Cinema4D - Version History

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Last updated: 20 Nov, 2024 by Next Limit
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Version 5.2.6 - 20 Nov 2024

COMPATIBILITY:

  • Added support for Cinema4D 2025

In MacOS, the plugin requires starting Cinema using Rosetta for the plugin to be visible. In some versions of Cinema 4D S26, 2023, Cinema4D cannot be forced to use Rosetta so we suggest testing the plugin in demo mode before buying it to make sure it works on your side.

 

IMPROVED:

  • Maxwell FIRE interactivity improved. Now object movement, rotation, scaling or deletion triggers an automatic update.

 

FIXED:

  • Attenuation unit “dm” was working as it was “cm”.

  • The plugin could not retain the name of the custom alpha channels, so they could not be created.

  • In the case we started FIRE with some materials applied and, later, we created a new material and edited it, the changes seemed to be applied to the last material applied. Refreshing Fire fixed the problem. Now all the material edition is updated in real time.

 

Version 5.2.5 - 07 Mar 2024

COMPATIBILITY:

  • Added support for Cinema4D 2024

In MacOS, the plugin requires starting Cinema using Rosetta for the plugin to be visible. In some versions of Cinema 4D S26, 2023, Cinema4D cannot be forced to use Rosetta so we suggest testing the plugin in demo mode before buying it to make sure it works on your side.

 

FIXED:

  • Sometimes, the plugin did not open the right material when it was opened from the material tag properties.

 

Version 5.2.4 - 22 Sep 2022

COMPATIBILITY:

  • Added support for Cinema4D 2023

In MacOS, the plugin requires starting Cinema using Rosetta for the plugin to be visible. In some versions of Cinema 4D S26, 2023, Cinema4D cannot be forced to use Rosetta so we suggest testing the plugin in demo mode before buying it to make sure it works on your side.

 

Version 5.2.3 - 01 Jul 2022

COMPATIBILITY:

  • Added support for Cinema4D S26

 

IMPROVED:

  • The installer now finds the Cinema 4D installation folder more reliably (Windows only).

 

FIXED:

  • During the export process, Maxwell Hair could crash Cinema4D

  • The Alpha channel texture used in Standard Cineam4D materials produced an inverted effect inside Maxwell Render in Cinema4D S24 and R25 only.

 

Version 5.2.2 - 19 Oct 2021

COMPATIBILITY:

  • Added support for Cinema4D R25

 

FIXED:

  • Maxwell Mesher didn’t work

 

Version 5.2.1 - 06 Jul 2021

COMPATIBILITY:

  • Added support for Cinema4D R24

  • Built for Maxwell Render 5.2.1.49

ADDED:

  • New “Import VRay Scene” command and button in the Maxwell menu. It converts .vrscene files to Maxwell and imports them into the scene.

FIXED:

  • The Maxwell Material didn't show the texture in the viewport in Cinema R23 and S22. It is currently fixed but the texture resolution is constrained to the c4d texture resolution.

  • The Maxwell tags (Rendering Region, Camera Z-Clip, Grass, Volumetric) didn’t draw their features in the viewport in Cinema R23.

KNOWN ISSUES:

  • (Windows only) The selection in the viewport of the imported objects after using the “Import VRay Scene” tool doesn’t work properly. This is fixed if you save the cinema file and load it again.

  • Maxwell material texture display resolution cannot be changed; the plugin will use the C4D provided resolution.

 

Version 5.2.0 - 09 Mar 2021

COMPATIBILITY:

  • Added support for Cinema4D R23.

  • Built for Maxwell Render 5.2.0.45.

  • Removed support for Cinema4D R14 to R19.

IMPROVEMENTS:

  • New Denoiser implementation in Maxwell Render. Only one pass is needed, the denoiser information is now stored in the mxi file as another channel, better memory management for the denoising process, and more consistency in general.

  • New Denoiser options in the Maxwell Scene Object > Engine tab > Denoiser section:

    • New Tiling option with maximum tile size option.

    • New fine-tuning options: Color Influence 1 and 2, Feature Influence, Final Pass, Filter Radius and Firefly Remover options. Check this link for more information: Denoiser documentation page.

  • New Denoiser channel added in the Maxwell Scene Object > Output tab > Render Channels section as now the Denoiser is treated as another channel. This channel activation is synced with the Denoiser enabler in the Engine tab.

