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Using the Material Manager in Cinema 4D
Using Shaders & Texture Maps in Cinema 4D
Understanding the Pros & Cons of Shaders in Cinema 4D
Using Stretched Mapping in Cinema 4D
Using the Bump Map Scale in Cinema 4D
Using Material Channels in Cinema 4D
Using Tiling Textures in Cinema 4D
Understanding Tiling Problems in Cinema 4D
Using Cubic Projection in Cinema 4D
Using the Brick Shader in Cinema 4D
Doing Animations & Using Shaders in Cinema 4D
Using the Texture Tool in Cinema 4D
Using the Alpha Channel in Cinema 4D
Placing the Decal in Cinema 4D
Doing the Final Mix in Cinema 4D
Summary: How to use shaders and texture maps in Cinema 4D; learn more about 3D animation, modeling, and rendering software in this free instructional video.
John Carstarphen is an experienced independent filmmaker, screenwriter, animator and teacher. His work as a writer/director has been seen in international film festivals including...read more
"JOHN CARSTARPHEN: Hi, this is John Carstarphen for Expert Village. This is actually considered a shader. The difference between textures and shaders is actually quite complex because it has to do with lights and how surfaces appear and how light affects the surfaces and how surfaces are stretched over objects, and there's all kinds of math and algorithms involved. But essentially, it comes down to this: shaders are textures that are created in a software program, and they're called procedural shaders because of that. So the shaders are created one step at a time in a very specific procedure that allows you to create the texture step by step; whereas, a texture map is really just a photograph of a real-world object, and it can be manipulated and you can add a bump map to it and create some ridges and some realistic surfaces with it. But the fact is you aren't really going to change a whole lot because a photograph is a photograph, and what's been captured in photography can't be changed all that much."
eHow Article: Using Shaders & Texture Maps in Cinema 4D
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