Been modeling a whole fleet of 80s–90s everyday workhorse cars in Cinema 4D for a driving game I’m building solo — vans, boxy taxis, buses. I tweaked the phong angle to achieve crips folding lines while having the windshield smooth like paper models.

Posted it on sns and got barely any engagement compared to my old work. Honestly its pretty fucking discouraging. Has the kind of work people respond to changed or is this piece just not landing? Curious to hear your honest thoughts

Hi all, anyone see a way to create this effect using Mograph or the like? It does not need to be exact but similar with the geometry popping on and sliding around. I would also like to include the lattice work as in the example. Anyone know where Grid Array went in v.2026? This will also need to include an animated texture transition. Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone!

I'm trying to investigate something I've been noticing for years with Cinema 4D, and I'd really appreciate a quick comparison with other systems.

I'm currently using Cinema 4D 2026.4 on Windows 11 with an RTX 5090 (32 GB VRAM).

Cinema 4D allocates approximately 3.5 GB of dedicated GPU memory immediately at startup, even with a completely empty scene and no rendering running.

I've already tested it without third-party plugins, including Octane, with freshly reset preferences and with viewport effects disabled. The baseline remains around 3.3–3.4 GB.

For comparison, Octane Standalone uses approximately 500 MB before rendering.

I contacted Maxon Support, and they told me that Cinema 4D should normally use around 0.8–1.4 GB of VRAM at startup under default conditions.

I remember seeing similar behavior years ago with different GPUs and older Cinema 4D versions.

Could you check something on your system?

Launch Cinema 4D with a completely empty scene, without starting any renderer.

Wait until startup and background initialization are complete.

Open Windows Task Manager → Details and check Dedicated GPU memory for Cinema 4D.exe.

Please also share your Cinema 4D version, GPU model and total VRAM capacity.

I'm trying to figure out whether this is specific to my configuration or a more widespread behavior affecting Cinema 4D users.

Thanks a lot to anyone willing to spend a minute checking this! 🙂

I want to move the color of the base to the emission channel (and disable the base ofc)

I'm running on C4D 2026, and I know nothing about python

Hello all - TIA!

I currently have a §C4D 2025 file where the object I've created is a pill shape (spline) then I've extruded it to make a table. In the viewport the object just looks like a rectangle with no curve edges but when I action a render region via the viewport it looks what it suppose to be.

And that also goes with the Boole on the back wall, you can see in viewport it just looks like 2 rectangle on the wall with no cutting into the wall so it's not enabled in viewport. When it renders it booles out.

I wonder if I've accidentally clicked something that disabled the generators in the viewport specifically in this file?

This was my second ever animation in Cinema 4D, and the reintroduction to C4D through my university mograph class as we hadn’t used it since last year. The assignment was to make a cuckoo clock, or something equivalent.

I’m about 60% happy with how this turned out. I had a lot more stuff (additional wires, hair objects, videos on the screens, brighter lights) but I had to cut it because it was taking 30 minutes per frame to render. The university computers need their GPUs updated so Redshift ran extra slow on them. I do like how my animation turned out though, I’m especially proud of the tongue.

I had about two weeks to finish this, most of it was spent researching methods to animate my different objects though. I certainly learned a lot.

Volume Builder/Mesher for the blobs. Fields driving vertex maps into one shader for the color blending.

3D + sound by me.

为什么我的Arnold渲染总是看起来这么柔和？第一和第三张图片来自 Speak 中的 Iray 渲染器，第二和第四张来自 C4D 中的 Arnold。

Trying to make my first rig and when I bend the arm the front spikes up, it seems to be connected to the end joint at moving it brings the end backwards and forwards

i tried sweep with the l shape spline but the angel is not consistently pointed toward inner
. i can separate each spline line and make its own sweep from it but it will take ages and will complicate the project

Hei guys, so im genuinely frustrated here. I really want to go more deeply into rigging and idk how to aproach this:

When i look into the blender side - u have so many solutions and tools for rigging is crazy cool

When i look into maya side - advance skeleton and other rig solution - also really cool stuff

Then cinema…like i feel like a cave man putting together rocks

………

What you recommend? Should i go to blender for rig? Should i go to maya?

What pluggins? What solutions do you guys use?

In the past i did riggs in maya and/or unreal

I will add - i want to do full body and face riggs + blendshapes

Thanks!!

C4D Octane

With the Adobe/Artcraft cloned apps (despite their glitches for now), do we suddenly get an indie license rate (you’ve been asking for an indie rate and we listened…).

The no. 1 repository on GitHub today is an add on to ai coding agents to take any software and reverse engineer it. I would imagine it won’t be long before someone takes initiative to reverse engineer C4D/redshift/octane etc. I’m not advocating for it because at the end of the day the people doing the day to day work will lose their jobs.

Just curious to know what people think will happen.

He cut the pony

Any way to sync them?

Looking for advice on what shape I can use, I don’t want it to be too complicated but am not sure if just attaching legs to the bottom will bend the pelvis block horribly

Full project > https://convis.co/#project-handoff

It all started with a static reference of a music controller. As the project developed, a simple light strip turned into a glowing 3D waveform that lifts off the surface.

Made in Cinema 4D, rendered with Redshift. AI helped edit the scene through MCP. I set the visual direction and reviewed each iteration, while AI helped build and refine the geometry, materials, and animation.

There was some backtracking along the way. One attempt to bring the housing closer to the reference distorted the geometry, so I had to revert to an earlier version. After that, it was all about the details: toning down the secondary icons, softening the highlight on PLAY, and smoothing out the waveform’s rise and fall.

The waveform itself is an animated spline with a Sweep, so its shape and motion can be adjusted directly in the scene.

What do you think?

Why does my IPR look so grainy? And why does it run so slow? Is there any way to reduce the grain to make the image not look like a glitter bomb?

I’ve been working on this project for more than since 2020 on and off while I was learning C4D API.
It all started when I was annoyed with Octane material building manually, after that every time I’m frustrated with UX I try and find the way to elevate the workflow 😅

A week or so I figured out how RS injects Qt into native C4D UI and decided to give my Xpresso Mirror a go another time.
And… it works! It’s a headless node framework that works using Xpresso data inside the tag.
Still plugin has a long way to go, but I think community deserves a free Xpresso Node Editor alternative.

So far it mirrors the node editor data, nodes can be created, connected, repositioned and it fetches the attributes automatically. Attribute data can be changed inside the new node editor and it updates the Xpresso setup without any issues!
As for the workflow, I’m trying to use Houdini as the best way to handle node editing.

If you have any desired UX features inside the editor I’ll gladly take a note.

No AI, just pure rage from working with Xpresso.

Hi! Why doesn't the Cloner in C4D support a "Multi" mode yet, for example loading multiple objects and setting distribution weights within a only ONE Cloner, similar to the Forest Pack Multi-Cloner? It seems like something that would be very easy to implement.