We are excited to announce the release of Ornatrix Cinema 4D V4! This release brings the full 3ds Max V9 and Maya V5 feature set to Cinema 4D, together with several C4D-specific workflow improvements. Owners of any previous perpetual Ornatrix C4D license get 50 percent off the upgrade for the first month.
Features
General Cinema 4D 2026 support Native build for Apple Silicon (ARM) Macs, running natively rather than under Rosetta Switched to the CMake build system (Cinema 4D 2025.3+) All Windows and macOS installers are now digitally signed, and the macOS packages are notarized by Apple, so they install without unidentified-developer warnings Grooms New Create Groom dialog with groom thumbnails Create Groom dialog filters the list to only grooms applicable to the selected base objects Edit Guides and grooming brushes Texture and decal painting with the paint brush "Curved Extensions" option for the Grow/Shrink (Length) brush Clump modifier Interactive clump editing manipulators Clump pattern knots for braiding Merge modifier Overlapping hair overlap resolution and blending Mesh from Strands modifier Hair texture generation (hair-to-mesh projection and rasterization) Group meshing "Cap Faces" attribute for closed strand meshes Length modifier Extend strands with curved extensions Curl modifier Phase and Magnitude Randomness parameters Frizz modifier Scale Randomness option Surface Comb modifier Curved sinks Hair Warp Roots, for root warping and repositioning Pipeline Export the "groom_color" attribute to Unreal Engine Alembic Arnold translator moved to C4DtoA 4.9
Fixes
Fixed: MFS not generated for imported grooms
Fixed: Edit Guides manipulator works incorrectly for rotation and scale
Fixed: The Strand Filter modifier doesn't appear in the Ornatrix menu
Fixed: Warp modifier performance
Fixed: Strands do not follow the deformations of a rigged character
Fixed: Clumper: Clump Patterns issue
Fixed: Clumper: Create Clump and Dynamic Clump issue
Fixed: Clump Manipulators: Edit Position
Fixed: Clump Manipulators: the knots disappear
Fixed: Paint Color after Texture projection issue
Fixed: Flood Channel button in painting
Fixed: Texture Directory issue
Fixed: Wrong render results on bucket rendering
Fixed: Occasional Drawport crash
Fixed: Ground Strands breaks spline-sourced hair shape after scene reload
Fixed: Surface Comb sinks from an imported groom are lost when the scene is saved and reloaded
Fixed: Licensing dialog cannot get an online license when the server address is "ephere.com"
