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The eagerly awaited Release 19 of Cinema 4D is now available in the Maxon online shop and from selected retailers. Anyone who missed the previous announcements can read the feature overview of the new version in more detail here. Here again is a quick overview of what awaits you in R19:
- Viewport Improvements for realtime display of depth of field and screen-space reflections
- MoGraph Expansion with new Voronoi fracturing possibilities and a new Sound Effector
- Spherical VR Camera for rendering stereoscopic 360° VR content as well as dome projections
- Polygon Reduction enables better reduction of the polygon count without distorting vertex maps, selections and UVs
- AMD Radeon ProRender is now integrated into Cinema 4D and enables additional GPU rendering
- Level of Detail for game assets to improve the performance of the respective scenes
- New Media Core including native MP4 support without QuicktTime
Prices and Availability
C4D R19 is available from today, September 1, 2017, via this page for Windows from version 7 SP1 and maxOS 10.11.6 or higher. The offering continues to be divided among the four products Cinema 4D Prime, Broadcast, Visualize and Studio. In terms of price, the Prime variant starts at €833, while the Studio version with all features costs €3,570. Maxon has provided you with a product-comparison overview. For the free student version, pupils and students can also register here.
R19 in the Current DP Issue
It is not only Cinema – DP has also appeared in new attire! With the current DP issue 05 : 17, we turn our attention to pipelines, frameworks and funding. We also took an in-depth look at Cinema 4D’s new features. You can see what else is in the issue here! Anyone at Munich’s Gasteig on September 7/8 can also meet the Maxon team at our animago AWARD & CONFERENCE. The exhibitors’ Exhibition is free!
