Cinema 4D Plugins for Modeling.

There are a lot of plugins for Cinema 4D that are good for different types of modeling., a lot of these plugins are simple but they are useful for specific and important needs, we picked 16 plugins, some of them are simple and others are necessary to save time and energy on heavy-duty modeling tasks.

16_Easy Ivy

Easy Ivy is a Cinema 4D plugin created to help artists create creepers in a short period of time.

The procedure for making creepers is very simple, it starts with laying roots on a poly object with the first internal tool Root Painter and then covering them with the Leaves Tool. Easy Ivy will also generate automatically UVW aligned map of the final model.
This plugin is especially useful for architectural visualization artists and designers that need to create exterior renders that look more organic and believable.

Paid/€ 19,00 : https://www.c4dzone.com/en/shop/plug-ins-17/easy-ivy-1-0-1-125.htm

15_Trypogen

Using Trypogen it is possible to Cycle any type of geometry through an endless amount of organic or hard surface shapes. It’s fast and easy to use and it is a ton of fun because the results that can be generated are beautiful and unexpected. The options are pretty endless for how you could use Trypogen.

Drop your object into the Trypogen plugin and create unique shapes instantly. With multiple mesh modes and subdivision types, you can toggle through organic smooth objects or hard-surfaced chiseled effects.

By Throwing in a fracture object or a cloner you can get nice inner detail or spiraling objects that look beautiful and intricate. This plugin is fast and snappy in the viewport.

Paid/$29.99 : https://gumroad.com/l/trypogen

14_SplinePatch

SplinePatch is a plugin for Cinema 4D that can generate a surface from three or four guide splines. the plugin was created to be an object generator in Cinema 4D and works parametrically which is good for saving time and flexibility.

With The SplineCage feature in SplinePatch, you can set the splines defining the object as a spline cage. The SplineCage object works as a generator. It creates stable connections at the intersections of all splines of the cage.

These connection points can then be moved around easily. They are even retained when you are editing the single splines in the cage.

Paid/ $ 84.81 : https://c4dplugin.com/product-sp

13_Topoformer

Topoformer (or Topology Deformer) is a very good object deformer plugin that alters the topology of objects based on a number of predefined algorithms in the plugin while still keeping the original geometry-shape intact. The plugin features plenty of options to tweak the way each topotype behaves while everything is in a procedural state.

Some of the features:
The ability to Completely change the topology of any polygon or primitive objects.

Using fields and effectors to gain greater control and easily create endless variations of the topology procedurally

Paid/$99 : https://gumroad.com/l/topoformer

12_ReeperX Rope Generator

Reeper is a Cinema 4D plugin for creating ropes and similar structures along splines.
It comes with 4 different options to generate ropes:

Coiled Rope (multiple strands) Simple Braid (3 strands) Lissajous Braid (3 strands) Lissajous Braid (5 strands).

Reeper is free for commercial and non-commercial use, without any restrictions.

Free: https://www.codeworkers.de/garage-plugins-reeperx_eng.html

11_Easy Chesterfield

Easy Chesterfield is a free plugin that is good for creating Chesterfield effects for pillows, couches, sofas, and so on.
Model your pillow using a quadrangular mesh by matching the center of the folds with the vertices of the mesh, select them and press the “Create Chesterfield” button, the plugin will modify automatically the object hierarchy and create a chesterfield parametric object.
By changing its properties you can change in real-time the appearance of Chesterfield.
Within the plugin, you find a button cloner tool, if you need it, you can clone your custom button and place it automatically over the fold centers.
The button will be cloned according to its Z-axis position.

Free : https://www.c4dzone.com/en/shop/plug-ins-17/easy-chesterfield-1-0-1-259.htm

10_Noisescape

The NoiseScape Plugin is used to simplify the usage of displacements inside Cinema 4D. It is very handy and easy to use, this plugin covers all the aspects of displacements with a variety of controls at hand, all procedural and noise-driven! Not everyone is going to find this tool interesting or useful but it certainly has some practical uses that will save artists a ton of time.

Free: https://www.tfmstyle.com/noisescape

9_Interior Builder

Interior Builder is a plugin that helps to create many kinds of furniture in a short period of time which is very useful for interior designers.

The plugin is composed of two sets of objects and a bake command.
The first set is the main object kit and it’s composed of all elements of a typical piece of furniture: layout, door, drawer, shelf, leg, and so on.
The second set is composed of two parametric splines already available on Cinema 4D but with a restricted set of functions.

