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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
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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. So shaders give you much more control over what you have: the bump surfaces, the color in the bricks and so forth. And you can see just by looking at it that the quality is much higher. Now, one problem with shaders when it comes to animation is that because they are created by software, shaders tend to react badly to animation sometimes, and that has to do with open GL settings and anti-aliasing settings and all kinds of things, which have to be tweaked when you're using a shader with animation. For still photographs, you don't have that problem, and we're just rendering still images here for the sake of illustration. But if we were to animate this camera across the shader, you'd see all kinds of noise and rippling and artifacts and so forth. And so you have to be careful with shaders, too. You have to get shaders that will work. That are designed to work with your 3-D program, that had been tested with your 3-D program. These particular shaders have been tested with Cinema 4D, but even still you have to tweak the--many of the parameters to get the shaders to look good in animation."
eHow Article: Doing Animations & Using Shaders in Cinema 4D
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