Shuaa Renderer

Unbiased GPU path tracing for Cinema 4D, real-time Live Viewer and NPR.


Shuaa Renderer Beta Sneak Peek

Shuaa Renderer Beta is out.

Free, for Cinema 4D 2024 and 2026 on NVIDIA RTX. Beta 0.9.1, until 31 January 2027.

Features

What is in the Beta.

Live Viewer, Shuaa Renderer

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Live Viewer

Renders inside Cinema 4D while you work. Sends a render to the Picture Viewer, and turns the denoiser on and off.

Shuaa Material, Shuaa Renderer

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Shuaa Material

A physically based material: base, metalness, roughness, coat, sheen, transmission, subsurface, emission.

Node editor, Shuaa Renderer

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Node editor

Fourteen Shuaa nodes: Texture, Noise, Gradient, Falloff, Mix, Layer, Math, Float, Invert, Curvature, Fresnel, Triplanar, Color Correction and Transform.

Light transport, Shuaa Renderer

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Light transport

Random-walk subsurface scattering, glass with absorption, and caustics.

Volumes, Shuaa Renderer

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Volumes

VDB Smoke and Fire. Shuaa Fog for Atmosphere and Light Beams.

Sky and environment, Shuaa Renderer

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Sky and environment

Shuaa Sky & Sun, and HDRI environments.

Camera, Shuaa Renderer

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Camera

Depth of field with bokeh. Motion blur for the camera, moving objects and deforming meshes.

Geometry, Shuaa Renderer

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Geometry

Micro-displacement, renderable splines and particles.

Stylized (NPR), Shuaa Renderer

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Stylized (NPR)

Banded, cel-style shading from lights and the environment, and outlines. Set per material.

Scene translation, Shuaa Renderer

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Scene translation

Objects, cameras, lights, MoGraph clones, hair, particles and splines. No export.

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Output

Render passes to multi-layer EXR. OptiX denoiser.

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Memory

Scenes larger than the card's video memory still render, more slowly.

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Unbiased by default

Shuaa traces paths without bias by default. Any setting that adds bias says so in a note beneath it.

Gallery

Renders made with Shuaa in Cinema 4D.

See the gallery
sky-and-environment, rendered in Shuaa Shuaa-01, rendered in Shuaa Particles, rendered in Shuaa GT3 studio floor, rendered in Shuaa GT3 rear, rendered in Shuaa Stylized mech, rendered in Shuaa Smoke and fire, rendered in Shuaa GT3 low key, rendered in Shuaa Coupe on the road, rendered in Shuaa Glass study, rendered in Shuaa Mech material study, rendered in Shuaa Hair and fur study, rendered in Shuaa Cloud ring, rendered in Shuaa Coupe wheel detail, rendered in Shuaa Caustics study, rendered in Shuaa Subsurface study, rendered in Shuaa GT3 street, rendered in Shuaa

Requirements

HostCinema 4D 2024 and 2026
OSWindows 10 / 11, 64-bit
GPUNVIDIA RTX 20 series or newer, or an RTX professional card
DriverNVIDIA 590 or newer
Memory32 GB recommended

Not supported: macOS, AMD and Intel graphics.