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Hi all,
I just noticed that in the material wizard wood is missing and I really miss this one.

Cheers
JC

Hello jc4d,

Wood materials are characterized by a wood color texture and bump, and eventually a varnish specular layer.

You can create it using the "Textured" material, which is much more generic and powerful than the old "Wood" one.

There you can set a color, specular, bump/normal and mask textures, and adjust the varnish weight by playing with the Specular layer weight.

In fact, you will find that this Textured material Wizard is also useful for creating any kind of multispecular material: wood, concrete, stones, plastics, floors, walls... all of them, just setting the textures and some weight values.

I hope you will find it useful.

Greetings

Dario Lanza

That's pretty intersting. Based on what you are saying, am I wrong to assume that most of the preset materials are made to be used in a similar fashion? That is why alot of the presets from 1.7 are absent, in order to have less, more generic, materials which are more widy useful?

Thanks for your answer Dario , but at least for me wizards are there to help the users to get the starting point and understand the parameters difference between barnished and semigloss for example, would be nice to have the same kind of wizards that we had in V1, btw. I noticed too that the SSS wizard is not as helpfull as in V1 with the presets.

(Rant mode ON) For most of us (I guess) is more important typical material wizards like wood, concrete, sss than a bunch of Bubble presets (Rant mode OFF)

Cheers
JC

For what it's worth, JC, the Cinema plugin's material editor does have a wood wizard -- it's the last item in the Wizards menu.

Thanks JD for keep it in C4D plugin, I really appreciate it, pleas don´t take it away
I just was thinking that would be nice to have the material editor with the old wizard materials, those were more user friendly.

Cheers
JC