Cinema 4D 2026.1 - December 3, 2025

Doug Y
Doug Y
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Important Notes

For a list of system requirements of Cinema 4D 2026.1 and other Maxon products, visit our System Requirements and Compatibility page.

This release includes Redshift 2026.2.0 - older versions (2026.0.0 and higher) are compatible but will not include new Redshift feature and enhancements to Redshift integration and performance.

New Features

MoGraph

  • New Advanced Distribution support in the Cloner

  • New Advanced Distributions

    • Cannonball Distribution

    • Partition Distribution

    • Projected 2D Grid Distribution

    • Smart Hex Distribution

    • Spline Bead Distribution

    • Stack Distribution

  • New Distribution Object to create custom Distributions using Scene Nodes

  • New “Absolute Position” option for MoSpline when referencing other splines

Simulation

  • Liquids: New Liquid Flow Emitter for continuous emission of Liquid particles

  • Particles: New adaptive ranges for Color & Data Mapper Modifiers automatically fetch the min and max values of particle propierties

  • Pyro: New dropdown to access available properties when emitting from Particles

Modeling

  • New “Preserve UV” option allows mesh edits after unwrapping without distorting the UVs

Take System

  • Take System now supports overriding Document Settings, including preview range for easy set up of custom durations per take

  • Improved keyframe animation workflow in Takes without having to manually override animation tracks

  • New “Camera View Snapping” for quick transitions between perspective and orthographic views

Exchange

  • Substance Connector support for one click exchange from Substance 3D Sampler to Cinema 4D

Viewport

  • Improved preview of Redshift lights in the Viewport

General Improvements

  • Instances

    • Instances can now be created for multiple objects an once

    • Instances copied into new scenes will now automatically bring their referenced objects along

  • Look at Camera Tag now support picking a specific camera instead of always using the active camera

  • Solo: New “Viewport Solo On/Refresh” command for turning on Solo and/or switching the included objects without having to toggle Solo off and on.

  • Automatic tag renaming when duplicating or pasting tags to avoid name collisions

  • Attribute Transfer: Phong tag is now supported as a source when transferring normals

  • Hair: Improved hair preparation performance

Bug Fixes

Animation

  • Fixed a bug where the Track Modifier’s Posterize option did not work with Alembic files.

  • Resolved an issue where posterization in Track Modifier removed the object entirely.

Attribute Manager

  • Fixed the Cloner interface not refreshing when the default mode was set to Linear.

Camera Objects

  • Added support for overriding the texture quality parameter in the Redshift Camera background.

Character Animation

  • Fixed incorrect weight color display in Weight Manager.

  • Corrected bones in Character Objects having wrong normals.

  • Fixed a problem causing Character Rigs to stop working in version 26.1.0.

Color Management

  • Fixed an OCIO-related issue where Standard Cinema 4D materials were always displayed as Raw in the viewport, without considering the current color space.

Deformer

  • Resolved displacement changes when toggling RS Render Time Displacement in Displacer Deformer.

  • Fixed Bevel Deformer malfunctioning when an object’s axis was located at the world root.

Dynamics

  • Reduced excessive memory usage when multiple Simulation Scene Objects were present.

Exchange

  • Fixed a crash when using the "Clear Assets" command in PAI/FVP.

  • Corrected wrong zoom or focal length on cameras imported from Alembic.

  • Resolved issue when importing models generated through AI models that would generate invalid geometry, the application would then freeze when trying to process the geometry.

  • Fixed an issue when exporting Alembic files where the application would change selection names to be compliant with the format, but would then break material selection assignments.

Forger Plugin

  • Fixed inability to export the new startup scene.

Hair

  • Improved rendering performance for hair with multiple objects, addressing slowdown since R16 with the introduction of BiRender.

Interface

  • Undoing a color space change now correctly restores the color dropdown options.

  • Fixed viewport filter “Spline” showing in pink.

  • Corrected selection preview color issues when using a linear workflow.

  • The icon color now matches the color defined by the user.

Layer Browser

  • Fixed loss of nested layers when copying and pasting objects from one file to another.

  • Merge Layers command is now inactive when no layer is selected.

Material

  • Fixed a crash that occurred when closing a scene containing certain materials.

Modeling

  • Fixed Plane Cut spacing control being disabled in Free mode after using Regular Slice in World mode.

  • Restored proper "Reset to Defaults" behavior for modeling tools.

  • Corrected Delaunay caps triangulation failures with complex splines.

  • Fixed where the Magnet tool would create problematic geometry with topological symmetry.

  • Offset slider in Extrude Tool no longer quantizes unexpectedly.

  • Unified Extrude tool default values for offset and bevel points.

  • Standardized Optimize tool behavior between R21 and 2023 versions.

  • Symmetry generator plane now correctly shows edge highlighting.

  • Linear Pre-Subdivision in SDS now works even when Subdivisions = 0.

  • Fixed incorrect live selection and selection previews with Linear Pre-Subdivision.

