Maxon Cinema Cinema 4D 9.0 User guide

Reference Manual

CINEMA 4D

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Contents

1 Getting to Know CINEMA 4D.............................................................................3

Important notes .................................................................................................................................... 3

What’s new in R9................................................................................................................................... 4

Starting CINEMA 4D .............................................................................................................................. 8

Quitting CINEMA 4D.............................................................................................................................. 8

Mouse techniques ................................................................................................................................. 8

Hotkeys 1 to 7........................................................................................................................................ 9

The user interface ................................................................................................................................ 10

A quick tour ......................................................................................................................................... 12

2 Views and Viewports .......................................................................................19

Edit Menu ............................................................................................................................................ 20

Undo View / Redo View .................................................................................................................. 20

Film Move, Film Magnify, Film Zoom.............................................................................................. 20

Zoom In, Zoom Out ........................................................................................................................ 20

Frame commands ........................................................................................................................... 21

Use as Render View ........................................................................................................................ 21

Redraw............................................................................................................................................ 21

Congure, Congure All ................................................................................................................. 22

Display tab ................................................................................................................................. 23

Filter tab .................................................................................................................................... 27

View tab .................................................................................................................................... 28

Back tab ..................................................................................................................................... 31

HUD tab ..................................................................................................................................... 33

Cameras Menu..................................................................................................................................... 34

Scene Cameras................................................................................................................................ 34

Link Active Object........................................................................................................................... 34

Editor Camera ................................................................................................................................. 34

Projections ...................................................................................................................................... 34

Display Menu ....................................................................................................................................... 36

Level Of Detail ................................................................................................................................ 36

Display Filter ................................................................................................................................... 37

Default Light................................................................................................................................... 37

Shading modes ............................................................................................................................... 38

Display Tags .................................................................................................................................... 40

Backface Culling ............................................................................................................................. 40

Textures .......................................................................................................................................... 41

X-Ray............................................................................................................................................... 42

Stacked Materials............................................................................................................................ 42

View Menu .......................................................................................................................................... 43

Panels.............................................................................................................................................. 43

Toggle Active View ......................................................................................................................... 43

Views .............................................................................................................................................. 43

3 Conguration................................................................................................... 47

Conguration dialogs.......................................................................................................................... 47

Conguration managers...................................................................................................................... 48

Other settings...................................................................................................................................... 48

Graphical User Interface ...................................................................................................................... 49

Windows......................................................................................................................................... 49

Tabs................................................................................................................................................. 52

Icon Palettes ................................................................................................................................... 53

The Command Manager ................................................................................................................. 57

The Menu Manager ........................................................................................................................ 60

The Pin’s Menu ............................................................................................................................... 63

Preferences .......................................................................................................................................... 64

Common ......................................................................................................................................... 64

Macintosh (Mac OS only)........................................................................................................... 66

Interface ......................................................................................................................................... 67

Colors.............................................................................................................................................. 68

Viewport......................................................................................................................................... 69

OpenGL Shading........................................................................................................................ 70

Software Shading ...................................................................................................................... 74

Colors......................................................................................................................................... 75

Document ....................................................................................................................................... 76

Import/Export................................................................................................................................. 77

3D Studio Import / Export ......................................................................................................... 77

Biovision BVH Import................................................................................................................. 77

CINEMA 4D XML Export ............................................................................................................ 78

DEM Import ............................................................................................................................... 78

DXF Export................................................................................................................................. 78

DXF Import ................................................................................................................................ 79

Direct3D Export ......................................................................................................................... 80

FBX Import / Export ................................................................................................................... 82

Illustrator Import ....................................................................................................................... 89

LightWave Import ...................................................................................................................... 90

Monzoom Import ...................................................................................................................... 91

QuickDraw 3D Export ................................................................................................................ 91

QuickDraw 3D Import................................................................................................................ 92

STL Import / Export.................................................................................................................... 92

Shockwave 3D Export................................................................................................................ 93

UZR Export................................................................................................................................. 98

VRML 1 Export......................................................................................................................... 102

VRML 1 Import ........................................................................................................................ 103

VRML 2 Export......................................................................................................................... 104

VRML 2 Import ........................................................................................................................ 105

Wavefront Import / Export ...................................................................................................... 106

Texture Paths ................................................................................................................................ 107

Units ............................................................................................................................................. 107

XPresso ..........................................................................................................................................114

Project Settings ..................................................................................................................................115

