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63 - Happy Birthday Shader Gift

🕑 Added 2024-10-07 21:23:25 +0000 UTC

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Sean Zingelewicz

Loading and working! Thanks Vincent :)

Vincent Schwenk

It can take a while (depending on your internet)

Sean Zingelewicz

Thanks Vincent. Now I have a new problem. When setting up the database, the program says "Downloading / Please Wait" but nothing seems to happen. Can anyone share with me how long there download times took?

Vincent Schwenk

hm, that sounds tough. Sorry I have no idea. Perhaps deleting everything and reinstalling? Or you try the Maxon directory: https://support.maxon.net/hc/en-us/articles/1500006433061-Where-do-I-install-plugins-for-Cinema-4D

Vincent Schwenk

Can you try to delete the old plugin first, then load it again?

Sean Zingelewicz

Plugin doesn't show up in the materials folder. Help please

Vincent Schwenk

nice, yeah I just wanted to write, that it doesn't work with opacity gradients. Will check that out, thank you 😍

Vincent Schwenk

Yeah this helps a lot if your mask has a 100% contrast, as far as I know is that stencil masks can't give you a gradient of different opacities, it's either off or on.

Starr

Thank you Vincent I have deleted the old one, However it does not seem to work on my Mac c4d2025.0.1 has anyone got it to work on Sequoia. Perhaps I am doing something wrong.? So an update window pops up with the opening of Cinema 4d all the time now however, the update installer has already been installed inside C4d as per instructions however the plugin does not seem to update. I can't find my shaders from you from before or any new ones.

Roberto Gonzalez Rey

Realizing that this approach doesn't work with opacity gradients I discovered that using OSL Halftone pushed to the max does a nice trick! Here is a file with a demo of these materials: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/upyi19ingotttngus5ze3/Sprites_VS_Opacity.zip?rlkey=9791goapd7mmcsz37xbtc5pvf&st=4clqbqmu&dl=0

Roberto Gonzalez Rey

Thanks Vincent and congrats on your anniversary! Quick idea for materials you want to use opacity and are getting too slow to render. Instead of applying the texture as a material opacity, you can output your material into a Sprite node and use the desired opacity texture as a Stencil Shader of the Sprite, then you can connect the Sprite node to the final output node and you are done :-)