Cinema 4D R23 Blog

Putting the Future in Motion

Breathe life into your characters and animations with outstanding new tools and workflow enhancements. With R23 you’ll enjoy all the great UV and Viewport updates from S22, as well as many additional refinements in both areas. Step into the future with a preview of the new Scene Nodes system, and experience the power and performance you can expect in Cinema 4D’s future.

Smooth Moves

Cinema 4D R23 includes key enhancements to the animation workflow making it easier to create and manipulate keyframes, produce fantastic new character animation rigs, and manage your character poses, retargeting, and skinning.

Pose Library

Character TDs and Animators celebrate! A new Pose manager allows you to easily store, recall and blend key character poses as scene-independent assets. Save variations of your object’s parameters that are not tied to the scene and re-use them in different scenes. Works with characters or any type of parametric object.

Delta Mush

Delta Mush smooths deformations while preserving detail. The deformer itself smooths any deformation above it, and works particularly well with joint-based skin deformations. An additional tag allows the smoothing to be adjusted per object.

Character Solver

A new workflow allows you to create Character Definitions for commonly-used rigs and easily retarget animation regardless of joint orientation.

Toon & Face Rigs

Two new presets for the Character Object allow you to easily define character rigs for animating joint-based animation of a face.

Filtering In Attribute Manager And Timeline

Filter the Attribute Manager to show only the attributes animators need to see, and zero in on specific tracks with Timeline filtering.

Better Keyframing

Animate quicker with more intuitive auto-keyframing and commands to easily set keyframes for entire hierarchies and groups of objects.

Copy / Paste Ease

Copy an ease curve to different keyframe segments or tracks without affecting the values.

Markers

Create markers based on BPM, jump between marked ranges and navigate between markers with an all- new HUD.

The Perfect Arrangement

Cinema 4D R23 gives you access to all the powerful UV editing capabilities introduced in Cinema 4D S22. Additionally, we now have New tools geared mostly at UV workflows for hard-surface models.

UV Snapping

UV Snapping is now completely integrated into Cinema 4D’s core snapping toolset, with support for point, grid and pixel snapping.

Multi-Object Support

UVs of multiple objects can now be viewed concurrently in the UV Editor. Use UV packing to arrange the islands of all objects into a ONE shared UV Tile, as well as selection and manipulation tools to fine-tune UVs over multiple Objects.

Align, Straighten, Rectangularize

We can now align Islands based on selected Edges, Straighten Edge Selections and rectangularize UV islands.

UV Edit / Layout Enhancements

Enhanced views in the interface and the UV layout window make your workspace more responsive, and combined with the new tools make editing UVs an intuitive and stress-free process.

You’ve Got the Looks

Magic Bullet Looks: Easily apply one of over 200 preset film looks, import LUTs, or work with individual tools for color correction, film grain, chromatic aberration and much more. Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Looks technology is integrated into C4D’s render settings, so all of this works in the interactive viewport and with your final C4D renders. Best of all, you can save your own Looks presets and pass them between many other host applications like After Effects, Premiere Pro and FCPX and more.

Screen-Space Reflections

Dramatically-improved Screen-Space Reflections and the new Viewport Core introduced in S22, means you can generate outstanding preview renders out-of-the-box and better visualize the final composite.

Looking Under the Hood and into the Future

Scene Nodes in Cinema 4D R23 offers a sneak preview of the performance you can expect from the next generation Cinema 4D core and object system. Nodes enable you to explore massive Distributions and Procedural Modeling in advance of the further development of capabilities and integration of familiar Cinema 4D workflows that foster creativity and experimentation.

Tight Workflow Harmony

Python 3

The core Python engine of Cinema 4D has been updated from Python 2 to Python 3, offering greater performance and security.

OBJ

Extensive enhancements to OBJ import/export offer much improved performance, better support for PBR materials and vertex colors, and support for sequenced files.

FBX

FBX now offers the option to export the baked animation of bind joints and to export marker ranges as Takes.

USD

This first step in integration allows users to import / export models, cameras, and lights in usd, usda, usdc and export usdz.

Twisted Reality

Deformer objects now have better viewport representation showing their direction and function. Whether using deformers for modeling or animation, it’s easier than ever to align and scale deformers properly to procedurally modify your mesh.

Remesh Generator

An implementation of the open source Instant Mesh algorithm takes shape as a procedural generator, allowing automatic retopology and quad-based polygon reduction.

