Photometric intensities based on Lumen and Candela are also supported. IES lights: It's now possible to apply accurate light falloffs using the IES data directly from lighting manufacturers. Color profiles are now integrated throughout CINEMA 4D for accurate color representation. Colors and lighting are mixed in a more realistic way, resulting in higher-quality images with less effort. Linear Workflow and Color Profiles: Adopting a linear workflow is now as simple as activating a checkbox.
Objects can be connected via hinges, springs and complex joints, and with a simple click, can be transformed into soft bodies. Powerful New Dynamics: CINEMA 4D now includes a comprehensive and easy-to-use rigid body dynamics system based on the production-proven Bullet engine. Please see the Product Comparison Chart on the MAXON web site for more info) (Not all features are included in every configuration. For example, hair will automatically swoosh and sway as you move your character around and making thousands of objects collide with each other only takes a few mouse clicks to set up. Generating advanced 3D effects such as hair is surprisingly easy and fast, with CINEMA 4D doing much of the hard work for you. Network rendering allows you to take advantage of all computers on your network to help render your animations faster.ĭespite being for advanced 3D, the extra tools found in Studio are still designed to be user-friendly and intuitive. The physics engine, which has been overhauled in R12, makes it simple to perform complex collisions and interaction between objects, be it a few or thousands. Adding hair or fur to characters is fast and simple with a powerful suite of hair tools that let you grow, comb, style and animate.
The end result is that CINEMA 4D Studio can tackle any project you throw at it with ease.ĬINEMA 4D Studio's character tools make it easy to create character rigs and advanced character animations. As well as containing all of the features found in CINEMA 4D Prime, Visualize and Broadcast, CINEMA 4D Studio adds advanced character tools, hair, a physics engine and an unlimited clients network rendering. If you want to create advanced 3D graphics but need a helping hand to ensure you create jaw-dropping graphics quickly and easily, then this is the choice for you.
You can assign as many gels as you wish to each light object.CINEMA 4D Studio is the very best that MAXON has to offer for professional 3D artists. For example, the striped-shadow effect of a Venetian blind can be simulated by assigning a black-and-white striped gel to a light object. The light’s colored areas are then filtered by this texture and colored in exactly the same way that a slide projector projects a still picture. Now, when you move this object, the light automatically remains pointing at it.Ī gel (also known as a lightmap) is produced by assigning a material with a transparency map texture to a light source.
The light source can be any light type of your choosing and you simply move the null into the hierarchy of the object towards which the light should point. When you choose Objects / Scene / Target Light, a light source and a Null object are created. To create a light, choose the desired light from the Create | Light menu or click the light icon in the top toolbar. To change the name of a light, double-click the light’s name in the Object Manager and enter the new name into the dialog that opens.
This option will update your lighting in real-time, even adjusting the lighting and updating your scene as you move the lights around. The lighting within a scene can be easily previewed by turning on the Gouraud shading option. ProRender in particular does not properly support many of the physical settings. The light settings described below don’t work with all renderers.