4 Workow........................................................................................................ 119

Asynchronous access to parameters ................................................................................................. 120

Selection rays..................................................................................................................................... 120

Smartpointer ..................................................................................................................................... 121

Multiple selection .............................................................................................................................. 121

Working with Layouts........................................................................................................................ 123

Window > Layout Submenu ........................................................................................................ 123

The Browser....................................................................................................................................... 124

File Menu ...................................................................................................................................... 127

Edit Menu ..................................................................................................................................... 131

Function Menu ............................................................................................................................. 133

Initialization Files ............................................................................................................................... 135

Function graphs................................................................................................................................. 136

The HUD............................................................................................................................................. 138

Using the HUD .............................................................................................................................. 139

General information ................................................................................................................ 139

HUD Settings ........................................................................................................................... 140

5 File Menu........................................................................................................ 145

New ................................................................................................................................................... 145

Open.................................................................................................................................................. 145

Merge ................................................................................................................................................ 146

Revert To Saved ................................................................................................................................. 146

Close .................................................................................................................................................. 146

Close All............................................................................................................................................. 146

Save ................................................................................................................................................... 147

Save As .............................................................................................................................................. 147

Save All .............................................................................................................................................. 147

Save Project ....................................................................................................................................... 147

Export................................................................................................................................................ 148

Recent Files........................................................................................................................................ 149

Quit.................................................................................................................................................... 149

6 Edit Menu....................................................................................................... 153

The undo buffer................................................................................................................................. 153

The clipboard..................................................................................................................................... 155

Selection............................................................................................................................................ 157

The drawing pipeline......................................................................................................................... 157

The display order .......................................................................................................................... 160

Settings.............................................................................................................................................. 161

7 Objects Menu ................................................................................................. 165

Attribute manager settings ............................................................................................................... 166

Primitives ........................................................................................................................................... 169

Cone ............................................................................................................................................. 171

Cube ............................................................................................................................................. 175

Cylinder......................................................................................................................................... 177

Disc ............................................................................................................................................... 180

Plane ............................................................................................................................................. 182

Polygon......................................................................................................................................... 184

Sphere........................................................................................................................................... 186

Torus ............................................................................................................................................. 188

Capsule ......................................................................................................................................... 191

Oil Tank......................................................................................................................................... 193

Tube .............................................................................................................................................. 196

Pyramid......................................................................................................................................... 199

Platonic ......................................................................................................................................... 201

Figure............................................................................................................................................ 203

Landscape..................................................................................................................................... 204

Relief............................................................................................................................................. 208

NURBS.................................................................................................................................................211

HyperNURBS ................................................................................................................................. 212

Weighting HyperNURBS models .............................................................................................. 215

Modeling with HyperNURBS.................................................................................................... 216

HyperNURBS and n-gons ......................................................................................................... 218

Extrude NURBS ............................................................................................................................. 219

Lathe NURBS................................................................................................................................. 221

Loft NURBS ................................................................................................................................... 223

Sweep NURBS ............................................................................................................................... 226

Bezier NURBS ................................................................................................................................ 231

Caps And Rounding ...................................................................................................................... 233

Different materials for the hull, caps and rounding ................................................................ 236

Splines ............................................................................................................................................... 237

Spline Object ................................................................................................................................ 237

Create Spline (Curves)................................................................................................................... 245

Freehand.................................................................................................................................. 245

Bezier, B-Spline, Linear, Cubic, Akima...................................................................................... 246

Spline Primitives............................................................................................................................ 247

Arc ........................................................................................................................................... 249

Circle ........................................................................................................................................ 251

Helix ......................................................................................................................................... 253

n-Side....................................................................................................................................... 256

Rectangle................................................................................................................................. 258

Star .......................................................................................................................................... 259

Text .......................................................................................................................................... 261

Vectorizer................................................................................................................................. 263

4-Side....................................................................................................................................... 265

Cissoid ..................................................................................................................................... 267

Cogwheel................................................................................................................................. 269

Cycloid ..................................................................................................................................... 271

Formula.................................................................................................................................... 275

Flower ...................................................................................................................................... 279

Prole....................................................................................................................................... 280

Special Modeling Tools ...................................................................................................................... 283

Null Object.................................................................................................................................... 283

Polygon Object ............................................................................................................................. 286

Array Object.................................................................................................................................. 290

Atom Array Object........................................................................................................................ 291

Boole............................................................................................................................................. 293

Instance Object............................................................................................................................. 296