  • New Substance Designer extension with support for .sbsar files.

CHANGES:

  • The Denoiser “Start with SL” value is forced to be between 3 and 50.

  • The Denoiser “Start with SL” default value has been changed to 8 (it was 4).

FIXES:

  • (Cinema4D R21 only) The plugin didn’t load in some rare cases. After this fix, the oldest R21 version supported is R21.200.

 

Version 5.1.1 - 16 Jul 2020

COMPATIBILITY:

  • Built for Maxwell Render 5.1.1.33

FIXES:

  • (C4D S22 only) C4D viewport didn't show the color of the Maxwell Material.

  • Substance Painter extension doesn't read texture "Normal" automatically.

 

Version 5.1.0 - 13 May 2020

COMPATIBILITY:

  • Built for Maxwell Render 5.1.0.29.

  • Added support for Cinema 4D S22.

ADDED:

  • Substance Painter Material extension.

 

Version 5.0.0 - 06 Feb 2020

ADDITIONS:

  • Added a button and menu option for Maxwell Cloud

  • Added a button to control the used GPUs for the GPU render engine.

  • New "Multilight group" property in the Maxwell material editor for emitters.

CHANGES:

  • Maxwell Grass Initial Angle default value changed from 10º to 80º (so it points up as it should).

  • Now the plugin Help option opens the new Maxwell 5 documentation pages.

  • UI text "Quality" changed to "Engine" at the Render Engine popup selection.

FIXES:

  • Adding geometry while Fire was running could cause some missing triangles in the exported geometry.

KNOWN ISSUES:

  • Fire may show the materials incorrectly assigned to certain objects when Fire is running and you are editing a new material in the material editor at the same time; a Fire refresh will get everything back to normal. This doesn't affect the main render.

  • Changing Fire from CPU to GPU while running may show some missing triangles; refreshing Fire will show everything fine again. This doesn't affect the main render.







Version 4.2.3 - 01 Oct 2018

Fixes:

  • (R20 only) Opening mxed from Cinema 4D started a new material with empty settings.

  • (R20 only) It was not possible to change the Camera Rendering Region tag parameters, because those were in a disabled state.

  • (R20 only) C4D crashed during export (depending on material settings).

Version 4.2.2 - 18 Sep 2018

  • Added compatibility with Cinema4D R20

  • Rewriting a big part of the code was necessary to achieve compatibility.

Version 4.2.1 - 21 Feb 2018

  • Update to Maxwell 4.2.0.3.

Version 4.2.0 - 09 Feb 2018

  • Update to Maxwell 4.2.0.2.

  • Add Triangle ID channel.

  • Fix crash when rendering to the network.

Version 4.1.9 - 30 Nov 2017

  • Improve Unicode file path support.

  • Add more stereo camera parameters.

  • Improve RF Particle Importer translation.

Version 4.1.8 - 11 Sep 2017

  • Add support for Cinema 4D R19

Version 4.1.7 - 27 Jul 2017

  • Update to Maxwell 4.1.1.1.

  • Grass now defaults to Flat blade type.

  • Add missing "Grow Towards World-Y" Grass parameter.

Version 4.1.3 - 07 Jul 2017

  • Add Table Brdf and Xrite AxF material types.

Version 4.1.2 - 19 Jun 2017

  • Update to Maxwell 4.1.0.4

Version 4.1.1 - 08 Jun 2017

  • Update to Maxwell 4.1.0.3.

  • Add NSIS installer on Windows.

  • Change installers to include embedded Maxwell installer.

  • Change plugin to use central Maxwell installation.

  • Add support for Altus Denoiser.

  • Allow negative threads value.

  • Fix: some material editor color fields were not working.

Version 4.0.8 - 17 Feb 2017

  • Update to Maxwell 4.0.1.1.

Version 4.0.6 - 12 Feb 2017

  • Update to Maxwell 4.0.0.18.

Version 4.0.5 - 17 Dec 2016

  • Update to Maxwell 4.0.0.12.

Version 4.0.3 - 27 Nov 2016

  • Update to Maxwell 4.0.0.11.

Version 4.0.1 - 2 Nov 2016

  • Update to Maxwell 4.0.0.8.

Version 3.2.6 - 16 Oct 2016

  • Add support for R18.

