Material Stacking and Decals In Redshift

Tutorial to help Cinema 4D users understand material stacking and decals workflow in Redshift
Note:
Since I made this tutorial, dragging a material in the Shader Graph no longer creates automatically a Reference Node, it is now to be found under the Utilities nodes and then the material has to be dragged into the node's Object field.

[@vizardesign]

This is Best Tutorial about stacking textures! Everything is covered!

[@boblolo3977]

I'm glad it helped !

[@niyistark85]

Started getting to use RS earlier this year mainly for motion graphics and having to put images on objects have been a major part of what I do regularly. This particular tutorial of all I've seen happens to be the most helpful and understandable one hands down. Great tutorial, thanks. 👌👍

[@adrianhargrave]

The definitive texture stacking tutorial for Redshift! Thank you for making this! It helped me out so much.

[@jessiezus9284]

A really great tutorial, thank you! I love how you explain everything and go through difference scenarios, ranging in complexity. Would love to get some more tutorials from you!

[@donross7820]

After my second time through your tutorial I have to say that it is my favorite tutorial on this tricky subject! Thanks so much.

[@matreyia]

Holy Moly... that was super focused no nonsense. Thanks for your contribution to the community.

[@nevraXmike]

thank you so much for posting this video, it really helped me understand the process of linked UV's and material layers and alphas.

[@anmstudio]

Just wanna say thank you, something new to learn from this tutorial

[@javierinDeutschland4155]

Thank you so much, this was driving crazy trying to solving it on my own, great video. short and useful

[@dirtcreature3d]

So useful, thank you! Im using houdini but thankfully all the techniques apply perfectly

[@kapilchakre]

Wat a neat & Clean tutorial! Thanks! Love From INDIA!

[@charleshoran9962]

This was/is a great tutorial..you just solved so many frustrations for me. Thanks :D

[@boblolo3977]

You're welcome.

[@ducthien244]

Amazing video, thanks for sharinggggg!

[@infinitedream9342]

Great tutorial! Well explained. Thumbs up.

[@gbiny7291]

Amazing tutorial! Thank you!

[@dmitriy2366]

Thanks you! The best tutorial!

[@vakich11]

Thank you so much! perfect tutorial!

[@hrihori_art]

Thank you, you're very clear!

[@dinazi9053]

Best tutorial ever

[@baphuong4011]

GREAT TUT 😘

[@HazemZakaria]

SOOO MANY PROBLEMS were solved.. Thank you!

[@boblolo3977]

You're welcome

[@nayemrahman8333]

thank you so much sir , take love from Bangladesh 🤎💜💙💚💛🧡❤

[@danish_shahab]

You are the boss Bob! Cheers!

[@boblolo3977]

You're welcome.

[@lucasfalduzzi7958]

Thank you man ! very helpful :)

[@MuhammadAbid-ld9yt]

very nice tutorial.. thanks alot!

[@Custard_Pie]

Holy shit this is complicated)) thanks for a great tutorial

[@visualride-davidcox2243]

Great tutorial! One funny side note, at least for me, is that you used a Jason Jesse skateboard deck sticker (the sun). I used to print those onto thousands of Santa Cruz skateboards a few decades ago.

[@saiboredoodles]

Thank you so much!:D

[@BretKenworthy]

Thanks for the tutorial!

[@boblolo3977]

You're welcome!

[@3dinovo2]

Very good !!!!!!!!! Thank you very much!

[@boblolo3977]

Thanks 3dinovo

[@MirkoMancini]

Very useful video, thanks

[@boblolo3977]

Thanks Mirko.

[@SVQ153]

This saves me

[@ryanvaughan1247]

So good, thank you

[@boblolo3977]

Thanks Ryan.

[@AzatBayamanov]

very usefull! Thank you!

[@MRasey22]

Good stuff

[@jakejakejakejakejakejake]

This was an amazing video, next time I come I'm going to say your name aloud! X

[@boblolo3977]

Thanks Jake

[@petrholusa5855]

This is fantastic! Thank you. I love redshift but playing with textures and placing them on right spot is a nightmare for me. Especially I don't understand why is so difficult to set up the projection just on front.

[@boblolo3977]

Happy I could help!

[@Skedooosh]

Thanks

[@klimaco360]

thanks

[@freezyterror]

God!

[@emirhaziq8606]

Cheers for the tutorial! Do you know how to save the alpha channel in photoshop? As the alpha channel isn't appearing in redshift when I import the PSD file

[@rinoa3108]

Great tutorial! What if my sticker has no alpha channel and is a rectangle (like a wine bottle label)? Is the material blender node still needed?