Metaball Object ............................................................................................................................ 297

Symmetry Object .......................................................................................................................... 299

Construction Plane Object............................................................................................................ 300

Cameras............................................................................................................................................. 301

Camera Object.............................................................................................................................. 301

Adjusting the camera interactively............................................................................................... 305

Animating camera movements..................................................................................................... 306

Cameras Menu.............................................................................................................................. 307

Scene Cameras......................................................................................................................... 307

Target Camera .............................................................................................................................. 308

Lighting ............................................................................................................................................. 309

Light Object .................................................................................................................................. 309

Target Light................................................................................................................................... 346

Sun Light....................................................................................................................................... 347

Sun tag ....................................................................................................................................348

Making gels .................................................................................................................................. 350

Particles ............................................................................................................................................. 351

Baking Particles............................................................................................................................. 353

Emitter.......................................................................................................................................... 354

Attractor ....................................................................................................................................... 357

Deector....................................................................................................................................... 358

Destructor..................................................................................................................................... 360

Friction.......................................................................................................................................... 361

Gravity .......................................................................................................................................... 362

Rotation........................................................................................................................................ 363

Turbulence .................................................................................................................................... 364

Wind ............................................................................................................................................. 365

Examples....................................................................................................................................... 366

Particle animation with light sources ...................................................................................... 366

Metaparticles........................................................................................................................... 367

Deformers.......................................................................................................................................... 369

Bend.............................................................................................................................................. 371

Bone.............................................................................................................................................. 373

Laying out a bones hierarchy................................................................................................... 378

Bulge............................................................................................................................................. 383

Explosion FX ................................................................................................................................. 385

Explosion ...................................................................................................................................... 391

FFD................................................................................................................................................ 393

Formula......................................................................................................................................... 394

Melt .............................................................................................................................................. 396

Polygon Reduction........................................................................................................................ 398

Further usage advice................................................................................................................ 401

Hints and tips........................................................................................................................... 402

Shatter .......................................................................................................................................... 406

Shear............................................................................................................................................. 408

Spherify ........................................................................................................................................ 410

Spline Deformer.............................................................................................................................411

Spline Rail ..................................................................................................................................... 414

Taper ............................................................................................................................................. 421

Twist ............................................................................................................................................. 423

Wind ............................................................................................................................................. 425

Wrap ............................................................................................................................................. 427

Managing your environment............................................................................................................. 429

Floor Object .................................................................................................................................. 429

Sky Object..................................................................................................................................... 430

Environment Object...................................................................................................................... 431

Foreground Object, Background Object....................................................................................... 433

Stage Object ................................................................................................................................. 435

Selection Object ........................................................................................................................... 436

Sound ................................................................................................................................................ 437

Playing and scrubbing sound ....................................................................................................... 437

Loudspeaker ................................................................................................................................. 438

Mono Microphone........................................................................................................................ 440

Stereo Microphone ....................................................................................................................... 443

Stereo ...........................................................................................................................................444

DTS 5.1.......................................................................................................................................... 445

DDS EX 6.1 .................................................................................................................................... 446

SDDS 7.1........................................................................................................................................ 447

Object Library .................................................................................................................................... 449

Adding models to the object library............................................................................................. 449

Turbo Squid community................................................................................................................ 449

8 Tools Menu.....................................................................................................453

Move.................................................................................................................................................. 453

Moving multiple objects............................................................................................................... 454

Scale .................................................................................................................................................. 458

Scaling multiple objects ............................................................................................................... 459

Rotate ................................................................................................................................................ 460

Rotating multiple objects ............................................................................................................. 462

Move, Scale and Rotate with mouse and keyboard .......................................................................... 463

Magnify ............................................................................................................................................. 464

Modeling modes................................................................................................................................ 465

Default Mode................................................................................................................................ 465

Auto Switch Mode ........................................................................................................................ 465

Tweak Mode ................................................................................................................................. 466

N-gon Triangulation .......................................................................................................................... 466

Use Isoline Editing ............................................................................................................................. 467

Show Axis .......................................................................................................................................... 467

Camera .............................................................................................................................................. 468

Object ................................................................................................................................................ 469

Points................................................................................................................................................. 470

Edges ................................................................................................................................................. 471

Polygons ............................................................................................................................................ 471

Object Axis ........................................................................................................................................ 472

Model ................................................................................................................................................ 473

Texture............................................................................................................................................... 475

Texture Axis ....................................................................................................................................... 476

