Cinema 4D R19 Comparison Chart

Maxon Cinema 4D R19 Prime

Cinema 4D Prime

Professional 3D Starts Here

INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING FEATURES:

  • Modeling
  • Materials & Texturing
  • Lighting
  • Animation
  • Camera
  • Advanced Renderer
  • UV Editing
  • Extensive API: C++, Python, C.O.F.F.E.E.
  • Prime Library incl. materials, objects & presets
Maxon Cinema 4D R19 Broadcast

Cinema 4D Broadcast

The 3D motion graphics powerhouse

INCLUDES ALL FEATURES OF CINEMA 4D PRIME AND:

  • Physical Renderer
  • Advanced Camera Tools
  • Team Render (3 Nodes)
  • MoGraph Tools
  • Broadcast Library, incl. materials, cameras and objects
Maxon Cinema 4D R19 Visualize

Cinema 4D Visualize

The professional solution for architects & designers

INCLUDES ALL FEATURES OF CINEMA 4D PRIME AND:

  • Physical Renderer
  • Advanced Camera Tools
  • Team Render (3 Nodes)
  • Sketch & Toon
  • Visualize Library, incl. materials, presets and architectural objects
Maxon Cinema 4D R19 Studio

Cinema 4D Studio

Everything you need for high-end 3d

INCLUDES ALL FEATURES OF ALL OTHER PACKAGES

  • Physical Renderer
  • Advanced Camera Tools
  • Team Render (unlimited Nodes)
  • MoGraph Tools
  • Sketch & Toon
  • Dynamics Sculpting
  • Hair System
  • Advanced Character Tools
  • Motion/Object Tracker
  • all Libraries, Advanced presets and demo scenes

Full Comparison Chart

General Workflow

Cinema 4D R19 Studio
Cinema 4D
Studio
Cinema 4D R19 Visualize
Cinema 4D
Visualize
Cinema 4D R19 Broadcast
Cinema 4D
Broadcast
Cinema 4D R19 Prime
Cinema 4D
Prime
Cinema 4D R19 BodyPaint
BodyPaint
3D
Cinema 4D R19 Lite
Cinema 4D
Lite*
Advanced presets and demo scenes
Annotations Tag
Arabic interface support
Available in 11 languages (switchable)
Broadcast Library, incl. materials, cameras and objects
Color Chooser
Commander
Content Libraries
Context-sensitive, fully-searchable HTML help
Cross-platform support for Mac & Windows
Custom User Data per object
Customizable GUI sets (toolbars / layouts / menus)
Doodle viewport annotation tool
Enhanced OpenGL Viewport
Essential presets and demo scenes
High-Quality OpenGL Viewport R19
Layer system for object & material management
Lite Library, incl. materials, cameras and objects
Multiple projects open at once
New Feature Highlighting
Object highlighting
Picture Viewer
Scripting & SDK
Solo Button
Stereo display in Viewport
Take System
To Do List
Vertex Colors
Visualization Library, incl. materials, presets and architectural objects
XRef external instancing / referencing system

Modeling

Cinema 4D R19 Studio
Cinema 4D
Studio
Cinema 4D R19 Visualize
Cinema 4D
Visualize
Cinema 4D R19 Broadcast
Cinema 4D
Broadcast
Cinema 4D R19 Prime
Cinema 4D
Prime
Cinema 4D R19 BodyPaint
BodyPaint
3D
Cinema 4D R19 Lite
Cinema 4D
Lite*
ABF unwrapping and relaxing
Basic Tools
Bevel Deformer
Deformer Falloff
Extrude, Lathe, Loft, Sweep
Interactive UV mapping by projection types
Knife Tools
Level of Detail Object R19
LSCM unwrapping and relaxing
Mesh Check
Modeling Generators: Metaball, Boolean, Symmetry, Array, Atom Array, Instance, Connect, Spline Mask, Python
New Modeling Kernel R19
New Polygon Reduction Generator R19
OpenSubdiv Support
PolyPen
Scene Objects: Floor, Sky, Environment, Stage, Foreground, Background
Spline Mask object
Spline Tools
Subdivision surfaces
UV Editing
UV mapping to automatically remove seams
UV Peeler
UVs for Caps
Scene Objects: Floor, Sky, Environment, Stage, Foreground, Background

