Modeling, Workflow, Interface & Picture Viewer

• Sculpting as a new and completely integrated modeling method with sophisticated brushes, symmetry options, hundreds of presets, masking, layers, incl. levels and object baking
• Powerful Camera Calibrator (Camera Matching) tool to reconstruct camera position, rotation and focal length based on images
• New, totally reworked premium Snap functionality
• Realistic camera motion (filmed by hand or SteadiCam simulation) can be easily created using the Motion Camera tag
• With the Camera Morph tag you can animate steplessly between various camera positions, animations and all camera parameters
• New powerful Guide objects and tools with integrated snapping functionality for Architecture, construction and technical modeling
• Additional Workplane modes and new remarkable Workplane functions
• Enhanced OpenGL viewport now with real-time soft shadows
• New To Do function
• New To Do tag
• Task / To Do Manager
• Focal length can be adjusted interactively with one click for each camera
• The new Commander tool can be used to easily to call up any command
• Gradient curves in the Picture Viewer filter
• Gradient curves as a post effect
• Raycast Selection (polygons, points, Objects, etc.) with RMB
• Orthogonal views can be rotated around the orthographic axis
• Viewport Object Highlighting: If needed, selected objects or objects to be selected are now highlighted with an outline (to be selected: white; selected: orange)
• The length of the animation path (spline) displayed in the Viewport is now in relation to the length of the preview range and fades accordingly
• Visibility of individual HUD element options can be switched.
• Project preferences can also be saved and loaded as presets
• Seamlessly switch from one camera to the next in the Viewport (animated switching)
• Null object icons can be assigned custom colors
• Various guidelines can be displayed in the camera settings (golden spiral, golden ratio, cross-hair, etc.)
• Light source icons can assume the light’s color
• Improved export of Cloner object animations
• Right-click option menu for primary tools
• New work mode for moving and rotating work planes directly
• Right-click on axis moves elements in the direction of the camera
• Display of sound wave shapes in the Timeline’s FCurve view
• New Timeline marker options
• Scroll wheel in the Timeline
• Tracks for selected objects can be folded or unfolded in the Timeline
• The Bump channel’s effect on the reflection can be disabled
• New Displacement mode: RGB (XYZ Tangent)
• New Brick shader parameter
• Vertex Normal coordinates displayed in Structure Manager
• Images can be scaled when saved using the Picture Viewer
• Automatic selection of image size for optimized playback of animations in the Picture Viewer RAM, so every animation can be played in real-time
• New transparency option for the sun
• New MoSpline setting
• New Multi-Shader parameter (for improved mosaic images)
• Interactive, uniform modification of brush size and pressure for all brush tools
• New brush size behavior
• Displacement Baking
• Enhanced MoGraph Multi Shader
• Enhanced Brick shader
• Enhanced Fresnel 2D preview
• Specular Color + Specular channel unified
• Gradient GUI: One-click even knot distribution
• Enhanced Watermark
• Displacement Baking
• Picture Viewer enhancements (create stereoscopic images by loading two different pictures)
• Highlighting of GUI elements
• Bubble help enhancements
• Add Point ID to pop-up dialog
• Better preview quality for Specular Highlight in Material Editor
• Rain Sampler shader: Texture map for rain intensity
• Color light icon
• Picture Viewer: Auto-sync AB
• Create stereo images from AB-Compare
• Picture Viewer: Save All loop
• Watermark: Add placeholder for HDR threshold
• Watermark: Placeholders for camera settings
• Watermark: Create some sub-menus in placeholder pop-up menu Watermark: CINEMA 4D version placeholder
• Gray out / disable focus dynamics when Focus Control is deactivated
• Add additional morph tracks to Camera Morph tag, Multi-Shader improvement: Blend used shader with clone color
• Sketch & Toon OMP support for CreateLines
• Command for switching layout from right to left (Arabic language)
• Arabic localization and interface

