SERVICE PACK UPDATE 24.111 FOR CINEMA 4D

New Improvements in This Release

This update is highly recommended for all R24 users.

Improvements to the Scatter Pen
GPU support was added in Windows to Magic Bullet Looks for the Viewport and Viewport Renderer

ANIMATION

Fixed an issue with copying and pasting selected keyframes between different objects within the Timeline
Fixed an issue with maintaining an object's trajectory when using the Tween tool
Fixed an undo issue with the Update command within the various Selection tags
Fixed an issue with the Tween tool not creating all keyframes when applied after executing the Revert to Saved Project command

BODYPAINT 3D

Fixed an issue with a redundant warning that was displayed when opening a file while in the BP 3D - UV Edit layout
Fixed a stability issue with BodyPaint 3D
Fixed an issue with the Add Multi Channel Preset command not loading additional channels

C++ API

Fixed an issue in the node API where the function ListAllNodes could not compare the right values
Fixed an issue with memory used by the Instance object

CHARACTER ANIMATION

Fixed an issue with the Thumbnail View of the Pose Library Browser where the individual thumbnail previews were displayed in black

CONTENT BROWSER

Fixed an issue with a variety of Scene Nodes that were available in the Material mode of the Node Editor
Fixed an issue with saving file assets as a new version
Fixed an issue with an incorrect Primitive Type when adding a Primitive Op Node from the Asset Browser to the Node Editor
Fixed an issue with the Reveal in Browser command when the preview size within the Asset list is set to Grid View
Fixed an issue with the XRef object in the Object Manager incorrectly showing the string of a referenced asset
Fixed an issue with the string "Object" within the Category section of the Asset Browser
Fixed an issue with the Instance object where the Swap with Reference function was available in Multi-Instance mode
Fixed an issue with the appearance of already downloaded assets after using the Clear Downloaded command
Fixed an issue with the multi-language support of the Scene database within the Create Smart Search dialog window
Fixed an issue with redundant dotted lines within the Create Smart Search dialog window
Fixed an issue with the asset preview in the Asset Browser when importing several 3D formats

DEFORMER

Fixed an issue with disabling the Bevel Deformer when assigned to a high-poly object

EXCHANGE

Fixed an issue with imported Alembic files being interpreted with geometry glitches
Fixed an issue with Camera Mapping when projecting the texture from an Alembic camera onto an object
Fixed a performance issue with the FBX file format when closing an active project
Fixed an issue with the selection of the material formats of the USD export options in the preferences
Fixed an issue with not being able to remove the material tag from imported USD files
Fixed an issue with the OBJ export where textures were not consolidated
Fixed an issue with the IGES Curve object that caused an incorrect file structure when saved
Fixed a stability issue with the XRef legacy object when adding a USD file as a reference scene
Fixed a stability issue with the USD format when closing Cinema 4D
Fixed an issue with the opacity of the Uber material when exporting to USD format
Fixed a stability issue with the USD format when closing Cinema 4D
Fixed an issue with the splash screen that always appeared when executing the Open Project command
Fixed a compatibility issue with 3ds Max 2022
Fixed a compatibility issue with Maya 2022

HAIR

Fixed an issue with the dynamics of the Hair object not being initialized correctly when loading the scene file

INTERFACE

Fixed an issue with the GeDialog::InitValues() not being called for dialogs that were docked, collapsed and part of a layout
Fixed an issue with an enabled pick session that could no longer be disabled by pressing the corresponding arrow icon in the Attribute Manager
Fixed an issue with not being able to make a selection when entering a pick session
Fixed an issue with the user interface when selecting the Arabic language
Fixed an issue with the PRS order within the Transform settings of several MoGraph objects
Fixed an issue with the view panel where parts were cut off when resized in multiple Viewport display mode
Fixed an issue with moving a HUD element when the Control-Click for Right-Click option was enabled in the preferences
Fixed an issue with offset text within the bubble help of the Color Chooser

