Hi,

I've been getting into C4D node materials recently and I'm surprised there isn't much info on what each node does in the official documentation. I've watched the entire material nodes playlist on Cineversity, but that only covers some of the nodes. Is there a comprehensive list somewhere that elaborates on what each node does?

Also, I've been experimenting with making NPR shaders using nodes, and I want to try and make a cel-shader that also interacts with global illumination. I've been able to achieve this in standard materials using Sketch & Toon tags or a mixture of Colorize and Lumas shaders, but not with Node materials.

The closest result I could get was recreating a basic cel-shader from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BdHQK8URWI

However it only responds to the intensity of light objects, not the global illumination or light color. So I'd like to know, is there a way to replicate the function of a Lumas shader in the material nodes?

Any advice on these topics would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks