---
title: "Color Splitter"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/r3d/cinema/en-us/Content/html/Color%2BSplitter.html"
section_path: "Shaders > Color Shaders > Color Splitter"
description: "This node splits a given color inout into its components for easy access at the output side of the node."
---

# Color Splitter

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# Color Splitter

![Image: C4D_Color_Splitter_Node.png](https://help.maxon.net/r3d/cinema/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/C4D_Color_Splitter_Node.png)

## Introduction

This node splits a given color inout into its components for easy access at the output side of the node.

### Input

Here you connect a color. The components of that color (Red, Green, Blue und Alpha) can be accessed separately at the output side of the node.

## Outputs

### Out R

### Out G

### Out B

### Out A

Returns each component of the *Input* color separately, like so:

*Out R* = *Input*.r

*Out G* = *Input*.g

*Out B* = *Input*.b

*Out A* = *Input*.a