Generator objects

Emitter, Generator, Sprite and Trail.

Control objects

System, Questions and Actions.

Primitive objects

Cross and Three-Plane (also used independently of other X-Particles objects).

• Divided into Standard and Professional versions.
• Multithreading and huge speed-up all round.
• Online updater.
• Additional modifiers, questions and actions.
• Much improved collision detection.
• Much improved volume shader to allow particle rendering without geometry or Cinema 4D Hair.
• XPresso nodes (Pro version).
• A Mesher object – the Skinner (Pro version).
• Fluid simulation and multiphysics (Pro version).
• Object Morphing (Pro version).

• Rewritten scene caching to be more flexible.
• Rewritten object emission and support for the Mograph Matrix object.
• New ‘defined emission’ mode and other emitter enhancements.
• Much faster rendering of particles with the X-Particles material.
• Enhanced emitter fluids section.
• Improvements to several modifiers.
• Enhancements to object generation in the generator and sprite objects, including improved object scaling.
• Additional trail object connection algorithm.
• New light tag.
• New questions, actions and modifiers.

• Rewritten core engine.
• New objects: SplineMesher, Elektrix, Volume Emission control, Flock Helper.
• Most existing objects have improved and additional functionality.
• New modifiers.
• New rendering options: render splines without geometry and volumetric rendering for fire/smoke.
• New dynamics objects: much improved constraints and better particle-particle collisions.
• Improved SPH Fluids.
• New FLIP solver for better fluids, gas, etc.
• New Licensing system which does not depend on the Cinema 4D serial number (so no need for a new XP serial when you get a new version of Cinema).
• Greatly improved and much faster caching.

New Features

• Sound Modifier.
• Sound Shader.
• Trail Deformer Object.
• Data Mapping System added for most modifiers.
• Particle-based Falloff.
• Follow Path Modifier.
• Updated Spin Modifier.
• Updated Scale Modifier.
• Additional emitter shapes – Box and Cylinder.
• Emitter HUD can show additional particle data.
• Direct access to the X-Particles online video manual from each object.

• Node Editor.
• Real-Time Preview.
• Online Updater.
• Camera Tag.
• CyEnvironment.
• Lights.
• Sub Surface Scattering.
• Micro Poly Displacement.
• Motion Blur.
• Depth of field.
• Hair.
• Direct access to Cinema 4D’s Mograph cloner colors.
• Volumes.

xpClothFX

Remarkably fast cloth simulations.

xpFluidFX

Create highly realistic grain and liquid solving, using the latest in SPH (Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics) methods for large- and small-scale fluid simulations.

xpFluidPBD

A particle-based dynamic solver, ideal for small-scale fluid creation for motion design.

xpFlowField

Our velocity field generator, create custom velocity field effects from a variety of sources.

xpSplineFlow

Enables you to create organic, dynamic, smooth-flowing particles along a spline. Animate the splines by keyframes or deformers, SplineFlow updates in real-time.

xpCirclePacker

Allows you to emit your particles while dynamically avoiding intersections. It works in unison with all emission shapes, surfaces, volumes and splines, enabling you to create beautiful animations.

xpCellAuto Object

Generates particles based on three different cellular automata algorithms - Elementary, Game of Life and Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, each of these algorithms creates unique results from geometric, repetitive patterns to natural organic growth simulations.

xpStrangeAttractors

A motion modifier that enables you to create abstract, chaotic particle animations.

xpGravity Newton

Make realistic gravity and orbit animations. Add an object or multiple objects into the attractors window, and each object can be given an individual gravitational field. Particles can orbit each object, and you have control of the speed and intensity of the gravitational pull.

OpenVDB

Streamlined workflow for meshing using our filtering system, means you can layer up your effects, generate smooth flowing surfaces, remesh geometry objects or create complex models.

xpVertexMap Maker

Create fully procedural real-time vertex maps inside X-Particles. xpVertexMap maker works with object vertices, textures, particles and ExplosiaFX.

xpExplosiaFX

Create realistic smoke, fire and explosive simulations.