  • Restored soft selection functionality for spline vertex editing.

  • Brush tool now works properly with symmetry.

  • Fixed disappearing cursor in SDS weighting tool.

  • Spline projection now refreshes properly.

  • Fixed bevel outside mode when used on objects generated from importing vector graphics.

  • Fixed crash when adding Boolean objects in the Connect object.

  • Resolved crash using Line Cut Tool in the middle of a Ngon.

  • Fixed refresh problems for Boolean objects when the animation loops when used within a Cloner in Fixed animation mode.

  • Corrected inverted side polygons when extruding Ngons with holes.

  • Fixed crash when Boolean & Symmetry was performed on grouped objects.

  • Prevented crash when bevel angle exceeded 100% on extruded text objects.

  • Stop Tag now fully stops the Symmetry Generator.

  • Fixed an issue where an object’s transform did not match between axis tools and the attribute manager.

  • Fixed Boolean flickering or disappearing when moving the to be subtracted object.

  • Live selection (circle) now correctly selects all desired polygons in perspective view.

  • Fixed issue where rectangle selection was failing to capture all desired polygons.

  • Adjusting the loop length by pressing and holding the left mouse button when performing a ring selection now works as expected.

  • Now preventing the selection of individual polygons when double clicking on a polygon island on tessellated Ngons.

  • Fixed an issue where point indices in the viewport were not correctly updated after deleting polygons.

  • Fixed crash when editing MoText size after caching the object.

  • Fixed a crash that occurred when using a Cloner in Object Mode with a Circle Spline, containing cubes placed inside a new Boolean set to subtract from the main geometry (the first object under the Boolean).

Mograph

  • Added absolute mode to MoSpline. When in use, resampling will stay on the spline when moving it.

  • MoGraph Volume Surface mode now works as designed.

  • Fixed MoWeights requiring two executions of the same command.

  • Fixed an issue where using a MoGraph selection with a target effector, the target effector would not affect the selected clones.

  • Volume loader objects in cloners are now affected by time offset

  • Fixed MoText inconsistencies when rendering in viewport and picture view.

  • Resolved crash when setting a field in groups.

  • Fixed crash when using Spiral Staircase – Modular model from the asset browser.

  • Cloning points using Ctrl+Axis workflow is now now properly updating points in cloner.

  • Changing seed in electric and gaseous noise now works as expected.

  • Vertex color tag used on connect/tracer is now correctly exported to Alembic.

  • Fixed incorrect Tracer interpolation after Alembic baking.

Neutron

  • Fixed Spline Mapper keyframing issues.

  • Resolved failure when trying to create an asset with a single scene graph node.

  • Fixed issue where the GetElement node would not accept an array as an input.

  • Resolved crash with spline capsule when trying to use the symmetry node’s geometry as an output.

  • Fixed an issue when instancing a spline where the weights attached to the source spline weren't copied over/ingested properly on any instance/child.

  • Fixed an issue when attempting to import a spline using the option to import as Spline (Maintain Points) .

  • Fixed an issue where placing a spline as a child of a node spline and accessing it’s geometry in node graph would not consider it’s enabled/disabled state.

  • Resolved a problem where a Scene Nodes Generator would incorrectly provide the geometry of grandchildren when attempting to access the geometry of a child null object.

  • Fixed crash changing noise type in noise modifier.

  • Tags now read correctly in Matrix/Cloner setups.

  • Manually set icon on spline generators are now correctly displayed in the object manager.

  • Nested spline generators now update as expected.

  • Spline generator with animated children now updates correctly on playback.

  • Fixed memory node failing when used within a particle node modifier.

  • Fixed an issue where the Polygon Color did not update correctly.

  • Removed particle node modifier that was available when editing RedShift materials.

  • Procedural selection using a selection tag on a generators no longer disappears when changing the field.

  • Fixed nested spline generators not correctly updating when changing it’s direct children or descendants.

  • Fixed issue with store selection node asset where it wouldn’t work if the user drag & dropped a selection.

  • Fixed console error being generated when using a basic gradient node.

  • Resolved a bug where removing a knot from a gradient would not always be persistent after further modifications.

  • Fixed an issue where moving a field on an object that was brought in via Object Link doesn’t trigger an automatic refresh.

  • Fixed crash when using a Weld & Optimize Node to weld points that had different vertex map values.

  • Solved an issue that would break an asset changing the version is changed in the attribute manager.

Object Manager

  • Added support to bring reference objects over when copy pasting objects.

  • Enabled multi-selected items to retain proper links when new instances are created.

  • Fixed an issue where Ctrl + Click on the buttons in the object manager to toggle viewport or render visibility would override the other state in child objects.

Objects

  • Fixed a freeze when trying to extrude a spline with hundreds of thousands of points.

  • Vector Import Object now correctly produces “Quad Dominant” caps.

  • Fixed an issue when using a Remesh object with a Spline Mask and then converting it to an editable polygon would result in a loss of data.

