This update is highly recommended for all C4D users.

For an in-depth look at the new features in Cinema 4D 2024.0, check out:
Rocket Lasso's What's New in Cinema 4D 2024.0 video

 

New Features

Rigid Bodies

• Rigid Body tag added to unified simulation system

• Natively interact with deformable simulation types

• Determine when objects starts to be simulated - immediately, on collision, at velocity peak

• Set initial velocity, direction, and rotation for the object

• Set threshold for when the simulation stops

• Set collision parameters - friction, bounciness, stickiness, thickness

• Set custom density or mass of an object

• Calculate simulations via CPU or GPU

Pyro

• Set initial state of pyro simulation

• New emission type - points

• Emission falloff and emission maps

• New pyro caching workflows

• Set naming convention for cached files

• Up-Res existing pyro simulation in the cache settings

• Up-Res settings for resolution, noise, speed and falloff

• Add pyro tag directly to a standard particle emitter, thinking particle geometry or matrix cloner

Vertex Normal Editing

• New vertex normal editing manager

• Adjust the strength and space for manipulating vertex normals

• Quick commands to align normals in a specific direction for all or selected elements

• Quickly copy vertex normals to neighbouring elements

• Flip normals

Modeling

• Phong Shading Improvements - Weighted

• New evaluation method added to VAMP - Closet Polygon (With Data Breaks)

• Pattern Selection - repeat selection on a mesh

• Projection Deformer - Project all the points of one object onto another

• Posemoprhs support normal tag data

• Symmetry object behavior with splines when using cut and weld options is improved

• Modelling Brush now has a new option "preserve boundary" which will preserve both mesh and selection boundaries when moving points

• Surface Smear added to modelling brushes.

Nodes

• Notes/Annotations - Colorful Sticky notes for documenting nodes setups

• Scaffolds - Visually group nodes with custom names and colors

• Folded Ports - Directly access calculated values like Length or Normal on Vector ports

• Connect Node - Improved Connect can now combine lots of meshes/splines into a single geometry

• Clone Onto Points - Copy geometry onto geometry, point arrays, or distributions

• Transform Geometry Node - (Formerly: Transform Element) is now significantly faster

• Explode Mesh Islands Node - Break up topological islands of a single mesh into an array of meshes

• Explode Spline Segments Node - Split splines into an array of separate segments

• Create Normals if Missing - Checks meshes for normal information, and calculates it if missing

• Modulo - Select repeating patterns based on poly/point index

• Port Presets - Drag & Drop UI widgets from the Asset Browser to create ports and capsule UIs.

• Resource Editor and Edit Port Dialog - UI Improvements to simplify and stabilize the interface

• Node Editor Layout - Built-in attributes panel active by default to improve material editing workflow for dual-monitor setups.

• Context Menus have been changed in the Node Editor to reduce redundancy

• More Icons - Icons have been added to the most used nodes.

Exchange

• Preferences - Import/Export Target to select the node space to be used

• Importer/Exporter improvements - new global "Convert to Redshift" commands for lights and camera

• FBX - Updated to version 2020.3.4 and Redshift supported materials, lights and cameras

• glTF/GLB - .glb file format support and Redshift supported materials

• ForgerIO - Support for materials, lights and cameras

• GoZ - Dynamic subdivisions supported and Redshift supported materials

• USD - Material support

• Alembic - Redshift camera support

• OBJ - Redshift supported materials

• CAD (iges,step, SLDPRT, SLDASM, catia) - Camera support

• SKP - Material and camera support

• Texture Baking on export

• glTF animation settings on export has PLA and Pose Morph enabled

General Enhancements

• Viewport Options - Polygon Indexes and Point Indexes

• Commander Improvements - Contextual hiding and filtering of commands

• Pre-subdivision option allows users to subdivide models in linear mode before subdividing your object

• Align to Spline Overshoot - Allows the position of an object to loop, clamp or extend beyond the spline length

Modeling

• Fixed a stability issue with some Mesh tools in Edge mode.
• Fixed a stability issue with the Extrude tool when being applied to some edge selections

Viewport

• Fixed some stability issues with the viewport when switching between different views.

Known Issues

• Standard Materials that use a Substance Shader cannot be converted to a RS Node Material
• Import of FBX files with Substance into the RS Nodes will be baked Substance textures.