Materials

This tab allows you to apply Materials to the parts of your flower.

Materials

Drag and drop a material into the Materials list to apply the material to a highlighted layer.

You can select multiple materials and drag them in or, alternatively, use the eyedropper tool to swatch them directly from the Cinema 4D Material Manager.

Clicking and highlighting the material will then give you further options below.

A UV material is being applied to the Petal layer, here.

Projection Options

You can use these options to choose the projection mapping of the texture used.

Offset and Length settings allow you to control the global scale and offsets of the material, while the Tile and Repetition values set how many times the image will tile.

In this image, the Projection mode is changed to Spherical, with 10% Length U and Length V set.

UV Options

These options will enable you to orientate a correct projection for your scene.

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With the Projection mode of UVW, in the UV Options section, the U Sign and V Sign have been switched to U- and V-, flipping the material.

Phong Options

These options allow you to adjust the smooth shading between neighboring polygons.

Smooth shading can be applied across all polygons, or it can be restricted using the Angle Limit and Phong Angle settings. **

Angle Limit

When activated, this will use the Phong Angle value to **restrict where smoothing occurs. **

Phong Angle

You can change this to set the angle limit, up until which the neighboring surfaces will be smoothed.