SkyBlox is a straightforward, semi-modular plugin for Cinema 4D to quickly assemble realistic buildings for architectural visualizations, scene setup, or background renderings in just a few clicks.

Skyblox’s great strength is its expandability with new various types of buildings via Expansion Packs which are availabe at the Expansion Marketplace.

The base plugin includes 5 realistic buildings. Every building consists of 9 modules: 3 basements, 3 mid-levels, and 3 tops. You can choose between these 3 variations for each section, stack the mid-levels infinitely high, and customize the roof and basement styles.

Night-View Mode (Resource Intensive): The tool features a Night-View mode to activate lights per element, which are randomized for realistic night renderings.

Memory Saving (Master-Slave System): To help keep scenes manageable, copying a building creates a “Slave” instance. This saves material and memory overhead while still allowing you to alter the appearance of individual copies.

SkyBlox is built specifically for Cinema 4D, comes with all ready-to-use materials/assets, and more expansion packs are planned for the future.

Additonal Plugin:

Skyblox includes an additional plugin that allows for the quick adjustment of tiling for all texture tags using a specific material. This is useful when a user replaces a material with their own textures and needs to adjust the tiling; otherwise, they would have to manually modify the tiling for the texture tag on every object using that material. However, this only works if the Skyblox instance has been made editable and consists of polygon objects. A future update might make this function available directly on the Skyblox plugin itself to provide it as a procedural feature.

INFINITE EXPANSION SYSTEM

Skyblox is designed as a modular ecosystem. After acquiring the basic set, you can expand your library at any time with Expansion Packs to include new architectural styles. Since SkyBlox is currently still growing, it may take some time for this library to expand.

LICENSING & HARDWARE

Skyblox uses a node-locked system (hardware-bound license). Your serial key allows you to register the plugin on up to two computers simultaneously (e.g., a workstation and a laptop). This applies to both private users and commercial entities. To maintain flexibility, you can release your licenses twice a year (every 30 days) to activate them on new hardware. After the initial assignment of the two nodes, you have a one-time opportunity to release and reassign them. Thereafter, this is possible only every 30 days. In special emergencies, please contact info@3deoskill.com. 3deoskill reserves the right to deny activation requests that appear suspicious or unusually frequent.

Good to know:

• Team Render servers and clients are not affected by the node-lock limitation.
• This node-lock restriction only applies to the base plugin. Expansion packs are also not hardware-bound. If a studio or company owns 3 or 4 licenses for the base plugin, they only need to purchase each expansion pack once to use it across all their seats.