Cinema 4D

Cinema 4D offers you all you need to create high-end 3D pictures and animations - right out of the box. And CINEMA 4D's modular design - with a total of 8 modules that you can buy individually - allows you to custom fit the application to suit your needs and your budget. The XL and Studio bundles offer groups of modules at significant savings.

Rendering

• New Variation Shader
• New Display Color Shader
• Filter Shader: New Checkbox to switch color grading on/off
• New Formula Shader
• New Lens Distortion Shader
• New Lens Distortion render effects
• New Take System
• New Token System
• Global Material Override
• Team Render Improvements
• Watermark Post-Effect now support Takes

Modeling

• New Spline Sketch Tool
• New Spline Pen Tool
• New Spline Arc Tool
• New Spline Smooth Tool
• New Spline Boolean Commands: Substract, Union, And, Or, Intersect
• Spline Mask supports new boolean modes
• Spline Mask now supports more than two splines
• New behavior of the ESC key
• New Trackball navigation mode
• Mesh Check Enhancements
• Poly Pen Enhancements

Animation

• New Euler Filter
• New Autotangent modes
  • Weighted Tangents
  • Fixed Slope Autotangent mode
  • Remove Overshoot Flag
  • Auto Weighting Flag
• Timeline Enhancements
  • New Preferences
    • Link Key/Fcurve Selection
    • OM Single object linking
    • OM Single object linking but displays the tags
    • FCurve ListView
    • FCurve Non-hierarchical listview
  • Changes:
    • Tab instead of space bar to switch between Dopesheet/Fcurve
    • Improved shift behavior
    • Space bar now plays but only when Timeline is active
    • The interactive update now also work in Dopesheet mode
    • General speedup
    • Now there are 2 Timeline commands (to open Dopesheet or FCurve)
    • Zoom to cursor
    • Extended marker to range markers and added color
    • Show tangents of selected curves
    • User Data groups are now also displayed in the Timeline
    • When the preference „Track Color" is set to Track Color, the tracks names are also colored in the list views
    • HPB should now has the correct color order.
    • There is a new deselect command so that CTRL-Shift A can deselect everything
    • The Timeline now remembers the last active area (Object area or main area) and then selects/deselect all accordingly
    • New „Lock Ratio" command for locked zooming in FCurve Mode - shift toggles between locked/not locked ratio
• Powerslider Enhancements
  • CTRL-Shift to create markers
  • There are new commands in the context menu of the Powerslider
  • Double click in the lower area of the Powerslider extends the range to the document range
  • Extended markers also displayed in the Powerslider
  • Optimized default behaviours

Sculpting

• Erase Brush: New "Erase Masked" button
• New „Sculpt To PoseMorph" command
• Grab Brush: New Surface Distance Option
• Stencil Tile Preview
• Flatten Brush: NewFixed Plane Option „Custom Plane"
• Radial Symmetry supports a custom center point
• Sculpt Brushes now Support Guide Snapping
• Backface Sculpting Option
• Edge Detect Option
• Mask Brush Improvement
• Symmetry Dialog: New „Find nearest point" option

Python

• BrushDabData
• SculptBrushParams
• SculptObject

C++

• lib_sculptbrush.h
• SculptMouseData
• Spline Brush SDK Example
• Other Additions
• lib_sculpt.h

Motion Tracker

• New Graph View with Top-Down and Graph mode
• Lens Distortion Tool for Camera Calibrator and Motion Tracker

Exchanges

• New OBJ Import/Export with support for materials
• New Sketchup Import
• FBX now supports Takes
• AE now supports Takes

Pipeline

• Integration of the Houdini Engine

Workflow and Interface

• New Color Chooser
• Bitmap Shader has a new function to locate the file in Finder/Explorer
• "Locate Image..." now works correctly for presets
• Naming tool now also works with Tags, Materials, Layers and Takes
• Enhanced Camera HUD
• Rendersettings HUD
• Attributes Manager: New Layer mode
• Material Editor: Presets for refraction
• The last selected objects gets a different highlight color in the Object Manager
• The Texture Manager now can remove links to Textures (e.g. Textures in deactivated channels)
• The PictureViewer now also displays the frame number of the rendered frame.
• The rendertime display moved to a more prominent place in the PictureViewer
• The cursor keys can now be used to navigate the Texture Manager

Other

• Metaball Enhancements: New „Line" and „Triangle" types, „Accurate Normals" method
• Threaded redraw of texture custom user interface
• Automatic network proxy detection
• Viewport Dither
• New command line parameter to render Takes
• Merge now supports Takes
• New Override Node for XPresso
• New OpenGL base system Context, OpenGL 3.2 required
• Image loaders are now interuptable. This allows early exit for threaded user interface updates.