Overview​

The AYON Cinema4D integration addon allows you to manage your Cinema4D workfiles, load versioned content and manage it all nicely directly within the AYON ecosystem and easily produce predictable caches back out for easy loading into other integrations in the AYON ecosystem.

Requirements​

Install Qt library for Cinema4D​

A Qt library must be installed for Cinema4D to ensure the AYON tools can run, either make sure a PySide6 or PySide2 library is available on PYTHONPATH matching the Python version of the Cinema4D release.

You can install it on windows manually via:

1. Download get-pip.py.

2. Go to your Cinema 4d installation path, it can look like

   C:\Program Files\Maxon Cinema 4D 2025

   You can do this easily and quickly via using Terminal action in the AYON Launcher and select cinema4d from the menu. which opens the installation path in terminal.

3. Open a new terminal and Run

   c4dpy.exe {yourgetpipscriptdirectory}/get-pip.py
   c4dpy.exe -m pip install --ignore-installed PySide6

Cinema4D Addon Settings​

Color Management (ImageIO)​

Setting Location: ayon+settings://cinema4d/imageio

This setting allows admins to override the global color management settings. For more details, please see Host specific overrides.

• Enable Color Management​: This toggle enables AYON's global color management. This toggle is a master switch that enables and disables the whole section.

• File Rules​

  • Activate Host Rules

  • Rules

    • +: Add more rules

    • Each rule consists of

      

      • Rule name

      • Regex pattern

      • Colorspace name

      • File extension

Known Issues​

High DPI scaling​

The Redshift render view may appear oddly scaled on high DPI monitors due to some Qt scaling environment variables that AYON sets by default. To resolve this, launch Cinema4D with the environment variable: QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0

This can be easily setup in the Application environment settings:

{
 "QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR": "0"
}