INSTALLER

Fixed an issue with the warning dialog when installing into an existing folder of an older version of Cinema 4D

LICENSING

Fixed a performance issue with the Export Licensing Overview command
Fixed an issue with the demo version not being accessible when the Lite license was activated
Fixed an issue with licensing and Cinema 4D Lite

MATERIAL MANAGER

Fixed an issue with the Material Manager being closed when a color value was dragged onto it

MODELING

Fixed an issue with the Polygon Reduction Generator when created and run with a script
Fixed an issue with the Polygon Reduction Generator not being able to change its Reduction Strength when it was subordinate to the LOD object
Fixed an issue with the Polygon Reduction Generator interfering with each other when used multiple times within a scene
Fixed an issue with the Polygon Reduction Generator when enabling the X-Ray option
Fixed an issue with the appearance of the Legacy Polygon Reduction Generator within the Customize Commands manager
Fixed an issue with the Polygon Reduction Generator's Reduction Strength setting ignoring hidden polygons when reducing them
Fixed an issue with the Polygon Reduction Generator disappearing during the polygon reduction process
Fixed an issue with the Polygon Reduction Generator not updating the visibility of the Child objects when they were made invisible in the Viewport
Fixed an issue with the Polygon Reduction Generator not rendering with the Physical Renderer in the Viewport when subordinated to the Particle Emitter object
Fixed an issue with the Polygon Reduction Generator when a small scaled polygon object was subordinated to it and its coordinates were changed in the Viewport
Fixed a performance issue with the Polygon Reduction Generator once a Cloner object was assigned and its Viewport mode was changed
Fixed an issue with the Polygon Reduction Generator not rendering with the Physical Renderer when it was a child of a generator object
Fixed an issue with the availability of the Boundary Reduction Angle option of the Polygon Reduction Generator
Fixed an issue with the Connect object not converting Spline objects correctly when they were child of a Cloner object
Fixed an issue with the Move, Rotate and Scale tools when drawing a selection in the Viewport by pressing the right mouse button
Fixed an issue with the selection of Spline objects in the Viewport
Fixed a stability issue with the Stitch and Sew tool
Fixed an issue with the Bevel deformer that caused an assigned Platonic object set to Bucky to disappear
Fixed an issue with the options of the Close Polygon Hole tool not being able to be adjusted after use
Fixed a stability issue with scene files containing the Tube or Cone object
Fixed an issue with the Spline object not being displayed in the Viewport when Model mode was enabled
Fixed an issue with the Spline Pen where the drawn Spline objects became invisible in the Viewport
Fixed an issue with the obsolete OpenSubdiv Catmull-Clark (Adaptive) type of the Subdivision Surface object
Fixed an issue with the Normal Move tool where selected surfaces were not moved correctly
Fixed a typo within the Lathe object's resource file
Fixed an issue with an existing edge selection being destroyed when using the Optimize function
Fixed an issue with an incorrect Viewport display of the Vertex Color tag in Polygon Points mode
Fixed an issue with the Instance object when switching from Multi-Instances to Render Instances using the Bounding Box Viewport mode
Fixed an issue with the Subdivisions setting of the Cloth Surface hiding selected edges
Fixed an issue with the UV mapping of the Extrude object's caps surfaces when the Caps Type is set to Regular Grid
Fixed an issue with the Extrude object when extruding a multi-segmented spline object
Fixed a stability issue on Windows when opening projects that contain the Voronoi Fracture object
Fixed an issue with the Connect Objects and Connect Objects + Delete commands when applied only to the top hierarchy level
Fixed an issue with the scaling of point coordinates within the World Coordinate System
Fixed an issue with selecting Spline objects in the Viewport that could not be automatically added to the list during a pick session

