Maxon Cinema 4D Broadcast R19 (Upgrade from Prime R19, Download)

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