Nodes

• Outport of a node can be connected to the in-ports of multiple other selected nodes simultaneously.
• Selected nodes can be connected using a hotkey (F) press.
• When hovered over a group/frame it will be highlighted; a selected node can be added to a hovered-over group/frame with a context menu click.
• Selected nodes can be muted using a 'mute' button on the node border.
• A node can be 'shaken' in the node editor to disconnect it from other nodes.
• New 'Pivot' node has been added.
• Alpha input port in the Output node.
• Double-clicking a node title bar collapses the node and collapsed nodes all have the same width.

Other Changes

• 'X-Particles Tag' renamed to the 'Instance Tag'.
• Rotating the cyEnvironment object in the viewport now rotates any assigned texture automatically.
• Cinema 4D Stick Texture tag is now supported.
• Material presets which support X-Particles 4 xpExplosiaFX added.
• Shadow Catcher speed increase.
• Improved 'Pointiness' behavior. All new function to render the Mograph Matrix Object without geometry.

General

• Revised particle core and collision engine with much greater speed.
• Compatibility with Cinema 4D R20 using the INSYDIUM Bridge plugin.
• R20 Fields are now supported, the Falloff tab of any object now shows the standard Fields display. The X-Particles falloffs are in the Fields list in their own panel (this applies to Cinema 4D R20 only).
• Enhanced quick tab functionality in the user interface.

Emitters

• New Torus emitter.
• Emitter instance mode added.
• It is now possible to set the color for different constraint types and render trails from the constraints using those colors.
• New extended data item - Emission Vertex.
• Changed particle color by shader to give correct 3D sampling.
• Revised particle color gradients in the emitter/group object.
• New modifier fields display.
• New variation control added to emission along object normals.
• Edge-only emission for the emitter in rectangle mode.
• New up-vector option in the emitter rotations.
• New option added to the emitter falloff.

Generators

• Enhanced functionality and the ability to mesh volumes in the OpenVDB mesher.
• New option in the Trail object to handle Infectio trails.
• Option to create a Vertex Color Tag added to the Fragmenter object (Cinema 4D R18 and higher only).
• New distance controls in xpElektrix.

Dynamics

• Faster, more accurate fluid simulation in xpFluidPBD and xpFluidFX.
• xpFluidFX has been greatly improved and is much faster.
• New Wave object added.
• Improvements to the Foam object to give more control over the foam offset from the fluid surface.
• Particle group and falloff support added to xpExplosiaFX.
• Revised and enhanced Shader mode in the FlowField object.

Modifiers

• New Infectio modifier.
• More inherited parameters added to the Change Group and Spawn modifiers.
• New list of target objects added to the Attractor modifier.
• Mograph Cloner/Matrix support added to the Attractor modifier.
• New force and velocity settings added to the Attractor, Cover/Target, Flock, Rotator and Vortex modifiers.
• Improved and extended Color modifier.
• Custom data can now be mapped to particle data in the Custom Data modifier.
• New threshold setting in the Geometry modifier.
• New options added to the Kill modifier.
• New mode and new switch added to the Life modifier.
• Revised and extended Limit modifier.
• New axis constraint setting in the Network modifier.
• Three new attractors added to the Strange Attractors modifier.
• New functionality - actions on trail zero length - added to the Trails modifier.
• New mode of operation in the Weight modifier.

Other Objects

• New X-Particles Seed Object used in the Infectio modifier and in the xpVertexMap Maker.
• New 'From Seed' mode in the xpVertexMap Maker.
• Ability to add a Vertex Color Tag in the xpVertexMap Maker (Cinema 4D R18 and higher only).
• Z-axis formula and displacement shader added to the Trail Deformer.

Questions/Actions

• Can now disable/enable individual questions and actions in the emitter Questions tab and in Actions lists in all objects.
• New Fluid Data questions in the Question object.
• Self-spawning feature added to the Control Spawning action.
• New action to control the Infectio modifier added.