Inverse Kinematics............................................................................................................................. 477

Multi-target kinematics ..................................................................................................................... 478

Animation.......................................................................................................................................... 480

The Axes ............................................................................................................................................ 480

Coordinate System............................................................................................................................. 481

Camera Rotation................................................................................................................................ 483

9 Selection Menu ..............................................................................................487

Selection Filter ................................................................................................................................... 487

Select Tool ....................................................................................................................................487

Create Selection Object ................................................................................................................ 489

Main selection tools .......................................................................................................................... 490

Loop Selection ................................................................................................................................... 495

Ring Selection.................................................................................................................................... 497

Outline Selection ............................................................................................................................... 497

Fill Selection....................................................................................................................................... 498

Convert Selection .............................................................................................................................. 498

Select All, Deselect All ....................................................................................................................... 499

Invert ................................................................................................................................................. 499

Select Connected............................................................................................................................... 499

Grow Selection .................................................................................................................................. 500

Shrink Selection ................................................................................................................................. 500

Hide Selected..................................................................................................................................... 500

Hide Unselected................................................................................................................................. 501

Unhide All .......................................................................................................................................... 501

Set Selection...................................................................................................................................... 501

Set Vertex Weight.............................................................................................................................. 503

10 Structure Menu ............................................................................................507

Modeling modes................................................................................................................................ 507

Attribute manager settings ............................................................................................................... 508

Tool............................................................................................................................................... 508

Snap Settings................................................................................................................................ 509

Edit Spline.......................................................................................................................................... 514

Hard Interpolation ........................................................................................................................ 514

Soft Interpolation ......................................................................................................................... 514

Equal Tangent Length....................................................................................................................515

Equal Tangent Direction ................................................................................................................515

Join Segment ................................................................................................................................ 516

Break Segment.............................................................................................................................. 516

Explode Segments ........................................................................................................................ 516

Set First Point.................................................................................................................................517

Reverse Sequence ..........................................................................................................................517

Move Down Sequence, Move Up Sequence ..................................................................................517

Chamfer ........................................................................................................................................ 518

Create Outline................................................................................................................................519

Cross Section ................................................................................................................................ 520

Disconnect .................................................................................................................................... 521

Edge To Spline .............................................................................................................................. 522

Line Up.......................................................................................................................................... 522

Project........................................................................................................................................... 523

Round ........................................................................................................................................... 524

Split............................................................................................................................................... 525

Add Point........................................................................................................................................... 526

Bridge ................................................................................................................................................ 528

Brush.................................................................................................................................................. 531

Close Polygon Hole ............................................................................................................................ 534

Create Polygon .................................................................................................................................. 534

Edge Cut ............................................................................................................................................ 537

Iron .................................................................................................................................................... 538

Knife .................................................................................................................................................. 539

Magnet .............................................................................................................................................. 542

Mirror ................................................................................................................................................ 544

Set Point Value................................................................................................................................... 546

Slide ................................................................................................................................................... 548

Stitch And Sew .................................................................................................................................. 549

Weld .................................................................................................................................................. 551

Weight HyperNURBS.......................................................................................................................... 551

Bevel .................................................................................................................................................. 552

Extrude .............................................................................................................................................. 558

Extrude Inner..................................................................................................................................... 561

Matrix Extrude................................................................................................................................... 563

Smooth Shift...................................................................................................................................... 566

Normal Move ..................................................................................................................................... 567

Normal Scale...................................................................................................................................... 568

Normal Rotate ................................................................................................................................... 568

Structure Context Menu .................................................................................................................... 569

11 Functions Menu............................................................................................573

Make Editable .................................................................................................................................... 573

Arrange.............................................................................................................................................. 573

Center ................................................................................................................................................ 580

Connect ............................................................................................................................................. 581

Current State To Object ..................................................................................................................... 581

Duplicate ........................................................................................................................................... 582

Measure & Construction.................................................................................................................... 583

Transfer.............................................................................................................................................. 587

Randomize......................................................................................................................................... 587

Reset System...................................................................................................................................... 588

Align Normals.................................................................................................................................... 590

Reverse Normals ................................................................................................................................ 592

Move Down Sequence, Move Up Sequence ...................................................................................... 592

Collapse ............................................................................................................................................. 593

Melt ................................................................................................................................................... 593

Optimize ............................................................................................................................................ 595

Subdivide........................................................................................................................................... 596

Triangulate......................................................................................................................................... 597

