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The Maxon App currently supports the installation and management of Cinema 4D, Red Giant Complete, Universe, Trapcode Suite, Magic Bullet Suite, VFX Suite and PluralEyes. Redshift support will be added in the near future. Forger and Moves by Maxon continue to be available from the iOS App Store.

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Open the Cinema 4D help documentation here.

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This is where all the most current information regarding Cinema 4D can be found (an internet browser and internet connection are required) so you can stay up-to-date.

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Online Learning...

If an internet connection exists, the Learning website will open if this command is executed. Here you will find links to valuable Cinema 4D learning resources.

Quick Start Dialog...

Here a quick start dialog window can be opened if the automatic display is disabled for each Cinema 4D start (see Quick Start Dialog Enabled at Startup).

Check for Updates...

After the program has been started, the Online Updater (amont other things), which checks for new updates, additions, languages and/or documentation files will start. In the Preferences menu you can enable or disable the automatic checking for updates when the application is started (Ctrl/Cmd + e) by checking or unchecking the Automatically Check for Updates option in the Communication menu.

In order for the Online Upater to be activated, you computer must be connected to the internet and your firewall may have to be configured accordingly.

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If no updates are offered despite being connected to the internet, a proxy server might be the problem. Check the Proxy Server section for more information.

The Online Updater uses port 80, through which the normal http (web) traffic runs. Therefore, if your firewall has an issue with this you can bypass this to proceed.

If your computer does not have a connection to the internet and should remain offline, please read the Manual Instruction section below.

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Protecting your personal data is important to us. If you take advantage of the comfort of our Online Updater, neither your personal information nor your computer’s information will be transferred!

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Our Content Browser’s example libraries are made available and updated exclusively via the Online Updater. A manual installation of these libraries is not available.

The Online Updater

Let’s take a closer look at the Online Updater:

The three tabs at the top of the window show available Updates, Optional updates and a History of updates installed. Select the elements you want to install in either the Updates or Optional window. Activate the respective check box on the left.

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Some important updates will already be checked or grayed out. These cannot be deselected. Only the entire update process can be stopped.

Clicking on an element in the list will display detailed information, if available, in the Description window below (e.g., a list of all bugs that have been fixed for a given version).

Once you’ve selected all elements you want to update, click on Continue. You will proceed to a page on which you can define update options:

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Automatically restart application during installation

If this option is enabled, all necessary application restarts will take place automatically. If this option is disabled, you will be asked each time to confirm the application’s restart.

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Any security promps from your operating system will have to be confirmed.

Delete downloaded archive after successful installation

If this option is enabled, all downloaded files which are no longer needed will be deleted automatically after the update has been successfully installed. Depending on the update, this can free up a great deal of hard drive space.

Create backup copy before installation

If this option is anabled, the current installation will be archived before the update is started. Enter the location to which the installation should be saved in the Path field. The default location is the user directory created by the application itself. If an arror occurs during the update - write error to the hard drive, computer crash, interruption of internet connection, etc. - you can restore the original state of the installation. Generally speaking you should always create a backup of your files.

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The backup copy is compressed into a common zip archive with the name 'c4d_backup_date_time.zip'. If the file exceeds 500 MB it will be split into multiple archives. If you want to restore an archive made up of multiple parts, the individual archives must be unpacked in a common directory while maintaining the file structure.

Restoring a backup copy

Under Windows, double-click each archive individually in the Explorer window and drag the content of each archive to the desired (common) location or folder. If you use a different archiving program, select all zip files of a backup archive, right-click on the selection and select Unzip to (WinZip) or Extract here (7-Zip).

Under macOS, double-click the *.bat file that was created. The Terminal should start, which will restore the backup. If this is not the case, right-click (or Cmd + click on the *.bat file), select Open with / Other Program from the context menu and select the respective program from the Terminal. The files will then be restored in a new directory.

If this automatic procedure doesn’t work using the *.bat file under macOS, the process will be somewhat more complicated:

First, unzip all archives individually.
Open the Terminal.
Type the following in the Terminal: cd[path to first unzipped folder or type cd (followed by a space) and drag the folder from the Finder into the Terminal window and press Enter.
Now type: cp -r * [path to target folder or type cp -r * (again followed by a space) and drag the target folder into the Terminal and press Enter (if you get a ,permission denied’ prompt, add ,sudo’ before ,cp’. You will then have to enter your user password).

Repeat the steps 1-4 described above for each unzipped folder in order to copy them into the desired directory.

If the target order is the folder in which the updated Cinema 4D version lies, the content of this folder will have to be deleted before the restored items are copied into it.

Back to the Online Updater

Clicking on the Continue button will start the actual update process.

First, all required files will be downloaded from the Maxon update servers to your computer. In the following window you can follow the progress of the download (if you close this window, the download will continue in the background - it will not be halted).

Once all files have been downloaded, they will be unzipped, the application will be closed and the update will begin. If the automatic restart option is not enabled, you will be prompted to confirm each restart.

The new files will then be installed and the application will restart automatically (if this option is enabled) in the new version and/or language.

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If updates are available, they will apply to both Ci