Materials & Textures

Cinema 4D R19 Studio
Cinema 4D
Studio
Cinema 4D R19 Visualize
Cinema 4D
Visualize
Cinema 4D R19 Broadcast
Cinema 4D
Broadcast
Cinema 4D R19 Prime
Cinema 4D
Prime
Cinema 4D R19 BodyPaint
BodyPaint
3D
Cinema 4D R19 Lite
Cinema 4D
Lite*
12 standard material channels: Color, Diffusion, Luminance, Transparency, Reflection, Environment, Fog, Bump, Normal, Alpha, Glow, Displacement
3D Painting with layers, all blend modes and Photoshop file compatibility
Animated textures (MOV, AVI, sequence) with viewport preview
Blurry reflections and transparencies
Brick, Wood, Weathering, Pavement and Normalizer Shaders
Choose Photoshop PSD layers per usage
Displacement: intensity (centered), red/green and RGB
Formula Shadery
Fresnel Shader
Grass Material Shader
Improved Variation Shader R19
Inverse Ambient Occlusion
Layer shader
Multi-brush painting of multiple material channels in single stroke
Noise Procedural shader with 32 different noise algorithms
Normal maps: tangent, object or world
Parallax Shader
Physically correct IOR presets
Procedural surface shaders
Projection Man
Projection painting
Proximity-based Proximal shader
Reflectance Channel
Set UVW from projection
Shading models: Lambertian, Oren-Nayar
Shadow Catcher
OpenGL-accelerated 3D Painting with layers, all blend modes and Photoshop le compatibility R19
Sketch & Toon Art, Hatch, Spot (halftone) Shaders
Sub-Polygon displacement (SPD)
Sub-Surface Scattering
Terrain Mask shader
Texture baking: surface color, illumination, Ambient Occlusion, Normals, displacement and more
Texture Manager
Thin Film Shader
Transparency with absorption, total internal reflections, exit reflections

Lighting

Cinema 4D R19 Studio
Cinema 4D
Studio
Cinema 4D R19 Visualize
Cinema 4D
Visualize
Cinema 4D R19 Broadcast
Cinema 4D
Broadcast
Cinema 4D R19 Prime
Cinema 4D
Prime
Cinema 4D R19 BodyPaint
BodyPaint
3D
Cinema 4D R19 Lite
Cinema 4D
Lite*
Caustics
Color temperature in Kelvin
Custom lens flares
Global Illumination
Hard, Soft, Area shadows
IES Lights
Include/exclude light diffusion, specular, shadow per object
Light Types: Omni, Spot, Infinite, Area, Square Spot, Parallel Spot, Square Parallel Spot
Noise within light illumination and/or visibility
Photometric brightness setting in Candela and Lumen
Physical Skys
Visible, Volumetric and Inverse Volumetric lighting

Camera

Cinema 4D R19 Studio
Cinema 4D
Studio
Cinema 4D R19 Visualize
Cinema 4D
Visualize
Cinema 4D R19 Broadcast
Cinema 4D
Broadcast
Cinema 4D R19 Prime
Cinema 4D
Prime
Cinema 4D R19 BodyPaint
BodyPaint
3D
Cinema 4D R19 Lite
Cinema 4D
Lite*
Camera Calibrator
Camera Composition Helpers
Camera Crane
Camera Focus Picker
Camera Morph
Camera, Target Camera, Stereo Camera
Graphical View for Motion Tracking
Lens Distortion Support
Motion Camera
Motion Tracker
Object Tracker
Scene Reconstruction for Motion Tracker R19
Spherical Camera R19

Rendering

Cinema 4D R19 Studio
Cinema 4D
Studio
Cinema 4D R19 Visualize
Cinema 4D
Visualize
Cinema 4D R19 Broadcast
Cinema 4D
Broadcast
Cinema 4D R19 Prime
Cinema 4D
Prime
Cinema 4D R19 BodyPaint
BodyPaint
3D
Cinema 4D R19 Lite
Cinema 4D
Lite*
Ambient Occlusion
Camera white balance
Color profile support
Embree Integration
Global Material Override
Light Mapping
Linear workflow
Multi-Pass output
Normal Pass
Object buffers - specify unique alpha channels per object
Physical Render Engine
Position Pass
ProRender (new GPU-based Renderer) R19
Pyrocluster volumetric particle renderingn
Radiosity maps
Render instances
Render Queue batch rendering system
Render up to 128,000 pixels square / 32 bits per pixel
Sketch and Toon
Stereoscopic Rendering
Sub-Surface Scattering
Team Render (3 Nodes)
Team Render (unlimited Nodes)
Universal Sampler (GI-QMC)

Animation

Cinema 4D R19 Studio
Cinema 4D
Studio
Cinema 4D R19 Visualize
Cinema 4D
Visualize
Cinema 4D R19 Broadcast
Cinema 4D
Broadcast
Cinema 4D R19 Prime
Cinema 4D
Prime
Cinema 4D R19 BodyPaint
BodyPaint
3D
Cinema 4D R19 Lite
Cinema 4D
Lite*
ASCII animation import
Automatic keyframing
ASCII animation import
Constant Velocity option per track
Constraints: PSR, Up-Vector, Clamp, Mirror, Parent, Aim, Spring
Driver tag
F-Curve Snapshot and Reduced Modification curves
Interaction Tag
Keyframe baking
Keyframe reduction
New Parent Constraint workflow
Non-linear animation / motion mixing system
PowerSlider animation toolbar for playback and keyframe manipulation
Shift Priority Tag
Timeline - up to four timeline windows with customizable track display and dopesheet or F-Curve view modes 1
XPresso

