From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 17 Video Walls in Cinema 4D Lite

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Creating a custom material

Creating a custom material - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 17 Video Walls in Cinema 4D Lite

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Creating a custom material

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- In the previous movie, we used some texture presets that were included with CINEMA 4D Lite to go ahead and apply a metal texture to the casing of our video wall. In this movie, we need to create a custom texture to map our video to the face of this wall. So to do that, I'll go down to the Materials Manager, click Create, and this time choose New Material since I'm going to create one from scratch. I'll double-click its name and call it Video, and then I will double-click it to open its very own Material Editor. I'll get a reduced version of it down here in the Attributes Manager, but you'll get more options and, frankly, an easier to use layout in the Material Editor. I want to replace the color of this video wall with a video. So I'm going to have my Color channel selected and enabled, and then next to Texture, I'm going to click in this currently blank bar to load a texture. Click once, I'll navigate to our Exercise Files, and in the Footage, Sources folder for the CINEMA 4D Lite…

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