MOGRAPH

Fixed a performance issue with the Voronoi Fracture object
Fixed a stability issue with the Voronoi Fracture object
Fixed an issue with the Python modification layer's Open Python Editor command loading an empty Expression editor
Fixed an issue with the Commandline Renderer that caused different rendering results compared to the rendering in the Picture Viewer
Fixed an issue with the Boole object not processing the Normal tags of its Child objects
Fixed an issue with the MoSpline object not processing multiple Spline objects that are hierarchically arranged under a Connect object
Fixed an issue with excluded particle modifiers still affecting the MoSpline object
Fixed an issue with the Shader effector not working when the applied texture is projected with Camera Mapping
Fixed an issue with the MoSpline object not emulating all grouped spline objects of a Connect object as its Source Spline
Fixed an issue with Multi-Instances being used with the Particle Emitter object
Fixed an issue with the topology of the Sweep object containing a MoSpline object scaled to zero
Fixed an issue with the point display of multiple selected Voronoi Fracture objects
Fixed a refresh issue with the MoGraph Weightmap and the Viewport

MOVES BY MAXON

Fixed an issue with the UVs of the Face Capture object
Fixed a stability issue with Moves by Maxon

NODE EDITOR

Fixed an issue with folded ports still trying to connect in the Node view
Fixed a refresh issue with the Node Editor when enabling/disabling the Error option within the Node Editor preferences
Fixed an issue with the Node Editor's mode when removing an activated Node material
Fixed an issue with the Node material where a minimized Node Editor window would not open when double-clicking on it

NODES

Fixed a stability issue with the Scene Manager when adding an asset from the Asset Browser to an existing stack
Fixed an issue with interactively applying the Move and Scale tools to a Scene Node object in the Viewport
Fixed an issue with the output of the Polygon Index and the Edge Index of the Closest Point node
Fixed an issue with deleting unused nodes in the Node Editor which resulted in an incorrect node graph and aborted scene evaluation
Fixed an issue with the behavior of the Linear Transformed node's Scale Step value
Fixed an issue with the Matrix Op node where changing its size directly in the Attribute Manager input fields affected the size and rotation of the axis directions
Fixed a performance issue with the output of the Distance node constantly calculating the distance between the positions when the Port Inspector was enabled
Fixed an issue with not being able to drag and drop an asset from the Asset Browser to the Scene Manager when it was docked to the layout
Fixed a stability issue with the Console Out node caused by a corrupted connection to the Scene Root node
Fixed an issue with the Gravity setting of the Rain node that caused the force to work in the wrong direction
Fixed an issue with the Avoid Self Intersections option of the Extrude Line node being available when used with a Solid shaped transition
Fixed an issue with the Live Selection tool's selection brush when used on Scene Node objects in the Viewport
Fixed a stability issue with the Outlines input of the Lines Topology Set node
Fixed a stability issue with the Loft Line node and its Start Cap and End Cap options when used with a Solid shaped transition
Fixed a performance issue with the Start Cap and End Cap options of the Sweep Line node
Fixed an issue with the Viewport's Frame Geometry function not being applied to Scene Nodes
Fixed a performance issue with the Console Out node when output information is generated to the console
Fixed an issue with the Color Op and Blend Color Op nodes not coloring when connected to a Children Op node
Fixed an issue with the texture projection and the Scene Nodes' Display settings
Fixed an issue with the Material Manager's Delete Unused Materials command deleting materials assigned to a Material Op node
Fixed an issue with a redundant Output tab of the Trefoil and Trigonometry nodes
Fixed an issue with the Transform Matrices node producing an error when being dropped onto an existing wire
Fixed an issue with an incorrect file structure when opening Scene Node files created with a prior version
Fixed an issue with the Vertex node generating an incorrect output as soon as the Align option is enabled
Fixed an issue with the Surface Fill node where the Voxel Group Offset setting caused a dense distribution
Fixed an issue with connections not being made in the Node Editor when using the context menu in the Attribute Manager
Fixed a stability issue with the Loop Carried Value node when the Operation mode of an implemented Aggregate node was changed from Average to Min
Fixed an issue with the Cloner node where the cloner objects disappeared from the Viewport
Fixed an issue with the Distribution Op node when the Bypass option is enabled in the Scene Manager
Fixed an issue with invalid connections being made to the Op Output of several Op nodes
Fixed a stability issue with the Replace Node function in the Attribute Manager's context menu of the Cloner node
Fixed a performance issue with the Port Inspector when displaying the values of some output ports
Fixed an issue with the Align option of the Standard Particles Distribution Op node
Fixed an issue with the Group Nodes command when applied to specific nodes
Fixed an issue with the Linear Transformed node where the Scale Step setting resulted in inverted scaling steps
Fixed a stability issue with the Material Op node when it contains a Node material
Fixed an issue with the Geometry Modifier Group node not being able to be dragged onto an existing connection
Fixed a refresh issue with the Node Editor's Edit Asset window
Fixed an issue with the Align option of the Standard Particles node affecting the particle size
Fixed an issue with the Range node not being available anymore
Fixed an issue with the Concatenate String node not being able to be dragged onto an existing connection
Fixed an issue with the Distribution input of the Cloner node
Fixed an issue with the Surface Fill Distribution Op node where the clones jumped when the assigned surface was growing
Fixed an issue with folding the top level hierarchy within the Scene Manager
Fixed an issue with the Cloner node where the Distribution input within the Scene Manager was misspelled
Fixed an issue with the Scene Manager's Stack Folding not working when the parent stack was folded
Fixed an issue with the transformation of the Primitive Op nodes when connected to the Geometry Property Interpolate node
Fixed a stability issue with the Iterate Collection node when selecting the Data Inspector in the Outer Scope output
Fixed an issue with the Geometry Modifier Group node and the Selection Modifier Group node not using the correct default icon when converted to an asset
Fixed an issue with selecting multiple entries in the Scene Manager while holding down the Ctrl key
Fixed an issue with the multiple selection of bookmarked icons in the Scene Manager
Fixed an issue with the Scene Manager stack when dragging and dropping the elements to change their order
Fixed an issue with an unresponsive Node Editor and Scene Manager when changing a running animation
Fixed an issue with the output of the Arithmetic node when copying the node and changing its data type
Fixed a performance issue with the Primitive Op node that occurred when opening the context menu of the connector icon in the coordinates rubric of the Attribute Manager
Fixed an issue with the Viewport output of several animated node scenes
Fixed an issue with the Switch node where an incorrect value was applied when it was copied and the Data Type was changed
Fixed a stability issue with the Material Parametrization node when dragging it to the Node Editor
Fixed an issue with the Extrude node when the Use Islands option is enabled