Untriangulate..................................................................................................................................... 597

Retriangulate N-gons......................................................................................................................... 597

Remove N-gons ................................................................................................................................. 598

Array .................................................................................................................................................. 598

Clone ................................................................................................................................................. 600

Disconnect......................................................................................................................................... 602

Explode Segments ............................................................................................................................. 602

Break Phong Shading......................................................................................................................... 602

Unbreak Phong Shading.................................................................................................................... 602

Select Broken Phong Edges ............................................................................................................... 602

Increase/Decrease HN Subdivision..................................................................................................... 602

12 Plugins ..........................................................................................................605

Execute Last Plugin ............................................................................................................................ 605

ASCII Animation Import ....................................................................................................................606

FlashEx............................................................................................................................................... 609

General tab................................................................................................................................... 609

Lines tab ........................................................................................................................................612

HTML tab ...................................................................................................................................... 613

FlashEx Tag ................................................................................................................................... 614

FlashEx FAQs ................................................................................................................................. 614

SpaceMouse ...................................................................................................................................... 616

13 Rendering..................................................................................................... 619

Render Alerts ..................................................................................................................................... 619

Render Active Object......................................................................................................................... 620

Render Region ................................................................................................................................... 620

Render To Picture Viewer................................................................................................................... 620

Batch Rendering ................................................................................................................................ 621

Make Preview..................................................................................................................................... 621

Render Settings ................................................................................................................................. 622

New Render Settings ......................................................................................................................... 623

Delete Render Settings ...................................................................................................................... 623

Flush Illumination Caches .................................................................................................................. 623

Bake Texture (formerly SLA ‘Baker’) .................................................................................................. 624

Calculate Dirt ..................................................................................................................................... 627

Render Settings ................................................................................................................................. 631

General ......................................................................................................................................... 631

Output .......................................................................................................................................... 634

Save .............................................................................................................................................. 637

Radiosity, Caustics ........................................................................................................................ 648

Effects........................................................................................................................................... 649

Options ......................................................................................................................................... 657

Multi-Pass ..................................................................................................................................... 662

QuickTime VR................................................................................................................................ 668

Movie Formats................................................................................................................................... 671

14 Window Menu..............................................................................................675

Layout ........................................................................................................................................... 675

New View Panel ............................................................................................................................ 677

Object Manager............................................................................................................................ 678

Material Manager ......................................................................................................................... 678

Timeline ........................................................................................................................................ 678

F-Curve Manager .......................................................................................................................... 679

Attribute Manager........................................................................................................................ 679

Picture Viewer............................................................................................................................... 680

Coordinate Manager..................................................................................................................... 680

Structure Manager........................................................................................................................ 681

Browser......................................................................................................................................... 681

Console......................................................................................................................................... 681

Global Status Bar .......................................................................................................................... 682

Selection Info................................................................................................................................ 682

Structure Info................................................................................................................................ 682

Other Scene Windows .................................................................................................................. 682

15 Help Menu....................................................................................................685

MAXON Online ............................................................................................................................. 685

Help (CINEMA 4D) ........................................................................................................................ 685

Personalize.................................................................................................................................... 685

Info ............................................................................................................................................... 685

16 Coordinate Manager ....................................................................................689

17 Object Manager ...........................................................................................693

File Menu ........................................................................................................................................... 696

CINEMA 4D tags ........................................................................................................................... 696

Restore Selection .......................................................................................................................... 718

Save Objects As ............................................................................................................................ 719

Display Tags .................................................................................................................................. 719

Close ............................................................................................................................................. 719

Edit Menu .......................................................................................................................................... 720

Undo ............................................................................................................................................. 720

Redo.............................................................................................................................................. 720

Cut ................................................................................................................................................ 720

Copy.............................................................................................................................................. 720

Paste ............................................................................................................................................. 720

Delete ........................................................................................................................................... 720

Select All, Deselect All .................................................................................................................. 720

Select Children.............................................................................................................................. 720

Show Objects................................................................................................................................ 721

Hide Objects ................................................................................................................................. 721

Invert Object Selection ................................................................................................................. 721

Objects Menu .................................................................................................................................... 722

Object Display............................................................................................................................... 722

Search ........................................................................................................................................... 724

Search First Active Object............................................................................................................. 726

Edit Object .................................................................................................................................... 726

Rename Object ............................................................................................................................. 726

Group Objects .............................................................................................................................. 726

Expand Object Group ................................................................................................................... 726

