What's shader instancing for Cinema 4D?
The BlackStar Reference Shader Plugin provides the possibility to reuse shaders in different channels and materials. With this plugin you no longer need to perform time-consuming multiple copy and paste operations after each adjustment of shaders. Any changes of the source shader are automatically applied to every linked Reference Shader.
- Basic application of refshader
- display the light distribution in 3D
- New in 2.1: Overwriting single properties
What's new in Version 2.1?
- Overwrite specific properties of the source shader individually! E.g. you can let RefShader 2.1 instanciate every property of the source shader but define a different color (see animation below).
- VRAY-Materials and other non-standard C4D materials can now be transformed too (via "transform" and "transform all")
- VRAY-Materials and other materials can be also selected via the Select-Tree, too, now.
Version 2.1
- Overwrite specific properties of the source shader individually! E.g. you can let RefShader 2.1 instanciate every property of the source shader but define a different color (see animation).
- VRAY-Materials and other non-standard C4D materials can now be transformed too (via "transform" and "transform all")
- VRAY-Materials and other materials can be also selected via the Select-Tree, too, now.
Version 2.0
Now also for Mac 64bit!
- Reference Shader 2.0 now supports V-Ray shaders and any other shader being a part of an arbitrary Cinema 4D object. In the previous version only shaders of a material could be used by the RefShader select tree. The new version provides a link field where any shader at all can be dragged and dropped.
- Dynamic shader changes in animations: the linked shader is now capable of being changed over time in animations. You can use the link field of RefShader 2.0 in animations just like you are used to it. This allows you to easily alter your complete dynamic shader tree over time freely.
- The "transform" function to bake a RefShader can now be done for all RefShaders at once (thanks to Adam Trachtenberg and others for the suggestion). There's also a dedicated new command "Bake Reference Shaders" in the general plugins menu as well as a button in each RefShader's Tools Tab.
- The C4D function "remove unused materials" previously removed an unused material being linked by a RefShader which itself IS used in your scene. In RefShader 2.0 linked materials now persist in that situation (thanks to Chris Montesano for the suggestion).
- Enhanced overview to keep track of your shader dependencies
- Better usability (especially when having C4D R11)
- Some minor bugfixes
Available for:
- C4D Windows / Mac OS X both 32 and 64 bit
- for all Cinema4D Versions since 9.1+