Version 3.2.5 - 03 Feb 2016

  • Update to Maxwell 3.2.1.2 binaries.

Version 3.2.2 - 28 Jan 2016

  • Improve mxm/gallery import error reporting.

  • Displacement subdivision default value was wrong.

Version 3.2.1

  • Update to Maxwell 3.2.1.1 binaries.

  • Procedurals were not working in FIRE.

Version 3.2.0 - 2 Oct 2015

  • Update to Maxwell 3.2.0 binaries.

Version 3.1.6 - 30 Sept 2015

  • Update to Maxwell 3.2.0.0 RC1 libs.

  • Allow dragging files to IBL channel paths.

  • Add "Grow toward World Y" to MaxwellGrass.

  • Remove 255 search dirs max limit.

  • Add max search depth limit of 10.

Version 3.1.5 - 26 Aug 2015

  • Update to Maxwell 3.1.99.8 libs.

  • Add material Priority.

  • Add PSD output support.

  • Add new Output modes.

  • Add Reflectance Channel output.

  • Add Maxwell Sea Repeat U/V params.

  • Add Maxwell Scatter Uniform Scale param.

  • Add Maxwell Scatter Remove Overlapped param.

Version 3.1.3 - 20 Apr 2015

  • Update to Maxwell Render 3.1.1 binaries.

  • Render all textures default set to false in convert materials command

  • MXM linking avoids showing confirmation dialog when called from script

  • Fixed an issue with render instances of polygon objects from SurfaceSPREAD

Version 3.1.2 - 25 Feb 2015

  • Object Properties were exported incorrectly in some cases

Version 3.1.1 - 25 Feb 2015

  • Update to Maxwell 3.1.1 binaries

  • Extra Sampling feature was not working from the plugin

  • MXM Reference path is only set when linking is enabled

Version 3.1.0 - 23 Feb 2015

  • Update to Maxwell 3.1.0 (RC1) binaries

Version 3.0.995

  • Update to Maxwell 3.0.99.5 binaries.

  • Cinema material Alpha channel texture was converted incorrectly.

Version 3.0.994

  • Update to Maxwell 3.0.99.4.

Version 3.0.993

  • Add Camera Response

  • Add Exposure Presets

  • Add Floating Shadows (FIRE)

  • Add Floating Reflections (FIRE)

  • Add White Point

  • Add Tint

  • Add Render Zone

  • Add Hide to Camera in Shadow Ch.

  • Add Spotlight Emitter mode

  • Add Material Custom Alphas

  • Add Release License function

  • Add support for OpenVDB (via Volumetric Tag)

  • Now supporting TFD color channels

Version 3.0.8 - 17 Oct 2014

  • Added support for R16 materials.

  • Added initial support for TFD.

Note on TFD support

  • When placed on a TFD Container, the Maxwell Volumetric tag will show a unique set of parameters. Note that some of the parameters do not currently work (e.g. custom UV channels); for this reason, this feature will not yet be documented.

Version 3.0.7 - 5 Sept 2014

  • Switched to Intel-compiled extensions on Windows.

  • Patched for XP (though it is no longer supported).

Version 3.0.6 - 3 Sept 2014

  • Switched to Maxwell version 3.0.1.3 binaries.

  • Fixed various issues with extended-ASCII characters.

Version 3.0.5 - 1 Sept 2014

  • Added new MaxwellMesher object.

  • Added support for RealFlow RK and Hybrido Mesh objects.

  • Camera shift lens now allows greater than +/- 100% shift values.

  • Cinema material translation now uses pretesselated displacement.

  • Improved support for use of non-English characters in paths.

  • All plugin versions now use local copies of Maxwell extensions.

  • Particle Geometry objects were not properly exported.

Version 3.0.2 - 4 Feb 2014

  • Added Density parameter to Volumetrics in Noise 3D mode.

  • Alembic Particle Geoemtry is now treated as Particle Geometry.

  • Particles, Volumetrics, etc now support relevant Object Properties.

  • Check Paths now reports more details on the location of paths.

  • Added new Bind Monitor & Bind Node Networking prefs.

  • Added new Start Manager & Start node Networking prefs.

  • The plugin now points to the Next Limit support site for help.

  • Pack & Go was missing displacement & Assistant maps.

  • Displacement was not shown when using Assistants.

  • Displacement type was read incorrectly from older files.

  • A directory name could be written into the active texture.