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    SDK Change Notes for Cinema 4D 2025.0.0

    Summarizes the API and documentation changes made between Cinema 4D versions 2024.5.1 and 2025.0.0.

    Overview

    For an an overview of the required development environment for this release on Windows, MacOS, or Linux, see Development Environments.

    Major Changes

    Added
    The Classic API has been relabeled as Cinema API. All classic API entities have been moved into the new cinema namespace. See Migrating Plugins to the 2025.0 API for details.
    Updated
    The OpenColorIO Manual has been extended with two new code examples concerning the 2025 OCIO changes.

    Minor Changes

    API Changes

    Summarizes the technical changes made to the public APIs of Cinema 4D within the scope of these change notes.

    The section below lists the differences between the 2025.0.0 and 2024.5.1 as collapsible sections organized in frameworks, files, and changes. The collapsible sections each denote the number of changes they contain in light gray on the right of the section bar. Note that change means here block of change, so 10 consecutive lines which have all been changed count as one change. Click a section bar to expand or close it it, or click the ↧ or ↥ button to expand or close a framework section and all its nested sections. With the ▸ button found on file sections, you can jump to the complete file dif for that file, a ⇲ button will transport you to the matching documentation page of a file or framework.