Cinema 4D

Brief notes

• All aspects of the model are stored in a single file, this includes geometry, camera specs, materials, etc.

• A left hand coordinate system is used, x left to right, y up, and z out of the page (screen).

• Files are stored in Motorola byte order so byte swapping is required for other-endian machines.

• It uses a tagged/chunked approach which allows parsers to successfully read the entire file even if certain chunks can't or need not be handled. This is achieved by simply adding the size of a chunk to the header of each chunk allowing a parser to skip to the next chunk if necessary.

This is for version 4.x released in 1997. It include C++ translation source code.