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Illuminate unlit areas of a geometry (no backlight)
Hi guys. I’ve been trying to learn C4D for the past days (I was using 3ds Max before).
I’m creating Earth and I want to add a Luminance layer that contains a bitmap with the city lights. However, I don’t this lights to show on the illuminated part of the planet. That’s why I added a backlight shader.
Unfortunately, I can’t control how much the lights intersect the illuminated area. The backlight shader stops and I get a black line between the illuminated area and the backlight shader.
Any ideia on how I can achieve this effect?
Thanks!
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Aspiring VFX and 3D Artist -
2 Replies
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put the night lights image into a layer with the Backlight shader set to multiply (or whatever works best).
13263_earthnightlights.c4d.zip
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Thank you for your help!
I was doing that, but the problem is: I want the night lights to overlap the diffuse map. Cause if they don’t overlap, the transition between then looks kinda bad.
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