CINEMA 4D 13.058 - Changelog

What's new in CINEMA 4D 13.058:

May 22nd, 2012

Character Animation:
· Advanced Biped: Knee Lock Controller correctly added to the Selection tab of the Bendy Leg Component
· Advanced Biped: an error in the calculation of IK/FK Blending has been fixed
· Character Biped: Redundant Use Chest Position control has been removed
· Character Insect: Claws Tibia and Tarsus have been adjusted and behave correctly, when animated
· Character Insect: Claws now open and close correctly after scaling
· Character Insect: Twisting of leg control after repositioning has been fixed
· Character Insect: Origin positioning of newly created insect character thorax has been corrected
· Character Bird: Tail Bones of bird character now have even length and orientation after setup
· Character Bird: Relationship of spine and neck in the bird character template has been fixed. Moving the spine will cause the neck to follow.
· Character Bird: Bird character element Neck_Base_con+ now protected.
· Character Bird: Typo in spelling of middle toe has been fixed
· Character Fish: Spine (Driven) will now correctly follow Master_con+
· Character Fish: Default Spine HUD has been adjusted to the default appearance of character HUDs
· Character Fish: Auto Spine problem with Jaw Position has been fixed
· Character Fish: The Spine (Driven) hierarchy has been adjusted for proper animation controllers
· Character Reptile: Color of tail has been adjusted according to color scheme of other characters
· PSR Constraints: The Maintain Original option for rotation constraints now works as expected.
· HUDs for deleted components will not show up anymore

XRefs:
· Wrong behavior while selecting XRefs after converting has been fixed
· Reloading XRefs after modifying the hierarchy will no longer cause freezes
· "This Project is Corrupted" message caused by duplicate tags has been fixed
· A problem with XRefs and the Layer shader has been fixed
· Undefined XPresso ports referenced XRefs have been fixed

Renderer:
· Banding issues with linear workflow have been fixed
· Sketch & Toon: Unwanted rendering of back-facing polygons has been fixed
· Stereo rendering: Camera Mode Right now works as expected
· Stereo rendering: Zero Parallex error with eye separation set to zero has been sorted out
· Hardware Renderer: An issue in which Viewport and hardware renderer did not match has been fixed
· Hardware Renderer: Speed-up of slow Enhanced OpenGL rendering

Hair, Dynamics:
· Hair: Unwanted clipping of hair during rendering has been fixed
· Dynamics: Not yet triggered dynamics bodies will not be deactivated before receiving trigger command

Viewport:
· Outline Selection tool: An issue in which highlighted polygons were visible for invisible objects has been fixed.

Exchange:
· Includes the After Effects Exporter that supports the export of 3D Data as CINEMA 4D File directly out of AFX

Content Browser:
· Visualize demo content library adjusted according to version

C.O.F.F.E.E., Python, C++ API:
· Expression Editor: Wrong display of line and position error information has been fixed
· Script manager: An issue in which a new script was created for each additional new script has been fixed
· Script Manager registers changes to script files
· Python: Resizing of user areas now works correctly
· Python: DescID comparison has been fixed
· Python: BaseSelect:SelectAll now works as expected
· C++ API: GeClipMap now supports antialiased text
· C.O.F.F.E.E.: Float values equal to their integer part are no longer evaluated as nil

MoGraph:
· GetGenerator() is now available in the Python effector

Other:
· Commandline error in logfile has been fixed

What's new in CINEMA 4D 13.051:

December 13th, 2011

Interface, Navigation, OpenGL, Viewport:
· Render preset does not get switched on undo
· Multi-select in render settings now possible
· Font selector now stable
· Script Manager resize will not cut buttons anymore
· Non-modal windows no longer open at top left
· Copying object now also copies HUD
· Problem with missing shortcuts fixed
· Issue with RightHandTangent in Spline GUI fixed
· HUD visibility issues fixed
· Command Line now frees licenses on quit
· Sticky key mode timing was adjusted
· Text tool: Sorted out some functionality flaws
· Navigation: No more strange rotation handle behavior with rotation scale = 0
· Navigation: Deep option for cursor placement now works as expected
· Navigation: Some odd navigation flaws fixed
· OpenGL: Box mode now reflects layer colors
· OpenGL: Environment strength viewport display now displayed correctly
· OpenGL: Cursor navigation now works when using alpha materials
· Viewport: Stereoscopic, no more stuck mouse in Viewport
· Viewport: N-gon lines are not visible anymore if N-gons are hidden
· Viewport: No more illogical flipping of background images
· Viewport Select: Pick Object now picks nearest pixel depth

Exchange:
· COLLADA plugin now also loads in OS X 10.5
· After Effects: A number of issues were solved; increased stability and enhanced functionality
· After Effects: Plugin exports now image-based 3D layers
· After Effects: Unicode export problem in composition name fixed
· Exchange Maya to BodyPaint 3D, Reflectivity and Reflected Color do not behave differently anymore after they have been sent back to Maya
· Exchange 3ds max to BodyPaint 3D, Self Illumination RGB value will now be assigned, even if a texture is already assigned
· Exchange Maya to BodyPaint 3D: re-export BodyPaint 3D now assigns changed material values
· TexturePath from CS3 exports now displayed correctly with slashes, and imports correctly
· FBX Export: Texture names now can also contain special characters like Ä,Ö,Ãœ
· FBX incorrect FPS display fixed
· OpenEXR: Added "lossy 16-bit float" compression

Modeling:
· Polygon reduction: 100% setting now causes a 100% effect
· Set Vertex weight and Restriction tag will update new weights
· Spline deformer: Identical behavior on Mac and Windows
· Spline deformer: Improved stability
· Move tool axis will no longer lock selection
· Ctrl+Drag now creates objects in the right position
· Enhanced stability while selecting loops
· Weighting status is now displayed correctly
· Using Move tool with hidden axis, jumping of object is fixed
· Sticky axis handles now stay and behave as expected
· Axis extension now also works in top view
· Switching the mode (points, edges, polygons) does not corrupt Project anymore
· Phong Break Selection - "select all" function now works correctly in polygon mode
· Hide selected: Now works with path selection
· Extrude and Correction Deformer Tags used on objects no longer corrupts rendering of project

Timeline:
· Undo no longer breaks tangents
· Broken Show F-Curves is fixed
· PLA Time Track no longer vanishes in Timeline
· Timeline -> Motion Source -> Change Hierarchy: no more incorrect position markers
· Marker now can be renamed in F-Curve mode

Body Paint 3D:
· The Maya plugin is now universal binary
· Wrong edit, copy and paste behavior corrected
· Saving in .tif format now preserves the Alpha channel

