Maxon Cinema 4D 9.5 review

Particularly useful is the ability to bake not just channel shaders but lighting, shadows and reflection which, after a bit of work assigning texture maps, leads to further significant boosts to rendering speed. Even more impressive, if you're the proud owner of the Advanced Render Module, is Cinema 4D 9.5's ability to also bake in Global Illumination and Ambient Occlusion and to convert Sub-Polygonal Displacement to Normal Mapping. The new Baking capabilities are an excellent example of Cinema 4D 9.5's built-in power and its extensibility. And typically, Cinema 4D 9.5 also goes a step further to make the whole process as simple as possible with its new Bake Object command, which not only generates the desired texture maps, but also creates and applies a new multichannel material based on them.

With unmatched ease of use, such impressive core power and a very attractive price, Cinema 4D 9.5 provides an excellent 3D platform. Even better, thanks to advanced add-on modules such as Advanced Render and Sketch and Toon, it's a platform on which you can build.

Author: Tom Arah