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title: "Material"
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description: "This page covers the deprecated Redshift Material in Cinema 4D, the former all-purpose PBR uber-shader with coating, reflection, refraction and SSS. It …"
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# Material

> **Note:** **What is it about?**
>
> This page covers the deprecated **Redshift Material** in **Cinema 4D**, the former all-purpose PBR uber-shader with coating, reflection, refraction and SSS. It remains documented for existing scenes — new materials should use the Standard or OpenPBR material.

> **Important:** This shader is deprecated! Please use the [Standard Material](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/COM_REDSHIFT3D_REDSHIFT4C4D_NODES_CORE_STANDARDMATERIAL.html.md) instead.

This is a general purpose material that is physically plausible, energy conserving and aligned with 'PBR' based principles. It offers two layers of reflection (a coating and base reflection), transmission/refraction, diffuse lighting and sub-surface scattering to accurately model a wide variety of materials ranging from glass, metals, plastic to skin.\
The material is grouped into several sections:

- The 'Base Properties' section contains the most commonly used properties of a material, covering diffuse, reflections, sheen, refraction, sub-surface transmission and *single* scattering effects.
- The 'Sub-Surface Multiple Scattering' section contains properties for sub-surface *multiple* scattering for modeling complex materials such as wax and skin.
- The 'Coating' section contains properties commonly used for clear-coat reflections.
- The 'Overall' section contains properties applied to the material as a whole, such as opacity.
- The 'Optimizations' section contains properties that allow you to fine-tune the performance of the material.
- The 'Advanced' section contains properties not commonly used, but necessary for extra control.