[Brian Sneed]

Wow, thanks for all the great solutions. Looks like I got my work cut out for me this weekend.

[Brian Sneed]

Thanks Nolan. This is a very interesting solution. I’ll give it a try.
I was also looking at using the Bitmap node (Xpresso), but have
a ways to go with that.

[Brian Sneed]

Thank you very much, Adam and Mark, for you responses.
Thanks to your suggestions, I’m getting closer – but very slowly.
I hadn’t tried using the bump or displacement channels. Probably
just my inexperience; I’ve only been learning C4d for about
4 months. I will also look into the shadow and ray depth settings.

Trying to duplicate these experiments has surely helped me learn
a lot. I was pretty successful with the “3D Noise on a volumetric light”
experiment, and that really motivated me to trying some of the others.

I hadn’t really noticed, until just yesterday, that these were done about
3-4 years ago. Wow, he must have been very patient. I was very fortunate
to have purchased a G5 2.5MHz machine about 2 months ago – before
I started playing with these experiments. I can’t imagine using a G3/350!!

Anyway, I will continue on with this path to learning C4d. If you know of
any other sources for tutorials/inspiration, I would appreciate a “heads up”.

Thanks again guys.