Make Editable ............................................................................................................................... 726

Current State To Object ................................................................................................................ 726

Connect ........................................................................................................................................ 727

Select Children.............................................................................................................................. 727

Show Tracks .................................................................................................................................. 727

Show F-Curves .............................................................................................................................. 727

Object Information ....................................................................................................................... 727

Scene Information ........................................................................................................................ 727

Fold All.......................................................................................................................................... 728

Unfold All...................................................................................................................................... 728

Fix Bones....................................................................................................................................... 728

Reset Bones .................................................................................................................................. 728

Bake Particles................................................................................................................................ 728

Tags Menu ......................................................................................................................................... 730

Edit Tag......................................................................................................................................... 730

Copy Tag To Children .................................................................................................................... 730

Select Identical Child Tags ............................................................................................................ 730

Texture Menu..................................................................................................................................... 731

Generate UVW Coordinates.......................................................................................................... 731

Assign UVW Coordinates.............................................................................................................. 732

Fit To Object, Fit To Image, Fit To Region ..................................................................................... 733

Adapt To Object Axis, Adapt To World Axis, Adapt To View ........................................................ 733

Mirror Horizontally, Mirror Vertically............................................................................................ 734

18 Material Manager......................................................................................... 737

File Menu ........................................................................................................................................... 738

New Material ................................................................................................................................ 738

Shader........................................................................................................................................... 738

Load Materials .............................................................................................................................. 738

Save Materials As.......................................................................................................................... 738

Save All Materials As..................................................................................................................... 738

Close ............................................................................................................................................. 738

Edit Menu .......................................................................................................................................... 739

Undo, Redo ................................................................................................................................... 739

Cut ................................................................................................................................................ 739

Copy.............................................................................................................................................. 739

Paste ............................................................................................................................................. 739

Delete ........................................................................................................................................... 739

Select All, Deselect All .................................................................................................................. 739

Material List .................................................................................................................................. 740

Mini Icons, Small Icons, Medium Icons, Large Icons..................................................................... 740

Function Menu ...................................................................................................................................741

Select Materials Of Active Objects.................................................................................................741

Find First Active Material ...............................................................................................................741

Render Materials, Render All Materials .........................................................................................741

New Material Group, Remove Material Group ..............................................................................741

Sort Materials ............................................................................................................................... 742

Edit ............................................................................................................................................... 742

Apply ............................................................................................................................................ 743

Rename......................................................................................................................................... 743

Remove Unused Materials ............................................................................................................ 743

Remove Duplicate Materials ......................................................................................................... 743

Select Texture Tags ....................................................................................................................... 743

The Material Editor ............................................................................................................................ 745

Material Preview ...................................................................................................................... 746

Color chooser........................................................................................................................... 748

Texture settings ....................................................................................................................... 748

Color ............................................................................................................................................. 756

Diffusion....................................................................................................................................... 757

Luminance .................................................................................................................................... 758

Transparency................................................................................................................................. 759

Reection...................................................................................................................................... 764

Environment ................................................................................................................................. 767

Fog................................................................................................................................................ 769

Bump ............................................................................................................................................ 770

Alpha ............................................................................................................................................ 772

Specular ........................................................................................................................................ 775

Specular Color .............................................................................................................................. 777

Glow ............................................................................................................................................. 778

Displacement ................................................................................................................................ 780

Illumination .................................................................................................................................. 783

Assignment................................................................................................................................... 785

The Shaders ....................................................................................................................................... 787

Channel shaders ........................................................................................................................... 788

Color ........................................................................................................................................ 790

Noise........................................................................................................................................ 790

Gradient................................................................................................................................... 794

Fresnel ..................................................................................................................................... 798

Filter......................................................................................................................................... 799

Fusion ...................................................................................................................................... 801

Layer ........................................................................................................................................ 804

Colorizer .................................................................................................................................. 806

Posterizer ................................................................................................................................. 807

Backlight .................................................................................................................................. 807

Dirt........................................................................................................................................... 808

Distorter................................................................................................................................... 809

Falloff....................................................................................................................................... 810

Lumas .......................................................................................................................................811

Normal Direction (previously ‘Buffy’)...................................................................................... 815

Projector .................................................................................................................................. 816

Proximal................................................................................................................................... 817

Ripple....................................................................................................................................... 820

Spectral.................................................................................................................................... 821

Spline ....................................................................................................................................... 824

Vertex Map .............................................................................................................................. 827

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