Paul’s plugins aspire to provide the CINEMA4D user with the tools they need, to go beyond the scope of the. Paul Everett has been developing plugins for over 15 years and worked as a software developer for MAXON Computer GmbH, on projects such as MoGraph and others. It sounds like you have only installed the Cinema part. plugins for CINEMA4D written by Paul Everett.
There are two plugins you need to install - one for each application. Maxonform enables you to edit/create new elements within Cinema4D and send them back to ArchiCAD as a GDL object. You need the original plugin installer which came on the Cinema 4D Architecture Bundle CD. There is no functionality to send anything back to ArchiCAD.Īs far as I am aware you cannot download this plugin from the Maxon site - only updates. You can create a CINEMA 4D file (.c4d) from within After Effects and you can work with complex 3D elements, scenes, and animations. Using this you can simply export updated geometry out of ArchiCAD and the plugin does all the time-consuming work of re-applying the materials (near instantaneously). CINEMA 4D is a popular 3D modeling and animation tool from Maxon (Closer integration with CINEMA 4D allows you to use Adobe After Effects and Maxon CINEMA 4D together. The Material Exchanger is a 1-way plugin to map materials applied in Cinema to ArchiCAD materials.
This is talking about the Material Exchange plugin, which is different to the Maxonform plugin you seem to be talking about (it gives option to 'Send back to ArchiCAD')