# C4D Materials
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-materials/29738
**Category:** design
**Created:** [August 30, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-materials/29738 "2003-08-30T00:23:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Sauce2k](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sauce2k)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-materials/29738/1 "2003-08-30T00:23:06Z")
Can anyone here provide a liquid - metal material for Cinema 4D. An example would be in the [Infinium Labs](http://www.infiniumlabs.com/intro.html) website layout. The layout is metallic, with a plastic look. Anything in .c4d format would be greatly appreciated. Electrongeek, feel free to input anything at anytime 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-materials/29738/2 "2003-08-30T00:37:54Z")
Play around. Trust me, getting materials or any source from others won’t help you learn. Play around with the reflection and such in basic and you can customize your own metal material.😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-materials/29738/3 "2003-08-30T00:39:59Z")
Thx, any other suggestions or sources???
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2003, 8:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-materials/29738/4 "2003-08-30T08:38:43Z")
make it shiny with a high peek of specular (choose ‘plastic’)
you need some reflection but not too much and a color -
and you need to have some sort of background; a black background won’t work…
[http://mlkdesign.online.fr/misc/kirupa/material.c4d](http://mlkdesign.online.fr/misc/kirupa/material.c4d) for the material
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-materials/29738/5 "2003-08-30T12:38:36Z")
ive been fideling around in c4d, and i have some questions about lighting, because i can never get mine real good… some tips would be appreciated. thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-materials/29738/6 "2003-08-30T12:50:06Z")
go ahead; post your questions:
for the few ‘tips’ i could give:
-use soft shadows with a HIGH definition map, around 1750\*1750.
-Put your lights far away
-If necessary, lit up your work with 3 different bulbs, but don’t forget to decrease each one’s intensity
-when rendering don’t forget to put the best antialiasing
-experiment a lot. And I mean A LOT.
anyway what do you _really_ wanna know about lighting ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-materials/29738/7 "2003-08-30T17:41:11Z")
mlk, thx a lot :thumb:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-materials/29738/8 "2003-08-30T17:49:06Z")
mlk, I’d love to see some tutorials from you :beam:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/c4d-materials/29738/9 "2003-08-30T21:54:50Z")
c4d ?? nah i don’t have any skills, it’s just when i fool around with it, most people can do that with a few hour’s experience