About
Most Redshift material work is plumbing, not look dev: dragging files, matching slots, tracing wires in the node editor. Drop Dead is a small desktop companion that hands that step off so you stay with your scene in Cinema 4D.
Built by artists who hate wasting time. It's free, forever.
Features
- ▸ OpenPBR or Standard Material; preference saved (sheen maps to fuzz on OpenPBR, sheen on Standard)
- ▸ Drop textures, get a material instantly
- ▸ Auto applies to selected objects
- ▸ Auto-wired maps: diffuse, normal, roughness, metalness, displacement, bump, AO, opacity, sheen
- ▸ Optional Triplanar mapping
- ▸ Check for Updates in Help (download & restart when a release is available)
- ▸ No manual node hookups
Requirements
OpenPBR only works with Cinema 4D 2026.2.0 or newer and Redshift 2026.5.0 or newer. Use Standard Material on older C4D or Redshift versions.
- • Cinema 4D R21 or later and Redshift 3.0 or later for the app and Standard Material
- • macOS 10.14+ or Windows 10+
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