Helpdesk guides & Tutorials

[lenogre]

Tutorials about specific corona shaders.

[maru]

Tutorials about specific corona shaders.

What would you prefer:
-a "documentation" type guide explaining all possible parameters of all shaders
or
-a "how to" guide showing which shaders to use to achieve specific effects?

Or both? :)

[TheRealKFC]

Honestly, everything seems rather straight forward in terms of material setup.  I'm also super impressed with the speed and quality of Corona as I'm a first time user.  I'd like to know more about the layer shader and how it works, it seems fairly robust, but I'm not sure how it processes inputs.  Does it read from top to bottom? Do you need a base material? Do your value amounts need to add up to 1?  Also, how do the Corona effects work and what are they typically best suited for? 

A standard material library would help people reverse engineer things as well and probably answer a lot of the basic questions.

[lenogre]

In C4D documentation, if there are too many parameters about a tool or a function, I can't read until the end.
So, often, I prefer a video with examples.

The function that was totally a mystery for me was Take in R17. Ok I understand the rules but how it works ?!? Reading the C4D documentation was not helpful but when I saw a video of Noseman on Cineversity, it was so clear and easy.

So little videos are more pedagogic for me.