CINEMA 4D

What's new in this version:

- The Take system makes multiple Project states available amongst which you can easily switch
- Lens distortion function for determining and compensating for lens distortion
- The Variation shader can be used to vary textures’ color values
- The Motion Tracker feature now has a graph for checking the quality of Tracks
- The Spline Pen is a new universal tool for creating splines
- The Spline Sketch tool replaces the previous Spline Freehand tool
- The Spline Smooth tool can do more than just smooth splines
- The Spline Arc tool can be used to create circular splines and soft connections between spline points
- New Color Chooser, including color harmonies
- Replace all materials with a single material during rendering
- Variable path and file names (Tokens) can be used to name rendered files according to specific criteria and save them to specific paths
- The Formula shader lets you create ,programmable’ gray scale gradients
- New Euler filter for the Timeline
- Various new auto tangent settings
- Houdini connect for loading digital assets
- New importer for SketchUp files
- New Wavefront OBJ import/export
- Render settings and Takes can be displayed in the Viewport as selectable HUD menus
- New Trackball Rotation function for navigating in the Viewport
- Dithering can be used to avoid banding for OpenGL display
- Several new preference settings in the Timeline
- New command line command for rendering specific Takes
- New functionality within the Merge command with regard to Takes
- The Spline Mask can now handle any number of splines
- New Boole modes for the Spline Mask
- Improved shading for Metaballs
- The Naming tool can now also be used to rename tag, material, layer and Take names
- New Polygon Pen option for determining which elements should be affected
- Several new spline Boole commands
- Mesh checking can now also recognize isolated points on N-gon edges
- Key interpolation commands are now also available in the Animation Palette’s context menu
- Selected keys can be moved using the Shift key without affecting their values or time
- Timeline: Command for deselecting all keys
- Markers can now include time ranges as range markers
- 2 new Timeline commands
- Takes can now also be selected in the Render Queue
- Several new Take-specific commands are available in the Render Queue
- Render settings can also be assigned outside of the Take Manager
- The Watermark shader can now display Take names
- A distortion post effect is also part of the Lens Distortion functionality
- When multiple objects are selected in the Object Manager, the object selected last will be highlighted
- Several new Take-specific commands for Object, Material and Layer Managers
- New shell shapes for Metaballs
- Layer properties can now also be set in the Attribute Manager
- Texture Manager command for displaying loaded bitmaps in the Explorer/Finder
- Texture links in materials can be cleared in the Texture Manager
- New Refraction Preset setting for the Transparency channel
- 2 new Take-specific commands in the Attribute Manager’s context menu
- An Override operator has been added to XPresso for the Take system
- PoseMorph targets can be created directly from Sculpt layers
- Sculpt brushes snap to Guide objects
- New Edge Detect function for most Sculpt brushes
- The center point of radial-symmetrical Sculpt brush strokes can now be defined freely
- New option for the Grab sculpting brush
- New options for the Sculpt feature’s Flatten brush
- The Sculpting Symmetry object can now handle 100% symmetrical objects
- Lens profiles can now be loaded into the Camera Calibrator tag
- The User Management can be disabled for Team Render
- In the Team Render Server browser interface you can now list Render Clients on the Monitor page
- Lens profiles can now be used with the Motion Tracker
- The Sculpt brushes now affect the back side of objects
- The Team Render Server’s browser interface was optimized
- Speed performance optimization for the Timeline
- Numerous useful Content Browser items added