Other

• New System Hierarchy Sorter command to sort X-Particles objects into a System object.
• New option in the X-Particles preferences: automatically add newly-created X-Particles objects into a System object.
• New parameters added to the main X-Particles preferences.
• With data mapping, you can now map modifier parameters to a vertex map tag.
• The XPresso get/set particle data nodes now allow you to get or set the Infectio state of a particle.
• The X-Particles console has been updated and improved.
• New features added to the Distance shader.
• The Load Palettes facility missing from the original release has now been restored.
• Spline collisions added to the collision engine.
• Adaptive collisions and their display in the Collider tag.
• The xpFluidFX Collider tag no longer exists and the standard X-Particles Collider tag should be used in its place.

• New Core (62173 Jan 2019).
• Cycles 4D now works on GPU (CUDA) and CPU.
• New Cryptomatte for compositing.
• New Simple Motion Blur.
• New Ambient Occlusion node.
• New Bevel node.
• New Principled Volume node.
• New Principled Hair node.
• New IES node.
• Improved global speed for Cycles 4D; Rebuilt Node Editor, Updated RTP.
• Redesigned Nodes, all new icons and layouts.
• Node Editor, new groups node Direct link to user groups.
• New Connection wire "Small Tangents".
• Hidden ports when collapsing nodes.
• Compact sizing on collapsed nodes (mapping).
• Random Output added to particle info and hair nodes.
• Basic diffuse color support in the Cinema 4D viewport.
• New Simple Motion Blur, faster motion blur uses object matrix only.
• Updated cycles instance tag now supports rotation.
• Using Cinema 4D Alpha forces Cycles 4D transparent Film on, now renamed to Transparent Background.
• New Options in Film settings.
• New HDRI browser and set up added to the Environment object.
• Simplified xpExplosiaFX materials, just drag and drop.
• Random Walk SSS added to the principled BSDF and SSS nodes.
• New Displacement and Vector Displacement nodes.
• New Material Presets (Thin Film, Glass Dispersion, Triplanar Mapping, Additive Particle Color).

New Features

xpDynamics
New Dynamics solver for Rigid and Soft Body Dynamics.

xpShatter
New Voronoi based shattering system.

xpDisplayRender
New Render generator to render Particle and Display Modes.

xpMetaGroup
New Powerful type of particle group.

xpQuickTools
New integrated preset tools.

xpSplineGrowth
New Deformer to grow spline objects, Trails and Elektrix.

xpTrailTip Tag
New Tag to add an object to the tip of trail splines.

xpParticleSampleShader
New Shader to color objects from particle parameters.

xpSheeter
New Modifier to generate thin film particles in Fluid simulations.

xpSplash
New Modifier for crown splash simulations.

New Features

Latest Cycles Core
1.11.0 (16/03/20 [62397]).

OptiX™ Support
OptiX™ offers a significant boost to rendering performance.

Custom AOVs
AOVs allow you to take any arbitrary information out of the shader tree and into the compositing tree.

Replicator Node
The Replicator Node lets you replicate an image over an object surface. The node comes with controls for scale and rotation for precise placement.

Viewport Texture Support
All image textures used in Cycles 4D can now be viewed directly in the Cinema 4D Viewport.

OpenVDB Velocity Maps
You can now have accurate motion blur on your OpenVDB meshes with the built-in velocity map support.

Light Kits
The newly built Light Kits contain a Softbox, Ring and Spot Lights to give you quick physical lighting rigs for studio setups and more.

Lights Manager
The new Lights Manager gives a global overview of all lights in your scene. Enabling you to control the color intensity and much more.

Layer Node
The Layer Node lets you input multiple images and use transfer modes to control each layer. Fine-tune your layers for picture-perfect renders.

Commander for Node Editor
Access nodes on the fly with the new Cycles 4D Commander for Nodes Editor. Providing an excellent, easily accessible overview of all your available nodes in one single place.

cyEnvironment HDR
All new controllers to control Brightness, Gamma, Hue saturation and Value all in one place, no need to dive into nodes to fine-tune your HDR image.

Attributes tag supports user data
Cinema 4D user data can now be accessed and driven in the cyAttributes.

Drag Objects into the Node Editor
xpEmitter, hair, lights, selection maps, polygon objects.

Node Insertion
Nodes can be added directly to chains by selecting over output ports.

