• Maxon Cinema 4D

  glossy face for text

  Posted by Tim Bowen on June 3, 2009 at 7:31 pm

  any suggestions on how to create a glossy face for text…. i.e. maltannon’s image here:
  https://maltaannon.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/web20.gif

  I know it’s probably pretty simple, but haven’t grasped it yet.
  something to do with the diffuse channel?
  thanks

  Elin Grome replied 16 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Brian Jones

  June 4, 2009 at 1:07 am

  that looks like it was done in Photoshop but it can be done in 3D approximately like this (very crude) example
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  Tim Bowen

  June 4, 2009 at 3:19 am

  Hi Brian,

  thanks for the response. Yeah that reference was actually done in AE.
  I’m on Cinema 9.6, and supposing that’s why your file won’t open.
  Anyway you could relate that info?

  thanks

  http://www.timbowen.com
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  Brian Jones

  June 4, 2009 at 2:17 pm

  There’s probably a lot of ways but my example was using a compressed Capsule for the object with a Danel shader on it. Close above it is a disk with a white texture with full luminance on it. To get the disk to not show in the render but still cause the highlight it has a Compositing tag with Seen By Camera unchecked.

  Add light(s) to taste…
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  Elin Grome

  November 25, 2009 at 7:29 pm

  …then get yourself a copy of After Effects 😉

  It’s all the those pesky details :p

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