Cinema 4D R23 – COMPLETE FEATURE LIST

Animation

Pose Library

Scene independent pose library
Thumbnail view
Blend poses
Matching Name and Selection Filters

Character Solver

Character Definition Tag allows rig-independent definition of character components
Automatic rig extraction based on name templates
Custom Character Definition Presets
Character Solver transfers motion between rigs based on character definitions, regardless of hierarchy or joint rotations
Extensive preset library of high-quality motion capture presets

Delta Mush

Delta Mush smoothing of joint-based animation
Tag-based control of smoothing parameters

Character Object – Toon Rig and Face Rig

Toon Rig in Character Object offers easy-to-use rig supporting scaling and bendy limbs
Face Rig in Character Object allows users to easily create a joint-based facial rig

Workflow Enhancements

Attribute Manager Filtering
- Animated Attributes
- Keyframe Selection
- Animatable Attributes
- XPresso Driver / Driven
- Overridden in current take

Keyframing Changes
- Auto-Key Workflow
- Paste in Place
- Copy / Paste Ease Curve
- Record All Animated / Record Hierarchy Commands
- Delete Keys for all selected objects Command
- Animation Context Menu on HUD

Preview / Project Time Changes
- Preserve Project Time with Merge and X-Ref / Allow Keyframes outside the project time
- Increase Preview Time with Project
- In / Out Commands to define preview range
- Set Range to Markers
- Go to Previous / Next Marker Range

Timeline Changes
- Timeline Filtering
- Auto-Frame F-Curve
- Show Pos/Scale/Rot F-Curve Commands
- Improvements to defaults and object / track display behavior

Marker Enhancements
- Create Markers based on range / BMP
- Marker HUD
- Markers created with random color

Deformer Enhancements
- Auto-orient deformers based on geometry
- Easily adjust deformer orientation to align with object axes
- Viewport Enhancements including indicators of action and direction
- UX Enhancements including sliders for strength / angle

Exchange Enhancements
- FBX option to export marker ranges as takes
- FBX option to export only bound joints

Other Enhancements
- Set Pos / Reset Pose commands in weight tag
- Invert Vertex Map checkbox

UV Enhancements

for perpetual users, all the great enhancements in S22
Display and manipulate UVs of multiple selected objects (for shared texture workflows)
- Rasterized and Geometric Packing of multiple objects into a single UV space
Grid in Texture UV Editor
Snap UV elements and UV Transform Tool to Vertex, Edge, Mid-Point, Grid and Pixel
Align Island based on edge selection
Straighten point / edge selection
Rectangularize polygon selection
Path Selection within UV Editor
Grow / Shrink Selection within UV Editor
Quantization Palette
Display UV Distortion in 3D View

Magic Bullet Looks

Look applied in real-time to the viewport
Look applied to final rendering as a post effect
Option allowing for saving the unprocessed rendering result as a multipass
Optical Touch Looks Preset library designed to make 3D renders look great

Viewport

Improved screen space reflections
Optimized display of node-based geometry
Light Source Optimization and General Performance Enhancements
Removed Redraw Limit

Scene Nodes (Preview)

High-performance node-based object system, available as a technical preview.

Operator Nodes

Distribution Nodes

Linear, Linear Transformed
Radial, Spiral
Grid, Grid Offset (Honeycomb)
Vertex, Edge, Polygon Center
Mandelbrot, Mandelbulb
Custom Distribution Group

Effector / Field Nodes

Geometry Nodes

Get / Set Geometry and Topology
Point, Edge, Polygon Info
3D Primitives
Selection Nodes
Bounding Box
Geometry Clone
Extrude, Lathe, Loft, Sweep
Extrude, Inset, Bevel, Subdivide
Optimize, Connect, Chamfer, Align Normals, Reverse Normals, Delete, Melt
Remove Ngons, Remove Non Manifold, Triangulate, Retriangulate, Untriangulate

Legacy Import

Legacy Object Import
Sample Legacy Light
Vertex Map Tag Import

Materials

Material assignment
Material parameterization

Flow Control Nodes

Loop Carried Value
Memory
Range

Array Nodes

Node Editor

General UI Enhancements for Scene and Material Nodes
Node filtering
Node Detail Levels
Comments

Remesh Generator

Exchange

Import / Export Models, Cameras, Lights in usd, usda, usdc
Export usdz

OBJ Performance and Feature Enhancements

Import/export Support for PBR material definition used by Adobe Dimensions and other applications
OBJ Sequence Export
OBJ Sequence Import
Vertex Color Import / Export (Z-Brush / Meshlab)
Point Cloud Import
Z-Brush Spline Import
Flip UVs
Unicode Support
More Presets: 3ds max, Adobe Dimension, Blender, Maya, ZBrush, Trapcode

FBX (listed in Animation Workflow)

Export Takes from Timeline Markers
Export Bound Joints only

Python 3

Update from Python 2.7.14 to Python 3.7.7
Increased performance for Python expressions, scripts and plugins
Encrypt Python plugins via the command line

Moves by Maxon

Import and use Facial and Body Capture data from Moves iOS app (fully integrated)

General Workflow Enhancements

Display alpha channel in Picture Viewer as a checker grid
Insert Caret showing drag destination within Object Manager
Instances can be made editable
Updated Intel Open Image Denoiser to 1.2.1 / improved performance and better results
Viewport Selection Tools now use Intel Embree technology for better performance and accuracy

Customer Journey