Cinema 4D R18 announced

• Voronoi Fracture Object – a native feature in the MoGraph toolset in Cinema 4D that works with Dynamics, allowing users to tear down walls and create artistic procedural geometry using spline or polygon objects to define the fractured shape.
• Interactive Knife Tools – enable users to draw lines across a model and tweak the cut with an interactive preview, then lock in new edges or split based on the cut; knife tools are available as separate commands for easy access to the desired mode via shortcut or Commander.
• Object Motion Tracking – new tools to give artists accessibility to dynamic VFX and visualization workflows with expanded tools for integrating Cinema 4D creations into real-world footage.
• Shaders and Surface Effects – offers advanced rendering possibilities for creating iridescent surfaces such as bubbles and oil slicks, for capturing shadows for more efficient compositing, parallax mapping for enhanced bump effects, and creating masks for worn edges using inverse ambient occlusion.
• Substance Engine Integration – Download compiled Allegorithmic Substances and use them to surface your Cinema 4D objects. This fully-integrated implementation offers outstanding workflow and flexibility, plus options to cache Substances on disk for better performance.

R18 is due for release in September 2016. To find out more, watch a “what’s new” promo video on YouTube or read more about the release on Maxon’s website.