Welcome

Welcome to the Microbion web site. This site was in suspended animation for some years while the author worked on developing X-Particles for Cinema 4D, but has now been revised and updated. Keep checking back from time to time as I'll be restoring more of the old content and adding new material.

Gas Giant: forthcoming plugin

The second plugin in the 'Space' series, a gas giant shader, is currently in preparation. More details to follow soon!

StarScape released!

September 25th 2024: StarScape is a new starfield shader plugin for Cinema 4D that is now available for C4D 2024 and 2025. Please see the plugin page for more details.

Plugins updated for C4D 2025

All my plugins have been rebuilt for compatibility with the latest release of Cinema 4D. However, they are currently only available for Windows and not macOS. For the reasons why, see this blog article.

New blog pages

I have started a new blog which will focus mainly on developing plugins for Cinema 4D. You can see the home page here, or access it from the 'blog' link in the menu at the top of this page.

New plugin

(November 29th 2023) A new plugin, 'Round-It' has been released. This plugin makes it simple to round the position, rotation or scale of an object up or down. Please see the plugin page for details and a download link. Round-It is available for R2024 only.

Updated plugins

(October 9th 2023) All my plugins now work with Cinema 4D R2024. Please see the plugins page for more details.

Plugin development

(September 30th 2023) A new page has been added on using the new 'notarytool' in XCode for notarizing Cinema 4D plugins on a Mac.

New section: node setups

This is a section for setups using the node system in Cinema 4D. You can find links to the currently available setups on the node setups page. The first setup creates a target reticle which you can link to a scene camera so you always look through the reticle when the linked camera is the active one.

Plugin development

(July 10th 2023) A new tutorial has been added on how to write a new core node for the node system in Cinema 4D. You can find this at the Creating a core node page.

New plugin

(November 14th 2022) My new plugin, 'ChemLoader' has been released. This is a plugin to build chemical structures from loaded molecule definition files. Please see the plugin page for more details and to download a copy for Cinema 4D R26 or 2023.

How to Use X-Particles

(August 26th 2022) The next stage of my e-book on using X-Particles, which adds chapters on the System object and several modifiers, is now available for free download. Please see the book's own website for more details.

 

Models

(August 22nd 2024) I have a number of models which I produced over several years. Over the next few weeks I'll be releasing many of these as free models for C4D users. They tend to be simple models (though by no means all of them are) but may still be useful to anyone needing a model for a scene. See the models pages for details and download links.

Latest models added:


Penny-farthing bicycle

Fairbairn dagger

Apatosaurus

Simple stiletto

Plastic toy submarine

Page last updated on September 27 2024