OBJECTS

Fixed an issue with the spline shape of the Helix object

ONLINE UPDATER

Fixed an issue with the Install Language function not displaying detailed version information for each available language
Fixed an issue with the Install Language function restarting with the system language instead of the selected default language
Fixed an issue with the Install Language function where it was not possible to install a language when the installation process was previously cancelled

OTHER

Fixed an issue with the Add Objects to Database command not being able to add selected objects to a newly created database
Fixed a stability issue with resolving an assetdb url with Url::IoNormalize()
Fixed a stability issue with certain combinations of displacement and render instances
Fixed an issue with the Match Case option of the Naming tool
Fixed an issue with Multi-Passes not being rendered correctly in After Effects
Fixed an issue with the Cinema 4D version number being set incorrectly in the corresponding .plist file on macOS

PICTURE VIEWER

Fixed a refresh issue with the Send to Magic Bullet Looks command where changes were not applied to the rendered image in the Picture Viewer
Fixed an issue with the MBL Raw Multi-Pass not being used correctly when sending the current Viewport display to Magic Bullet Looks

PROJECT ASSET INSPECTOR

Fixed a stability issue with the Project Asset Inspector that occurred when performing undo and redo of the Delete Asset command
Fixed an issue with the Consolidate Assets command when applied to assets from the Asset Browser
Fixed a performance issue with the Project Asset Inspector when loading a large number of textures
Fixed an issue with the Project Asset Inspector where dragging assets to another manager was not possible