Character Animation

Cinema 4D R19 Studio
Cinema 4D
Studio
Cinema 4D R19 Visualize
Cinema 4D
Visualize
Cinema 4D R19 Broadcast
Cinema 4D
Broadcast
Cinema 4D R19 Prime
Cinema 4D
Prime
Cinema 4D R19 BodyPaint
BodyPaint
3D
Cinema 4D R19 Lite
Cinema 4D
Lite*
Auto weighting
Character Object
CMotion
Enhanced Quaternion workflow
Joints with full dynamic IK
Mirror, Naming and Paint Tools
Muscle Deformer
Point Cache Tag
Pose Morph
PSD Correctional Morphs
Skin Deformer supports linear, spherical and blended deformation based on joints
Tension tag
VAMP tool for translating weights, morphs, selection, textures, Uvs and vertex maps between different geometry
Visual Selector
Weight effector
Weight Manager and tools
Weighting Improvements R19

Mograph

Cinema 4D R19 Studio
Cinema 4D
Studio
Cinema 4D R19 Visualize
Cinema 4D
Visualize
Cinema 4D R19 Broadcast
Cinema 4D
Broadcast
Cinema 4D R19 Prime
Cinema 4D
Prime
Cinema 4D R19 BodyPaint
BodyPaint
3D
Cinema 4D R19 Lite
Cinema 4D
Lite*
Beat Shader
Cloner object
Effectors for Position, Scale, Rotation, Color, Time using Falloff, Shader, Random, Formula, Delay, C.O.F.F.E.E., Python, Inheritance, Sound, Spline, Step, Target, Time or Volume effectors
Enhanced MoGraph Caching
Enhanced Voronoi Fracturing (Auto Connectors only available in Studio) R19
Fracture object
Matrix object
MoDynamics
MoExtrude
Auto weighting
MoGraph Multi-shader
MoGraph Selection tag
MoInstance object
MoSpline parametric spline generator with L-system functionality
MoText object
New Sound Effector R19
PolyFX polygon fracture deformer
Push Apart Effector
ReEffector
Tracer object
Weight Map and Weight Paintbrush

Simulation

Cinema 4D R19 Studio
Cinema 4D
Studio
Cinema 4D R19 Visualize
Cinema 4D
Visualize
Cinema 4D R19 Broadcast
Cinema 4D
Broadcast
Cinema 4D R19 Prime
Cinema 4D
Prime
Cinema 4D R19 BodyPaint
BodyPaint
3D
Cinema 4D R19 Lite
Cinema 4D
Lite*
Aerodynamic Forces
Basic particle system
Breaking Connectors
Cloth Simulation
Feather object
Fur system
Guide-based Hair system
Hair instancing
Hair shading system with multiple speculars, texture-defined root and tip colors, and variable transparency, thickness, length, scale, frizz, kink, density, clump, tighten, displace, bend, curl, twist, wave, straighten
Hair styling tools: Move, Scale, Rotate, Brush, Comb, Clump, Curl, Cut, Push, Straighten, Add Guides, Mirror, Set Roots
Joints, Springs, Motors
Plastic & Breaking Springs
Rigid Body Dynamics
Rigid Body dynamics for MoGraph objects
Soft Body Dynamics
Spline dynamics
Thinking Particles

Pipeline Integration

Cinema 4D R19 Studio
Cinema 4D
Studio
Cinema 4D R19 Visualize
Cinema 4D
Visualize
Cinema 4D R19 Broadcast
Cinema 4D
Broadcast
Cinema 4D R19 Prime
Cinema 4D
Prime
Cinema 4D R19 BodyPaint
BodyPaint
3D
Cinema 4D R19 Lite
Cinema 4D
Lite*
After Effects compositing exchange with 3D data
Apple Final Cut Pro compositing exchange
Apple Motion compositing exchange with 3D data
BodyPaint 3D exchange - 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage and Lightwave
CineMan Renderman-compliant bridge
CINEWARE compatible
Aerodynamic Forces
Digital Fusion compositing exchange (Win only)
Houdini Engine Bridge
IGES importer
Image formats - float with layers: PSD, TIFF, OpenEXR
Image formats - float: HDR, DPX, RLA, RPF
Image formats: BMP, IFF, JPG, PICT, PNG, TARGA
Improved Media handling R19
Improved Substance Engine Integration
Nuke exchange
Okino connection - seamless CAD file import via optional PolyTrans software (Windows only)
Photoshop exchange
SketchUp importer
Support of DXF, DWG, 3DS, DAE, FBX 20xx, DEM, LWS, STL, VRML2, OBJ, COLLADA, Alembic x.x
Video Formats: Avi, Quicktime