Important Notes

By default, Cinema 4D 2025.3 will install to the folder “Maxon Cinema 4D 2025” and will replace any installation already there. This is intentional in order to minimize the number of builds customers need to manage, minimize migration of prefs and plugins, reduce overall disk usage and help ensure you’re always on the latest release. You can of course customize the installation path if you’d like to maintain a separate installation of each dot release. If you need a prior release installer, visit the downloads page.

System Requirements remain the same as C4D 2025.0, except for the following two changes:

• Minimum supported Windows 10 version is now 22H2
• AI Search is not supported on Intel Macs.

New Features

General Enhancements

• Spline Primitives now come with handles for interactive adjustment of parameters in the Viewport.

Liquids

• New GPU-based liquid simulation type added
• Generate liquid particles with the Liquid Fill emitter or turn regular particles into liquids using the Liquify Modifier
• Compatible with existing particle modifiers and forces
• Liquid Mesher for generating and refining a surface from liquid particles

UV Tools

• Seamless UDIM support in the UV editor to visualize, create, import and manage UV elements.
• UV grid expands infinitely beyond the 0,1 UV range
• UV tile coordinates are displayed in the UV viewport
• UV tiles are now outlined and are tinted differently when they are invalid
• UV tile commands to rotate, move UV elements and directly place selected elements directly into a specific tile
• Double click empty space in a UV tile selects all elements within the tile
• Texel Density (px/unit) is now supported with a dedicated set of tools to get, set and match texel density across elements, tiles, and objects
• Presets for Map Size and Texel Density allow you quickly set up common values across your UV elements
• UV packing supports working with multiple tiles, respecting scale and texel density, and offers more control over orientation
• Ability to pack UVs to specific tiles
• Additional options added for handling packing of multiple objects

Project Asset Inspector

• Project Asset Inspector has been updated to recognize and handle UDIM tokens in texture file path

AI Search

• New AI-based search functionality in the Asset Browser and various other places where assets are referenced.
• Offers search through text prompts, images or even based on the contents of your viewport.
• AI Search is executed locally and respects your privacy and confidentiality needs. No assets are shared with Maxon or used for training.
• Supports Maxon’s Capsule assets, as well as your own assets library.

Laubwerk Integration

• The Laubwerk Plant Object and the LBW Importer are now a native part of Cinema 4D.
• Plant assets avavailable through the Cinema 4D Asset Browser have been updated to now be fully procedural and allow access to all age and season variations as well as offering level of detail and disply/render settings.
• Previously purchased assets will continue to work.

Known Issues

• Laubwerk textures: Selecting plant species directly from the plant object may cause texture display issues on windows.
  • Workaround: To avoid this issue, use the Asset Browser to select and place the desired plant species.
• c4dpy halting: c4dpy may halt indefinitely when run for the first time
• Workaround: Pass g_disableConsoleOutput=false to the c4dpy executable. This only needs to be done once to resolve the issue. A more detailed description can be found in the Cinema 4D 2025.3 Python SDK documentation.

Bug Fixes

This update is highly recommended for all 2025 users.

Animation

• Fixed an issue with the Timeline where animation keys could not be copied from one animation track to another
• Fixed an issue with the Protection tag not affecting the correct axes for the selected Rotation Order
• Fixed an issue with the Animation Palette where the current frame number would not update when using the Go To Next/Previous Key buttons

Asset Browser

• Fixed an issue in the Asset Browser where dragging and dropping assets into a scene would not work after canceling once with the ESC key
• Fixed an issue with the Asset Browser where the version number entered for newly created assets was not displayed correctly

Character Animation

• Fixed an issue with the Pose Morph tag where creating a Loop selection on the mesh would distort it
• Fixed an issue with the rigging of splines where the axes of the joint chains and the splines were not properly aligned
• Fixed an issue with the Joint Tool where the Split operation would affect a bone in the wrong hierarchy chain

Color Management

• Fixed an issue with the Color Chooser where a "V" value of 100% would be reduced to 99.99 as soon as the hue value was changed
• Fixed an issue with color management where the default color swatch palette appeared differently depending on the selected color space

Hair

• Fixed a stability issue with the Hair Comb tool and Redshift's Interactive Preview Rendering

Layer Manager

• Fixed an issue with the Layer Manager where identical layers were not merged correctly when pasting objects and materials

