9.5.2

4 • CHAPTER 1
GETTING TO KNOW CINEMA 4D • 5
Installing QuickTime
We recommend that QuickTime is installed on your system. QuickTime makes additional image formats
available to CINEMA 4D and in addition allows you to render QuickTime movies. You can download
the QuickTime installer from www.apple.com/quicktime.
What’s New in R9
If you’ve used a previous version of CINEMA 4D, you’re no doubt itching to know what’s new. In these
pages you’ll nd a brief description of some of the key new features in R9. To nd out more about a
particular feature, look it up in the index or in the relevant chapter.
Modeling
N-gons support
Without n-gons (left) and with n-gons (right).
CINEMA 4D now supports n-gons. N-gons help to keep the mesh clean and easier and faster to work
with. An n-gon is a polygon that has more than four corner points. Prior to R9, CINEMA 4D was limited
to polygons with three or four corner points (triangles or quadrangles). Now a polygon can have an
unlimited number of corner points.
New Measure & Construction tool
Not only can you measure distances and angles with this new tool, you can also use it to line up objects
and change the distances and angles — either by eye (drag and drop) or by entering values.