MAXON Released CINEMA 4D 11.5

Key Highlights of CINEMA 4D Release 11.5

* Superior Rendering Performance Including New Bucket Rendering

Significant re-tooling of the render engine in R11.5 helps artists render more rapidly and efficiently. R11.5 takes advantage of state-of-the-art multi-core processors and adds new features such as render instancing and bucket rendering to provide users tremendous improvements in efficiency. Render-intensive tasks such as sub-polygon displacement have also been significantly accelerated. CINEMA 4D users can now create scenes of greater complexity and render billions of polygons even on modest hardware.

* Enhanced Picture Viewer
The new Picture Viewer in R11.5 offers a vast set of creative tools for reviewing and editing images and animations, saving artists valuable time. Features include a render history with the ability to compare renderings, image filtering and adjustments, post filter effects, and improved layer management. The RAM player also enables users to playback animations with sound providing the ability to troubleshoot animations while the job is rendering.

* Improved Interoperability and Integration
Users of Release 11.5 can now more easily integrate CINEMA 4D into existing production pipelines:
-- Numerous improvements have been made to CINEMA 4D's highly praised connectivity to Adobe After Effects, including support for additional object types.
-- Support for Apple Motion now includes the export of 3D data.
-- Support for Autodesk FBX 2010.0 allows for quick and easy interchange between a variety of 3D applications.

* Powerful New Motion Graphics Capabilities
The motion graphics module MoGraph - a staple with CINEMA 4D motion graphics artists due to its quick workflow, fast rendering and easy export to compositing applications - has been upgraded to version 2 and provides powerful new motion graphics functionality. New features in MoGraph 2 include: MoDynamics, an optimized physics simulation package with which hundreds of objects can easily be made to collide or be affected by such forces as gravity or friction; PolyFX for providing quick and easy explosion effects; MoSpline for cloning existing splines and animating them with forces and effectors; and many more exciting features for broadcast artists.

* Support For New Operating Systems
MAXON continues to build upon its legacy of providing compatibility with the latest advanced operating system releases as follows:
-- Apple - R11.5 is fully compatible with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, including access to up to 64GB of virtual memory.
-- Microsoft - R11.5 is fully compatible with Windows 7, including enhanced file dialog.


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 bypasses 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 by Windows 64-bit users; 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 on 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.

Showreel
http://maxonpodcast.de/video/products/new/...009reel_web.mov

SubPolygon Displacement
http://maxonpodcast.de/video/products/new/...ring_spd_en.mov

Render Instances
http://maxonpodcast.de/video/products/new/...nstances_en.mov

History and AB Compare
http://maxonpodcast.de/video/products/new/..._history_en.mov

Color Correction
http://maxonpodcast.de/video/products/new/...r_filter_en.mov

Using Layers
http://maxonpodcast.de/video/products/new/...er_layer_en.mov

New RAM Player
http://maxonpodcast.de/video/products/new/...amplayer_en.mov

PolyFX
http://maxonpodcast.de/video/products/new/...amplayer_en.mov

MoDynamics
http://maxonpodcast.de/video/products/new/...ision_modes.mov