[Ienaos]

Making your own materials in Cinema 4D

Go down to the dock at the bottom and go Create > New material
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Now double click on the material to open the editor

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Load the image that you want on yours, I'll pick a grunge

Now right click on your material (top left corner) and choose

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Now go back to color, and choose "layer"

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Now click on the bar that has layer on it

Then go to effect > hue sat lightness
(you can choose other ones too)

Play around with this until it fits your standards

Now go down to "Bump" and select another image
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Lower the strength to 10

Now go to displacement and select an image
and you should get something like this

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Lower the opacity to 30-40

Now go to environment and select another image
Lower the brightness to about 10 and set the mix strength to 20
You can also do the same thing with Diffusion and Lumincance if you want

Final Outcome:
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Now you can start making materials like a pro! 🎉

[Raitz]

Nice tutorial. Getting your materials to look right is always important.