Character Animation:
· MoCap templates now all have a Retarget tag setup through User Data
· It is possible now to make multiple selections in Character Builder
· CMotion: Deactivation of Action now will not deactivate Reference
· CMotion: Issues with Display Motion are solved
· CMotion: Align Direction +Y and -Y now work according to the defined direction
· CMotion: Surface Base Object now produces expected effect
· CMotion: Preset now also saves reference action
· CMotion: When in static mode, surface is no longer calculated
· CMotion: If the forward axis is set to X instead Z, the gradient will be not ignored anymore
· Visual Selector: Fixed some flaws for Animate mode
· Visual Selector: Hotspots now get drawn with selected views
· Visual Selector: Now also works when used with XRefs
· Visual Selector: Wrong Shift key behavior while using Tag tab and Rectangle Selection tool fixed
· Visual Selector: Some display and interface issues were addressed and solved
· Advanced Biped: Fine-tuned adjustment of limbs and their relationships
· Advanced Biped: Fine-tuned parameters of limbs and joints (bending, rotating, etc.)
· Advanced Biped: Default Visual Selector gets created
· Advanced Biped: Now has all controllers in the Selection tab
· Advanced Biped: FK Arm visibility corrected
· Advanced Biped: Ball Rock controller mirroring now works properly
· Advanced Biped: Hand controllers now present and usable in CMotion
· Advanced Biped: IK/FK Bendy Leg main controller corrected.
· Advanced Biped: IK/FK now applies bendy elements for entire rig
· Advanced Biped: Collar controls now get added to CMotion
· Character object will not break during updating
· Broken Character Builder issue fixed
· Updating a posed rig with certain applied changes will no longer be contorted
· Character templates Fish and Spider: Solved some global issues with the templates
· Rotation orders of standard biped arms can now be changed
· Bone Count now also works with multiple selected components
· IK/FK Controller rotations no longer frozen initially
· Character template - Mocap rig, BVH rig now load correctly
· Using Ctrl+a in Spline window no longer selects objects outside of field of view
· While using parts of different templates: The inserted components of templates will now assume the positions of the parent template for scaling
· External morphs will not corrupt the project anymore
· Component tag: Component type is not overwriting controller type anymore
· Character object: Wings now update only when needed
· During weight painting, CINEMA 4D no longer switches to shaded view
· Joint align will not fail when used
· Character Builder: Update does now also updates weight binding
· Character Mocap: When turned invisible, nothing visible will be left behind
· Muscle deformer: Muscles do not penetrate skin anymore
· Visual Selector View Select now requires only one click

Dynamics:
· AVX support for dynamics
· Dynamics XPresso node now gets locked by switching off Dynamics and baked cache gets not overwritten
· XRef and Dynamics collision issue solved
· Dynamics with incorrect rotation problem fixed
· Dynamics cache baking now produces not more than one baked item

MoGraph:
· Fixed the scale problem with Spline effector
· MoInstance can now be cloned
· Items on MoGraph menu are no longer grayed out
· MoInstance used with materials now will not loose the material anymore

Python, XPresso, C.O.F.F.E.E.:
· Console no longer loses last character
· FindCTrack argument now accepts arguments
· Fixed wrong string encoding in __setattr__
· GetSplinePoint will no longer report an index Error without reason
· Python: Code in Script Manager remains visible
· Python Falloff plugin crash fixed
· Passed arguments to CINEMA 4D are now redirected to Python
· XPresso: New XPresso filter now works as expected
· XPresso: Spline node no longer returns a wrong global tangent
· XPresso: No more disappearing nodes from XPresso Manager after update
· Global Python message crashes CINEMA 4D on exit fixed
· Script Manager: Confusing dialog issue corrected
· Does not crash anymore after deleting a script
· C.O.F.F.E.E.: Create Visual Selector can now use mirrored names

Stereoscopic:
· Off Axis Setup now accepts additional lenses and does not only work with a 36mm lens
· Use Folder For Saving option now also works over network
· Fixed wrong naming in Stereoscopic mode
· Default Placement mode is now Parallel, according to documentation
· Interactive handle on Near Plane can no longer be dragged to negative values (behind camera)
· Stereo Camera setting spinner increment units were adjusted for easier use

