Maxon Cinema 4D Broadcast R19 is an advanced 3D motion graphics software for creating dynamic broadcast graphics. C4D offers an intuitive workflow and reliable operation, allowing graphics artists to efficiently meet deadlines and make last-minute revisions. Maxon regularly releases free service packs for optimization with changes in operating systems and drivers, contributing to continued reliability in demanding environments.
Cinema 4D is designed with a logically arranged (and customizable) interface and easy-to-understand operation. To make things easier, the interface allows any questions about a specific function to be asked by right-clicking on the function and jumping straight to the integrated software documentation.
C4D is also designed to stay flexible throughout your entire project. It offers various options, such as procedural shaders, for working non-destructively, and the C4D Take System lets you save and manage multiple versions of a scene in a single file.
The application is compatible with Mac and Windows systems.
Note:
This upgrade is valid for existing owners of Cinema 4D Prime R19.
New Features in Broadcast R19
- High-Quality OpenGL Viewport
- New Feature Highlighting
- New Modeling Kernel
- New Polygon Reduction Generator
- OpenGL-accelerated 3D Painting with layers, all blend modes and Photoshop compatibility
- ProRender (new GPU-based Renderer)
- Weighting Improvements
- Enhanced Voronoi Fracturing (Auto Connectors only available in Studio)
- New Sound Effector
- Improved Media handling
All Features
General Workflow
- Annotations Tag
- Arabic interface support
- Available in 11 languages (switchable)
- Broadcast Library, including materials, cameras and objects
- Color Chooser
- Commander
- Content Libraries
- Context-sensitive, fully-searchable HTML help
- Cross-platform support for Mac and Windows
- Custom User Data per object
- Customizable GUI sets (toolbars/layouts/menus)
- Doodle viewport annotation tool
- Enhanced OpenGL Viewport
- Essential presets and demo scenes
- High-Quality OpenGL Viewport
- Layer system for object and material management
- Multiple projects open at once
- New Feature Highlighting
- Object highlighting
- Picture Viewer
- Scripting and SDK
- Solo Button
- Stereo display in Viewport
- Take System
- To Do List
- XRef external instancing / referencing system
Modeling
- ABF unwrapping and relaxing
- Basic Tools
- Bevel Deformer
- Deformer Falloff
- Extrude, Lathe, Loft, Sweep
- Interactive UV mapping by projection types
- Knife Tools
- LSCM unwrapping and relaxing
- Mesh Check
- Modeling Generators: Metaball, Boolean, Symmetry, Array, Atom Array, Instance, Connect, Spline Mask, Python
- Modeling Kernel
- Polygon Reduction Generator
- OpenSubdiv Support
- PolyPen
- Scene Objects: Floor, Sky, Environment, Stage, Foreground, Background
- Spline Mask object
- Spline Tools
- Subdivision surfaces
- UV Editing
- UV Peeler
- UV mapping to automatically remove seams
- UV Peeler
- UVs for Caps
Materials & Texture
- 12 standard material channels: Color, Diffusion, Luminance, Transparency, Reflection, Environment, Fog, Bump, Normal, Alpha, Glow, Displacement
- 3D Painting with layers, all blend modes and Photoshop file compatibility
- Animated textures (MOV, AVI, sequence) with viewport preview
- Blurry reflections and transparencies
- Brick, Wood, Weathering, Pavement and Normalizer shaders
- Choose Photoshop PSD layers per usage
- Displacement: intensity (centered), red/green and RGB
- Fresnel shader
- Inverse Ambient Occlusion
- Layer shader
- Multi-brush painting of multiple material channels in single stroke
- Noise Procedural shader with 32 different noise algorithms
- Normal maps: tangent, object or world
- OpenGL-accelerated 3D Painting with layers, all blend modes, and Photoshop le compatibility
- Parallax shader
- Physically correct IOR presets
- Procedural surface shaders
