Cinema 4d

I was wondering how if the have a gradient tool for the material (mesh) editor in cinema 4d XL version 7.200. please help.

I use Cinema 4D, but your question is a bit confusing so could you clarify? Maybe I can help. =)

i wanted to make a platonic type shape site spikes have a kind of aqua feel to it. So i wanted to mix blue white and a darker blue together. In the new material window I saw a screenshot of some guy making a person with a gradient tool in c4d. I was just wondering if this was the right version and if it is were it is.

Ok I’m assuming you already have a spike created, but if you want to give it an transparent water look, you need to first create a texture for a new material and have the transparency attribute turned on, on the material. You’ll also need to place your spike object inside a hyper NURB which will round and smooth out the spike to give it a sleaker appearance. I’m working on a tutorial for Cinema 4D on how to make spikes, I’m almost done.

i know how to do all that nurbing stuff but what i really need to work on is making a proffesional looking mesh or material for the spike.

here this might help

If you want to just apply color then select the color you want in that material panel you have opened and then drag the material on to your object. That is just for applying color, to make it look like how you stated above then it’s going to require a texture made from an outside source. Here is an example.

http://www.electrongeek.net/subatomic.html

wha would be a good text maker?

jeez that must have taken a year to make and 2 more to render

I usually use photoshop to make my textures and that sample took me about an hour to make and 30 min to render. =)

Xero, I just noticed the comment you left on my tagboard and I was wondering if you would like to be a beta tester for my tutorial. Before I hand it over to Kirupa, I want someone to actually go through it and tell me if it was clear enough and since you seem eager to learn, I’ll let you test it out. It should be done pretty soon, I just need to take a few more screen shots.

Thats cool with me :slight_smile:

sorry about my half-assed posts i am very tired. And i cannot really think straight