Leaderboard

Good points for sure, hopefully this gives them something to improve. Derek Kirk's look at C4D fluids is ok. https://youtu.be/FmI2sllgqS8?si=_QfU_7xxUFsmlvuT

it does feel like the overall reworked unified simulation system is for small scale work and provided you have the time to let it cache, but iterating can be painful? To be honest, why would someone want to even tackle this still in C4D over Houdini? I like they are adding value into C4D but it always feels like it's just short of being useful in most situations.

I haven't tried the update yet, but I feel need to comment on the presentation... It was sooo underwhelming o_O UDIM... ok, read about that, but why not show a real-world-problem, then the new tools, then the superior final product? Jonas focused way too much on UV-Layouts, and in the end, I still have no idea what benefit I get from this tool. Faster workflow? Higher quality? I don't know. Jonas leaving the presentation was really awkward, why not choose hosts who have enough time to spare for talking to us customers? Laubwerk Assets now available in the asset browser - nice! But why show the variations in the viewport and not with a nice render? I have no idea if these assets are any good (I guess not, since it's all somewhat procedural?) Redshift now officially supports nvidia RTX5000 series. Well, then please give us at least some example benchmarks! "Render 30% faster than on a 4090" would have been really good information. Or show the interactivity boost of IPR on an 5090, to get some "ooOOOOhs" out of the audience. Redshift New OIDN update... cool, but please: zoom in and show an before/After-comparison of the Denoising quality! Give us the dirty details, in this case, they make all the difference. Redshift Portal lights updates... I mean, come on. That was changelog-material, but for the bottom part. No need to show a line on the gizmo to strech out the time until the gread liquids reveal... ... and then Noseman chooses this laggy, 1-fps-scene of a mildly irritating chocolate stream an an alien cake to introduce the world to C4D's long awaited new liquid system? After getting so much flak for the gingerbread teaser? I mean, the gingerbread-teaser's erratic particles are smoothed out, but this looks like liquid tech from the time they made Terminator 2. And then there's scene after scene after scene where we only get super simple, manual-style scenes showing some aspects of the new tech, but Noseman rushes through as if he was embarassed by the shortcomings of the new tech. And there seem to be many? There was not even a mildly complex example; performance was really sub-par (why not get Noseman a 5090 for this gig, if his 5-years-old-hardware is to blame?), no whitewater supported... and the capabilities of the tech were only described afterwards, when the viewers asked explicitly about it. So, all in all, this seemed like a very hastily thrown-together presentation of features that should have cooked some months longer. I really miss Chris Schmidt's presentation of new releases... he perfectly mixed the Wow-Factor about new possibilities with little tutorial aspects ("See? It's not even complicated to set up!") and some interesting technical insights, which made it even clearer what can and can't be done with new features. I hope they get him back for future releases. Edit: This 5-minute read is a much better presenttion of the june update than that whole 30min-Video-Stream 😕

https://support.maxon.net/hc/en-us/articles/8658038724124-Cinema-4D-2025-3-June-18-2025 jeebus... UV tool refresh. UDIMS.. texel density... they listened. hoping they continue with Laubwerk and add wind/dynamics.

yes, maxon seems very excited and confident with this release to the point where they're willing to show sneak peaks. it's a very exciting release im looking forward to(although may not be able to upgrade straight away)... both fluids coming and a uv overhaul are already big ideas... i'm loving the overhauls especially. cinema4d killing it recently and i'm there for it. also, im loving using scene nodes and excited for improvements in that area as well...

One thing that irks me with every simulation tech I have used so far: Most of the time I want to emulate the movement of something from the real world, as closely as I can. And most of the time it's endless fiddling with somewhat abstract parameters to achieve the realistic movement I know from the physical object. It really should be the other way around. Let me make my object, define it's size and weight and then let me choose from fine-tuned, well-tested presets. That's water! Or milk. Or sand. And then offer an advanced mode where I can fiddle around with advection and all the stuff 'under the hood'. But really, let me express my artistic vision through my everyday-knowledge of the real world. I don't want to study particle physics for any simple sim I do.