Cinema 4D

CINEMA 4D for 3D modeling, animation and rendering is widely used in the fields of film, television, architecture, the sciences and multimedia. CINEMA 4D offers all that is needed to create high-end 3D pictures and animations - right out of the box. And CINEMA 4D's modular design - with a total of 8 modules that can be bought individually - and allows a custom fit to the application to suit the user's needs and budgets.

Objects: Hyper NURBS, Instances with hierarchies and animation, Metaballs/Metasplines/Metaparticles, Symmetry.
Transformation: modification, rotation, scaling, move variation, align, spacing, mirror, optimize, subsidize, triagulate.
Editing and manipulations: Matrix Extrude, New deformation Object(bend, twist, buldge, shear), Inner and Outer distance, radius Control
N-gons support - A polygon can have an unlimited number of corner points.
Tweak mode - can edit points, edges and polygons without having to keep changing the mode.
Enhanced modeling toolset - Many of the existing modeling tools are now non-modal.
Brush tool, Knife Tool
Stitch and Sew Tool - This new tool makes it easy to close holes between objects.

Sound: 2D/3D sound rendering including Doppler effect, microphone object, loudspeaker object, customizable sound
Lights: shadow, volumetric noise, colored edge falloff, inner and outer color control
Materials: asynchronous material dialog, directly available procedure shaders
More materials: color/texture per channel mixing with transitions, textures supported in OpenGL, mapping modes MIP and SAT
Multi-processor rendering with near scale performance, materials per polygon, multiple render setting per document.
Ray Depth value of 500.This is ideal for anyone rendering scenes containing complicated reflections, transparencies
Intelligent cached Shadow Maps
control the strength of Fresnel reflections for better looking glass
Sub Polygon displacement tools

Live expressions, interactive expressions
Layer system, hide and lock, multiple selection in timeline, Lasso selection, motion grouping
sound display, power slider, snapping, parameter recording
Attribute Manager & Material manager

Multiple object editing
Soft Selections
Isoline Editing
Highlighting Tools
Melt - Great for simplifying needlessly complicated parts of your model, this fabulous tool will melt multiple polygons into a single n-gon.

Customizable: layouts, keyboard shortcuts,Shortcut hierarchies, icon, palettes, view windows, dialogues
Navigation tools: move, scale, rotation handles
Highlighting Mode
Dockable context menus
MAC OS X Dual Plane Support
Improved axis stems, new axis bands
HUD tool- can display and even adjust parameters directly in the viewport

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