Stop Connection to unsupported ports
If a port is not supported, you can no longer connect them.

xpDynamics Modifier

• New Auto Fade.

xpMultiSpawn

• New Start at Age and Offset.

xpExplode

• New Trigger modes.

xpLimit Modifier and xpMetaGroup

• New user value.

xpNetwork and xpAvoid

• New Intersection system.

xpTurbulence

• Updated Defaults.

xpSplineMesher

• New Growth Slider.
• New Vertex Colors.

Actions

• New Output to Console Action added.
• Change Group Action support for physical Data.
• New Rotation mode added to Direct Spin Action.

xpCache

• New Unique IDs.
• New List View of Cached Items.
• New Retiming options.

xpDomain

• Renamed xpFluidFLIP.
• New APIC solver.
• Rewritten collision system.
• New Solid Object options.
• New Sticky functions.
• New CFL Options.
• New Resampling feature.
• Removed legacy smoke and fire.
• Optimized core.
• New Trail Display for velocity.
• New Allow Inflow.
• New Liquid Surface.

xpExplosiaFX

• New Upres options.
• Updated container size options.
• Adaptive bounds color added to Display options.
• New Solver information readout added.
• Gravity set to match XP.
• New Motion Gap added to solve stepping in simulations.
• New Velocity added to Geometry tag.
• Rewritten Custom section.
• New defaults.
• Removed simple.
• New OpenGL display added, (only supported in <21).
• New Trails Display mode.
• New CFL option added.
• New Substep options added.
• Rewritten collisions.
• New Vorticity and Turbulence options.

Updates to Existing Features

Layer Node UI

Replicator Node UI
Added new input and outputs to drive Alpha, Normal, Bump, and Reflections for the replicated textures.

Light Kits 
New built-in material supports blend modes between the material and main emissive light, using the default gradient for soft-edge effects or noises and custom textures.

Lights Manager
Now takes an emissive material, users can drag and drop a texture tag directly into the manager. The lights Manager will update, so that you can adjust the color and brightness of the emissive shader. 

RTP File save formats
The RTP save image now supports Jpeg, Tiff, Tga, Bmp, pict, psd, and png formats for more control over image saving directly in the RTP.

Noise Textures
Additional new Roughness option.

New Shortcuts

• New Shortcut to rename nodes changed to [Enter]
• Object Names carried to nodes when dragging and dropping into the Node Editor.

X-Particles

New Features 

xpBullet

• Rigid and Soft Body Tags - xpBullet brings the industry-standard Bullet physics engine into the X-Particles framework.

xpShatter

• Color shards from particles - Takes the particle color and passes it into each shatter shard.
• Bricks mode - Generates brick and rock walls.
• Ngon display - Presents Ngons rather than triangulated meshes for a cleaner line display.
• Detailing - Adds noise maps to the shard faces for more realistic shatters.
• Trigger on Bullet - Collisions with Bullet based objects create trigger-to-trigger shatter.

xpOpenVDB

• Displays, Voxels and Fog (points) - New display modes for how VDBs are shown in the viewport, voxels and fog.
• OpenVDBLoader - Load and render exported VDB Data.
• UV Advection - UV advect textures based on the particle data giving you fluid effects on the texture maps.
• Transfer Foam - Generates a vertex map based on xpFoam data to use in rendering and other visual effects.
• Field for Filters - Use Cinema 4D fields and falloffs to define filter areas within the mesh.

Other

xpJoin

• Hide Source Option: Option to hide the source geometry or spline. 
• New Modes: Enables the user to choose between or select just polygon and spline.
• Local Switch: Object will become local to the xpJoin (PSR) position scale rotation. 
• Hierarchy Switch: Will join or not join objects in a hierarchy and only join the top object. 

xpCache

• Added support for OpenVDBMesher vertex maps.

Updates

General UI update and full UI updates on xpShatter and xpOpenVDB for a cleaner workflow.

Full support for Apple M1 Macs.

Fused Benefits

TerraformFX

The art-directable terrain generator that allows users to build customizable landscapes.

