Hello,

I just want to add that an example on how check a spline can be found in the BaseObject Manual.

best wishes,
Sebastian

Hi guys,

I'm finally glad to state that by upgrading the platform to a more recent version you should be able not only to mark a topic as Solved but also to select the correct post solving the thread.

Please verify on your side with your next-to-come threads and in case report any unexpected behavior.

Best, Riccardo

@a_block said in Cinema 4D Script: Web Search Selected Text:

I have added the "showcase" tag, so people are hopefully able to filter for your and other similar threads more easily.

Great! Thank you!👍

Hi,

thanks for pointing this out to us.
Yet, we were not able to reproduce this issue. What we found so far, when doing a search for "EventAdd()" (or anything similar resulting in a large number of results) and the search is set to show posts instead of threads, then switching between result pages can indeed take some time (at least for the first switch). During this time the page is indeed completely unresponsive and seems frozen, which is not nice. But here it always returned and showed the expected content after a bunch of seconds (I think in my tests longest was about 15 seconds).
We'll keep an eye on this.

Cheers,
Andreas

Hi @SteveJLV welcome in the plugincafe community,

I would like to point you to some rules:

Read Before Posting. Nothing wrong here, but just in case. Q&A New Functionality. I've setup your topic correctly.

As you already figured it out, you never assign a new value to the variable. In Python, everything is passed by value by default in 90% of the time.
Meaning when you do x = y will actually copy y to x, so afterward if you do x + 10 it will not affect y value.

If you have more questions, don't hesitate.
Cheers,
Maxime.

Hi,

I'm sorry for getting back late to you.

We have never done this ourselves nor have we heard of anyone.
The reasons for the difference between C++ and Python API are probably historic. Also back then we had no generic concept for callbacks in Python. Now, with MAXON API and appearance of Delegates and Observables such things will probably handled much nicer in future. Maybe it were also performance considerations.
Many words, for a "I don't know", sorry.

In any case we'll forward this a an idea to our development, so it is at least considered for a future release.

Cheers,
Andreas

Problem solved. The Volume Mesher is to blame. Putting it in a Connect object and using that as the clone object did the trick.

Hi,

no worries, the first line is so big because of a stray "=" on the next line, underlining the first to be interpreted as a heading.

I'll move this thread to the General Programming & Plugin Discussions category, because in the end C4D does not provide any means to provoke UAC, nor do we deem it necessary inside our API as it is a pretty system specific thing. Yet, the discussion might lead back to C4D related questions, and then I'll either happily move it back or we'll have a new thread in the Cinema 4D Development category.

In general I think, it would probably be better to convince your users to install the plugin into either the plugins folder in the "user folder" or even (assuming R20+) a completely separate directory added to the users prefs.

Another thought, while definitely possible with Python, I'd say an update mechanism should change/replace files while the main application is running. After all you can not be completely sure, which files the application decides to lock at certain points off time, in which case your updater would probably run into issues. My recommendation is to rather update by restarting the main app (for C++ it's inevitable anyway).

Cheers,
Andreas

Hi,

welcome to Plugin Café.

Do you have any context?

Bye,
Andreas

Yes, it will be to discuss plugins and their development. The subject of my discord is 3D, with several chat rooms dedicated to Cinema4D.
I would put the invitation on my profile, instead of the website;)

You can come and see if you want, here's an invitation:
https://discord.gg/4SFvDa

PS: If you come, let me know so that I can give you access to all the sections

@m_adam Thank you!

Thank you Maxime, I'll test all this 😉

I've wrote it by myself 🙂
Its presentation is here: https://developers.maxon.net/forum/topic/11336/script-harden-edges-of-all-uv-borders-break-phong-shading
May be it'll be useful for someone
Cheers

This does not belong here. This site is about developing plugins and the SDK in general.
You may want to visit the support website

By the way, if you own C4D R15, you already have TeamRender available. Just run your installation disc on a node of your choice and select TeamRender Client.

Hi Shir, thanks for following up and providing your additional info.

Showing parameter in the Attribute Manager or a custom icon in the Object Manager is not such a big issue: you can start looking at Py-RoundedTube which is an ObjectData derived plugin where all such a stuff (and more) is shown.
That said, the real question is instead to understand what your rig is actually doing and see if it's reasonable to implement the Xpresso functionality from a set of "primitive" functions you implement in your plugin or if would be instead easier to programmatically recreate the Xpresso rig in an XpressoTag then attached to the object generated by your plugin.

Actually this assessment can't be done from here where the final functionality and the complexity of your Xpresso network is unknown.

So far I do see three approches:

start on your own, step-by-step, dissect the code from the example I mentioned above and try to move your steps alone outsource the task to some paid developer
or call for volunteers in our very helpful PluginCafe community.

I'm sorry not be more helpful but, as said in the first post, we can't deliver turn-key plugins or scripts but rather help our customer to learn from our resources.

Best, Riccardo

@s_bach

i see. thx, nevertheless.
well, as said, the only way to avoid that collision seems to be: put the plugins into the plugin-folder of the main application.

while discussing the other part of my problem (see symbolcache-topic) on other forums (the german c4dnetwork, that is), it became apparent, that other ppl also do have those collision-messages with r20 - and they, too, do not experience those plugins to be not working.

if at any time this "problem" should become of interest for you, let me know, if there's something that i could do/deliver/add any detail, to support you in your efforts.

cheers,
mesut.