Material Manager Material Nodes Individual Assets Info Light
Function available in CINEMA 4D Prime, Visualize, Broadcast, Studio & BodyPaint 3D
Light

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Outputs

Diffuse Shading

This is the surface color as it appears after diffuse shading is computed. Coloring by the light source is included.

Specular Shading

Here you can create shading via specular highlights based on their Specular Exponent setting.

Light Color

Returns the summed color of all computed light sources without any shading effects.

In Shadow

The state of this output shows if the object surface point currently being calculated lies in a shadow (output: 1 or TRUE) or not (output: 0 or FALSE).

In Back Shadow

Here you can query if a cast shadow exist on the back side of a visible object surface point.