When buying wooden furniture, you usually have the choice between several different stains or finishes. They all have the same texture that we recognize as wood, but you start wondering if you should get it stained in oak, pine, natural, cherry, mahogany, or espresso. The Layers Shader is a unique tool that serves like a miniature version of Photoshop within Cinema 4D. You can stack and blend different textures, as well as make enhancements to their colors and levels' information.
We are using the Bathroom.c4d
file still, and we are loading the Wood.jpg
file as a texture, so make sure you have it ready to go.
Let's create the wood texture in our new material. Double-click in the Material Manager to create a new material and rename it Wood. Now, in the Color channel, use the Texture delta (the little triangle) to flip open the options, go down to Surfaces and select Wood.
Now, click on the button that says Wood and you'll see...