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A selection of Cinema 4D R8 plugins to improve your Cinema 4D experience !
For a complete list of certified plugins please visit www.plugincafe.com.
Users of Cinema 4D 6 and 7 should visit the old plugin page.



AXIS CENTER by David O'Reilly

Automatic positioning of the axis of an object or a group of objects. The most complete axis tool available.

PC - 8.012 and above - free

http://www.imashination.com/files/acenter.zip



LittleCupOfMocca by Studio Fabian

Automatic MOCCA setup for biped characters.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above + MOCCA module - free

http://www.studio-fabian.de/



FABIAN's BONE TOOLS by Studio Fabian

provides two expressions Tags : one that allows you to use a bone as a muscle and one that fixes a bone chain to the points of a spline.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - free

http://www.studio-fabian.de/



VISUAL SELECTOR by Paul Everett

Select objects by means of a graphical interface instead of scroling/searching in the object manager ! Visual Selector improves the workflow considerably, especially for animating characters.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - Euro 69

http://www.tools4d.com/



MY MATE by Paul Everett

Material preview system : render previews of layered materials on different test primitive objects and make previews of post effect filters (glow, cel shader, highlights, etc.).

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - Euro 49

http://www.tools4d.com/



SNIPER PRO by Paul Everett

An excellent "preview tool" that gives you instant feedback without having to make hundreds of test renders. Sniper pro shows a thumbnail of your final scene, with radiosity, caustic and post-effects. You can adjust the level of details, the anti-aliasing and reduce the amount of rays to optimize the preview render time. On a 2+ GHz processor, expect render time of a few seconds.

MAC/PC - 8.1 and above - Euro 69

http://www.tools4d.com/



TAG MANAGER by IdeaGraphics

Shows tags in a clearly arranged list-view. Additional features : Blur and Curve-Edit for vertex-maps and ClaudeBonet-maps, merging of selection Tags and conversion between different selection Tags.

MAC/PC - 8.1 and above - $ 49

http://c4dplugins.idea-graphics.de/TM/TM_Overview_e.php



GHOSTING POLYBONES by IdeaGraphics

Bone chains are representable as different basic objects, visible in the rendering-output. Additionally there is a ghosting function, which enables you to see motion sequences in the editor-view.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - $ 29

http://c4dplugins.idea-graphics.de/GPB/GPB_Overview_e.php



SPLONES BONDERLAND by IdeaGraphics

Splones is an Expression to stick bones to a spline or vice versa. There are some convenience functions to unfold the bone-hierachry or to make IK-Systems

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - free

http://c4dplugins.idea-graphics.de/FreePlugins.php?plugin_id=4



3D PACK by Rui Batista

3 tools : 1. "CalcSize" (calculate proportional scale and rendering output according to mesures, pixels and DPI) 2. "Align&Distribute" (non-modal "center" objects tool) 3. "PSR clipboard" (provides ten memory banks where Position, Scale and Rotation data can be stored and pasted back to any object).

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - Euro 12

http://www.ruimac.com



SPEEDISPLAY by Rui Batista

Dynamic editor display tool. Changes automatically the display mode (level of details, shading, Backface Culling, etc...) according to the distance between objects and/or the camera. It allows you, for example, to go from "box" to "wireframe" display as you zoom on an object.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - Euro 29.99

http://www.ruimac.com



FIND&REPLACE by Rui Batista

A search engine for Cinema 4D ! This utility will find, delete, rename or replace objects and materials. If you get lost in your scenes...

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - Euro 29.99

http://www.ruimac.com



SCENE MANAGER by Samir Kharchi

This workflow tool is made of a camera manager (to switch from one scene camera to another with one mouse click), a scene manager (have access to all the opened scenes) and SOEMode ("solo mode"; edit one object in a separate scene).

MAC/PC - 8.1 and above - $/Euro 49

http://www.the3ddesigner.de/index_en.html

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