Paid/€ 35: https://www.c4dzone.com/en/shop/plug-ins-17/interior-builder-1-0-2-253.htm

8_Chain Generator

Chain Generator is a Cinema 4D plugin that helps users to create and animate any kind of mechanical chain in a short period of time.

This plugin is simple to use and all is needed is to Draw an open spline on the front view, click on Create Chain button, and in spline point mode try to connect the chain with drag and drop.

The plugin automatically takes care of the rigging and creating controls. the chain is parametric, it is possible to customize the ring type or model a new one and use it.

Some of the practical applications of this plugin are, for example, creating chainsaw, tank chain, bicycle chain, and much more.

Paid/ € 19 : https://www.c4dzone.com/en/shop/plug-ins-17/chain-generator-1-0-3-203.htm

7_DEM Earth

With this plugin, you can easily generate dynamic Digital Elevation Models and georeference them in real-time to the world imagery.

DEM Earth automatically downloads the data it needs to build the model you want. All you have to do is provide a Geographic coordinate.

It can Produce real-time interactive and dynamic landscapes that you can pan, zoom, animate and place anything on, in any way you want.

Paid/$328 : https://cinemaplugins.com/c4d-plugins/dem-earth/

6_Horope

Horope is a free and open-source python plugin for Cinema 4D that can make a dynamic rope instantly. This simple plugin is interesting because it creates a quick setup for animating dynamic ropes by simply creating a rope object, placing the spline under the HoRope object, and then adjusting the settings.

This plugin doesn’t seem to have a lot of practical applications, but it can generate very good results and save a lot of time when dealing with something like electric wires, especially, in streets or rooms that have too many cables, it can be used to create rope ladders and much more.

Free: https://github.com/pashaho/HoRope

5_City Kit

City Kit is a Cinema 4D plugin from greyscale gorilla that gives artists full control over the process of creating full cities. You can choose what types of buildings you need, their spacing, how big the downtown area is. Add your own unique buildings to the city and use the Light Rigs to get easy city-wide lighting during the Day or Night.

Paid/$149 : https://greyscalegorilla.com/downloads/city-kit/

4_Spline Guide

Spline Guide is a free plugin that helps to align hair dynamically along a spline. It is very useful for creating different types and shapes of hair using its ability to control how the hair looks through splines and other parameters.

You can Drag the desired Hair object or a Hair Selection property, also it is possible to adjust the intensity of the effect on the hair which is a mixture between its deformed state and its normal state. And a lot more parameters that can help to create hair in a certain shape or form.

Free: http://code.vonc.fr/?a=58&l=an

3_QuadriFlow

Quadriflow is a plugin for Cinema 4D based on the open-source Quadriflow library on Github. 

This is a tool that is used to instantly quadrangulate meshes from sculpts or from high-density 3D scans. It was developed by software engineer Ryan Gordon. The plugin lets modelers use scalable and robust methods for quadrangulation right from Cinema 4D.

The reason why we need tools like Quadriflow is the fact that models often have a very high polycount and impossible to use in a real-time working environment, especially video game environments where polycount is vital. This is where retopology comes in – using a combination of the right tools and techniques, it is possible to reduce the mesh density while keeping enough details from the high poly version.

Free: https://github.com/hjwdzh/QuadriFlow

2_NitroBox tool

NitroBox tool is a plugin for hard surface modeling.  With this tool, it is possible to create details on hard surfaces like other plugins available for other software such as 3ds Max, Maya or Blender.

NitroBox tool supports cloning, mirroring, using splines to add detail, bevel just to name some of the features.

I think plugins like these are some of the best modeling tools, especially for hard surface artists that create complex robots, spaceships, weapons, and so on. Because this type of work involves creating so many small pieces and plugins like this can be really handy. From the first look at it, you can realize that what this tool does in a few minutes will probably need an hour to accomplish. And I believe this where the future of modeling is headed.

Paid/ € 40: https://nitro4d.com/product/nitroboxtool/

1_Meshboolean

Meshboolean is a plugin for Cinema 4D that will help you detail Hard Surface models using Boolean operations, it is easy to use and it can generally speaking, save time by helping modelers create complex details on hard surfaces.

MeshBoolean gives modelers instant live bevels on intersections, it has sub-boolean options with support for symmetry. The good thing about this plugin is helping artists carve out complex shapes and build objects more creatively, without having to worry about the technical issues that usually consume a lot of time.

Paid/ € 50 : https://www.thegreatsummit.com/product/meshboolean/