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Creating "paintable" materials

Creating "paintable" materials - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

From the course: Learning Bodypaint in Cinema 4D

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Creating "paintable" materials

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- Let's forget wizards and magic and witchcraft and all that wizardry right now, and see exactly what a paintable material is. In order to do that, we will go again to the "Bodypaint 3D" Paint layout. What I would like to do is try an experiment. I will go to the Materials, and I will double-click down here. So I've created a material. It works exactly like a standard material. If I double-click here, I create a material, and if I double-click on the material, I set the properties. So let me get rid of both of these, and whether I create the material here or create it here, it's exactly the same thing, but with a different interface. We'll talk about this later. So, double-click, call this "mookie body." And I'm going to get my paintbrush and try to paint. Of course, I cannot paint, that's why I see the arrow, with the little circle in there, the "No" sign. Why is that? Well, number one, I need to apply my material to one of my objects. I'm going to apply it to the body, and then I'm…

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