• New XPresso – features include the ability to drag-and-drop an attribute parameter directly on to an existing node to create a new input or output port. Also the attribute manager displays a custom icon that will show if a parameter is driving other parameters or being driven by an XPresso tag. Hovering over the icon will provide information about how it is being driven. As well there is a new XPresso performance view that will let you isolate bottlenecks by giving you the ability to visualize the time it takes to calculate each node.
• Commander – gives you the ability to search in areas all of CINEMA 4D for any object, command, or button. Say for example you want to add a cube to your stage. You hit Shift-C to open commander, type in the first few letters of the word and click on the appropriate item that pops up and your cube will be dropped to the screen. This is a real time saver and works with just about anything especially those things that you do not use very often and spend a lot of time searching for by hand.
• Color options – for Lights and Nulls. What this means is that you can have your lights designated by color in your object browser so when you are trying to figure out which light is which in your scene, you can tell at a glance. This also works for Nulls as well. Just go to the basic tab and select Icon Color - for Lights is based on the light color slider and for Nulls it is based on a color picker.
• Camera Morphing – using the Morph Camera allows you to set up multiple cameras and morph between them. You just set up your cameras, select them and apply the Create->Camera->Camera Morph which will automatically setup a new camera that contains the selected cameras. You then just use the blend slider to animate between each camera, as well as reordering the morph order as well
• Filters – have been added to the Picture Viewer. These filters give you the ability to do some basic color correction right in CINEMA 4D. These corrections include things like saturation, brightness, gamma, and such but they also include Curves for overall correction as well as for each individual RGB channel. You can also save these settings as presets as well.
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