AUDIO & VIDEO TECHNOLOGY

Here is the list of everything new in Cinema 4D R21: New licensing system for Cinema 4D.  New, improved caps surfaaces (e.g., for the Extrude object).  New UV transformation tool.  New auto-weighting for joints.  ProRender matierals can now a be made up of nodes  The Denoiser post effect can significantly speed up rendering.  New Vector volume type.  The Volume Builder can now also generate Volume Vectors (spatial vector distribution).  New Field Force object that creates forces from Fields.  Now volumes can be rendered with ProRender.  New Maxon License Server.  Offline Help is again available in addition to the existing offline Help.  New nodes for the Standard / Physical renderers. New display option for the viewport.  A mac menu bar can now be displayed  The texture view can now also be smoothed using antialiasing.  Modified functionality when starting Cinema 4D with minimal OpenGL display settings....

These are some of the cool  new features in R20: MoGraph Fields  – Offer unprecedented content creation possibilities to the procedural animation toolset in MoGraph. The Fields feature in Cinema 4D R20 makes it possible to efficiently control the strength of the effect using any combination of falloffs – from simple geometric shapes to shaders and sounds to objects and mathematical formulas. Fields can be mixed and combined with one another in a layer list. Effects can be re-mapped and grouped in multiple Fields to control Effectors, Deformers, weights and more. Volume-based modeling –  The OpenVDB-based Volume Builder and Mesher in Cinema 4D R20 offer an entirely new procedural modeling workflow. Any primitive or polygon object (including the new Fields objects) can be combined to create complex objects using Boolean operations. Volumes created in R20 can be exported sequentially in OpenVDB format and can be used in any application or render engine th...

As I'm scrutinizing the 3D modeling world nowadays, here's some FREE add-ons that I found online for Cinema 4D: >> Link  to Flock Modifier (https://fwilleke80.github.io/FlockModifier/) >> Link to Toolfarm Freebies  (https://www.toolfarm.com/blog/entry/freebie_free_offerings_from_cinemaplugins.com_for_maxon_cinema_4d)