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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RF BIN Loader is a plugin for importing Realflow™ .BIN sequences into Cinema 4D R12.

It’s bug-free under Cinema4D R12 32 or 64bits, under MAC and Windows.Available in English and French.

Compatibility :

R11.5 and above

Win/OSX 32/64 bit

Free (donation)

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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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EdgeExtrude Pro is a COFFEE-Plugin for CINEMA 4D XL 6 and higher (including V8.x and V9.x) and runs under both Mac OS and Windows. The Plug-in speeds up modelling as it offers various new functions to extrude edges or splines. It’s functionality can even avoid the usage of boolean operations in many cases, as it produces low poly surfaces around individually shaped openings.

R6 and above

Win/OSX

20€

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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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Indigo is a photorealistic renderer which simulates the physics of light to achieve near-perfect image realism. With an advanced physical camera model, a super-realistic materials system and the ability to simulate complex lighting situations through Metropolis Light Transport, Indigo Renderer is capable of producing the highest levels of realism demanded by architectural and product visualisation.

R10 and above (R11 for Mac)

Win/OSX 32/64bit

Free for non-commercial use

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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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Select Loop is a small workflow plugin that will allow you to select a loop of polygons without having to switch tools.
Simply select two neighboring polygons and run the Select Loop command and you will have your loop.

The Cinema 4D R10.1 download contains Win32, Win64, and OS X 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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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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Watermark is a post effect for Cinema 4D that draws an image over your render.

The Cinema 4D R9.6 download contains Win32, Win64, OSX PPC, 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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