• Maxon Cinema 4D

  How to get the basic matte look using Ambient Occlusion ??

  Posted by Rajarshi Basu on December 28, 2009 at 7:52 pm

  Hi,

  Coming from a Softimage background, all I had to do was click AO and get a nice matte look applied to my objects. But working in C4D, I can’t get that look. It is such a simple thing to do , can someone please point out what I am missing here ? Do I have to use lights or something ?

  Thanks

  Raj

  Adam Trachtenberg replied 16 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  December 29, 2009 at 2:41 pm

  First, add the AO effect in render settings and check “use sky environment”. Then create add a sky object from the Objects>Scene menu/palette (not Objects>Sky>Create Sky). That’s pretty much it.
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  Rajarshi Basu

  December 30, 2009 at 5:47 pm

  Hi Adam,

  I had to create a Material, and then add Texture> Ambient Occlusion , to get the look. Yes the sky needed to be created too.

  Thanks,

  Raj
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  December 30, 2009 at 6:30 pm

  Using the AO effect will do the same thing but on a scene-wide basis. For the real clay render effect you’d also want to turn off material specularity.

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