Ornatrix is a complete hair, fur, and feather creation, animation, and rendering solution for Maxon Cinema 4D. It integrates closely as a part of Cinema 4D to allow an intuitive and easy to learn approach for grooming characters and creation various fiber and scattering effects.

Superior hair, fur, and feathers in Cinema 4D!

• Procedural grooming workflow

• Powerful hair physics

• Industry leading pipeline tools

• Intuitive integration

Procedural hair

• Build hair with a set of friendly operators

• Strand groups for non-destructive filtering

• Multiple dynamics options for all types of simulation

• Familiar iterative refinement workflow

• Easy to use groom preset system

Tight Cinema 4D integration

• Works within Cinema 4D deformer and tag framework

• Friendly menu for quick start

• Built-in and all 3rd-party renderer support

• Easy SDK for access and extensions

• Variety of import and export options

Intuitive modeling tools

• Brush, comb, and cut hair

• Quickly define flow of fur on a surface with arrows

• Frizz, curl, clump, and braid hair procedurally

• Style hair by dragging control points

• Use mesh strips to generate hair

Feathers and foliage

• Procedural feathers with control over shape and rotation

• Blend multiple UV channels for advanced texturing

• Scatter control over materials and shaders

• Custom proxy mesh scattering over hair

• Propagation controls for growing hair on hair

Minimum System Requirements 

Ornatrix C4D is designed to work on a variety of Cinema 4D versions and all operating systems where Cinema 4D is supported. However, there exist a minimum requirements where Ornatrix C4D is supported.

Windows 

• Windows 10 or newer

• Cinema 4D R19 or newer.

• VC 2019 runtime

Mac 

• OS X 10.14 Mojave or newer

• Cinema 4D R19 or newer.

Supported Cinema 4D builds 

Ornatrix is not guaranteed to work on all builds of Cinema 4D. We recommend sticking to the iterations we build for.

Recommended Cinema 4D builds:

R19.053, R20.059, R21.207, R22.123, R23.110, R24.111, R25.010, R26.014

Known Issues 

Guide Width 

Guide/Strand Width parameter in Edit Guides will not work as expected. This is because starting with with Cinema 4D, Windows DirectX has fixed line width to 1.0f.

However, it will work fine with OpenGL on MacOS.

Supported Arnold versions (Mac and Windows) 

• Ornatix C4D R19: C4DtoA 3.0.3.1

• Ornatix C4D R20: C4DtoA 3.1.1.0

• Ornatix C4D R21+: C4DtoA 3.3.9