• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Subdivision Surface–light only one object in inside?

  Posted by Tim Vining on November 27, 2022 at 5:58 pm

  Is there a way to light only one of multple objects inside a Subdivision Surface? For example, if I place two spheres (A & B) in a null, inside a SS container and tell a single light in the scene to illuminate only sphere A, it doesn’t light sphere A (or B), but it does light only sphere A if I turn off the SS. If I turn the SS back on and tell the light to illuminate the whole SS, it illuminates both spheres. Is there a way to light only sphere A in this scenario?

  

  ss_issue.png 121 KB Image File - Click to view

  • Copy Download Link

  Michael blaq replied 3 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
• 1 Reply

• 

  Michael blaq

  December 5, 2022 at 10:14 pm

  Hi Tim, the issue was with your scene setup. You will have to break up your hierarchy by having sphere A and B in a separate Subdivision Surface(SS) object in order to only illuminate one object/mesh at a time. See my screenshot below for illuminate each object separately. Hope this helps. Cheers!!

  Running on Cinema 4D 2023.

  

  

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up