Redshift Essential Materials v3 : C4D

The material networks include notes which explain how to work with each setup.

Refractive / Transmissive / SSS

Starting with a basic glass material, this set includes many variations possible using the transmission settings.  From adding dispersion or using thin film for iridescent rainbow effects, through to frosting and single sub-surface scattering for more dense coloured glass, plastics and rubber.

Subsurface Scattering

Three examples of using sub-surface scattering which scatters light in multiple directions inside the object surface to create translucent effects.

Metallic / Coated

Exploring various metallic effects, adding thin film and scratches. This set includes the flakes shader for glitter and sparkles, combined with the coat layer for classic metal flake car paint. Create brushed metal with anisotropic highlights and repeating patterns.

Unlike any other shader pack, this collection has been designed for learning Redshift.
A library of pre-built node networks to quickly access the most useful setups.

Patterns / Surfaces

Redshift comes with many nodes for creating repeating patterns and shapes, these materials offer some great starting setups for creating brick, wood, paving and tiles patterns. Including some alternative approaches for these nodes. The tiles shader is combined to create geometric patterns such as tartan and gingham, all created procedurally in the material network.

Texture Based Materials

This set of materials use the classic PBR setup with diffuse, roughness, metal, normal and displacement texture maps. Textures created using substance designer, rendered seamless at 4K.

Displacement

Displacement can be enabled globally in the render settings or enabled per object using the RS Render Tag. Redshift supports both vertex and texture based displacement and these materials offer a few examples of how to set this up. Check the RS Render Tag for each object to see the type of displacement used.

Variation / Mograph

Render random coloured clones using one Redshift material and define the range of colours using Fields or with a Ramp. Easily randomise shader attributes with the Jitter Shader or Materials with Random Materials Switch. Several examples of a multi-shader network allowing you to combine multiple textures in one material channel, including a material to create a full set of pool balls.

Mapping / Utility Shaders

Some of the most helpful nodes in Redshift are covered here. Add wear and tear on edges or dust settling on the surface. Explore falloff types such as world, camera and object space to create unique effects. Use vertex maps to transfer color and weight attributes from geometry to material. Calculate distance for height effects or to add rust around the edges of object intersections.

Wireframe

Three examples of how to render using the RS wireframe node, this is great combined with Ray Switch to colour the inside of your object differently. Also includes a variation using the distance node to create a wireframe, this allows for softer lines to be rendered.

Other Shaders

This includes the Sprite shader, great for things like leaves etc where you need a lot of images repeated and it requires a very high ray depth, Sprite shader deals with this. Also includes a few examples of SSS with the old RS material. They are still very valid and have their uses for specific effects.

Volumes

Render fire, smoke, clouds and multi-colored pyro with ease using these materials as a jumping off point. Redshift will render volumes imported with Volume Loader or RS Volume, you can also render the C4D native pyro system and Volume Builder. For the adventurous, there are two examples of using Volume Displacement, but beware of long render times.

Download includes three C4D project files with the full setup for rendering Fire, Dense Smoke and Colored Pyro. You can download the project, cache the simulation and render. All objects, materials and lighting setup ready for you to use and adapt for your own scenes.

Hair

Three examples using the RS Principled Hair shader, this combined with C4D Hair Material allows you to create hairstyles with ease and combine with physical accuracy of melanin for rendering. Easily add randomness to the hair for a more natural look with the Hair Random Color Shader.

Particles / Splines

Access particle data such as age, color or ID to control parameters, remap age to a ramp for color over life or into opacity to fade your particles. Color your curves based on ID or map a gradient along using curve position. Also includes four X-Particle materials for accessing XP Emitter and XP Trail data for similar effects.

Attribute Output Variables (AOVs)

This includes AOV examples, demonstrating how to create various utility passes, such as cryptomatte or puzzle mattes from object & material ID, creating mattes from textures & shaders using custom AOVs, plus global AO & UVW passes. These are very useful when compositing your renders in post.