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Introduction to Redshift - Part 2: Understanding Node Materials
Join Maxon Trainer Elly Wade as she guides you through learning Redshift inside of Cinema 4D right from the beginning. Throughout this four-part workshop Elly will be diving into a wide range of techniques from understanding node materials, to creating lights and camera effects and even jumping into some of the essential render settings for that perfect finished look.
Get comfortable in Redshift in just 4 weeks. These 2-hour sessions are designed for artists with little to no experience in Redshift and will be run inside of Cinema 4D 25. Attendees are invited to follow along with the techniques shown throughout the session, however they are also recorded and available to re-watch in your own time.
Project Files: www.dropbox.com/sh/nd6lstbu5f...
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00:00:00 Welcome and Celebrate
00:01:28 Course overview
00:03:22 Housekeeping
00:04:50 Part 2 overview
00:06:50 Textures [Node]
00:09:38 __ Preview
00:10:38 __ Starting
00:12:30 __ How to start [nodes]
00:14:10 __ RS Material -Part1
00:15:40 __ Wood texture
00:18:47 __ Quick drop method
00:19:10 __ Four textures at once
00:20:15 __ Connecting different qualities
00:24:50 __ Data map Roughness
00:27:30 __ Tip: Invert map
00:29:46 __ Normal map, Bump Node
00:37:10 __ Displacement, Displ. Node
00:39:45 __ RS Object Tag, enable Displacement
00:44:15 Q Displacement Workings
00:47:45 Q Specs
00:49:40 __ Position, Rotation, Scaling
00:53:50 Metal material
00:54:50 Q How to get to the shader graph
00:56:50 __ Material Preset
00:57:15 __ Metalness
00:57:55 __ Dirt map [Asset browser]
01:00:40 __ Texture Projection
01:01:50 __ RS TriPlanar Node
01:04:50 Q Node color Code [Categories]
01:06:33 __ Connecting Rs TriPlanar
01:07:38 __ Adjusting via RS Ramp
01:12:02 __ More signs of use, RS M Blender, mask
01:16:00 Q Cinema 4D v. Redshift 3D noise
01:17:33 __ Rs Blender Node “Dirt” [cont]
01:22:40 __ Invert via Rs Ramp
01:24:25 __ Summery example two
01:25:20 Q Blend mask options
01:28:27 Q Save as Preset, Save Asset
01:31:05 Grungy Wall example
01:32:50 __ C4D Shaders and RS Texture
01:36:45 __ Tiles Normal map
01:38:28 __ Grungy Tiles, RS Material Blender
01:39:45 __ Drippy texture [Asset browser]
01:41:14 __ Invert via RS Ramp
01:41:56 __ Re-using data
01:42:21 __ Adding Bump Map
01:43:43 __ Adding scratches Displacement
01:46:46 __ Summery so far
01:47:45 __ Displacement, RS Object Tag
01:49:45 Leather [walk through] RS Color Cor.
01:52_08 __ Leather - RS Bump Blender
01:55:38 Converting Material
02:00:36 Q Recordings are available when
02:01:14 Q Q&A in the Dropbox access
02:04:01 That's a wrap
02:04:33 See you Next Week!
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[@motionichodesign]

at last - clear explanations - thank you!

[@Pepper-uz6vg]

That was such a lovely session! Many thanks to Elly and the team at Maxon for putting this together. I've learnt so much in the last couple days. Keep them coming, thank you!

[@moonth]

Absolutely great. Many thanks for explaining so much things in a one video!

[@ErElBabl]

Thank you Elly for this great tutorial. I learned so much in just two sessions. Looking forward for the next

[@donross7820]

I have been using Redshift for a year now but I learned a lot from your series! Thank you so much.

[@justhitplay]

Great job Elly! Happy Birthday!

[@marcoruesta8116]

Thank you for making it easy to follow..

[@TheGrrson]

Thanks so much for this series. I'm just starting out with RS on a M1 MacBook Pro. I love it so far!

[@seguradesign]

This is brilliant. I've been looking for this sort of walk-through of RS nodes since I installed RS. Thank you Maxon/Elly for finally putting this together.

[@warunasavalertluk8450]

You teach very well Thank you Elly

[@philipstockton9965]

These are awesome, thank you!

