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Create a shiny material

Create a shiny material - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Create a shiny material

- [Narrator] In this movie we are going to create a shiny, reflective material such as some car paint. And we're going to be working in the reflectance channel. So we have a scene already set up with a sphere and a physical sky, so we have some kind of environment and the materials already been applied. Don't worry about how this was set up for now, we're just going to focus on the material creation. If we press alt-R, we can bring up our interactive render region, and then we can just see the effects of what we are doing when we create our material. So, we'll double-click to open up the material editor and move it over to the side so that we can see the sphere in the view port. I'm going to turn off the color channel and we only want to be working in reflectance. We have a default specular, and we can just remove that. We'll start by adding a GGX layer, and GGX is a good reflectance type for working with metallic textures. So, I'm going to increase the roughness, and reduce the…

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