PYTHON

Fixed an issue with the modeling command MCOMMAND_MIRROR not duplicating polygons
Fixed an issue with a non-descriptive SystemError being returned when a node space with a user-specified ID did not exist
Fixed an issue with CPyBaseList2D_GetNimbusRef not returning None when a namespace was not found
Fixed an issue with parentid and sortid parameters when using RegisterPreferencePlugin in python
Fixed an issue with SymbolCache not being updated after modifying the resource files
Fixed an issue with GetFilename not returning the full path
Fixed an issue with the console character limit which is now extended to 120000 characters per print
Fixed an issue with BAKE_TEX_AO_VERTEXMAPS not being supported by the Bake Texture function
Fixed an issue with the console not handling pairs of carriage return and new line characters properly
Fixed an issue with an error returned by InitBakeTexture
Fixed an issue with the default value of the SearchPluginMenuResource's parameter
Fixed an issue with CCurve.GetTangents's arguments
Fixed a stability issue with the default argument for GetAllAssetsNew

RENDERER

Fixed an issue with Render Presets that caused the first render preset to be activated by default when deleting one of multiple presets
Fixed an issue with the Magic Bullet Looks' Pop tool where the color was repeated at the image boundary
Fixed a stability issue with enabling the Magic Bullet Looks option when applied directly in the Viewport
Fixed an issue with Magic Bullet Looks' Pop tool producing different results in the Viewport and Picture Viewer when negative Pop values were applied
Fixed an issue with Magic Bullet Looks when it was subsequently applied to a rendered animation in the Picture Viewer
Fixed an issue with the Magic Bullet Looks option in the Render Settings could not be activated for existing scenes
Fixed an issue with the plugin paths not being set for the Command Line Renderer

SCENE LAYOUT TOOLS

Fixed an issue with the default Seed value of the Scatter Pen
Fixed an issue with the Scatter Pen when its frequency was changed in the Object Palette
Fixed an issue with the user interface of the Scatter Pen in the Attribute Manager
Fixed an issue with the radius option of the Scatter Pen not affecting the scattered object when scaled interactively in the Viewport
Fixed an issue with a moved Scatter object jumping back to its position once the Scatter Pen painted with that object
Fixed an issue with the Place tool that prevented the Interactive Render Region from being placed and scaled in the Viewport
Fixed an issue with the axis of the Scatter object when it was made editable
Fixed an issue with the Place tool that affected the Camera object's pick session when defining the focus distance
Fixed an issue with the scaling handle of the Place tool that moved away when scaling elements interactively in the Viewport
Fixed an issue with the Place tool where XRef objects could not be scaled
Fixed an issue with the Place tool when interactively scaling elements in the Viewport
Fixed an undo issue with the Place tool where the bounding box remained in the Viewport
Fixed an issue with a redundant bounding box appearing in the Viewport when the Dynamic Place tool was selected
Fixed an issue with the Dynamic Place tool not supporting multiple objects when using the Cappuccino tool
Fixed an issue with the Viewport's Multi-Select Axes option not working with the Dynamic Place tool
Fixed an issue with the Place tool where the handles in the Viewport disappeared once the Texture UV Editor was opened
Fixed an issue with the Place tool when duplicating selected elements with the Cmd/Ctrl key
Fixed a performance issue with the Place tool when using the Move tool within the Texture UV Editor
Fixed a stability issue with the Dynamic Place tool and the Render to Picture Viewer command
Fixed an issue with the Place tool when used with a custom startup layout

SCULPTING

Fixed a stability issue with the Sculpting tools and the Texture UV Editor

TAKE SYSTEM

Fixed a refresh issue with hierarchical changes made to Takes within the Take Manager

TEXTURE BAKING

Fixed an issue with the Single Texture option of the Bake Object command

TIMELINE

Fixed an issue with the track properties when defining the different track animations that caused the last keyframe to get stuck
Fixed an issue with the Spline to Position Track command inaccurately converting the different spline types to animation paths
Fixed a performance issue with the Timeline when the Show Tracks command was applied to a large number of tracks
Fixed an issue with copying and pasting tracks in F-Curve mode