[@MattWhittingham]

So much has changed in r26, shame this was not done a few months later to reflect the changes

[@christopherfranklin4889]

Yeah! R26 is brilliant - but I'm still using S24 for some things because most of my plugins don't work with R26

[@christopherfranklin4889]

Really nicely explained!

[@peterarellano5919]

Thank you Elly!

[@user-pd1hw1nz9p]

Cool! Thanks a lot!🔥

[@kaesekrustechannel]

I really appreciate your tutorials, I am new to c4d and try to learn redshift simultaneously. I feel a little overwhelmed, this feels like a really really advanced tutorial. Do you recommend learning redshift at the very start? Thank you so much!

[@paulo972100]

Amazing introduction! Im really ok to star with redshift now and, I want know how to blend together (and ramdomly) 2 albedo map , like for grass shader to make them more natural.

[@dduck4200]

Thanks for that perfect tutorial. I have two little questions. Could you, please, clarify: 1) If there any opportunities for separate dimensions by axis when we plugged up "constant" node to scale/rotation/position? 2) As i understood, when we use normal and bump or a few bumps/normals textures in one material we should use "bump blender" node. But if it's correct, it turns out like we blend them and decrease their weight value at the end at a half, cause, for example,now we see 50% normal texture and 50% bump texture. So, is it mean that in that case we need multiply default values of weight in both textures (before we plugged in "bump blender" node) at least by twice?

[@sultanotaibi8380]

just thanku

[@vfx_jon]

I usually use an blend weight of 1 and tick additive mode. i think thats the same as blending half and half. kind of

[@TutorialVirusRj]

💓💓

[@NyoraiFidesTV]

Hi I am following this webinar with the node editor interface instead of the one from standard redshift and for some weird reason there's not the C4D shared in there. But when I switch to the standard redshift interface that node is actually there....does anyone know the reason?

[@donross7820]

When I vary the Hue in the Color Correct Node of the Scratches shader there is no change in final render of your fantastic example file. Why is that?

[@atruefreethinker1944]

I am finding YOUR tutorials to be very informative. You are a great trainer. Maybe you can communicate this, I'd really like to have a deep dive into the ramp node. You teased that you could spend 30 minutes on it. I'm guessing I only know a small percentage of what it can do, and I'd love to learn as much as possible.

[@lexxandera]

0:42: Wouldn't you have to activate tessellation as well, since the geometry has not enough polygons?

[@Kooberz]

I’m stuck at 1:32…I’m building this and following along using the Node Editor in R26 instead of the Shader Graph and it’s not possible to add the C4D Shader as a node. What am I missing?

[@Kooberz]

A member of my team found the answer to my question in a forum post. "It (C4D Shader) doesn't exist (in the R26 node editor) because that node is just a "texture baker" that bakes out the nodes for other engines if your not using the Standard Surface…but you can just reference it in from Xpresso into the new nodes system.”

[@gregoryreneau1052]

For whatever reason, I've followed the Tri-Planar Node portion how you illustrated in the video, in the latest version of C4D and it doesn't fix the bad wrap. Any suggestions?

[@irynahadzhan6218]

Hello. What can be the reason I can not turn on ENABLED in the displacement of object tag (geometry-displacement-enabled)?

[@PHaNtoM44443]

Why aren't you using the new node editor? :)

[@mofogamingttv9835]

I am not able to move my "tex" files into the shader? 😞

[@atefezare5623]

I was really ecstatic about redshift coming in cinema 4d and I can access it in cinema 4d but when I want to render, it does not work and shows following messages: license error, no device available. why does it do that?

[@tatyana_botvinko]

The constant node is not in the new version of Cinema 2023. I found only Color Constant. Could you please help me?

[@SLAMINGKICKS]

c4d shader node is not in R26 noder editor?

[@EasirVfx]

Hi there, My question is at 23.28 sec Author said, ' Color space For base texture is sRGB ' why not ACEG CG ? ACES CG is designed for 3d rendering specifically. what's the reason please Can you tell me ?

[@postmanpilgrim]

I asked a question in the webinar, but I guess I will try again here. I have a bunch of redshift materials in my library. If I need to uninstall and reinstall C4D, how do I back up libraries of materials now? It use to be all in a Lib file. Can anyone help with this?

