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  • Diffuse Without Shadowing?

    Posted by Joe Walker on May 18, 2012 at 5:24 pm

    This is really easy in Maya, but I’m learning C4D and can’t seem to replicate this effect…

    I’m rendering a moving black and white procedural texture on a sphere to later be composited over a planet as an electrical field. The problem is that I can’t seem to get rid of the default shadowing. Cranking up the Diffuse and turning off Specular works in Maya, but isn’t working for me here. I tried rendering out a Diffuse pass but it’s still casting the default self shadowing from the scene lighting.

    Here’s an example…
    4173_diffprob.jpg.zip

    Joe Walker replied 13 years, 12 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Brian Jones

    May 18, 2012 at 6:11 pm

    put the noise into the Luminance channel instead

  • Joe Walker

    May 18, 2012 at 8:41 pm

    Thanks Brian! I knew I was going to feel like a tool when someone replied LOL

    Much appreciated

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