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Overlaying a texture on multiple objects
I’m new to the forums, so first of all: hello everyone!
I’ve been lurking around for a while and I’ve got a question myself. I’ll be posting some more in the future and hope to give my own tips one day too. Still a bit too fresh in cinema 4d to hand out help to others 😉
The thing I’m struggling with at the moment is; I’d like to overlay an image texture on multiple objects in my scene.
An example of this can be seen at the awesome Computerarts Opentype tutorial header image, created by ThinkDust:https://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d__and__photoshop/make_the_most_of_opentype
As you can see there is a plane and some extruded text, but there is a quite large image overlaying everything in the scene, which looks pretty awesome.
I’m sure there’s got to be an easier way to achieve this besides creating 2 different image texture materials for both the plane and the 3d extruded text. Does anyone know how one can achieve such an effect in Cinema 4d?
Regards,
Rick
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4 Replies
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Well, not sure how they did that particular example…,
but try a “gel” or a “lightmap”.Assign your Texture to the Materials Transparency-Channel,
and drag that Material on to your Spot-Light.You might have to render to see the result.
Cheers
Nolan -
another possibility is to toss all the objects in a null and place the texture on that and use Frontal for the mapping.
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Thanks a lot 🙂 It’s working out great…!
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Im also new to C4D and I tried the above, with no luck. Putting everything in a group as a null and applying the texture as frontal didn’t displace the image at all with the geometry.
Putting the texture image on transparency and using a spot light makes the texture this massive glob of nothing. I tried changing the height and angle of the light, but nothing makes it just project like normal.
Any other help? Did you get yours to work rick?
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