Render Queue, Renderer, Physical Renderer:
· Render Queue: Corrected some bugs with frames and frame count
· Physical Renderer: Depth of field measurement units conversion error fixed
· Physical Renderer: Blurry reflections + spike no more strange render artifacts
· Physical Renderer: Depiction in orthographic views now match camera view
· Physical Renderer: Multi-pass and alphas now work correctly
· Physical Renderer: Global Illumination area now accepts light + front/back mapping
· Physical Renderer: Depth of field effect now renders more naturally
· Physical Renderer: Pixel aspect in Viewports now correct
· Physical Renderer: Ambient Occlusion pass no longer ignores evaluate transparency
· Physical Renderer: Now renders shadows on passes
· Physical Renderer: Blurred transparency is now homogenous
· Physical Renderer: Cloud objects now render with shadows
· Physical Camera and Compositing tag reflection issue issue solved
· Physical Camera offset now also used for alpha and reflection
· Broken caustics fixed
· Interactive Render Region (IRR) output problems with post effects solved
· Multi-Shader on clone now renders correctly
· SubSurface Scattering now is rendering in Picture Viewer
· SubSurface Scattering and Interactive Render Region with Include/Exclude lights now works as expected
· Hair subdivisions now work with values other than 1
· Physical Camera's depth of field: blurriness adjusted
· Object-based area lights are no longer cause wrong shadows and illumination in Physical Renderer
· Indirect Illumination corrected in comparison to Global Illumination
· Area shape Infinite light now has the expected effect
· Odd noise "gradient" in indirect illumination render no longer occurs

Picture Viewer:
· Stereoscopic: Side-by-Side mode mirror option use will no longer cause destruction of image
· Ctrl+Drag in Picture Viewer now also creates thumbnails for copies created by Ctrl + Drag
· Function: Delete hard disc cache function is now available even when you are not rendering
· Histogram tab refresh problem solved
· Picture Viewer double-right click in History tab
· Stereoscopic render time is now total render time
· Copying of folders in Picture Viewer no longer possible

XRefs:
· Series of problems with linking, saving, loading, referencing and updating of assets fixed
· Issues with display, visibility and interface were addressed
· Some incorrect material, particle and texture behavior fixed
· General interface and usage flaws were solved
· Usability and stability of poses and effectors were improved
· No more lost layer hierarchy
· Select object command no longer selects all objects in XRefs
· Motion clips no longer interfere with XRefs
· Load, save, exchange functionalities were stabilized and improved
· Issues with several copy and paste of XRefs, proxies and related items solved
· Hierarchy issues solved and stability increased
· Surface deformer no longer needs to be initialized for each open
· Convert Object Selection to XRef - file no longer gets overwritten
· Converted XRef objects now get removed from the XRef Manager
· There are now multiple tracks for multiple animated objects
· Default custom prefix now uses proper default string
· Enabling Relative to Project now has the desired effect
· Animation no longer gets lost when using Reduced save
· Dependencies now editable
· Encapsulated no longer switches object order when off
· CINEMA 4D can now handle multiple XRefs of the same file
· Crash after multiple Reload XRefs fixed
· Relative path after SaveDocument is no longer incorrect
· Array of XRefs is now correct after being made editable
· Deletion of XRef object now also deletes XRef in XRef Manager
· Convert To now keeps current project settings

Other:
· CINEMA 4D SDK: Rounded Tube object handles corrected
· Document preview now gets generated with Save Project with Assets
· Assets are no longer presented as bitmaps
· CINEMA 4D can now load/save files on OneFS drive via NFS or SMB
· CINEMA 4D R11 Import Scale settings now work in R13
· Incorrect file structure problem fixed
· Opening saved file in Picture Viewer again will now load the picture without strange artifacts
· Playing sound will no longer use too many CPU resources (Windows)
· Command Manager: move camera command - now shortcut can be reassigned
· Hair: Hair used with Symmetry and Collider tag will not cause a crash anymore
· Preferences: Reset to Default - confusing message got cleaned
· Sky: Physical Sky setting sun parameters now also have density like the Sun object/tag
· Sound: Missing sound file problem fixed
· Thinking Particles: Particle geometry no longer vanishes if animation plays back while rendering
· Video Post effects: Some effects that did do not work with CineMan now work
· Materials: Mac image sequences now work on polygon objects
· Materials: Material Redraw does not freeze CINEMA 4D anymore
· Objects: Spline Deformer Radius GUI now works without problems
· Object Manager: Fold/Unfold selected Icons are now corrected

What's new in CINEMA 4D 13.029:

September 15th, 2011

· Contains many bug fixes incorporated after the production of the disc version.
· The update affects various areas of the software and will fix false behaviors and increase stability.

