CINEMA 4D Core

• Double-clicking on the edge of a Manager window will automatically reposition the manager window
• The entire group window can be switched to Fullscreen mode
• Palettes and Managers can be opened in Fullscreen mode
• New palette separator to fill space between icon groups, allowing them to be aligned in a justified manner
• Project Settings can be edited in the Attribute Manager.
• Several scene parameters are now displayed in the Project Settings dialog window
• Import/export settings are displayed automatically. Alt/option key by-passes the dialog
• FBX now supports Joints, multiple UV tags and evaluates Expressions upon export
• Environment variables for external plugin directories
• Use Render Instances to render an almost unlimited number of objects
• Render Instances for the Array object
• Render Instances for the Particle Emitter
• Duplicate function can generate render instances
• Greatly expanded falloff functionality for all particle modifiers
• Particle turbulence modifier with expanded noise turbulence
• Particle wind modifier with expanded noise turbulence
• Export Doodle objects in compressed PNG format
• The Connect command correctly joins Texture tags and polygon selections
• New Connect+Delete command
• New hotkeys for creating and deleting keys and tracks
• New keyframe dot behavior - yellow dot indicates changed value not yet keyframed
• FCurves: switch quickly between custom and pref colors
• Keyframe baking can be cancelled in the Timeline
• Motion source hierarchy can now be changed to match skeleton
• Quaternion and HPB can be switched manually when Motion Layers are blended
• Render settings now include region specification to render a portion of the view
• Export of camera data, lights and Objects for Apple Motion
• Numerous additions for After Effects export
• Improved antialiasing for alpha channels and Multi-Passes
• New Hybrid and Raytracer modes to optimize antialiasing
• Bucket rendering optimizes memory usage and speed
• Greatly expanded color correction post effect that can be generated directly from the Picture Viewer's filter settings
• Higher samples possible for Scene Motion Blur
• Compositing Background now works with Global Illumination (under certain circumstances)
• The External Compositing tag now works with Cloner objects and XRefs
• The External Compositing tag has several new parameters for export to Adobe After Effects
• Materials can be replaced by alt+dragging from the Content Browser or Material Manager
• Numeric attributes can be modified using keyboard arrow keys
• Parameters in the Attribute Manager can be filtered by name
• Double-clicking an element icon in the Attribute Manager selects the element
• Newly developed Picture Viewer with integrated RAM player
• Improved (many more functions) and faster formula parser
• Native support for reading & writing PNG images
• Support for reading & writing DPX images
• QuickTime can now be used on Windows 64-bit systems; QuickTime and Avi sound import/export
• Overall speed optimization in various areas
• CINEMA 4D can read and write 32-bit PSD files with layers
• Objects are numbered incrementally upon creation or duplication

Advanced Render Module

• The Prepass can now be rendered exclusively for GI.
• Dithering for sky color.
• Parameter for achieving an improved coloring of sky atmosphere.
• Dithering for atmosphere.
• CineMan supports Layersets, Seed values for Noise shaders and Ambient Occlusion (material).


MOCCA Module

• New Iterations parameter in Cloth tag.

Thinking Particles Module

• Render Instances for Thinking Particles.

MoGraph Module

• Render Instances for the Cloner object.
• Clones can be arranged in tubular-shaped volumes.
• Rail Spline functionality for the Cloner object.
• New animation modes for the Cloner object.
• Most MoGraph objects can be defined as a falloff source.
• The MoGraph C.O.F.F.E.E. Effector offers full control over all Clones.
• Random Effector: New random mode, Sort.
• Rail Spline functionality for Spline Effector.
• New Segment mode for the Spline Effector.
• Dynamics system for MoGraph Clones.
• Scene-wide MoDynamics settings in Preferences menu.
• The new Rigid Body tag is an important part of Dynamics.
• The Force object for attracting or repelling Clones.
• MoSpline object generates and modifies existing splines in a parametric manner with effector and force support.
• Rail Spline functionality for Spline Wrap.
• Polygons and Splines (or spline segments) can be viewed as Clones using the MoGraph object, "PolyFX".
• New options for the MoGraph Cache tag.
• Camera shader can assume any camera view.