3DKiwi

One of the reasons for rewriting the core was to allow much quicker object handling / viewport speed. Expect to see major improvements in C4D's ability to handle lot of of objects, particles etc.

I also think that this announcement pretty much confirms R20 is the big one i.e. the new core that we've been waiting for, for a very long time. The 3 bosses will then be leaving on a high and at the end of an era and the start of another with the new Cinema 4D.

I would say it's a good thing. Hopefully we'll see a more open MAXON rather than a company that keeps their cards close to their chest.

Yeah excellent interview and I would like to think that the Cafe has played some small part in helping MAXON get to where it is today. When we started our free video tutorials online in 2004 there was virtually no one else doing free online video tutorials. (YouTube didn't start until 2005). Nigel / 3DKiwi

Yup, R20 will be out in September so think about it before parting with your money. That said if you buy R19 now along with the MSA you'll get R20 when it ships. You'll just need to renew your MSA same time next year before R21 comes out.

I would just pay someone to rig it up for you. Couple of hour job at most.

So these were no use? As for your model not lining up, the trick is to get it set up then drop the assembly under a parent null. You then orientate the null however you want. Sorry I do not have the time to be able to help you out any further apart from referring you to my 2 tutorials.

The new and much quicker core. On screen playback will be fast. Nodes everything including materials. Updated Xpresso / node system. UV toolset essentially rewritten. A new particle system to replace Thinking Particles. If it doesn't come in R20 it will come later. More modelling tool enhancements to take advantage of the rewritten modelling core.

Sort of signals that R20 is going to be a big release. And because it's going to be big they assume they can get away with a price increase as you'll all be blown away with the improvements. Modo that I use costs US $399 per year for its equivalent maintenance system so neither are cheap. Fun times ahead.

I've gone back to Photoplus 6. Sure Affinity Photo can do some clever things but a lot of the time I just want to do some basic editing of photos and the previous program is easier to work with.

New Year's day here already in New Zealand. Happy New Year to all the cafe members :) Re 50,000 members. I actually used to delete inactive members and had a modification that deleted anyone that hadn't visited the cafe in the previous 12 months if they had no forum posts. Reason being is having a large membership slows the server down and the database is much larger and can make taking database backups problematic. Had I not done this the cafe would in fact be showing over 220,000 members (Just hover over the name of a new member to see their member number). But anyway well done. It's great to see the cafe still going strong. I think 2018 is going to be an interesting year for C4D users. Hopefully R20 is the big one with the new core and I'm predicting it will be. Cheers Nigel / 3DKiwi

Very unlikely. The MAXON Blog was introduced after the mediocre R17 to buy MAXON some time until R18 and just beyond. It has served its purpose. I expect R20 to be a significant upgrade i.e. the fast new core, new UV tools, XPresso 2, material node system etc.

Thanks Isleofgough. See, I'm as equally critical of Modo as I am of Cinema 4D. What irked me was The Foundry saying "Best in class...". Some tools are but the ones you use most are not. However they have said in a video podcast that more improvements to the Bevel tool will come in time.

Much improved. The procedural modelling in Modo is a game changer. In C4D you can for example apply a non destructive edge bevel with the bevel deformer. Imagine if half the modelling operations / tools could be applied non destructively. That's what you get with Modo's procedural modelling. On top of that is Mesh Fusion, live booleans with edge filleting.

I haven't tried Modo's particles. They appear to be a an easier system to use the Thinking Particles but behind X-Particles. Some of the clicking in Modo can be done away with by customizing the tools so that they work in a similar fashion to C4D e.g. auto activate rather than having to click first in the viewport. Where it shines is polygon modelling. Wherever possible I use procedural modelling. This allows non desctructive polygon modelling with many polygon tools supported. You can then go back and for example make an extrude or inner extrude a different amount. Cloning is now possible like using C4D's clonder object although there is only limited effector support at present.

Procedural text is now possible in Modo. Procedural modelling in Modo is a long way ahead of C4D now.

Have tried out the new procedural modelling in Modo? There's now very little where C4D is ahead.

It's UV tools look to be superior to Bodypaint / C4D so that's half of Bodypaint covered. As for 3D painting does anyone still use Bodypaint?

I totally understand. I gather the guys at Houdini also talk to their user base a whole lot more than MAXON does.

Probably the same magazine that I had that got me into C4D. Think I may still have it somewhere. I've also got C4D version 5 kicking around somewhere as well.

Impressive showreel.