Cinema 4D plugins
Tools for oceans, fluids, painting, UVs, and animation — built in Wellington and kept working from Cinema 4D R20 through 2026.
Featured Plugins
HOT4D
Houdini Ocean Toolkit for Cinema 4D
Ocean Waves
A deformer for creating ocean waves
Flow Graph
Node-based animation for Cinema 4D parameters
Instance Man
Manage instance objects more easily
Boundary First Flattening
Create a single flattened UV map
4D Publish
Publish scenes as interactive 3D PDFs
Jet Fluids
CPU-based fluid simulation
4D Paint
A set of plugins for painting, texturing, material creation, and UV mapping in Cinema 4D.
These plugins are no longer being actively developed and do not come with any support. They are compiled for new versions of C4D so you can keep using them.
Plugins included in the 4D Paint Bundle
Paint Brushes
Paint with stamps and stencils in the viewport
Material View
UV editing, materials, and texturing tools
Stamp Stencil View
Pick stamps and stencils while sculpting
Layer View
Paint layers for the selected object’s materials
Vertex Painter
Paint vertex colors with the sculpting workflow
Vector Graphics
Draw 2D images and 3D PDF pages
Projection Painting
Project images onto models from the viewport
SVG
Load SVG files as high-quality textures
Texture Remapping
Remap UVs from multiple models to one material
Texture View
Preview UDIM textures on the selected model
Other Plugins
UDIM Importer
Import UDIM UVs and textures in one click
VR Viewer
View Cinema 4D scenes on an HTC Vive
DICOM Volume Importer
Import DICOM files and volumes
Sculpt Projection Brush
Project sculpt detail onto other objects
Sculpt Animator
Animate sculpt layers with a controller object
aaOcean
Ocean simulation based on Tessendorf waves
Not For Sale Plugins
These plugins are no longer for sale and are only here for reference.
Camera List
Jump between cameras from thumbnail snapshots
Draw Objects
Draw procedural primitives in the viewport
Position Effector
Send dynamics positions back to MoGraph clones
Mega Scans Importer
Load Quixel MegaScans models and textures
Moana Island Viewer
Load parts of Disney’s Moana island scene
Physics
Rigid-body physics for older Cinema 4D editions
Ply Importer
Import PLY geometry and vertex colors
Ptex Importer
Apply per-polygon PTex images to a model
Field and Volume Shader
Texture models with volumes and fields
Plugin Manager
See installed Plugins 4D versions
Docs
Create documentation from Cinema 4D scenes
FunRay
A renderer for Cinema 4D
Delta Mush
Smooth deformation while keeping sculpted detail
Solid Chamfer
Chamfer edges as a modeling plugin
Baker
GPU-accelerated ambient occlusion baking
Creamy Strand
Strand and fluid simulation for Cinema 4D
Marker View
Add and edit animation markers in your scene
Align Tools
Align objects in the viewport
Texture Connections
Change HDRI and environment textures in one place
Quadriflow
Retopologize a model into quads