Rendering

• New, improved GI sampling
• New GI sampling method, Radiosity Maps
• Radiosity Maps for significant acceleration of Q rendering and caching
• New GI sampler: Universal
• Caustics rendering speedup
• Normal textures can now also be baked using high-res objects
• Improved integration of objects in Projects illuminated using GI
• The Physical Sky is much improved and is now even more realistic.
• Complete new high-class 3D Wood shader
• New Weathering shader
• Brick shader: Add a groove to the gaps
• The new Normalizer shader can calculate HQ Normal maps using Bump maps
• New Subsurface Scattering mode: Direct
• New Subsurface Scattering mode: Single
• Global control of Subsurface Scattering subdivision
• Enhanced SSS Shader (Direct Mode / Single Scattering)
• Global option for disabling Subsurface Scattering for rendering
• Combining sky and sun for physically correct rendering

Dynamics

• Aerodynamic functions for Rigid and Soft Bodies
• Plastic deformation for most Soft Body Springs
• Aerodynamic mode for particle modifiers Wind, Friction, Rotation, Gravity and Attractor
• Torsion springs and linear springs can be modified or broken elastically
• Fixed Connector type can be broken at certain Force or Torque values
• Breaking detection
• Breaking limits for constraints
• Collision can be included or excluded for Dynamics baking
• All Dynamics caches can now be baked directly from the Dynamics Body tag
• Global air density for aerodynamic Dynamics effects

Exchange

• Positions Pass for 3D-compatible compositing applications (The Foundry Nuke)
• Position Pass: Added Support for different spaces
• Position Pass: Added scaling parameter
• Position Pass: Added RGB flip options
• Position Pass: Change strings
• Position Pass: Added invert option for Z axis
• Multi-Pass files, including the entire Project file, can now be ouput for The Foundry Nuke
• Native CINEMA 4D files can be saved directly from After Effects
• Native CINEMA 4D files can be exported from After Effects
• CINEMA 4D files can be opened directly in Photoshop
• Support for 3D export format Alembic
• FBX now also supports splines
• Command for saving a Project directly for Melange
• Camera options for After Effects export
• Light source options After Effects export
• Rename AFX plugin files
• Photoshop: default camera

XPresso

• Completely new (GUI) XPresso design
• New Node connection: Curved
• Antialiasing of XPresso Nodes
• Performance View for XPresso Nodes
• Parameters controlled by XPresso are marked in the Attribute Manager
• Determine in XPresso whether or not dynamics has been triggered in a specific object / tag
• XPresso ports can be created via drag & drop
• New XPresso Node: Track Operator
• Dynamics can now be triggered using XPresso
• New Dynamics XPresso Node: Dynamics Connector State
• New Dynamic Spring State mode in XPresso
• 'Trigger By XPresso’for Dynamics Body
• Enhanced Attribute Manager (new animation dots show if a parameter is controlled by XPresso)
• Bubble help for parameters controlled by XPresso
• New ports for the Dynamic Body State Node
• Drag DescID to ObjectNode

Character and XRefs

• The XRef object can function as a Generator
• Reference Container Active Object List
• The timing of animated referenced objects (XRefs) can be influenced in the master Project
• Freely placeable XRef object pivot in master Project
• Several new XRef Manager commands
• Various new XRef options
• XRef tag to define which object to display
• In addition to other improvements, multiple bone inserts for the Character Component tag
• Joint weights can now be applied via Save or Load command
• New Clamp option, Fix Axis
• New, additional priority for Pose Morph tag
• Materials can be assigned to character components
• Layers can be assigned to character components
• Freeze coordinates in the Character Component tag
• Character Component tag Handles can be colored individually
• Character enhancements (Flexible Builder)
• Elements on layers can be exempted from an XRef master Project when it is loaded
• Numerous additional settings for loading characters as well as new template files
• Tag to set default state in XRef
• XRef Point Modify
• Offset for keyframes in XRefs
• XRef Manager Include check boxes
• XRef Modify options: Points, Mode
• Auto proxy switch on render
• XRef layer shows icon
• XRef Manager menus as commands
• Xref: Flush and Object parameter
• Project settings for XRef import
• Next/Previous Key also jumps to Child objects’ keys
• Merge Poses
• Pose Morph Symmetry function
• Insect Builder - Add Antenna, Add Mandibles
• CMotion - Change order in Action List
• Builder object naming
• Builder layers optional
• Export Weights to a file
• Character object: Control which components to which a mesh gets bound
• Character Builder update dialog
• Character Builder bone insert controllers
• Character Object / Component tag Handle color now uses object color
• P2P Manager / Library
• Copy muscle shapes between states
• CA / additions to mocap mixamo builder template