Cine Tracer Demo: A Game-Changer for Cinema 4D Artists

Individual node-locked licenses can be purchased from Solid Angle's new web shop, bringing a new level of power and ease to Cinema 4D users. Special thanks go out to Daniel Hennies, who brought this project into being.

At FMX 2015, Manuel Casasola Merkle of Aixsponza demoed Ĭ4DtoA 1.0 to a cheering audience, showcasing the impressive capabilities of this new render plug-in. View the FMX presentation here.

Customer demand has been enormous, and I am thrilled about Solid Angle's outstanding development work on Arnold for Cinema 4D (C4DtoA). Oliver Meiseberg, Director Product and Partnership Management at MAXON, states, 'With Arnold, Cinema 4D users get an extremely powerful and easy to use renderer.'

We are excited to see Arnold finally available to all Cinema 4D artists. Marcos Fajardo, founder and CEO of Solid Angle, expressed his enthusiasm by saying, 'It was great working with MAXON's engineers as we pushed the APIs to make C4DtoA as fast and interactive as possible.'

Third-party plug-ins such as TurbulenceFD and X-Particles are natively supported in C4DtoA, allowing artists to render high-quality smoke, fire, and particle effects with fully interactive feedback. Another unique feature of this plugin is its node-based material editor for assembling arbitrarily complex shader networks, following Arnold's node-based approach.

C4DtoA supports most Cinema 4D features such as instances, cloners, deformers, generators, MoGraph geometry, hair, and Thinking Particles. The plugin also implements the most fluid Arnold IPR experience yet, providing interactive results in virtually all Cinema 4D components, including creating, moving, and deforming objects, as well as adjusting lights, materials, and volumes.

What sets C4DtoA apart is its support for both animation and single-frame distributed rendering in Team Render, allowing artists to use all computers in a local network to speed up Arnold rendering. Since its preview at SIGGRAPH 2014, the Arnold plug-in for Cinema 4D has been polished and optimized thanks to extensive feedback from its beta-testing program.

SOLID ANGLE, the creator of the industry-leading 'Arnold' global illumination ray tracer for animation and visual effects, has officially released version 1.0 of Arnold for Cinema 4D (C4DtoA). This milestone marks a significant achievement in the world of rendering technology.

Cine tracer demo