Poliigon Plugin for Cinema 4D Changelogs

Browsing through categories as well as loading the initial home page should be substantially faster

Loading owned assets should also generally be much faster

Updated in-app survey to dynamically populate addon/C4D version

Searching is now always at the overall library level, instead of within individual subcategories

Materials generated with transmission maps will no longer be use volume absorption by default

This is due to generally having minimal impact on renders under normal use for the volume textures Poliigon provides, while improving render times by removing it

You can re-enable volume absorption by ticking the box for “Use Volume Transmission texture” in preferences under the Import section

Fixed window handling with custom layouts

Prioritize the albedo map over color map for legacy assets which have both

Resolved an edge case when cancelling a login via web quickly

More reliable API decoding

Resolved parsing of model specifications for the large detail viewer

Improved handling of assets with malformed API data

Some individual and team accounts may have faced difficulty logging into the plugin, or loading the grid if already logged in

Some users may have had trouble downloading assets due to a displayed “Purchase” message on the grid, even if on an unlimited plan.

Several website-only account management features are now available from the plugin, such as resuming or upgrading your plan

Ran out of downloads or getting low? Directly upgrade to the next available plan using your payment method on file. Users who upgrade in app are clearly shown the details of their current plan, the proposed new plan, and any immediate and future charges.

Cleanup of account data when logging out and back in - some edge cases remain so you may still benefit from restarting the software when changing users

Fixed a python conflict which could have interfered with running the plugin’s operators from a console

Improved fallback handling when encountering bad asset data structures

Added a Poliigon object tag to easily adjust any asset after the initial import

Introduced the Imported Assets tab to easily find assets found in the open document

Fixed: Downloading additional resolutions from the dropdown quick menu would instead apply a local size, if a local download existed with different map settings in preferences

Fixed: Multiple consecutive imports of a model would cause an error

Fixed: Texture imports now properly offer the option to import with relative paths

Added a large detail viewer

Added an imported tab

Added Map selection preferences

Improved communication for unlimited users who exceed the Fair Use Policy, learn more here

The asset balance is now visualized again for free users with a non-zero balance

Fixed issue where sometimes the plugin would load the second instead of first texture map variant

Fixed search not being reset upon logout

Ensuring transmission is used over translucency if both maps are found

Fixing the way mask / alpha standalone maps are loaded into shaders for Octane

Fixed a type error for Arnold renderer

Fixed issue where sometimes the plugin would load the second instead of first texture map variant

Several minor fixes in error handling

Improved reliability of applying watermarked PBR previews

These plans let you download an unlimited number of Textures, Models, and HDRIs from Poliigon with no credits or download limits, learn more here

If you cancel your unlimited plan, the plugin will no longer allow you to re-import premium assets; this does not impact assets downloaded using packs or a plan with a monthly asset balance

Users will see one-time popups when purchasing their first asset, to raise awareness of available user settings

Users will see a one-time popup the first time they perform a pbr watermark preview (by pressing the eye icon over an asset), to clarify what this means

Renamed the 1-click purchase setting to be Show Purchase Confirmation, which if enabled gives the user an extra chance to confirm a purchase before the asset balance is used

Reworked the account tab to be simpler

Cancelled downloads no longer hang, which could happen if cancellation was pressed quickly before the download was started

Safer and more reliable addon shutdown handling

Improved the error reporting system so we can better identify and solve errors occurring in background threads

The Physical render engine is now supported for importing materials, models, and HDRIs

All material workflows are supported except for Translucency, for which Physical provides limited options. Users are recommended to manually tweak materials where translucency if necessary.

Refactor in how downloads are handled, with this update downloads should be more stable and more likely to complete with fewer timeout errors

Improved handling of displacement setup for Redshift to reduce shading artifacts. Displacement is completely disabled by default in the Redshift Object tag, but is made easy for the user to enable with the override already set up.

File logs are now disabled, which caused permission errors for some users

Forward compatibility fixes for upcoming features

Updated the url for the website pricing page

Ensuring displacement textures in the .tiff format are recognized and loaded

Supporting the new convention for Poliigon textures

Show display name in the grid

Automatically save Material X (mtlx) files to disk when downloading textures in the new convention

Improved the popup for render engine not supported, so it more clearly indicates the currently active render engine (often Standard or Physical, which is not supported)

Corrected the colorspaces for AO, Fuzz, and Alphamasked maps

Fixed minor label bleeding during thumbnail loading

Improved undo behavior for textures, though V-Ray texture imports still require multiple undo-presses

Providing forward compatible looking changes for upcoming asset downloads

We resolved a critical bug which led to the extension interface not loading. This could have happened if you used the plugin between ~May 28th and 31st, due to wrong API data being cached to disk and causing the plugin to fail the next time C4D opened.

Simply updating should resolve this problem, be sure to restart after the install

Improved HDRI loading when there are user manipulated sky objects

The correct minimum plugin version is now defined, C4D 2023

Improves the loading and assignments of materials for some model assets

Improved importing model assets with variants, such that each variant correctly gets its own unique material instance

Fixed plugin not registering if Redshift is missing

Indicate assets purchased but not-yet local with a gray checkmark, so that local assets with a green checkmark are easier to identify

Added signal to remotely inform how an initiated download completed, so we may better monitor and improve asset download reliability

Improved readme installation instructions contained inside the plugin download

Resolved issues with loading and rendering materials in Octane

Resolved importing issues in C4D 2024.4, which would potentially cause incorrect material loading in V-Ray and Arnold due to new user C4D render preferences

Resolved issue where notification header area could be rendered as a black bar

Resolved an error which could occur when displaying total asset balance

Resolved not downloading next closest resolution if the given asset being downloaded doesn't have a resolution exactly matching the one specified in plugin preferences

Resolved issue where sometimes asset URLs would not open correctly

Resolved issue where sometimes using the top-right refresh button could corrupt some data

Integrate checks for update with one-click update installation. Next time an update is available, users will be notified in the header of the plugin with a link to the changelogs as well.

Fixed loading materials onto some model assets like PlantMonstera001, which would sometimes result in unhandled errors. Note: Some older model assets such as this Monstera may still have inconsistently rotated meshes, we are working to resolve these issues through asset updates.

More stable handling of missing thumbnails on server. Previously, a missing thumbnail could have rendered the UI much slower or even caused crashing, now it will gracefully move past the asset with any problems, and better yet, fall back to downloading the next best thumbnail.

In addition to Redshift, fully implemented Octane, Redshift, V-Ray, and Arnold support

In addition to textures, implemented HDRI and Model importing support

Improved call to action when encountering purchasing issues

Reduction of button flicker

Purchase, download, and import assets with Redshift

Browse and navigate all assets on the website

View your account information and plan

Open assets on the website or reveal their local location