CINEMA 4D 2025

Cinema 4D 2025 Subscription 1 Year - NFL License

• Rigid body simulations now interact with all existing forces, pyro, fabrics and soft bodies.
• Pyro gives precise controls for artists to art direct their simulation and ensure it matches their vision.
• The Pyro tag to standard particle emitters, thinking particle geometries and matrix cloners, they can now emit Pyro.
• New Vertex Normal tools offer you unparalleled precision for perfect surfaces.

Cinema 4D Non Floating License with Redshift GPU

• All Cinema 4D users can now work with Redshift Materials, Lighting and Rendering on any hardware with Redshift GPU support
• includes Redshift GPU with all features for high speed rendering
• Hybrid Rendering Support (GPU+CPU)

Redshift Materials

• RS Standard Surface Material offers intuitive material definition and compatibility with industry-standard workflows
• New Energy Conservation for Micro-facet BRDF/BSDF
• D'Eon Lambert-Spheres use a new Diffuse Roughness model
• Thin Film BRDF
• More intuitive Metalness workflow

Redshift Integration

• Viewport Preview

  • Improved Viewport Preview with Node-based Redshift materials, including:
    • Diffuse color and weight
    • Reflection color and weight, roughness, IOR and BRDF (Beckmann/GGX)
    • Overall bump, tint and opacity
    • Overall emission and weight
    • Transmission color and weight
    • Metalness, metal edge tint and reflectivity
    • Sheen color, roughness and weight
    • Coat color, weight, roughness, BRDF, IOR, reflectivity and bump
    • Normal Maps
    • Maxon Noises
    • MoGraph Color User Data
    • UV Scaling on Texture Nodes
    • Texture Layer Weights
  • Redshift Dome Light overrides default reflection map for viewport previews
  • Node Material SDK enhanced to allow third-parties more control over viewport previews
    
    

• Exchange

  • Basic material properties and textures export for Node-Based Redshift Materials to FBX and to USD
  • Basic Node-Based Redshift material constructed on import from FBX and from USD
  • Node Material SDK enhanced to all third-parties more control over material import/export
    
    

• Other Improvements

  • Node Materials now support OSL
  • Improved Colorization/Categorization of Redshift Nodes within Node Materials
  • Improved performance / interaction within Redshift Node Materials
  • Layout updates cameras and lights based on active render engine (Redshift Cameras and Lights in default layout)
  • Show in Node Editor exposes port

Simulation

• Simulation Scene

  • Provides settings for new unified simulation framework (currently Cloth and Splines)
  • Multiple Simulation Scene objects allow split systems with optimized iterations and different forces
  • Calculate simulations via CPU or GPU
    
    

• Cloth Simulation

  • Cloth Simulation based on new Simulation framework
  • Calculate simulations via CPU or GPU
  • Multiple cloth objects can be simulated together in a unified simulation
  • Apply Cloth to Children
  • Control Cloth attributes via Vertex Maps
  • Accurate tearing creates new points and doesn't require a cloth surface
  • Balloon option maintains the volume of closed surfaces
  • Plastic Deformation
  • Automatic Connections
    
    

• Rope Simulation

• Rope (Spline) Simulation based on new Simulation framework
• Rope/Cloth interactions
• Rope Simulation uses tessellated points

• Smoke Simulation

  • Smoke Simulation now included

Modeling

• ZRemesher

  • Remesh Object now includes ZRemesher for high-quality procedural automatic retopology
  • Quad Remesh Node offers procedural remeshing within Capsules / Scene Nodes
    
    

• Modeling Tools

  • Bridge

    • New, incredibly-powerful Bridge tool

    • Surface and curvature interpolation
    • Intelligently defines normals direction for bridging
    • Preserves UVs, Vertex Colors and other surface attributes in most cases
      
      

  • Close Polygon Hole - Grid

    • Close polygon holes with a quad-dominant grid topology
    • Preserves curvature and topology, including UVs, Vertex Colors and other surface attributes
      
      

  • Equal Spacing

    • Evenly distribute selected edge loops to equalize spacing between neighboring loops
    • Preserves curvature of the original mesh
    • Available as an interactive tool and Geometry Modifier node
      
      

  • Fit Circle

    • Transform selected geometry components to a circular shape

    • Interactive controls to affect scaling and rotation of circle

    • Available as an interactive tool and Geometry Modifier node
      
      

