From the course: Cinema 4D: Principles of Motion Graphics
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Adding textures with shaders - CINEMA 4D Tutorial
From the course: Cinema 4D: Principles of Motion Graphics
Adding textures with shaders
- [Instructor] Now another way to add detail to your models in Cinema 4D is through the use of shaders, and there are a lot of different kinds of shaders within the application, so I'm actually speaking specifically about the 2D shaders you can add directly inside the materials. So if we look at our current project, you can see, I've got my snowboard selected here in the Objects Manager, and I'm currently in Texture Mode which is not at all what I want. So I'll go ahead and switch to model mode here. And then I'll come back over and click on my snowboard, and let's grab our rotation tool. You can press R to grab rotation, and I'll click and drag on the heading rotation handle, and now when I go ahead and orbit around, you can see, I've just got a white snowboard with this black graphic, and I want to add something kind of psychedelic and fun all over the top of this. So to do that, I'm going to start with the material down…
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