Cinema 4D r9.6

[Anonymous]

Just think, the C4D 9.1 made AC look so slooooow. Now take a look at the movie below and see what r9.6 does on the same machine.

The demo is free and it allows everything except save. I created this from my AC 10 model. Rendered as 1600x1000 and did a screen capture.

It also has a very nice atmospheric package included, the sky, clouds and sun position work for world wide settings. I clicked the "here and now" and ended up with a sunny San Diego day with scattered clouds.

Check out the speed boost, it rips.
http://www.maxon.net/pages/products/c4d/movie_audirendercomp.html

Also view the movie about the new sky tool:

http://www.maxon.net/pages/products/c4d/movie_sky.html

My wish for the list is a collaboration between Maxon and GraphiSoft to include the C4D render engine in AC 10.1

Download the demo: http://www.maxon.net/

[Anonymous]

Several years ago, Nemetschek bought Maxon. As you can see the Exchange supports Vectorworks 12.... we wait. Think about it.

I wrote to Maxon to see if the schedule of release can be shared here.

(Note: Sep 25 06) I have been told that Maxon US has written to find out what the schedule is on ArchiCAD eXchange, they said that they are busy on a new release - of another Maxon product) I don't think it is related to eXchange, the other product is consuming all of their time right now. Maybe more news later.

[Anonymous]

i wrote them weeks ago -- no reply

cut and paste german archicad forum:

Ich hatte dazu vor kurzem Kontakt zu Maxon. Das PlugIn ist noch in der Entwicklung. Laut deren Angaben soll es allerdings schon in einigen Wochen fertig sein. Damals war es Maxon nicht möglich, den Aufwand abzuschätzen, ob es sich um eine reine Neukompilierung handelt, oder ob da noch mehr zu tun ist.

Stand der Info war Mitte August.

short translation: the plugin is under development and will be released in the next weeks. info is 6 weeks old

[Anonymous]

message from maxon-support: still working... no release date yet

[Wokka]

Of coarse now I'm worried with C4D R10 out with very little for us ArchVis guys, we'll have to upgrade just to get the exchange plugin to work with ArchiCad R10 (if and when it gets released). How long has ArchiCad R10 been out now????
It's really becoming a worry with the poor support for AR, and the instability of FR2, I've been hanging out for the V-Ray bridge. If that doesn't happen soon I'll have to jump ship and try ArchiCad-Max-V-Ray.
Anyone else tried that route with suggestions. I mean it's only money;) but at least it would work!!

Cheers

[stefan]

Plugins are a blessing and a disaster: they show a nice solution for a particular problem, you start to rely on them in one version of ArchiCAD and then... you have to hope, beg, pray that they will be supported in the next ArchiCAD version. And that this company will allow a free upgrade or a cheap one.

Let's see: there was this AxisVM plugin (still only AC 6.5 and AC 7). There was EON Fastview (AC 7.0 I think). And there are many others.

FWIW, MaxonForm works with AC10. But it's Cinema4D engine is not up to date. If Graphisoft doesn't keep up, this plugin will slowly fade out again, before it had a chance to grow.

(this problem happens in all software where plugins are made by external developers... so don't rely too much on them for your everyday work)

[Anonymous]

I can't quote the source, but the architectural stuff (plug-ins and Maxonform) should be upgraded by Dec.

[Anonymous]

So I guess we are still waiting for the plugin for AC10 to C4D 9.X or 10?
(We just upgraded to AC10 and would love the plugin!!!)

[TomWaltz]

Burginger wrote:
I can't quote the source, but the architectural stuff (plug-ins and Maxonform) should be upgraded by Dec.

I thought someone from GS posted that here recently.

[stefan]

By the way, licensing the C4D Rendering engine into ArchiCAD? Maxon itself licensed the rendering engine FinalRender from Cebas to form the Advanced Render module in Cinema4D...

And I read in the review for C4D 10 that the Advanced Rendering Engine in 10 is not updated, apart from volumetric clouds being moved into this plugin. But C4D users who don't have XL, but only CORE + Advanced Render have to pay twice: upgrade of XL and upgrade of Advanced Render.

It is not easy to rely on different programs which all have a different development and release cycle: ArchiCAD, Cinema4D, MaxonForm etc...

I still believe the combination of ArchiCAD and Cinema4D is perfect (and cross-platform), but you have to be patient when one of the elements in this workflow is updated...

[Dwight]

I doubt that Graphisoft, once having decided to license LightWorks would add Maxon, but as we know, a plug-in may soon be available.

For Archicad users interested in advanced modeling and superb rendering - fantastic material creation - distributed network animation processing - the works, Cinema is great value.

Hoping to see my Cinmea 4D 10 any day.