Maxon One 2026.2 SDK Release

[ferdinand]

Dear development community,

On April the 15th, 2026, Maxon Computer released Maxon One 2026.2. For an overview of the new features please refer to the end user release notes.

Alongside this release, existing APIs have been updated. For a detailed overview, please see the Cinema 4D C++ SDK and the Cinema 4D Python SDK change notes.

Cinema 4D

C++ API

• Updated RenderDocument workflow to offer a more streamlined experience when rendering OCIO documents.
• Also added two new rendering related code examples and updated older examples.

Python API

• Updated c4d.documents.RenderDocument workflow to offer a more streamlined experience when rendering modern OCIO documents which is explained in a suite of new rendering examples.
• Added the ability to read and write SDS weighting data through the new c4d.HNWeightTag class.
• Added the ability to do efficient nearest neighbor searches through the new c4d.utils.KDTree and c4d.utils.KDTreeQuery classes.
• Added multiple new code examples, mostly revolving around rendering.

ZBrush

The ZBrush Python SDK has not been updated for this release.

Head to our download section to grab the newest SDK downloads.

Happy rendering and coding,
the Maxon SDK Team

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