Viewport

Gorgeous Graphics, While you Work

Release 19 adds support for Screen-Space Reflections and OpenGL Depth-Of-Field in addition to Screen Space Ambient Occlusion and Tessellation. The OpenGL view looks so good you can use it to output preview renders directly for client approval using the new native MP4 support

LOD (Levels Of Detail)

Object

Maximize viewport or render speed, create new types of animations or prepare optimized game assets with the new LOD object. You can simplify objects and hierarchies automatically based on screen size, camera distance and other factors. An intuitive new interface element makes it easy to define and manage LOD settings, and your levels of details export via FBX for use in popular game engines.

New Media Core

As part of our core modernization effort, Cinema 4D’s support for image,video and audio formats has been completely rewritten for increased speed and memory efficiency. Cinema 4D now natively supports MP4 without QuickTime, so it’s easier than ever to deliver a preview render, incorporate video as textures or motion track some footage. All import and export formats are more robust and feature packed than ever before.

Polygon Reduction

Cinema 4D’s new polygon Reduction tool works as a generator, so it’s easy to reduce entire hierarchies. The reduction is pre-calculated, so adjusting the Reduction Strength or desired vertex count is extremely fast. And best of all, the Polygon Reduction preserves Vertex Maps, Selection tags and UV coordinates, ensuring textures continue to map properly and providing control over areas where polygon detail is preserved.

Pose Space Deformation

New corrective morphs

Create muscles and tweak the deformation at key poses artistically, without setting up and rigging complex muscle objects. Using Pose Space Deformation within Cinema 4D R19’s PoseMorph tag, it’s easy to create correctional morphs that are driven automatically by joint animation. Attach the morph to a weight map and animated joints, and the morph will be automatically applied based on the character pose.

Weighting
Improvements

Painting weights is one of the more tedious aspects of character rigging, but Cinema 4D R19 introduces some great workflow tools to improve the process. New algorithms for mirroring weights make it much easier to translate the work done on one side to the other, while the Weighting Tool has improved normalization and smoothing. The Weight Manager includes many enhancements to make it more intuitive, plus you can now use multiple Weight Manager windows and easily filter each window to specific joints

Scene Reconstruction &

Tracking Improvements

Integrating 3D objects into tracked footage is easier than ever with Scene Reconstruction, which creates colored point clouds and geometry based on tracked features. Manually tracking features is much easier, too - you can choose whether tracks evaluate the red, green, blue or full luminance of the footage.

RENDERING

Voronoi Fracture

Breaking up is easy to do

Voronoi Fracture makes it easy to procedurally split objects - in Release 19 you can control dynamics with connectors, glue pieces together, add detail to cracks and more.

Spherical Camera

Render [Virtual] Reality

Tap into today's top trend - render Stereo 360° VR videos for YouTube, Facebook, Oculus or Vive.

Radeon ProRender

Physically-based, Cross-Platform GPU Rendering

Whether you're on Windows or Mac, you can experience the future of GPU rendering in Cinema 4D - physically-based, deeply integrated and extremely interactive.

LOD (LEVEL OF DETAIL)

POLY REDUCTION

SCENE RECONSTRUCTION

CHARACTER WORKFLOW

SOUND EFFECTOR