# Maxon - Cinema 4D Release 9 Unveiled
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maxon-cinema-4d-release-9-unveiled/60669
**Category:** random
**Created:** [August 11, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maxon-cinema-4d-release-9-unveiled/60669 "2004-08-11T14:20:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@minimalistik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/minimalistik)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maxon-cinema-4d-release-9-unveiled/60669/1 "2004-08-11T14:20:38Z")
The new C4D has been unveiled and is set to release in early September this year for shipment. New features include: **(posted by Mounty @ US)**
**Workflow**
- No Active Tool Manager any more, it has been replaced by the AM who can be used in multiple instances if you liked the old worklfow
- Drag & Drop for most Text input fields (Selection Restrictions etc.)
- Animation in the AM by using the red dots / circles for each property
- Almost every animatable porperty can be used in the new Head Up
**Display**
- Mouse centred Global Popup with the most common commands
- Tearable menus for fast interface adjustment
- Head Up Display for many viewport and scene informations as well as nearly every object property. Properties can be grouped and modified as well as animated in the viewport
- Vastly extended viewport options
- Multi Key shortcuts
**Modelling**
- Highlighting
- Tweak mode
- Auto Switch mode
- Brush Tool (Smear, Pull, Surface, Normal, Repel, Spin, Twister, Vortex and Smooth for modelling, Paint, Blur, Intensity and BLeed for Vertex weights). Several Falloff options including User defined.
- Iron
- Slide
- Stitch & Sew
- Collapse
- Bevel with user defined spline
- Close Polygon Hole
- Measure & Construct
- All older tools have been completely overhauled, all of them now interactive
- Selection functions: Loop, Ring, Outline, Fill
- Easier selection conversion by using qualifiers when switching modes
- Multiple Object modelling
- Isoline Editing
- Deformed editing
- N-Gon on/off option for most tools
- Pivot point
**Rendering**
- Cached soft shadows
- Increased Raydepth (500 instead of 50)
- New Fresenel Option for more realistic glass
- Sub Polygon Displacement with different smoothing options (can replace HNs in some situations)
- Displacement now with Intensity, Intensity (centered), RG, RGB (local/world), 16 Bit per channel support
**Character Animation**
- New fast Hard-IK
- Faster and more predictable Soft IK
- IK / FK Blending
- Auto IK Lock
- Pole Vectors
- Motion Blending with ghosting
- Motion retargeting to match motions to different skeletons
- Tearable Cloth
- Cloth NURBS that allows to give cloths thickness
- Posemixer is now a Tag and more powerfull then ever
- Quaternion interpolation (three variations)
**Import Export**
- RPC
- Combustion, Final Cut
- NXN Alienbrain
**Further information:**
- [http://www.maxon.net/pages/products/c4d/cinema4d\_e.html](http://www.maxon.net/pages/products/c4d/cinema4d_e.html)
- [http://www.adimex.com.au/news/search\_adx\_news.taf?function=detail&record\_id=33033](http://www.adimex.com.au/news/search_adx_news.taf?function=detail&record_id=33033)
**Indepth outline of features:** [http://www.maxon.net/pages/products/c4d/r9/r9\_new\_eng.pdf](http://www.maxon.net/pages/products/c4d/r9/r9_new_eng.pdf)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maxon-cinema-4d-release-9-unveiled/60669/2 "2004-08-11T14:38:04Z")
You forgot to mention 2 important details for us here:
“Scenes can be exported to the web using Macromedia’s SW3D format"
and
"2D vector formats:
Flash (SWF)”
🙂 cool!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maxon-cinema-4d-release-9-unveiled/60669/3 "2004-08-11T17:56:57Z")
I think eyezberg found the best part. :sure:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2004, 7:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maxon-cinema-4d-release-9-unveiled/60669/4 "2004-08-12T07:30:30Z")
Thanks for that Eyez.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maxon-cinema-4d-release-9-unveiled/60669/5 "2004-08-20T19:21:53Z")
I would feel better if I knew how to use C4D in the first place :trout:
Looks like C4D could really make some competition for 3DS and Maya
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maxon-cinema-4d-release-9-unveiled/60669/6 "2004-08-20T20:55:39Z")
whaoo i got the trial
wahoo i cant figure it out
wahoo i wish i had some money
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maxon-cinema-4d-release-9-unveiled/60669/7 "2004-08-25T23:42:27Z")
Cinema4D is as least as good as 3DSM and Maya IMHO…
And now 9.0 is going to make it better! 😛