Update log

Leaves, paper and lampshades can now let light through. Shuaa Material > Transmission > Translucency (thin).

New option on the Shuaa Light tag. Turn it off to keep an area light in reflections without it lighting the scene.

Images saved from the Picture Viewer or the Live Viewer now look the same as on screen.

Windows, the sun and lamps now reflect in clear glass at their full brightness.

The denoiser keeps the fine reflections on smooth glass.

Glass no longer renders darker with adaptive sampling, and scenes with skin or wax materials now use it.

The Live Viewer now shows Subdivision Surfaces as smooth as the final render.

After Render or a project switch, the first frame now shows the whole scene.

Shadows cast through coloured glass now have the right colour and depth.

Nodes placed inside other nodes can now be edited and connected.

A nearly full drive no longer stops a render without a message. Shuaa warns in the Shuaa Log.

In the Live Viewer, a Subdivision Surface over several objects, or used with a Cloner, renders at its Subdivision Editor level instead of its Subdivision Renderer level. Set both to the same value to match the final render.

The Shuaa Material's Human Skin preset sets up subsurface skin: a red-led scatter, a skin colour that varies across the surface, and procedural roughness, bump and sheen built from nodes in the empty channels.

Subsurface, Subsurface Color, Scatter Distance and Scatter Tint accept nodes evaluated at each hit (Noise, Falloff, Curvature and more), like the other channels.

Shuaa menu > Shuaa Help, and the Live Viewer's Help > Visit Shuaa Help, open the Support page in your browser; Help > Check for Updates opens this update log.

A node plugged into a channel that cannot evaluate it now shows a note under that channel.

Playing or scrubbing the timeline shows Cloner animation, deformers such as Bend and keyed colours frame by frame, instead of waiting for the whole scene to be read again.

Moving a light, or changing its brightness, colour or power, updates the picture without reading the whole scene again. A light dragged in the viewport follows the hand.

Orbiting the camera and switching to another camera update the Live Viewer at once.

Changing a deformer or a Cloner keeps Cinema 4D responsive while the picture follows.

The Beta comes as two zips, one for Cinema 4D 2024 and one for Cinema 4D 2026, each with its own README.txt.

From 24 January 2027 Shuaa reminds you; after 31 January it keeps rendering for 3 days, until 3 February 2027. A newer build may carry a later date. The end date never changes your scenes.

In some scenes with VDB volumes or hair, timeline playback can pause on some frames.

Dragging the Sky's Sun intensity is slower than the other Sky edits.

The Live Viewer takes a few seconds to show the first picture of a scene with millions of polygons.

The Live Viewer, the Shuaa Material and its nodes, lights, Sky and HDRI environments, volumes, depth of field, motion blur, micro-displacement, hair, particles, stylized shading and render passes, for Cinema 4D 2024 and 2026.