What's new in CINEMA 4D 11.514:

April 16th, 2010

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.

What's new in CINEMA 4D 11.102:

September 30th, 2008

· Support for 64-bit on Mac OS X.
· Non-Linear Animation.
· Faster Rendering.
· Collada Im-/Export.
· Many more enhancements.

What's new in CINEMA 4D 11:

August 14th, 2008

· General 64-bit support for MacOS X 10.5.
· 3D mouse for MacOS
· COLLADA import and export
· Projection Man: high end 3D matte painting toolset
· Application can now be registered online
· Online Updater
· User-specific configuration files are saved to the user folder
· Command line parameter for modifying configuration file paths
· Integrating sound into rendered videos
· This key can be defined to emulate the right mouse button on a MacOS
· Interface An unintentional modification of the layout can be prevented by enabling the Lock Layout command
· Scripts linked to icons can be modified directly in the Script Manager
· Switching between tablet and mouse modes via shortcut (Windows) or automatically (Macintosh)
· Show tool cursor
· The Stage Object can be deactivated
· Post effects, incl. all parameters, can be copied to other scenes
· Vibrate tag now also works with object coordinate system
· Custom seed value for all noise functions
· Gradient overshoot can be prevented
· Expanded editing functionality by multiple selection
· Parameters of linked elements displayed in the Attribute Manager
· Expanded selection of list items
· Using existing elements to create GUI elements for user data
· Create C.O.F.F.E.E. code to define parameter values
· Selected Render Settins can be displayed in the Attribute Manager
· Vastly improved User Data display and management
· QuickTime videos and sound filed can be played in the Content Browser (Mac only)
· Easily create multilingual presets in the Content Browser
· When copying materials in the Content Browser bitmaps associated with those materials can also be copied
· Selecting CINEMA 4D or system color picker
· Paging through the help files
· The help system displays the corresponding help text when the cursor is placed over objects or tags in the Object Manager
· The Doodle tool lets you sketch in the Editor Window. A great annotation / collaboration tool
· Doodles can also be integrated into renderings
· Access to Layer Browser functions at element level
· Animation Integration on a non-linear animation system (NLA)
· All relevant functions in the Timeline’s Edit menu also work with Motion Clips
· Filtering Motion Sources
· New Timeline mode: „Motion Modus“
· Move and Scale also works with Motion Clips
· The Motion System has its own Timeline mode for displaying Motion Sources and Motion Clips
· Motion Clips - an integral part of the Motion System
· The Motion System tag contains animation and motion layers
· Motion Layers for mixing Motion Clips; Animation Layers for mixing conventional animations
· Add Animation Layer command
· 'Add Motion Clip' function turns conventional animations into Motion Clips
· Add Empty Motion Layer command
· Using the Pivot Object, Motion Clips can be modified interactively in the Viewport
· Keys can be arranged left-justified
· Key creation for all objects contained in a Selection object
· Sound curves displayed in the Animation Palette
· Show active animation layer Keys only
· 'Bake' functionality for animations expanded
· New Key Reducer algorithm treats curves more gently
· Increasing velocity can be temporarily set to a constant velocity
· Ghosting, or „onion skinning“ can be enabled for animations using the Display tag
· Easy Constraint object setup via commands
· Individual Constraint options can be enabled or disabled separately
· Gravity, offsets, rotaton and scale springs for Spring Constraint
· Mirror function for Constraing object
· Rendering Realistic-looking glass using Absorption
· More realistic reflections
· Exit Reflections can be disabled
· Improved Enhanced OpenGL texture quality thanks to MIP mapping
· Improved Enhanced OpenGL texture quality thanks to antialiasing
· Consistent noise in Area shadows
· Improved organization of Render Settings options
· Vastly improved resolution settings for rendering
· Only render soft shadows
· Object (Texture) baking can replace original objects
· New Pixel Shader