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C.O.F.F.E.E. Support
Support for CINEMA 4D developers is available exclusively on MAXON Computer’s Plugin Café website:
plugincafe.com. Here you will nd, among other things, the SDK. This contains the COFFEE compiler
and detailed descriptions of the programming language and the interface libraries. It is, of course,
possible for commercial plugin manufacturers to keep their source code secret and proprietary. Our
developer support is not static; the interfaces to CINEMA 4D and their functionality are constantly
being extended. You should always, therefore, pay attention to the relevant announcements on the
Internet.
File Formats
While working with CINEMA 4D there will be occasions when a particular graphic format will not load
or a 3D le will prove difcult to convert. There are so many formats and sub-formats for images,
animations and 3D les that CINEMA 4D cannot even dream of coping with all of them. The following
sections contain summaries of all formats that CINEMA 4D supports. If you need more detailed
information, you should refer to the relevant technical information for that format.
Image Formats
TIFF
Bit depths Compressors
1, 4, 8, 24, 32, 48 Uncompressed
RLE compressed
Only Baseline TIFF is supported. Exotic formats such as CMYK images are not supported. It is, of
course, not possible to give an exhaustive list of non-supported formats, since such a list in a sense
could never be denitive.
IFF
Bit depths Compressors
1, 4, 8, 16, 24 Uncompressed
RLE compressed
IFF images are read only if they conform to the Commodore/Electronic Arts specications. EHB, HAM-6
and HAM-8 modes are supported.
TARGA
Bit depths Compressors
24, 32 Uncompressed