New Features In 1.6

Physics

The Bullet Physics Engine has been added to 4D Publish.

Add a tag to make an object get simulated by the engine
Animate objects manually by disabling Dynamics but still collide with objects.
Set an initial linear and angular velocity for objects
Enable objects during an animation.
Includes support for the Array Object.

Sculpt Projection Brush

A new Sculpting Brush has been added to that lets your project your sculpt object down onto an underlying object under the model. By adding a Cloth Collider Tag to any object, you can then use that object with the brush to project your detail onto. This allows you, as an example, to place a sphere where the eye of a character would be and then project the sculpting onto the sphere to create its shape for the eye

Material View

Sculpting Section

Fill Sculpt Layer Max: Copy the offset data from the current active sculpting layer and apply it the selected layer (or layer mask) as an intensity map from 0 to 1.
Fill Sculpt Mask: Copys the mask from the currently active sculpting layer and applies it to the selected layer (or layer mask).

Right Click on Layers

Delete All Same Named Layers
Delete Single Layer
Show Layer Manager

Right Click in Material Tab

Show Layer Manager
Show Color Settings

Material View Bug Fixes

Creating Displacement Map Channel now creates a 8bit RGB image instead of an 8bit Grey Scale.
Fill Commands: These now work only on the currently selected channel in the Material View.

Content View

Increased the thumbnail resolution for images to 512x512

Octane

Added Undo/Redo update support in the Live View when painting.

Draw Objects

A tool has been added to allow you to quickly draw in many of the procedural primitives directly into your scene. With an easy to use multi click and drag approach you can easily create a quick scene using many of the c4d primitives

Paint Brush

Now respects the Mask on a Sculpted Object. It will not paint where there is a mask.
Now respects hidden polygons.
Stencil Tab now has a command "Set From Canvas". This will set the stencil to be exactly the same as the Canvas that is displayed in the Viewport. A canvas can be used to overlay an image which is useful when sculpting. But previously you would have to recreate the image again in using the Stencil Tab, this new option will make the Stencil be the same as the Canvas, you can then remove the canvas it self and use the Paint Brush to apply the texture.

Speed Increases

Many parts of the painting pipeline have now been optimized and multithreaded. This leads to smoother, faster brushes that are able to work on higher bitmap resolutions and with more layers.

Undo/Redo

Due to a stability issue we had to remove the Undo/Redo for changing the selected layer.

Team Render Client Support

You can now use 4D Publish on all your Team Render Clients. No additional licences required.

VR Viewer

Preview Window

The preview window is now 640x640 and only displays the image for the left eye.

Controller 1: Inspect Objects

Use your trigger finger to inspect objects in the scene. Just point at the object and press the trigger button to grab the object and see it on the end of the controller. You can then rotate it around to look at your object. When your finished just click the trigger button again to put it back where you got it from.

Controller 2: Teleporting

You can now teleport around your scene. Just point your controller where you want to be standing and then press the trigger button. You will instantly be taken to that location.

Bug Fixes

Fixed the overblown specular hightlights
Fixed the problems with your starting height based on the location of the figure object.

Animation Support

The VR viewer is now synced to the animation play back in Cinema 4D. It respects object scale, rotation and position of objects as well as animated objects such as those with deformers as well as skinned characters.

Tool System

A new tool activation system has been added to the VR Viewer. In Cinema 4D you can now apply tags to specify objects as tools or commands in Cinema 4D. This allows you to have a button in VR to start/stop the animation play back in C4D itself.

You can also apply tools to shapes on a canvas, which you can then apply to any object in your scene. By clicking on the shapes in VR it will activate the tools or commands. In this case imagine a wall with a giant "Play" button that you can fire at to start the play back of the animation in your scene.