  • Flatten

    • Flatten selected geometry based on a specified axis, normals or the view angle
    • Interactive controls to affect the strength and flatten plane
    • Available as an interactive tool and Geometry Modifier node
      
      

  • Poke Polygons

    • Create a new point in the center of each selected polygon
    • Automatically offset created point based on the polygon normal direction
    • Available as an interactive tool and Geometry Modifier node
      
      

  • Set Flow

    • Transform edge loops to follow the curvature of neighboring geometry
    • Available as an interactive tool and Geometry Modifier node
      
      

  • Smooth Edges

    • Smooth selected edges while preserving edge length and volume
    • Interactive Controls to adjust smoothing amount
    • Available as an interactive tool and Geometry Modifier node
      
      

  • Straighten Edges

    • Straighten selected edges
    • Interactive Controls to adjust straightening amount
    • Available as an interactive tool and Geometry Modifier node

• • Vector Import

    • SVG now supported in Vector Import Object
    • Improved SVG Import
    • Clipping Paths supported in Adobe Illustrator files

Task Manager

• Expandable and dockable progress bar to show the progress of multiple processes, including:
  • Loading/Saving Projects
  • Crash Reports
  • Loading Assets Databases, Downloading Assets and Generating Previews
  • Rendering via Picture Viewer and Render Queue, Clearing the Picture Viewer Cache
  • Generating Fractures
• Many processes are now asynchronous (run in the background)
• Network saves are now predominately asynchronous

Scene Nodes

• Component Access
• Data Inspector shows Geometry contents
• Variable Font Support in Text Spline
• Segment support in Assemble Spline Node
• Add Control Point along Spline
• Split Spline Node
• Automatic UV Geometry Modifier Node - automatically generates a UV map based on the Automatic Packed UVs algorithm
• Quad Remesh Geometry Modifier Node - performs automatic retopology via ZRemesher algorithm
• Geometry Modifiers: Equal Spacing, Fit Circle, Flatten, Poke Polygons, Set Flow, Smooth Edges, Straighten Edges
• Spline Distributions - Control Points, Even, Line Center, Random, Solidify, Step
• Bias added to Blue Noise distribution - The bias moves between [-1, 1] to favor more small clones or more big ones. In the negatives it will overscale.
• Improved Asset Browser filtering
• Conversion command between op and base node
• Show in Node Editor / Ctrl-Click Connector dot exposes port

General Enhancements

• Animation

  • Hammer Weights - Define weights based on the average of surrounding points
    
  • Colorize by Prefix command colorizes joints and other objects based on prefix or suffix.
    
    
• Asset Browser
  • Performance Enhancement - Asynchronous Database Indexing
  • Option to generate Database Index for improved speed and publishing online
    
    

• Performance

  • Improved Memory Management for better overall performance after many renders
    
    

• UI Refinement

  • Font list can be filtered by name
  • Preference to choose the "Default" resolution used for Texture Previews
  • Embedded Webview / HTMLViewerCustomGUI uses Edge / WebKit on Windows
  • User Layouts denoted by Italic rather than (User) to save space
  • Menus and Palettes dynamically change their content by checking what the Renderer in use is.
  • Layout tabs can be reordered by drag and drop
  • The Open Recent list has been added to document tab context menu
  • Document tabs expand to contain more of the filename
  • Categorization within menus
  • Green Checkmarks are back
  • Many Added Icons
  • Faster and more precise sliders based on code rather than bitmaps
  • Size of numeric inputs consistent on both OS's
  • Folder icon to replace "..." in file loaders
  • Refinements to Gradient UI (alpha mode)
  • Shorter Mixed text (in Italic) to replace <<Multiple Values>> in AM
  • Null types can now be identified by new icons
  • Additional precision - 4 decimals instead of 3 for numeric inputs
  • Scroll wheel in Attribute Manager only changes values when the specific attribute is focused
  • Color Chooser refinements: color sliders refinement, alpha is always visible, the color wheel ui is a bit more compact horizontally
  • Script Word Wrap support for the Python Console
  • Refinement of CTRL+Left/Right key behavior in multi-line text. (They correctly jump to words beginning/ending)
  • File chooser supports multiple file selection
  • Directory chooser on Windows updated to modern style
  • C4D Objects removed from Asset Browser to avoid duplication