I was asked a question on www.fxphd.com how to alternate between two colours on a set of stairs that someone had built.

Stairs alternating colour

I came up with three simple solutions that use the shader effector, the color shader and the multi shader.

I thought I’d share the file here.

Download the C4D file

I hope that some of you find it useful.

This example scene shows you how you can use the MoGraph Data Node to access specific Clones.

In this example I use the data node to attach a null to a clone and then cycle through them.

MoGraph Data Node Xpresso

I’m sure you can find some more interesting uses for this handy node.

To download the C4D file relating to this then please click here

Editor view of result

As posted by Srek on CGTalk….

Hi all,
today MAXON made the latest update 11.026 available via the online updater and the website.
If you download the update from the website make sure it get’s stored without a .zip extension.
Especially on OS X it can happen that the browser incorrectly adds this. The manual update will not work with this wrongly named file and the user can’t unpack it anyway.

As for the update itself, it contains numerous bugfixes and it is heavily recommended to install it.

A big thanks goes to all users who sent their crashreports to MAXON. 11.026 includes several fixes that we were only able to implement due to many users reporting different variations of the problems.

Cheers
Björn

You can choose Help > Check For Updates to open the online updater.  The update should appear automatically.

I’m sure that a lot of you are already aware that you can drag a material straight from the Material Manager onto an object and that material will be assigned to that object. Did you know, you can use a similar technique to actually restrict to Selection Sets.

In Polygon Mode, first create the polygon selection.

Create a polygon selection

Next either drag the material from the Material Manager onto the selected polygons, or select the material and choose Apply from the Function menu.

Drag the material onto the polygon selection or choose Apply from the Function menu

Cinema4d will automatically create a Polygon Selection Tag and restrict the material to that selection.

Selection Set and Tag created automatically

Much quicker than creating the selection, choosing Set Selection, dragging your material onto the object, then dragging the tag into the texture tag . . .   Now, all you need to do, is rename the selection set tag to something more meaningful. (That’s if you want to?)

Just a bit of fun. It’s been rendered out at 90cmx90cm.

In the previous ramble about random colour, Leah asked

I’ve been wondering, is there any way to use effectors to apply a random color from a subset of colors (such as a range or gradient)?

So here is one method of achieving that.  I’ve used the multishader to create a subset of colours.

Multishader

Then the random effector to randomise those colours.

Not sure if it is possible from a gradient, but if anyone has an idea for that then please post a comment.

Well Rick Barrett from Maxon came up with the solution here.

For a gradient, just put the MoGraph Color Shader in a Colorizer shader.

Nice and simple too. Thanks Rick.

Result using Multishader

Download the C4D file here