New MAXON Products and Upgrades

MAXON CINEMA 4D R10.5 New Features List

CINEMA 4D R10.5 Core Version

• Images for background templates can be dragged directly into a 2D view.
• Noise shader display in OpenGL mode.
• Any CINEMA 4D command can be dragged into the editor view to be used as a HUD element.
• Navigation speed setting for tablet users.
• Option for saving objects polygonally in the native CINEMA 4D format.
• New Auto-Save function.
• Native CINEMA 4D file format can be opened directly in Allplan 2008.
• New DWG import format.
• Selection assistance in the HUD.
• New HUD commands.
• Commands with which existing objects or materials can be put out as XRefs.
• Camera rotation can be fine-tuned via a manually adjustable pivot point.
• Objects and materials can be saved to separate scenes using the XRef function.
• The last eight tools used are displayed
• Tool for interactively placing lights (and reflections).
• Selecting all Phong Edge Breaks.
• New Structure command for connecting Points or Edges.
• New Structure command for removing edges in consideration of the Phong Angle.
• Command to spin selected edges.
• A new Animation Palette option that makes it easier for users of other applications to use CINEMA 4D.
• Scalable mini F-Curves.
• Selected keys can be moved using the cursor keys.
• New key property, "Relative".
• Pseudo sequences for easy selection and repositioning of all keys on a given track.
• Exchanging Markers between scenes.
• Selecting objects simultaneously in the Object Manager and the Timeline.
• New KeyReducer algorithm.
• Deletion of redundant Keys.
• Commands for defining an animation before the first and after the last Key.
• Command to make Keys relative.
• Command for switching the Key state between Mute and Active.
• Selected Keys can be scaled and moved temporally.
• Commands to source out existing objects/materials as XRefs.
• Up to 5 F-Curve snapshots can be made..
• Complex curves can be controlled using RM Curves.
• Command for displaying the Material Manager’s layer tabs in rows.
• Resetting parameters to default setting.
• The Editor Camera’s settings can now be accessed.
• A full text search can be conducted in the context-sensitive Help system.
• Help can be accessed directly from dialog windows.
• Help pages can be bookmarked.

BodyPaint 3D

• Command for importing older BodyPaint 3D color presets.
• Command for importing older BodyPaint 3D brush presets.
• Various scaled UV Islands can be scaled proportionally to corresponding object surfaces.
• New ABF UV Relax algorithm.
• Two new commands for arranging a UV mesh in round or square shapes.

MOCCA Module

• Many of the following also apply to the CINEMA 4D core version.
• Collision Objects can also be Generators.
• Various new settings for the Skin Object.
• The Cluster Deformer can be used to deform object groups via point selection or vertex maps.
• The Jiggle Deformer for creating secondary motion.
• The Point Cache Deformer transfers animations in the Point Cache Tag to other objects.
• Squash and Stretch lets deformations such as that of a bouncing ball be created.
• The Joint Align tool can be used to freely align joints using a variety of settings.
• Several new modes for the Weight Tool.
• The Weight Tool now works symmetrically.
• The new Paint Tool allows precise painting of vertex maps.
• Command that transforms a point selection into a cluster.
• New bind functionality
• The IK Tag has a new Squash and Stretch functionality.
• Several new options have been added to the IK Spline Tag. Joint rotation can be more precisely controlled, and more.
• With the Point Cache Tag object point information can be baked and transferred to other objects via the Point Cache Deformer.
• Two new Weight Tag options.
• The Weight Tag can now account for one vertex map per joint.

HAIR Module

• HAIR supports multiprocessing.
• A new parameter for the Paint Guides Tool with which the interpolation of newly painted Guides can be controlled.
• Hair can be made to bend in the direction of the Target Object.
• New parameter for defining hair shadow density.
• Stepless antialiasing quality for hair shadows at light source level.
• Hair shadow density at light source level.
• New, faster interpolation mode, suited especially for use with fur.
• New antialiasing mode for stepless adjustment of antialiasing strength.
• Steplessly adjustable antialiasing strength.

MoGraph Module

• Removing unwanted texture reflection in X and Y direction.
• New, faster Effector for simple effects.
• The effect of each Effector can be restricted to a selection of Clones.
• The effect of the new Volume Effector is limited to object volume.
• Clone selections are saved to the MoGraph Selection Tag.
• Interactive Clone selection.
• Clone selections can be read using the MoGraph Selection Node.