USER PARTICIPATION

Fixed an issue with the Web Data window in preferences where the Maxon logo was not updated

UV TOOLS

Fixed an issue with the Revert to Saved Project command generating a redundant warning message due to a texture loaded in the Texture UV Editor
Fixed an issue with UV visualization when using the Show UV Display command
Fixed an issue with the Texture UV Editor where selected edges were highlighted incorrectly
Fixed a performance issue with assigning Multi-Color Islands when the UV Mesh option is enabled
Fixed a performance issue with the Texture UV Editor when selecting UV polygons

VIEWPORT

Fixed a performance issue with the Viewport preview of the Spline Pen
Fixed an issue with the Sel.: Bounding Box option being disabled in the preferences but still displayed in the Viewport for selected Spline objects
Fixed a performance issue with the range indicator of the Spline Sketch tool when drawing in the Viewport
Fixed a stability issue with the Viewport Renderer when rendering in the Picture Viewer
Fixed a stability issue with the Viewport when playing an animation
Fixed an issue with the Measure & Construction tool not being displayed when rendered with the Viewport Renderer
Fixed an issue with the Viewport when importing the FBX file format
Fixed an issue with the Fur object when the object's origin was moved outside the visibility of the Viewport
Fixed an issue with the Bounding Box Viewport mode of the Cloner Object when used in Multi-Instance mode
Fixed an issue with the preview of the Mirror tool in the Viewport when used in the Screen coordinate system
Fixed an issue with the preview of the Cross-Section tool in the Viewport
Fixed an issue with memory allocation of the ShaderCache
Fixed an issue with green reflections in the Viewport on the Apple M1
Fixed a stability issue with the Texture UV Editor when using the UV Map command
Fixed a stability issue with the Spline Pen and the Spline Arc tool when being used in the Viewport
Fixed a performance issue with toggling the active view in multiple Viewport display mode
Fixed a performance issue with the Spline Pen when the mouse pointer was moved over a spline section in the Viewport while holding down the Ctrl/Cmd key
Fixed an issue with the Spline Pen where the corresponding segment was not highlighted when the mouse cursor hovered over it in the Viewport
Fixed a performance issue with the Spline Smooth tool that occurred when moving over spline segments with a large radius
Fixed a stability issue with the Texture UV Editor when loading an existing texture from the Texture view's File menu
Fixed an issue with the Viewport when using Backface Culling in Box display mode
Fixed an issue with an undefined Supersampling parameter in the Attribute Manager that occurred especially with existing scenes
Fixed an issue with the Move tool when used on Spline objects in the Viewport
Fixed an issue with the Live Selection brush where the selection in the Viewport was delayed when the radius was set to a value less than or equal to 1
Fixed a stability issue with the Viewport when the Maximum Transparency was set to a high value
Fixed a performance issue with the Live Selection brush when used with a large radius value
Fixed an issue with the Viewport display when the Magic Bullet Looks and Stereoscopic options were applied at the same time
Fixed a performance issue with the Texture UV Editor when changing the Shading settings

VOLUMES

Fixed an issue with the UI icons of the Vector Filters in the Object Manager and the Volume Builder
Fixed an issue with the redundant X-Ray option of the Volume Loader
Fixed an issue with the Volume Builder's Auto Update Settings option when using with a Cache Layer
Fixed an issue with the Volume Builder cache layer where a cached simulation did not match the original one
Fixed an issue with the Volume Builder where unassigned Field objects influenced the volume
Fixed and issue with the Volume Mesh command being applied to child objects of the Volume Builder
Fixed an issue with the Volume Builder when displaying Isoparm lines in the Viewport
Fixed an issue with the Volume Builder when a volume was built from Spline objects and deformed by forces as a Soft Body
Fixed an issue with the Basic properties of the Volume Builder where a redundant X-Ray option was available

XPRESSO

Fixed a stability issue with the FloatFunc Operator node that occurred when the Sqrt function used negative values