Plugins for MAXON's CINEMA 4D

m4d is an addition to MAXON Cinema 4D integrating the high-end renderers mental ray and iray.

iray® is the world’s first interactive and physically correct, photorealistic rendering solution. With iray, users can quickly create life-like images of their creations by using intuitive, real world approaches and interactively exploring their results through the processing power of NVIDIA® graphics processing units (GPUs).

mental ray® is a rendering software which generates images of outstanding quality and unsurpassed realism. It combines the physically correct simulation of the behavior of light with full programmability for the creation of any imaginable visual phenomena. The software uses advanced and proprietary acceleration and sampling techniques for faster rendering on even the smallest, single processor machines. At the same time, mental ray achieves optimal scalable performance through the exploitation of parallelism on both multiprocessor machines and across networks of machines.

Win/OSX, 32/64bit

R11 and above

980€

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Rhino.io is a connection and import/export plugin, that lets you directly open and save native Rhino files (3dm) from within MAXON CINEMA 4D. In addition, models that were changed in Rhino can be updated into CINEMA 4D while keeping material assignments and other changes inside CINEMA 4D intact, enabling you to work with Rhino and CINEMA 4D side by side.

Compatibility : N/A

99€ (79€ special introduction price)

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Vreel Skin is the first multi layer shader specialized on skin materials for Cinema 4D. It offers controls for specularity, surface shading with “peach skin effects” and real translucency.

R9.1 and above

Win/OSX

60€

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TURBULENCE.4D makes the most realistic and efficient methods in CG fluid dynamics available in standard software, allowing to create very natural and believable animations of fire, smoke, steam and other gaseous phenomena without changing your pipeline.

R10.5 and above

Win 32/64, OSX

299€

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Height2Normal is a shader for Cinema 4D that will convert any shader or image into a tangent space normal map for use in the Normal channel of a standard material.

The Cinema 4D R10.1 download contains Win32, Win64, and OSX UB versions

The Cinema 4D R11 download contains Win32, Win64, and OS X UB (32 and 64bit) versions

The Cinema 4D R11.5 download contains Win32, Win64, and OS X UB (32 and 64bit) versions

Free

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