C4D Layer Shader

[index]

hi,

I don't know if this has been requested already,
but it would be a big wish to have full support for the C4D Layer Shader in the future

atm basic layering seems to work, but all special layers are ignored :

- brightness / contrast / gamma
- hue / saturation / lightness
- clamp
- clip
- transform
- distort
- posterize
- colorize

best, index

[sirio76]

Yes some features are missing, for the color corrections you can use the filter shader (or the color correction node in the node editor). For the transformation you can use the UVW randomizer.

[index]

It would be still nice to have the full support !

The Layer Shader is extremely powerful,
you can do a lot of things in one place without having to nest shaders
you can switch layers on/off, leave options or variants inside.
and all of that in a nice and very compact gui !

For me this is by far the most used Shader in C4D

[aleksandar.kasabov]

Hello index,

We will see if the support for the C4D layer shader can be improved, however, currently, we only support it partially due to compatibility reasons. Adding full support for the Layer shader might lead to issues when rendering with Chaos Cloud, Vantage, V-Ray GPU, DR, etc. as the effects, listed above can't be translated to V-Ray plugins.