- Projection Man
- Projection painting
- Proximity-based Proximal shader
- Reflectance Channel
- Set UVW from projection
- Shading models: Lambertian, Oren-Nayar
- Sub-Surface Scattering
- Texture baking: surface color, illumination, Ambient Occlusion, Normals, displacement and more
- Texture Manager
- Thin Film shader
- Transparency with absorption, total internal reflections, exit reflections
- Variation shader
Lighting
- Color temperature in Kelvin
- Custom lens flares
- Global Illumination
- Hard, Soft, Area shadows
- Include/exclude light diffusion, specular, shadow per object
- Light Types: Omni, Spot, Infinite, Area, Square Spot, Parallel Spot, Square Parallel Spot
- Noise within light illumination and/or visibility
- Photometric brightness setting in Candela and Lumen
- Visible, Volumetric and Inverse Volumetric lighting
Camera
- Camera Composition Helpers
- Camera Crane
- Camera Focus Picker
- Camera Morph
- Camera, Target Camera, Stereo Camera
- Motion Camera
Rendering
- Ambient Occlusion
- Camera white balance
- Color profile support
- Embree Integration
- Global Material Override
- Light Mapping
- Linear workflow
- Multi-Pass output
- Normal Pass
- Object buffers - specify unique alpha channels per object
- Physical Render Engine
- Position Pass
- ProRender (new GPU-based Renderer)
- Radiosity maps
- Render instances
- Render Queue batch rendering system
- Render up to 128,000 pixels square / 32 bits per pixel
- Stereoscopic Rendering
- Sub-Surface Scattering
- Team Render (3 Nodes)
- Universal Sampler (GI-QMC)
Animation
- ASCII animation import
- Automatic keyframing
- Constant Velocity option per track
- Constraints: PSR, Up-Vector, Clamp, Mirror, Parent, Aim, Spring
- F-Curve Snapshot and Reduced Modification curves
- Interaction Tag
- Keyframe baking
- Keyframe reduction
- New Parent Constraint workflow
- Non-linear animation / motion mixing system
- PowerSlider animation toolbar for playback and keyframe manipulation
- Shift Priority Tag
- Timeline - up to four timeline windows with customizable track display and dopesheet or F-Curve view modes
- XPresso
Character Animation
- Auto weighting
- Enhanced Quaternion workflow
- Joints with full dynamic IK
- Mirror, Naming and Paint Tools
- Point Cache tag
- Skin Deformer supports linear, spherical and blended deformation based on joints
- Weight effector
- Weight Manager and tools
- Weighting improvements
MoGraph
- Beat shader
- Cloner object
- Effectors for Position, Scale, Rotation, Color, Time using Falloff, Shader, Random, Formula, Delay, C.O.F.F.E.E., Python, Inheritance, Sound, Spline, Step, Target, Time or Volume effectors
- Enhanced MoGraph Caching
- Enhanced Voronoi Fracturing (Auto Connectors only available in Studio)
- Fracture object
- Matrix object
- MoDynamics
- MoExtrude
- MoGraph Multi-shader
- MoGraph Selection tag
- MoInstance object
- MoSpline parametric spline generator with L-system functionality
- MoText object
- New Sound Effector
- PolyFX polygon fracture deformer
- Push Apart Effector
- ReEffector
- Tracer object
- Weight Map and Weight Paintbrush
Simulation
- Basic particle system
- Rigid Body dynamics for MoGraph objects
Pipeline Integration
- After Effects compositing exchange with 3D data
- Apple Final Cut Pro compositing exchange
- Apple Motion compositing exchange with 3D data
- BodyPaint 3D exchange - 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage and Lightwave
- CINEWARE compatible
- Digital Fusion compositing exchange (Windows only)
- Image formats - float with layers: PSD, TIFF, OpenEXR
- Image formats - float: HDR, DPX, RLA, RPF
- Image formats: BMP, IFF, JPG, PICT, PNG, TARGA
- Improved Media handling
- Improved Substance Engine Integration
- Nuke exchange
- Photoshop exchange
- Support of DXF, DWG, 3DS, DAE, FBX 20xx, DEM, LWS, STL, VRML2, OBJ, COLLADA, Alembic x.x
- Video Formats: Avi, Quicktime
