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Perhaps the most significant change is the integration of GPU-accelerated soft bodies and cloth. Unlike legacy systems, the new unified simulation framework allows particles, cloth, and soft bodies to interact seamlessly. You can now drape cloth over a deforming character or have soft bodies collide with pyro simulations without complex workarounds.
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Maxon's updates for early 2024 brought significant performance leaps and workflow refinements, centering on Cinema 4D 2024.2 and Redshift 3.5.24. These releases solidified the Unified Simulation System and expanded hardware support for high-end rendering. Cinema 4D 2024.2: Simulation & Node Refinement maxon cinema 4d studio 20242 redshift 3524 new
Released in December 2023, this update focused on making complex simulations more art-directable and accessible.
Deforming Emission for Pyro: You can now use deforming surfaces, like a waving flag or moving character, as direct emission sources for Pyro smoke and fire.
Rigid Body Enhancements: Rigid bodies now support scaling when animated by effectors. New deactivation parameters allow you to set specific sleep thresholds, ensuring objects only move when they should.
Procedural Modeling Nodes: New Symmetry, Thicken, and Resample Spline nodes were added to the node graph to streamline complex geometry creation. Perhaps the most significant change is the integration
Key Reducer: A new tool for animators that cleans up dense motion-capture data by reducing keyframes while maintaining the original curve shape. Redshift 3.5.24: Power for Apple & Workflow Speed
The February 2024 update to Redshift primarily targeted hardware acceleration and cross-app stability.
Apple M3 Ray Tracing: Native support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Apple’s M3 processors was introduced, offering substantial performance enhancements for Mac users.
Substance Integration: Improved workflow allows users to drag and drop .sbsar files directly into the Node Editor to create Redshift materials. (Invoking related search suggestions
Performance Fixes: Significant improvements were made to RSLights in the viewport and scene scanning for faster render starts.
Material Overrides: Artists can now override only surface attributes (like color) on scene objects without affecting their existing bump or displacement maps. System Requirements Note
Starting with these 2024 versions, Maxon requires CPUs that support the AVX2 instruction set (typically Intel CPUs from 2013 and AMD from 2015 onwards) to run the software.
Are you planning to upgrade your hardware specifically to take advantage of the new M3 acceleration or the simulation speed boosts? Cinema 4D 2024.2 - Knowledge Base
Hard-surface modelers will rejoice: the new Pattern Selection tool allows users to select edge loops, polygon islands, or point clusters based on mathematical repetition (grids, radial arrays, or custom volumes). This is integrated with Redshift’s render view, meaning you can preview procedural masks on high-poly geometry without applying material tags first.
The Node Editor now shows real-time Redshift material previews on connected nodes, even while the scene is animating. This is powered by Redshift’s new lightweight preview renderer.