Material

• Fixed an issue with color management where swatches sampled from an image appeared too pale in a new swatch group created from them

Modeling

• Fixed a stability issue with the Loop/Path Cut tool
• Fixed an issue with hidden selections that were still affected by modeling tools and commands
• Fixed an issue with Symmetry mode having no effect when using the Set Vertex Weight command
• Fixed an issue with the Loop/Path Cut tool ignoring the Restrict to Selection option
• Fixed an issue with the Loop/Path Cut tool ignoring the Range parameter when using the tool’s HUD controls
• Fixed an issue with the Bevel tool not displaying a cursor
• Fixed an issue with the Thicken generator where the mesh disappeared when the Thickness parameter became too small
• Fixed an issue with the Protection tag where a spline with this tag that was a child of another object and an offset from the origin could only be selected with the Selection tool at that same offset
• Fixed an issue with the UVW and Normal tags appearing twice after copying and pasting a polygon selection as a new object
• Fixed an issue with the interactive N-Gon triangulation not working correctly
• Fixed an issue with Symmetry mode where the Show Planes option would dim the HUD elements
• Fixed an issue with the Boolean generator where some tags had no effect on the resulting object
• Fixed an issue with the Bevel tool in Edge mode where positive and negative Depth values had the same effect
• Fixed a stability issue with the Remesh generator
• Fixed a stability issue with the Symmetry Object
• Fixed an issue with the context menu in Point mode where right-clicking on a different component type would unexpectedly switch to its mode
• Fixed an issue with the Boolean Tag where polygon selections created with the tag could not be accessed properly by a cloner
• Fixed an issue with the Loft generator where enabling the Reverse Normals option made the object disappear from the Viewport

MoGraph

• Fixed an issue with the Field Driver tag behaving inconsistently for the Color parameter
• Fixed an issue with list fields showing “Mixed” for multiple identical values
• Fixed an issue with the Cloner object ignoring a changing or animated Rail spline
• Fixed an issue with the Field Driver tag not working correctly when used on a child object of a cloner
• Fixed an issue with Voronoi Fracture where some polygons were missing when animating the
• Fracture object

Nodes

• Fixed an issue with the Area Average node that resulted in incorrect rendering results

Node Editor

• Fixed an issue with the OpenPBR node where resetting colors to their default values produced a different result than the original default colors

Object Manager

• Fixed an issue with the Bezier object disappearing from the Viewport after undoing changes to the number of grid points

Objects

• Fixed an issue with the Weld option of the Connect object that caused splines to disappear when used with instances

Other

• Fixed a stability issue when playing an animation in the viewport
• Fixed a stability issue with Path Selection when a Subdivision Surface generator was active

Picture Viewer

• Fixed a stability issue with the Picture Viewer's Filter function in AB Compare mode

Preferences

• Fixed an issue with the Preferences where the Display Decimals setting kept resetting to "4" after a restart

Project Asset Inspector

• Fixed an issue with the Project Asset Inspector where the Clear Assets command had no effect

Simulation

• Added a checkbox in the Particle Emitter parameters to toggle Speed Variance for particle velocity
• Fixed an issue with Particle simulation where deleting a particle modifier did not remove the corresponding particle properties
• Fixed a stability issue with Pyro simulation

Timeline

• Fixed an issue with creating markers in the Timeline where the timing was calculated incorrectly in BPM mode
• Fixed an issue with the Timeline where selecting and deselecting individual objects using the Ctrl modifier key did not affect their keys in the Timeline
• Fixed an issue with the Timeline where animation tracks could not be cut and pasted between objects
• Fixed an issue with the Timeline where the Link TM/OM Selection option prevented the selection or deselection of keys for Nodes Modifier assets
• Fixed an issue with the Timeline where keys with weighted tangents did not behave correctly when an F-Curve was scaled using the Region tool
• Fixed an issue with the motion system where motion layers could not be deselected and motion clips could not be deleted

UV Tools

• Fixed an issue with the UV Edit "Magnet" tool where the Soft Selection option was not grayed out

XRefs

• Fixed an issue with XRef objects where the scale of the pivot matrix would reset to 1 when the rotation was changed
• Fixed an issue with XRef objects where an instance of a hidden reference object was not visible in the Viewport