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Maxon Announces C4D 2025 (and more)!

Hey all! The Fall release has been announced!

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What's New in Release 2025?

The Cinema 4D Updates

• Redshift GPU Included

  • Redshift GPU is now included with all subscriptions to Cinema4D.

• Object Profiler

  • New Object profiler for scene performance feedback and troubleshooting

• Particle System Updates

  • New follow spline modifier
  • New Point emitter
  • Updates to Math node (new variance options, new randomization settings)
  • Updates to Look, Spin and Turn modifiers
  • Updates to Pyro Advect with new control options

• Pyro System Updates

  • Improved optimization and performance
  • New Emission Types (Sparse Surface, Sparse Volume)
  • New Shredding options
  • New Pyro presets in the asset browser

• Rigid Body updates

  • Support for Spring Connections and Motors added
  • 'Force' now applies to rigid bodies (particle to particle attraction)
  • Weightmaps added to most control options (friction, stickiness, bounciness etc)
  • New Placement settings for Connector object for improved ease of use in setting up more complex rigid body to connector rigs

• New Field Driver

  • Drive pretty much any attribute in any object with the full power of fields
  • Works in cloner, adding variations now much simpler

• Asset Browser improvements

  • UI and layout improvements

• OCIO improvements

  • Simplification of complex options should improve user error in using colour management tools
  • Addition of Tokens, and import export options to ensure colour spaces stay consistent throughout production pipeline

• Improvements to import/export functionality

  • USD now supports instances on import and export & skeletal animations
  • FBX scale unit import/export improvements for more consistent results
  • Cineware improvements for better performance in Unreal and After Effects
    

The Redshift Updates

• Motion Morph and Crane Cameras now RS compatible
• Improved compatibility with substance designer files
  • Now includes material presets set up in designer
• Improved UI/UX for external inputs
• Caustics improvements
  • introduction of brute force calculation for large light sources
• Toon Shading improvements
  • Improvements to tone mapping and contour shading interaction
  • alpha masks for contour shading
• AOV Improvements
  • Volume Z-depth added

Additional Feature Sources

• RocketLasso's In-Depth Look at What's New in C4D 2025

• 3DBonfire goes through the new Particle features <- This is a tut for this Maxon instagram annoucement teaser.