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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.



AFTER EFFECT 5 & 5.5 EXPORT plugin by MAXON

Export compositing files from Cinema 4D to Adobe's After Effect (multipass renders and 3D camera/light data).

MAC/PC - 8.1 and above - free

http://www.maxon.net/jumps/c4d_ae_e.html



XFROG Cinema4D plugin by Greenworks

Allows you to import in Cinema 4D procedural Xfrog (animated) models.

PC - 8.012 and above - free

http://www.xfrogdownloads.com/index.htm



PARTICLE ILLUSION EXPORTER by VREEL

Exports screen position of objects from Cinema 4D to Wondertouch's "Particle Illusion 2".

PC - 8.012 and above - free

http://www.vreel-3d.de/plugins/plugins.html



PFX EXPORTER by DAM-ENT

Enables you to export camera and light movement from Cinema 4D to PROMETHEAN FX (compositing particles generator) with the PrometheanFX Exchange Format v1.0.

PC - 8.012 and above - free

http://www.dam-ent.com



EPSandEX by Thomas Zeier

Cinema4D to Adobe Illustrator EPS exporter.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - free

http://plugincafe.com/cafedownloads/epsandex.zip



AMAZONE POSER IMPORTER by AmazonesCity v3

Allows you to import POSER 3, 4, 5 scenes easily in Cinema 4D 8.1. The plugin includes an OBJ importer, a Poser "MAT file" converter and a texture manager (AMATOOLS).

MAC/PC - 8.1 and above - free

http://www.amazonescity.com/download/free3dformembers/index.php



CR2 LOADER by GreenBriar Studio

Directly Import Poser PZ3, PZZ, CR2, CRZ, PP2, PPZ, HR2, HRZ files into Cinema 4D. Creates welded single mesh with accurate normals. Imports Poser skeleton and joint positions, all morphs, and all material settings. Limitation : it doesn't create a completed weight map set.

MAC/PC - 8.1 and above - $ 125

http://www.greenbriarstudio.com/3D/C4cr2load.htm



RENDERMAN RIB EXPORTER by Matt Savard (beta)

Cinema 4D to Renderman exporter. Currently, these features are available : Exporting of spot, distant and point lights with color and intensity, exporting of camera, exporting of all object types (converted to polygons before exporting), exporting of object color based on material, export specific shader details through the use of the Renderman Shader Info Tag Plugin, exporting of UV coordinates.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - free

http://savards.fuzehost.com/RibExporter.htm



TERRAGEN IMPORTER by Matt

A plugin that lets you import terragen terrains, camera, target, sun and scripts.

PC - 8.012 and above - free

http://savards.fuzehost.com/plug_detail.php?ArticleID=11



C4D2T by FutureByte

Another Terragen importer (beta version).

PC - 8.012 and above - free

http://www.future-bytes.com/index.php?action=c4d2t

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