How to Use Displacement in Cinema 4D and Arnold (2021) 

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The more geometry your model has the more detail it will have. Either add more segments to your geometry or more subdivisions.

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I am assuming you are referring to the backdrop and lighting. For the backdrop, its just a cube that is made edible and I delete all the sides of the cube besides the back and bottom and put into a subdivision surface to make it like a cycle wall. For lighting, in these tutorial I generally just use the built in C4D studio HDRI and copy the image and add it to the texture field in of the Arnold sky object.

@@mphillipsphotography7013 yeah that makes sense. Ok I have 2 other questions. 1. How do you generally go about adding labels to models(esp glass), i usually have to use the alpha stacking and I was wondering if there is a shorter way; layer shader gets tricky sometimes. 2. Whats the correct way of connecting ambient occlusion maps in arnold?

When you say Alpha (stacking) I would have to see what you are referencing. The easiest way I have found is as following: 1) Create glass texture 2) Create Standard_Surface for label 3) Use Image node to connect to Standard_Surface color. (Make sure the image you are using for your label was saved with Alpha - Example .png) 4) Apply Glass texture 5) Make a selection of where you would like to add label and apply the 2nd texture with your label to that selection. 6) Set the correct projection method for label and disable tiling. 7) In object manager double click your label texture. 8) Now in Attributes window you should see the following - Basic | Material | Alpha(stacking) | Assign 9) Select Alpha(stacking) 10) Mode - Drop down menu select "Shader" 11) Shader - Drop down menu select image(image) (or if you renamed the image node choose what ever you called it example - "Label(image)" 12) Verify use alpha channel is selected 13) Now you can just choose "Use Texture Mode" to move your label around, scale, etc. As for Ambient Occlusion I will have to look into but hope this helps.

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@@mphillipsphotography7013 Hey! Any luck with finding out how to mix the displacements?

Connect a Bitmap node -> to normal node -> input then connect to your standard_surface Geometry Normal

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