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[TUT] Shiny C4D Text [Detailed] - Velvet. - Jun 18, 2011
Hey guys, I'm gonna show you how to make some pretty awesome text like this
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It is a more of an intermediate tutorial, so I am not gonna go in depth on creating text and such.
Requirements
-C4D (I use 12)
-Cool font(I used "Haunting Attraction")
-Making the text-
1. Use motext to create some text
2. Set the depth something around 80
3. Go to Caps
4. Make the settings like this
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Everything else is default
-Planes for Reflections-
1. Make a plane by going to the cube and then plane
2. The width and height can be adjusted to the size of the text you have
For me they are at:
Width: 1475 cm
Height: 400 cm
3. Zoom out and drag the plane under the text like this:
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4. Copy and paste the plane so that there are 2 of them and bring it above the text like this:
5. Add a regular light and drag it just above the plane.
Put the intensity at 75%
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6. Now you should line up the text in the center kind of like this:
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*Important* Make sure the planes are NOT visible
-Materials-
1. Create 4 materials, I'll name them a,b,c, and d for this tutorial
a. This is going to be used on the planes
Go into Luminance and set the color to white. Leave the brightness at 100% and keep Color and Specular the same.
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b. This is the main color of the text, I'm gonna use a dark red
Change the Color to the color of what you want (red for me)
Go to reflection and change the brightness to 10%
Change the texture of the brightness to Fresnel
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And the mix strength to 75%
c. This gives some nice reflections to the text
Uncheck Color
Add reflection and change the brightness to 75%
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d. This is pretty much the backing of the text
Leave everything the same and add on reflection
Set the brightness to 50%
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That is all for your materials
In the box they should look like this
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-Applying Materials-
1. Put material a on both of the planes
2. Put material d on the text first
3. Put material c on the text twice
4. On the first one, on selection put the selection to R1
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5. On the second one, put the selection to R2
6. Now put material b on the text with the selection of C1
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-Render Settings-
1. Go to effect and add Global Illumination and Ambient Occlusion
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2. For better quality images go add this on Anti-Aliasing
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3. Now you should know how to make it a picture or use it in an animation.
There you go :)
I used it in a youtube background on http://www.youtube.com/airbornecinemax
If you want my template pm me
Created 100% by me
And remember NO LEECHING ðŸ˜
* - Robert E. Lee - Jun 18, 2011
Can you make it animated? Because I always wanted to use one for an intro :333
* - Velvet. - Jun 18, 2011
(Jun 18, 2011 12:57 PM)VitalizeZ Wrote: Can you make it animated? Because I always wanted to use one for an intro :333
Yea. It isn't any different from normal text, so it will work. :)
* - Boo. - Jun 18, 2011
:) I LOVE SHINY THINGS! (Y) Thanks for this. New at C4D But I know that it's one of the best for intros and stuff.