Cineware for Unreal Engine 2025.3 - June 18, 2025

General Notes

Supported UE versions:

• Unreal Engine 5.3 (Supports only Cineware for Unreal - Datasmith)
• Unreal Engine 5.4 (Supports only Cineware for Unreal - Datasmith)
• Unreal Engine 5.5 (Supports Cineware for Unreal - Datasmith and Interchange)

Supported C4D versions: C4D 2025.3

• Previous versions of Cinema 4D may not work as expected with Cineware for Unreal 2025.3, it is recommended to update to Cinema 4D 2025.3

Installer: Cineware for Unreal Engine 2025.3 Installer includes:

• Datasmith 2025.0.16
• Interchange 2025.2.0

Datasmith and Interchange can be used together

New Features

Interchange Enhancements

• Automatically detects and splits imported hierarchies into separate skeletons when a character contains multiple, non-rooted meshes (like accessories)
• Added support for time zero bind poses, allowing imports of skeletal meshes with joints that have multiple bind poses

General

• Fixed texture tags on extruded objects
• Expanded error handling and warnings to give you clear logs for import issues
• Improvements to project settings to streamline setup

Interchange Framework

The Interchange framework is a new exchange-framework from Epic Games. Cineware for Unreal Engine has started to implement this framework, giving users much more power in customizing their pipelines while working with Cinema 4D files.

Current comparisons between Datasmith and Interchange: