#Water material cinema 4d how to#

In the Material Panel go to File>New Material. The material we will use to create the water is very important.

Tip: Change the angle and distance of the view by dragging the icons on the top right hand corner of the preview window. Render the Perspective View to see how it's looking. In the Attributes panel for the HyperNURBS object change the Subdivisions to 3 and use Linear (R7) for the Type. In the Objects panel click and drag the Sweep NURBS group of layers into the new HyperNURBS layer (2). So click on the Add HyperNURBS Object icon and select HyperNURBS (1). Let's make it a little smoother and then add a nice water texture. The object is getting quite nice, but there's still some adjustments to be done. You can use the ones I used from the image below (4). There isn't any fixed value, they will depend on the size of your text path. With the Melt Object selected go to its Attributes panel and play with some values. Again, drag the melt layer into the Sweep NURBS layer, (3) it wil be right below the Zee path. Click on the Add Bend Object (1) and then select Melt (2). Then in the Attributes panel use the image below for reference (3), but make sure that you change the Rotation. Move the path and the rectangle into the Sweep NURBS objects (2). In the Objects panel you will have the 3 object layers, the Zee path, the rectangle and the Sweep NURBS. Click on the Add HyperNURBS Object icon and select Sweep NURBS (1).

In the Attributes panel change the width and height to 30m, select Rounding and use 3m for it (3).Д®ven though it might look a complicated, this step is quite simple. To do that click on the Draw a Freehand Spline icon (1) and select Rectangle (2). Select the Point Tool (1) and the just click and with the Move Tool (2), move the points, use the Axis arrows to make sure you are moving to the right direction and axis.ДЄfter you finish editing the path, add a rectangle. In Illustrator we have a simple 2D path, now we can move in a 3D enviroment and that will give a nice effect. Let's edit the path just to add a bit of depth to it. Select the Illustrator file to import it. Open Maxon Cinema 4D and go to File>Merge. Save the Illustrator file, we will import it in Cinema 4D. Use 10 pixels for the Fidelity and 50 % for the Smoothness. Using the Pencil Tool (N), double click its tool icon to open the Pencil Tool Option. I used Adobe Illustrator to write the text. The first thing to do is create a hand writing with the text you want to use for the effect. We will use Illustrator for the text, then Cinema 4D to make it a 3D text and Photoshop to mix the 3D with some real photos to create a nice and realistic result. Even though it might look compex it's a very simple effect.

#Water material cinema 4d how to#

So, in this tutorial I will show you how to create a water text effect. To create the effect, I had to use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Maxon Cinema 4D. I didn't know what to do then I saw the desktop wallpaper I'm using, a image from the depthCORE Heist chapter created by Sumeco that we used of the Wallpaper of the Week 43. Yesterday it was raining and I decided to create a water effect.