Günter Nikodim

Characters and rigging are also the areas that I'm mostly interested in. So I fully agree with all your points... oh how I wish Xpresso was faster and would use the new node UI... Anyway, even though these areas seemingly weren't touched, with character rigs of medium complexity I roughly got a speedup of 30%. That's what I meant with almost everyone will benefit from these core speedups. I still wish for more optimization and performance, but it's certainly a lot better than it used to be.

I am neither offended, nor do I think Maxon should get "anything less than full blown adoration". Quite the contrary, I've been criticizing Maxon on countless occasions. I just think this is a quite extensive release that offers substantial improvements in many areas. Just my personal opinion, of course.

These are the kind of comments that I honestly don't understand. Have you even tried the release for a minute? The performance gain is something the whole community has been asking for for the last 10 years and now almost every use case benefits from it. Finally the new core shines through... and your conclusion is "nothing groundbreaking"? I also don't know how one could come to the conclusion that Maxon concentrates more on ZBrush than Cinema. C4D just got a massive update in this fall release, ZBrush didn't.

Here is the most extreme performance gain that I found during testing: 1 fps in 2023 vs. 49 fps in 2024! This is not the usual performance boost and certainly a crazy example, but there is a noticable speed increase in almost every scene. 2024performance.mp4