wanted to go a bit further.
This setup mows the grass with a dynamic spline. So there is no pre-determined path.
We’ll be using Hair and Mograph’s Tracer to accomplish the following effect.
Textures, Reference Shader – by: base80
September 17th, 2008
I just received the “Reference Shader” by Blackstar Solutions and it is great.
I installed the shader moments ago and I was up and running a split second later. No need for tutorials, There is no learning curve at all… or is there. I will be spending some time to discover the possibilities and will post my findings here.
What the plugin basically does is enable you to link one shader to channel several other channels. You modify it in one place it modifies in al the referenced places. Very useful when you have to make those little bricks architects tend to like so much.
Tips & Tricks, Textures – by: base80
January 25th, 2006
All to often I see this recurring questions on the forums.
“How do I get an even background”.
You know, just an object on a white plane that is white in the corners.
Like this but then white please.
Please do not click on Read More.
Continue readingTips & Tricks, Procedural – by: base80
April 4th, 2006
Here is another trick to make walls invisible.
It is done with the “Normal Direction” shader and offers more control than the Front-Back trick discussed earlier.
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.
Tips & Tricks, Procedural – by: base80
April 4th, 2006
Another Shader reminder, The Distorter Effect.
No idea how this could be useful, but you never know.
Tips & Tricks, Textures – by: base80
June 18th, 2006
This feature is in Cinema4d since R.9 but I just noticed some minutes ago (thanks to Babar)
Maxon cares for small detail so they make very small buttons in the interface, like this;
Tips & Tricks, Textures – by: base80
May 5th, 2006
A long time ago I did a funny discovery. It totally slipped my mind until MoGraph was announced.
Here is the result, read on to discover how it is done.