[@8KGHOST]

Just google how to export material assets lol - doesn't matter what render engine ur using its all the same

[@MaxonTrainingTeam]

Hey Brian, sorry we didn't get to answer your question live. I'm putting together a Q&A doc for all questions throughout this workshop which can be found on the project file link. You can save assets to a custom database and here's a quick tip on how to do that kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4G6i2x3f5tla7M - It's recorded in 24 but the functionality is the same. Hope this helps!

[@ZebraStudioNS]

Can some of the next lessons be more about BakeSet options and AOVs (texture baking). e.g. How to render one texture map for multiple objects using a custom (combined) UV source.

[@MaxonTrainingTeam]

Hey, as this is an intro to Redshift course we probably won't get round to creating custom AOVs and BakeSets, but this is a great topic suggestion and we'll share it with the team for future webinars!

[@vfx_jon]

There are videos out there already for custom AOVs

[@Oldyellowbrick]

I can remember a while ago Redshift teased the integration of the RS materials into the C4D material nodes (not Xpresso interface) What happened to that?

[@MaxonTrainingTeam]

Hey, yes you can work in either the RS Shader Graph or in C4Ds Node Editor, here's a short webinar snippet on some of the differences kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2LVgnWXe9aogpI - For this intro course we're learning in the RS shader graph

[@Oldyellowbrick]

@@MaxonTrainingTeam ahh ok so not all the nodes are in there. That’s a bit strange because it was over a year since they teased it..So seems like half a job imo. I only just moved over from Octane and I really miss the node editor. What really annoys me about RS is that your INPUTs are not there to begin with, you have to create the ports for everything. But then, I’m sort of trying to see past the less user-friendly nodes as there’s so many more benefits you gain with RS over Octane! That’s coming from a long time Octane user.

[@IsuruRandika]

Hey , Are you going to do a tutorial on New Node workflow (S26) ?

[@MaxonTrainingTeam]

Hey, yes we are, we've got a new HOWMaxon Level-Up Workshop starting in June www.maxon.net/en/event/hands-on-with-maxon-cinema-4d-level-up-part-1 we will be diving into some Redshift too, including the C4D Node Editor workflow

[@IsuruRandika]

@@MaxonTrainingTeam great 😍

[@irynahadzhan6218]

Hey guys. Why does the Node Editor open instead of Shader Graph when I double click on the RS Material? How can I open a Shader Graph? Many thanks

[@MaxonTrainingTeam]

Hey Iryna, you can switch this back by going to Edit > Preferences then find Redshift under the Renderer drop down, and turn off 'Node Materials for Presets'. Now when you double click it'll create a Shader Graph material for you. Hope this helps, Elly

[@irynahadzhan6218]

@@MaxonTrainingTeam OMG, it works! I spent 2 days trying to fix the problem , but couldn’t. Thank you Elly. 🌸 Now I can go on my learning

[@acidvideothomas8383]

Has there been a big change in the graph editor since this video? The old one doesn't seem to work at all and the new one looks completely different. And now there is a RS Material and a RS Standard Material. Or is it just me?

[@MaxonTrainingTeam]

Hey, you're right, this workshop was run prior to Redshift 3.5 which came with a new Standard Material and it also uses the Redshift Shader Graph. Here's a useful video on the C4D Node Editor and the new Standard Material in Redshift; beta.cineversity.com/en/series/getting-started-with-redshift?tutorial=getting-started-with-redshift-part-3-redshift-materials - Hope this helps

[@yusef4d]

The issue people are having with following along, with the new program updates, is that the REDSHIFT MATERIAL or STANDARD material opens up the NODE EDITOR, and what we need to follow this tutorial along exactly is the REDSHIFT GRAPH EDITOR. The only way I found to get the REDSHIFT GRAPH EDITOR is by starting with a different material found here: REDSHIFT / MATERIALS / MATERIAL / C4D MATERIAL. From there you can delete everything in the graph editor except the "RS MATERIAL" and "OUTPUT" and you should be able to follow Elly along exactly.

[@luangia9169]

40:00

[@michaelzhang2885]

god bless u xdd

[@donross7820]

Just for the record, I got knocked out of a spelling bee because I spelled "aluminum" as aluminium and now I see they are both equally correct. Not fair.

[@Thortonrhodes]

Yes this doesn't work with your new RS Standard nodes. Material blender says its an illegal combination trying this layout kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIG1ZH2hqpudp9E