Silverwing Quickish-Tip: Keycap Lettering Shader

Made Using C4D 2023.2.1
Octane 2022.1.1 R5

Yay, its another tutorial this week.
This time about the shader I made to produce different legends (lettering) on the keycaps of my recent project
you can find here on Behance: https://www.behance.net/gallery/17287...

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00:00 Intro
00:32 A look at the finished scene
01:35 A look at the legend texture in Illustrator
02:55 Convert Illustrator textures in Photoshop
03:59 Welcome to keycap scene
04:33 Creating the material
05:22 Bringing in the texture
05:55 Mapping the texture
06:23 Setting the aspect ratio
07:13 Transforming the texture
08:20 Distort Mesh UV mode explained
10:37 Translating the texture in steps
11:37 Introducing Instance ID / Instance Range
13:04 Integrating the Instance Range Node
14:13 Improving the shading (a bit)
14:58 Final shader demonstration
15:42 But wait, there is more (Controllable Render Instances)
16:36 Cloner demo
17:26 Drawback of the keycap rig and a workaround
18:34 Changing the legend texture
19:58 Outro