From the course: Introduction to 3D in After Effects
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Applying materials in Cinema 4D Lite
From the course: Introduction to 3D in After Effects
Applying materials in Cinema 4D Lite
- [Instructor] Now once you've created geometry inside of Cinema 4D Lite, it probably makes sense to go ahead and apply a material and that's what we're going to do in this video. So let's go down to the timeline and select our C4D layer and then go up under edit and choose edit original to launch Cinema 4D Lite. So if we look at our objects manager here, you can see I have an extrude object and it's looking at the null object and the path and that's letting me know that this is 3D geometry. Now, I don't want to adjust the scale of this object anymore so I'm going to go back over and grab my selection tool and then to apply a material, I'll come down here to the material manager, which is in the lower left corner of the interface. And I can go to create shader and I can choose shader or I could create a new material or a new PBR material. But I want to go to load material preset and under light in the materials, I want to go to glass and I'm going to go ahead and choose glass simple…
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