  • Resolved an issue where using the Physical Sky with the standard render engine would cause ghost lighting to appear in the render once the scene becomes dark.

  • Connect Object now works properly when connecting objects with different scales.

Other

  • Reset-to-default when right clicking on numeric field arrows for now work correctly.

  • Fixed a problem where the “Look At” camera tag would fail.

  • Fixed crash when moving a Bend Deformer.

  • Fixed crash when enabling a Displacer.

Powerslider

  • Changing the document’s frame & preview range now supports undo.

Python

  • Fixed crash occurring during application quit.

Redshift

  • Dropping an image onto the Background object now creates a Redshift Material instead of a legacy material.

Renderer

  • Fixed OCIO bake view transform being greyed out in output settings.

  • Frame Range now correctly handles decimal values in the frame rate.

  • Fixed standard renderer color space issue when using interactive render region.

Sculpting

  • Restoring float parameter defaults in sculpting tools using right-click now works correctly.

  • Resetting Size and Strength parameters in sculpting tools now works as expected.

Simulation

  • Fixed freeze when deleting a Turbulence Object.

  • Particle drawing is no longer cut by transparency buffers in viewport across FP/VP/RS modes.

  • Assigning a random age during particle emission no longer causes tracer errors.

  • Alembic objects now correctly react to changes in a vertex map.

  • Active Pyro simulations no longer disable viewport antialiasing.

  • Animated noise used as a density distribution source now works correctly.

  • Tracer no longer adds previous traces to particles when switching groups.

  • Mesh emitters emitting from point clouds now behave consistently.

  • Tracer output with particles now works correctly when the sample step is greater than 1.

  • Calling the viewport solo command while emitting particles now works as expected.

  • Fixed an issue where adding thickness to colliders would cause rigid body collisions to behave erratically.

  • Color Mapper in field mode now works with animated objects.

  • Tracing particles with a Tracer will now work correctly when particles move between groups.

  • Mesh emitters used in radial mode will now produce correct results when switching between local and global space.

  • Resolved an issue that was creating inconsistencies when using ‘Repeat N times’ option in spline emitters.

  • Fixed an inconsistency where vector space was labelled differently in different attribute sections for emitters.

  • Dresser initial state no longer breaks Connector Tags when connected objects move.

  • Animated parameters inside a particle node modifier work correctly after caching.

  • Resolved problems where animating simulation time scale for liquids would generate erratic results.

  • Data Mapper velocity speed is now represented as a float value rather than a vector.

  • Particle emitter alignment vector space now works correctly when switching between local and global space.

  • Fixed an issue where the wrong unit would be shown when dragging a condition’s (particles) value into the HUD.

  • Resolved a problem where sometimes custom properties weren’t being preserved after closing and reopening a file.

  • Deleting a Nodes Modifier no longer deletes custom properties.

  • Fixed sparse volume color transfer inconsistencies in pyro.

  • Fixed issue where liquids would not react correctly when interacting with boxes from the inside.

  • Resolved an issue where using custom cache paths with Pyro would result in the cache not being found when reopening the scene.

  • Fixed an issue where particles would be created with an emission speed of zero, even when specifying non-zero emissions speeds.

Take System

  • Added support for overrides in the Take system’s timeline.

  • Document settings can now be overridden in the Take system.

  • Fixed a synchronization issue between the Attribute Manager state and the Override Tree display.

  • Viewport no longer resets to a Take camera when duplicating an object in a take set to a specific camera while viewing through the default camera.

  • Resolved a bug where users where unable to successfully import Takes.

Timeline

  • Fixed an issue in the dope sheet where keyframe editing buttons would be shown as disabled.

  • Resolved a bug where if Auto Frame Mode was enabled in the Timeline settings, selecting a track for the first time would not frame its curves as expected.

UV Tools

  • Fixed lag that would show up in the UV Editor in some cases where the object had SDS enabled.

  • Resolved a problem where UV packing would cut through N-gons.

Viewport

  • Added “Enable/Refresh” Solo option that refreshes current settings.

  • Resolved an issue where turning off Component Highlighting had no effect with the knife, bevel, extrude, and inset tools.

  • Fixed an instance of a crash when changing color management to Linear or Disabled and also rendering to Redshift IPR in viewport.

  • Fixed a problem where switching between Wireframe and Isoparms display modes would not update the viewport until a manual redraw was triggered.

  • Live Selection tool now properly respects the tool’s radius setting.

  • Resolved an issue where Text Object alignment would not persist after closing and reopening the scene.

  • Fixed inconsistencies with RedShift light brightness between viewport and final render result.

Xpresso

  • Fixed performance issues in XPresso related to Subdivision Surface objects.

XRefs

  • Cinema 4D can now load nested XRefs with long file names.

  • Improved performance and fixed a crash related to to updating XRefs.

  • Fixed an issue where if a render instance was to reference a template XRef object and hide it’s parent null, the render instance would not appear in the render output.

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