From the course: Learning Cinema 4D Lite for After Effects
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Using selection sets to isolate surfaces
From the course: Learning Cinema 4D Lite for After Effects
Using selection sets to isolate surfaces
Selection sets allow you to control which parts of an object are affected by a material, and we'll have a look at those here. If you want to follow along we're in chapter 807C4D. And here I have an interactive render region around my text, because that's what we're going to work on here. So I'm going to go into my Material Manager and go to Create > Load Material Preset > Light Materials. And into surfaces and the preset that I want to use is concrete cracked. And here's to appears in my materials manager. I'm not going to drag it onto my text object. And here is applied to my text. Now, I kind of like the affect of a kind of grungy stony surface in contrast to the shiny robot surface, but it's a little dark and I really want to highlight the edges a little bit. And there's a couple ways of doing that, I'm going to create another material preset something that will contrast with it nicely. So I'm going to go back into materials. Back in surfaces and choose bright concrete or…
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