Generators

Generators are used to add new features to your terrain, generating mountains, hills, valleys, rivers, and more.

• Noise operator
• Shader operator
• Spline operator
• Gradient operator
• Group operator

Filters

Filters will alter, adjust, and fine-tune it to your artwork.

• Adjustment operator
• Curve operator
• Fold operator
• Blur operator
• Sharpen operator
• Clamp operator
• Erosion operator
• Mirror operator
• Quantize operator

MeshTools

A suite of powerful procedural modeling tools to affect geometry and generate splines.

mtDualGraph

• Generates a new topology from the original base mesh using the classic Dual Graph to change the base mesh into new triangulated or Ngon cells.

mtInset

• Generates a procedural inset (inner extrude) on the polygon faces of the mesh.

mtShellGen

• Generates a procedural shelling (extrude) from the mesh surface.

mtSubDivider

• Procedurally subdivides the base mesh.

mtEdgeSpline

• Enables you to generate edge splines from the base mesh, use curvature, contour, outlines, and intersection modes for unique edge effects.

mtSelect

• Generates selection sets for points, edges, and faces using selection maps, textures, shaders, or falloff to define where the selections are generated on the mesh surface.

mtShortestPath

• mtShortestPath generates pathway splines across the mesh surface using a start point and end point and finding the shortest path between them.

Viewport Selections

• Get full control over live selection set display and color, view real-time changes to your MeshTool selections.

INSYDIUM Fused consists of

• X-Particles (Build 1250)
• Fused Benefits
  • Taiao (Build 80)
  • TerraformFX (Build 147)
  • MeshTools (Build 131)
  • Cycles 4D (Build 557)

Fused Benefits

Taiao

• toPlant Procedural layered based modeling plant generator. Use layers to add branches, leaves, flowers and custom objects to build any type of plant or tree.
• toTree Simulation-based system creates natural growth based on rules. Use space colonization to build branching systems based on points in a volume or particles.
• toGrass Grass generator, add grass and scatter plants and objects over the surface of any object.

TerraformFX

New Features

• Generators
  • tfGrid Adds a grid of adjustment handles; with these, you can custom design the landscape, including a new grid brush to paint and sculpt the land.
• Filters
  • tfPath Procedural path operator, add a custom spline to generate paths and roads in the landscape.
  • tfErosion Snow New Erosion operator, tfErosion Snow lets you add snowy materials to your terrains.
  • tfHighpass Filter to help maintain details in existing layers without destroying the original form of the landscape.
• Others
  • tfRoad Part of tfPath, the new tfRoad generates a procedural road based on the path, with built-in cloning for adding roadside structures.

MeshTools

New Features

• mtSplineSample lets you resample the input spline to add uniform, adaptive and distance point distribution modes.
• mtPolyScale Takes an input geometry and scales down the faces.
• mtRemesh Remeshes the input geometry into a Delaunay triangulation-based mesh surface.

Updates

• mtInset
  • Divisions feature adds more divisions along the length of the inset.
  • Divisions deform spline lets you deform the shape of the offset with the spline.
  • Twist twists the inset face.

TerraformFX

New Features

• tfWarp - Distorts the input height field, using a low-res control grid of 2D displacement vectors.
• tfFlood - Flood valleys, or clip off mountain tops, with ease and mask the results with the tfFlood operator's custom output map.
• Grid Monitor - Constantly monitor your operators' 2D outputs with the new Grid Monitor dialog, that can be freely docked into your layout.
• Shader Masking - Use textures and shaders to quickly mask your operators without having to use Fields.

Updates

• tfGrid - Control output map
• tfSpline - New fill mode
• tfBrush - New modes for warp and grid
• tfBlur - New median filter

MeshTools

New Feature

• mtFractal - Procedural fractal tool

Update

• mtEdgeSpline - New offset with count and rotation

Library Assets

New

• Taiao Preset Pack - Get up and running fast with our Taiao Preset Pack. Build flowers, plants and trees, quickly and easily.
• Nature Material Pack - Inspired by nature, our 120 high-resolution drag-and-drop materials mean you can replicate the beauty of nature in no time.