#Materials cinema 4d how to#

So the higher the Refraction amount, say, I put two, you're going to see even more distortion. And refraction is basically how light rays bend through the surface of the object and kind of distort. And once I choose Glass, you're going to see we have this Refraction Index, that with and any number other than one, you see this kind of refraction. Now, if we choose something like the Glass Preset, again, another great list of presets available for you to try out as a good starting point with your materials. Now, where you start getting glass-like effects is where you choose a bit of Refraction. So what's going on is that our object's basically invisible, it's fully transparent. And now you'll see, we can see right through our Material Preview. And again, we don't want any Default Specular, so I'm just going to remove that. Now, if you check on the Transparency Channel, you'll see in the Material Preview that everything just kind of ghosted, and the only thing you can really see is the little cloudy, hazy, specular hit that's on the Preview. But the main thing we're going to be concerned with is the Transparency Channel. And for the color, we can uncheck that since we're not going to be dealing with that. So I'll double-click in the Material Manager, double-click that New Material to bring up the Material Editor. So let's first create our new material for our glass fishbowl. So in this video, we're going to learn how we can create transparent materials and how we can easily create our glass fishbowl material in Cinema 4D. Now, all that's left is our glass fishbowl.

#Materials cinema 4d how to#

In the last video, we learned how to create basic shiny plastic materials for most of the objects in our scene.