Hello,

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best wishes,
Sebastian

@Graeme Thank you very much!
@r_gigante Will do, thanks.

Hi @mikeudin, thanks for reaching out us.

With regard to your request, although it's not expected it to work inside the Cinema 4D Script Manager you can get it properly working using the c4dpy executable (here's the 20.059 compatible version[URL-REMOVED]) as much as you do on the Python Shell or on SublimeText console as you can see from the log below.

$ more test.py import inspect # Save this code as script py-file and start def main(): code = inspect.getsource(main_new) # place function code to str variable print code # print code text. Works on Python Shell, but not in C4D Scripts Manager def main_new(): # This is a comment # New comment string # Change this code, to check the console output pass if __name__ == '__main__': main() $ ./c4dpy.app/Contents/MacOS/c4dpy test.py def main_new(): # This is a comment # New comment string # Change this code, to check the console output pass $

Best, Riccardo

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Sorry for late reply, there was an issue with my account.
Many thanks for comprehensive answers. The topic looks kind of mind bending now, not much easier than after I realised Api doesn't really have what I expected to have for the task accomplishment 😓
Now I think the better way might be to simulate the mouse over the viewport, so it will be an independent app which will only need from the Cinema to know where the viewport is. That seems easier I hope.
When my research or development will reach some success I will share what I learned here, maybe it will be handy for somebody else.
Thanks once more!

@Cairyn and @m_magalhaes

Thanks for the responses. The dictionary route seems like a good workaround.
I think I'm going with it.

Have a great day ahead!

Thank you so much.
I was thinging that I had to provide an edge index.
Never thought that it would just require to select the points that define the edges.
Great!!! 👍

Hi kurzemnieks, thanks for reaching out us.

With regard to your question, I confirm that it's actually not possible because Attribute Manager Window functionality are not exposed in the API and, additionally, being possible to open multiple Attribute windows at the same time with multiple items highlighted belonging to different object makes the parameter selection not connected to the object.

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Best regards, Riccardo

hi,

when you will be sure that it's solved, don't forget to mark this thread as solved please.

Cheers
Manuel

hello,

if you don't have anything else to add, i'll mark this topic as "solved"

Cheers
Manuel

hello,

if you don't have anything else to add, i'll mark this topic as "solved"

Cheers
Manuel

OK, I feel pretty stupid now... I was so busy with the specific way I used the script in the past, I forgot about the animation part 😞
So, I'll try to find some time soon to get the code up and running for animation. So my main function will be larger than "pass" 🙂

Hello,

Polygonize() is just using SendModelingCommand() with MCOMMAND_CURRENTSTATETOOBJECT. You can actually see the C++ source in c4d_basedocument.cpp in the cinema.framework. But I don't think that this commands merges all objects into one polygon object.

best wishes,
Sebastian

@Aeoll
Additional question:

I'm creating a QApplication and then a QDialog but I can't seem to close the QApplication at all when the dialog is |
closed?
This means even when C4D is closed normally it's still running in the background and needs to be force-quit. Any |
suggestions appreciated

I have the same issue with PySide. You mentioned that sole this issue. Could you Help me?

@Rage if you're looking for a solution where the user is not involved, stick to the first answer where no CallButton() was considered.
On the contrary using it will request the user to interact since there are no means to programmatically interact with the UI or scripting users' actions on the UI.

Best, Riccardo

wow! i love that.
great job!

Hi Bentraje, thanks for following up and sorry for coming late here.

I've checked your geometry and the issue is not with the algorithm, but in both cases with the geometries you're using to compute the area who don't shown vertexes being properly "ordered".
The algorithm I've briefly presented requires the vertexes to be ordered as if you're visiting them by walking on the outer edge of your n-gon or polygon in CCW or CW. It is then mandatory to generate an ordered list of vertexes before passing the data to the function to get the correct result.

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In order to come out with such an ordered list I warmly recommend you to visit the following old-threads:

Get all ngons PolygonObject.GetPolygonTranslationMap() Get outer edges of each Ngon

Best, Riccardo

HI Andreas,

no worries, this question was not exclusively targeted at Maxon, the opposite is the case. I was hoping for some information by other users here, like @kbar or even @m_adam (back in the days Maxime was not associated with Maxon. ;))

Meanwhile, I'm going to build a toolchain and see what works for me. I'll report back here if I have something to show. That may help someone else.

I'm trying to use this super handy plug-in to build help system for my plug-ins.
Thanks for sharing this!
After some days of working i have a some suggestions and bug reports.

After each publishing, resulting index.html have a title tag "Plugins 4D Documentation". Is it possible to add ability inserting images with other formats like gif, jpg? Now i have to copy my images to images folder and type using markdown code like this (not showing in Preview window):  Preview window stops showing any text content if it contains symbol '–'. But after publishing results, final HTML is ok. Would be great to add ability to add favicon image.

@m_adam yes it solves the pb.
Thanks Maxime