CINEMA 4D RELEASE 19 COMPLETE FEATURE LIST

Exchange

• Alembic R19
• Alembic module is now based on Alembic 1.6.1 SDK
• Alembic now supports subframe interpolation
• "Other Attributes" option enables the import of additional point attributes
• Export now supports the LOD Object
• Alembic Generator
• "Other Attributes" option enables the import of additional point attributes
• Several workflow improvements
• Alembic Morph Tag
• FBX R19
• FBX module is now based on FBX SDK 2017.1
• Support for FBX LOD Groups added (import/export)
• "Selection Only" option added to only export the selected objects
• "Global Coordinates" option added to save objects with global instead of local coordinates
• New Media handling
• DDS exporter added
• RPF can now save Material IDs
• OBJ
• New option "Groups (combine name collisions)
• Houdini Engine Integration
• Updated to Houdini Engine 16.0.633
• The Integration now also supports particle rotation.

Workflow / UI

• New Feature highlighting
• Highlights new features in the current and previous version
• Highlights can fade away when used
• Custom highlight sets can be created
• New Media Handling Core
• Better media support in Cinema 4D 
• Data gets loaded more efficient
• Layerset chooser now supports multi page/stream images (e.g. in multi page TIFF files)
• Layerset chooser now allows access and selection of streams in a movie
• Support for an arbitrary number of alpha channels
• Format Presets for all Image/Movie formats
• Option to adapt the Movie Data Rate if the resolution changes
• Textures can have their own color profiles
• Embedded color profiles for textures can be loaded
• Anamorphic formats can be recalculated in the Picture Viewer
• TIFF files can be compressed
• Pixel aspect ration can be saved/loaded
• Better support for CMYK and YUV images
• 3D texture view supports the greyscale color profile
• New "Load Substances from Folder" command in the Substance Asset Manager
• Various new behaviors when inserting an object with multiple objects selected
• Image/movie options of loaded files are remembered, images and movies can be saved with the same settings
• The Content Browser now marks Substance assets with an overlay
• The Vertex Color tag has a new option with which the vertext colors can be constantly shown
• The save dialog window in the Picture Viewer can now handle anamorph videos

Animation

• Weighting Improvements
• Improved Weight Mirroring
• Joint Matching Algorithms (Hierarchy-based, Coordinates-based, Name-based)
• Improved Point-Matching Algorithm (Improved Nearest Point, Normalized Closest Point)
• Mirror Tool Integration /w 1-Click functionality
• Weight Manager Integration
• Weight Manager Improvements
• Several workflow improvements in the Weight Manager
• WM Refactoring: Separated Weight Manager from the Weight Tool, Weight Manager per scene
• Multiple Weight Manager Windows
• Improved Joint List workflows (More Consistent, Custom List Order with new Weight Tag sort including folder support, list supports hiding joints)
• Improved Spreadsheet workflow (More consistent filtering, new filters)
• Expose functions to the scripting API
• Weight Tool Improvements
• Tool refactoring and performance improvement
• Normalization Fixes
• Select Joint Influences in the Viewport
• Improved Smooth Workflow
• Improved Picker workflow
• New rigging specific layout
• Improved commands (Bind Multiple Objects)
• Character Morphs
• PSD (Pose Space Deformation) added
• Undeformed version of an object can now be used for rigid body simulations

MoGraph

• Improved Voronoi Fracture
• "Auto Connector" to automatically create a setup of Connectors between pieces.
• "Geometry Gluing" to merge pieces together
• "Detailing" to give pieces a more realistic look
• "Sorting" has been moved to a new Tab
• New sorting mode "Object"
• New "Piece Scaling" functionality, to scale voronoi cells
• The effect of "Offset Fragments" can now be inverted, this will create one object consisting of the gaps.
• "Hull Only" can now have a thickness
• The fracturing results can now be saved in the .c4d file
• Vertex maps can now be created for inside face selections, outside face selections and edge selections.
• Much better performance when fracturing high polygon count objects.
• New Noise Falloff
• New Sound Effector
• New User Interface
• New, interactive Frequency Graph
• Sampling the sound with several probes. Sampling modes: Peak/Average/Step
• Different modes to map probes to clones (Iterate/Distribute/Blend)
• Different ways to colorize the Clones
• Improved precision for source falloff for effectors
• Improved speed of the volume effector

Materials

• New UV Tile Offset Mode for the Variation Shader
• Variation Shader now also work in Hair Materials

Rendering

• "ProRender", a new GPU based render engine
• Based on OpenCL 1.2, working on Nvidia and AMD cards on Windows and AMD cards on macOS
• Multi GPU support with a very effective scaling
• Interactive Preview Render in Viewport
• Support for native materials and lights
• New PBR based Light and Material type
• Firefly filter
• Bucket rendering for large resolutions
• Viewport Enhancements
• Faster and nicer reflectance channel preview by Physically-Based Shading
• Reflectance channel roughness map support.
• Reflectance channel per-layer bump map support.
• Fast and accurate illumination from rectangular area lights.
• Depth of Field effect with Bokeh (support for Diaphragm shape), matching the Depth of Field in Physical Render closely.
• Screen Space Reflections
• Area Lights can be now shown as solid in the Viewport
• Spherical Camera
• New Camera option to create 360° and Dome renderings
• New Field of View helper in the Viewport
• Supports different mapping formats (Lat-Long, Cubic-Cross, Cubic-3x2, Cubic String)
• Supports stereoscopic rendering
• TeamRender improvements
• Support for Frame Steps
• Changed reordering strategy
• Clients continue rendering, even if the server is not reachable
• Support for encrypted web connections
• New automatic Service Discovery
• New Tonemapping Post-Effect
• Speedups for Standard Renderer
• Speedups for simple transparencies in Physical and Standard Renderers
• Supersampling setting for the Hardware OpenGL Renderer
• Shadowmap filtering improvement for the Hardware OpenGL Renderers
• Instant material updates

Modeling

• New Modeling Kernel
• First incarnation of the new, modern Modeling Kernel
• Currently used by
• Plane Primitive Generator
• Reverse Normals Command
• Align Normals Command
• Polygon Reduction Generator
• New command option dialog with "Reverse User Normals" option for Reverse Normals and Align Normals commands.
• Level of Detail Object
• Switching Level of Details Levels on different criteria (User Defined Level, User Defined Value, Screen Size horizontal/vertical/surface, Camera Distance, Project LoD)
• Different modes
• Children mode
• Simplify Mode
• Manual Group Node
• Polygon Reduction Generator
• Polygon Reduction is now a Generator
• New reduction algorithm
• Reduction can be set as a percentage or as number of remaining polygons, edges or vertices
• Better UV handling
• Can handle multiple objects either as one object or each one separately
• Displacer has new options
• Process Normal Tag
• Type (RGB (XYZ Tangent)

Motion Tracking

• Scene Reconstruction
• Reconstruction of the recorded scene, based on the Motion Tracking 3D Solve data
• Creates a Point Cloud or a mesh
• Motion Tracker Enhancements
• Manual Tracking now can work on R,G,B or custom channels
• Footage can now displayed as "Tracker View", e.g. Red Channel only.
• The Tracker can now work with a circular tracking pattern

UV Editing

• User Interface modifications
• Improved UV Selections including Grow/Shrink Selections, Select Connected and double click to select Islands for UV Polygons and Points
• Convert Selection now supports UVs
• Coordinate Manager now supports UVs
• New Numerical Editor for UV points

BodyPaint 3D

• BodyPaint is now based on OpenGL
• New BodyPaint save options

Demo Version

• Rendering Resolution Limitation has been removed, The Rendering will have a Watermark instead

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