[@j.ssuarez]

Pretty cool! but if you move the camera then the yellow sticker is going to change where it's being seen correct? if the rayswitch is being driven by the camera angle

[@boblolo3977]

I think it driven by normal direction.

[@donross7820]

Great tutorial! Thank you. How did you make the Redshift spiral material in the Material Window?

[@boblolo3977]

Thank you. It's one of cinema's procedural textures: Texture / Surfaces / Tiles / Spiral 1, then my own colors

[@donross7820]

@@boblolo3977 Thank you! I forgot about that route. I was thinking math nodes.

[@jordanwright5795]

Nice tutorial! Just curious why you would duplicate the sticker texture for the color splitter? Can’t you just pipe the out from the same texture node into a color splitter node without needing to duplicate the original texture? What your doing works but can create problems if you need to move or scale the decal. Having two separate textures for each sticker makes it so that you have to make the changes twice if a move or scale is needed. I guess you could pipe a transform into both textures but that’s an unnecessary extra complication on an already convoluted process compared to other renderers like Arnold etc…

[@mvpro2k8]

To demonstrate the use of Vector User Data node is my guess.

[@petrholusa5855]

I tried that Ray swith method but nothing happened. Do you think I have to use somehow the UW coordinates or UV channel?

[@boblolo3977]

RedShift is very dependent of normal direction, make sure they face outward, Cinema surface generator (Extrude, Loft ...) have a flip normal switch. And don't forget to click: Enable Front/Back :)

[@bilaladvertizer]

Super Share More Tips Redshift Materials

[@boblolo3977]

I'll try, thanks.

[@mickymehta4545]

Layer option in greyed out , help ?

[@PHaNtoM44443]

Cool, thank you! But what if the glas has thickness? Then the sticker appears on the inside of the rear glass becaust of the flat projection..

[@boblolo3977]

Thanks, Easily solved with a Polygon Selection Tag on the inner part of your object and applying just the base material without the sticker.

[@PHaNtoM44443]

@@boblolo3977 thanks bob, that's how i did it eventually 😅

[@xpez9694]

great tutorial but man this is so much effort for something that would take a few easy steps in C4d shader system...LOL A giant network just for some stickers and simple textures...LOL oh well Maxon bought redshift now we are all stuck with this workflow! I have to get over it.. all of that redshift speed is lost when setting up the shaders... meanwhile the standard render is already almost finished rendering... when you just found the right tutorial for layer stacking and got it all working..LOL

[@yoyoz333]

nice tutorial. but its frustrating how stupidly complicated the process is in redshift, when all this can be done in a couple of seconds in standard render.

[@boblolo3977]

Yep, I agree.

[@bozonini]

12:27 Daerth Vader voice

[@frankking6412]

Nice work! There's not a lot out there on this.

[@boblolo3977]

I know, I too was frustrated in the beginning .

[@hohosio]

I have a question. What should I do if I want to make a square box and put the same image on each side?

[@scfletch]

If the shape is pretty simple I would make a selection of each face and map each face separately using flat projection. Using this method for a simple square box is probably overkill tbh. Alternatively you could use the triplaner.

[@boblolo3977]

have you tried the square projection?

[@paulroverdesign]

Redshift invented the hardest way in the world to do something. So many nodes only for alpha channel. I never remember this, thx for this video. How use the texture which not stretch and save its original proportions? I tried different projections and recreate a UV tags, but still picking up by eye 0_0 It's not fixing even when I change Subdivide UVs to "edge" in subdivision surfaces.

[@paulroverdesign]

I watch this tutorial every time because something go wrong every time xD

[@MotionLove]

Ray Switch doesn't work in my texture. I'm doing everything exactly same as you did, nope, not working.. Frustrating..

[@boblolo3977]

RedShift is very dependent of normal direction, make sure they face outward, Cinema surface generator (Extrude, Loft ...) have a flip normal switch. And don't forget to click: Enable Front/Back :)

[@MotionLove]

@@boblolo3977 Thank you :)

[@babaallerbabas3194]

When i add my stickers , why in the fuck they are bleached ??? I did everything right where is problem `? somebody know ?

[@orcusdei]

head blown

[@Film-VFX-Animation]

He Sounds like Guillermo del Toro.

[@boblolo3977]

Thanks!

[@capt_howdy]

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