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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.



BETTER BOOLE by MAXON

Improves Cinema 4D's boolean operations : cleaner cut and less triangles. Finally boolean objects can be used as modeling tools !

MAC/PC - 8.1 and above (beta version) - free

ftp://ftp.maxon.de/pub/r8/more/boole.zip



DITOOLS 0.892 by Remotion

Ditools is an amazing collection of plugins. It includes deformers (DiShaper, DiParser, VMD Deformer, Tessa), generators (DiCloner, Displingen), a parametric object generator, shaders (number, fractal, DiColor), Post FX, Xpresso operators, and much more. Visit also the DiTools forum at www.rendern.net.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - free

http://www.rendern.net/users/remotion/download1.html



DITOOLS 1.0 by Remotion

The commercial version of DiTools. The list of plugins is endless: DiCloner+, DiShaper+, Di Tessa, DiParametric, DiIsoSurface, DiPolygen, DiSplinegen, DiContour, DiParserDeformer, DiVMDeformer, DiParserSpline, DiXspline, DiProjector, DiSplineDeformer, DiNurbsDeformer, DiIsoCloner, DiSimplySpline, Placement Painting, DiText Shader, Di ThermoShader, DiColor, Fractal Shader, Vertex Blender Shader, VertexMap Shader, DiSpDraw FX, etc, etc... Ditools 1.0 opens endless possibilities... a real creativity booster! Check Ditools' gallery, to see what it can do...

MAC/PC - 8.2 and above - Euro 60

http://www.rendern.net/users/remotion/plugins1.html



NOISE DEFORMER by Michael Welter

Noise deformation object (turbulence, noise and FBM). Can be animated.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - free

http://www.welter-4d.de/plugins.html



PLANAR by Michael Welter

Four commands to: project polygons to a contruction plane, flatten polygons, calculate average normals and set uvw coordinates for using a flat texture projection.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - free

http://www.welter-4d.de/plugins.html



FIZZ by David O'Reilly

FIZZ provides particles/particles and particles/polygons collision detection. Simple and effective! A great tool to make elaborate particles animations.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - free

http://www.bonkers.de/download/fizz_131f.zip



MAKE THICKER by Yoshiaki Imaizumi

A thickening plugin with "Maximum", "Offset" and "smooth shift" settings.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - free

http://home7.highway.ne.jp/winter-m/plugin.html



IRON 2 by Samir Kharchi

Iron 2 smooths selected points. It can be used as a tool or a deformer.

MAC/PC - 8.1 and above - free

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



SQUASH by Andi Platen

Keeps the volume of object when you scale them.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - free

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



JULIENNE by Per-Anders Edwards

Slices up polygon objects or polygon selections in either the X, Y or Z direction.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - free

http://www.peranders.com/c4d8/library/Plugins/Julienne.zip



DP INSTANT TREE by Samir Kharchi

The ultimate parametric tree generator plugin. DPIT allows Cinema 4D users to create natural and realistic looking trees directly in Cinema 4D. DPIT is able to generate thousands of different types of trees that you can directly use and animate in Cinema 4D.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - Euro 99

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



DEEPCUTLINER by Samir Kharchi

DeepCutLiner is an advanced edge cut tool (DeepCut) and a point edge slider tool (DeepLiner) that enables to interactively and precisely cut edges or move points along their corresponding edge.

MAC/PC - 8.1 and above - Euro 39

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



DPACK COMPLETE by Samir Kharchi

15 modeling/workflow/special effect plugins : DPProjectPolygon (project polygons on objects, for example a sheet on a character), DPNoiseAdder (noise post filter), Autosaver PRO, DPRotations, Tool Changer, ObjectLibrary, DPMatrixExtrude (an non-modal interactive matrix extruder), DPDublicate (a clone generator with spline curves control), SplineDrawMore (draw Splines or almost any other object on the surface of other objects), etc....

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - Euro 90

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



EYELASHER 3 by Samir Kharchi

Eyelasher will help you to create, well... eyelashes ! But you can do many other things with this spline generator : hair, grass, helix, abstract shapes, DNA, etc...

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - Euro 19.95

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



ADD-THE-SEA by Motion-Gimmick

Wave generator with swimming object, collision detection and coast detection features. Include the "4ATS" foam/spray shader.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - $/Euro 70

http://www.motion-gimmick.com



SOLID SPLINE PRO by Paul Everett

Renders spline as solid objects. An improved SweepNurbs.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - Euro 29

http://www.tools4d.com/



SURFACE PAINTER by Paul Everett

Enables you to "paint" objects on any polygon surface. Surface Painter includes an object library an many "painting" settings (scale/rotate /spray variation, size, offset, distance, overlaping prevention, etc...).

MAC/PC - 8.1 and above - Euro 69

http://www.tools4d.com/



DYNAMIC SPLINE PROJECTOR by Paul Everett

Project splines in real time on primitive and polygons surfaces.

MAC/PC - 8.1 and above - Euro 29

http://www.tools4d.com/



MESH SURGERY by Per-Anders Edwards and Paul Everett

Scalpel, Katana, Jigsaw, etc... everything for the modeling maniacs! Mesh Surgery is a collection of tools to cut, split, select, deform or extrude more presicely and effectively. Warmly recommended.

MAC/PC - 8.2 and above - Euro 99

http://www.peranders.com/c4d8/ms/



MULTIPLE SPLINE ATTACH by XLent

Multiple Spline Attach lets you place objects along a spline, with precise control over alignment, distribution and scaling.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - $ 80

http://www.xlentplugs.com/



HELIX by XLent

Helix automatically creates a spiral shape around an existing spline. You can control the number of revolutions and the start and end radius.

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - $ 50

http://www.xlentplugs.com/



BUSINESS GRAPHS by 3Dweaves

Creates histograms, pie charts and volumetric curves. Access and Excel files import (XML, CSV).

MAC/PC - 8.012 and above - Euro 60

http://www.3dweave.com/plugins/business_graphs_us.php

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