New Features

Pyro - Realistic Smoke, Fire and Explosion Simulation

Easily make any object emit smoke, fire and explosions by adding a Pyro tag
Sparse solver with unbound domain for smoke and fire simulation
Solve simulations via GPU or CPU
Shared simulation environment and forces with Cloth, Rope and Soft Bodies
Supports C4D Forces, including Field Force
Fuel, density, velocity, temperature, color and pressure emission from surface or volume. Vertex map support for masking emission.
Multiple advection modes & pressure solvers
Pyro Object allows selective generation of vdb structures from Pyro sims
Simple caching of Pyro sims to vdb via Pyro Object
Simulation Time Scale
High-quality viewport display of density and temperature in Pyro and VDB Fog objects powered by NanoVDB

Radial Symmetry for most modeling tools (in addition to Planar and Topological)
Radial Symmetry within Symmetrize command
Radial Symmetry within Symmetrize Selection command
Iron Tool preserves mesh and selection boundaries
Flatten Tool includes option to use axis position
Close Polygon Hole Tool includes a Patch mode for simple circular holes which supports rotation and width options
Close Polygon Hole Tool includes a new Close All Holes option

Significantly improved UX for defining camera parameters
Define Focus, Bokeh, Motion Blur and Exposure via physical camera attributes
Easily add Redshift Color Correction, Lens Effects and other Post Effects settings
Sensor Fit options provide control over relationship between camera and render aspect, making it easier to render a single composition in different aspect ratios
Frustum Display option to show viewport camera preview always, never or on selection
Filled display of camera focus plane with controllable opacity
Viewport preview of Fisheye, Spherical and Cylindrical Projections

Redshift Standard now default Redshift material / reordered RS Materials creation menu
Easier Viewport rendering of Redshift previews - active node space changes only when unsupported
Redshift Viewport Preview of Animated Textures
Redshift Viewport Preview of Vertex Color and Vertex Maps
Redshift Viewport Preview of simple Ramp nodes (noise is not supported)
Redshift Viewport Preview of Color Correct node
Redshift Viewport Preview of Invert Color and Invert Value nodes
Redshift Viewport Preview of Color Composite node (when compositing a texture with color, vertex maps and noises - multiple textures are not supported)
RS Standard Material: Viewport preview of Subsurface color and weight
RS Material: Viewport preview of Subsurface Transmittance Color and Scatter Scale
RS Viewport Previews support generic group nodes used in GoZ, USD and FBX material import

Substance Engine support on Apple Silicon
Procedural Point and Edge Selections using Fields
Procedural Selection tags can be easily added via tags menu
Procedural Selections and Vertex Maps can be calculated before or after deformations via “Use Deformed Points”
All Tag menus can be torn off, tags can be integrated into palettes
Scene Nodes: Formula Node allows simple multi-step / multi-variable calculations in a single node
Scene Nodes: Geometry Collision node improved options and behavior
Cineware Unreal Integration supports C4D 2023.1 and Unreal Engine 5.0.3 or 5.1, now with support for deformed mesh animation. Download at maxon.net/unreal.