Cinema 4D S22 - What is in this Surprise New Version?

Greyscalegorilla Podcast

Show Notes:

• Maxon Cinema 4D S22
• Arnold and Otoy collaboration
  • Arnold GPU on their RNDR service
  • Otoy to support Arnold's standard surface

Our Thoughts on the New C4D S22 Features:

Automatic UV's

Chad

• super easy to use, very convenient
• not bad but no real control over distortion settings
• I like the overlap mirrored geo, nice way to save space
• cant reset to default settings

Shawn

• 3 Impressive out of the box automatic solutions licenced from Quel Solaar.
• Easy to use!

New UV Workflow

Chad

• Great start, way better layout
• good enough for most
• slightly confusing workflow
• couple of quirks
• decent auto packing and auto unwrap
• needs a relax brush
• no UDIM support
• overlap mirrored geo is nice
• no ability to right click and reset your settings to default
• tad slow on complex meshes

Shawn

• Wonderful new UV layout
• Love all of the view modes (Show tiled texture) for example
• Would love to see a nice grid in UI beyond 0-1 UV space.
• Need Alignment tools (Snapping does not seem to work)

Modeling Improvements

Chad

• Steps in the right direction, but a long ways to go to compare to Maya + Max
• bridge is ok, but still far behind what other DCCs are doing
• untriangulate works well

Shawn

• Love the new mirror selection! Huge
• Vertex normal via the phong tag is great
• Untriangulate Command is much improved
• Close Polygon Hole function is much better
• Fix non-manifold geometries command very welcome

Nodal Material Export to FBX

Chad

• not really anything here that interests me

Shawn

• Seems great for those who still use Physical and Standard Renderers

GoZ Bridge

Chad

• I don't use Zbrush but this seems useful

Shawn

• Works great! Was not possible in R21 officially and now supports Polygroups!

Viewport Enhancements

Chad

• viewport enhancements is a step in the right direction but doesn't work with redshift. Was hoping it would be closer to what Maya and Blender have.
• viewport filters are a great quality of life feature. BUT the individual presets are not found in the customize commands options and cannot be turned into a button or shortcut. However, the preset selector can be docked in the UI, but this is not ideal.
• would be easy to set up for play blasts

Shawn

• Viewport filter icons rule
• Setting up Viewport filter shortcuts DON'T work as expected
• Love the new viewport resolution option
• Instances now show full geometry
• Hair now looks amazing and much closer to final render

gLTF Support (Export Only)

Chad

• I don't do AR, but this seems very useful to those that do

Shawn

• Another great exchange format.
• Great for WebGL needs
• Is a one-size fits all file format (SketchFab)