Render Object

What is it about?

This page documents the Render Object node of the classic node materials in Cinema 4D. It exposes data of the object currently being shaded — position, size and more — for object-aware material behavior.

Material properties can be made dependent on the internal number of e.g., a rendered element, material or polygon. In this example, the object index is used to color clones.

Note:

This Node is only available when editing a classic Cinema 4D Node Material.

This Node collects information about the currently calculated object that has been covered with the material. For example, we can find out the position and size of the object here as well as, for example, the polygon ID at the current sample point.