Store a mesh/poly object..
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On 30/09/2014 at 03:58, xxxxxxxx wrote:
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Cinema 4D Version: R14
Platform: Windows ;
Language(s) : C++ ;---------
What im trying to do at the moment is have my plugin store a polygon object ( just the mesh really ) so that it can be recalled from within the plugin later. Is there an easy way to do this that im missing?What i have at the moment is basically this:
-User clicks a button.
-Plugin iterates through all the points and polygons of the chosen polygon object and stores the vector and index values in base containers.
-Plugin then writes the holding base container to a hyperfile in the plugin directory.
-Object is now stored inside the hyperfile and can be recalled via the plugin at any time.Next what happens is:
-User clicks another button.
-Plugin reads the holding base container from the hyperfile.
-Plugin iterates through the vectors and indexes stored and applies them to a new PolygonObject ( basically rebuilds the mesh from the data ).
-Plugin inserts this new object into the scene.This works for the most part although i am working through a couple of issues ( vertex orders i think although i have been careful to recreate all polygons exactly as they were in the original )..
But what i am wondering is, is there an easier way, to just store a PolygonObject to a hyperfile or even inside the plugins BaseContainer? The idea is it has to be retrievable so when the plugin is distributed or used in a different C4D session/document/whatever the objects are available. Is parsing the mesh / rebuilding it in this way the only way to achieve this? Or am i missing an easier way to store an object?
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On 30/09/2014 at 05:03, xxxxxxxx wrote:
I found the following post ( thanks Yannick and Nicklas ) :
Which suggests putting the objects inside a dummy doc, saving to a memory file and then writing the memory to a hyperfile.. It
s also mentioned that the bytesequence wouldnt be platform independent. Not the end of the world i suppose but could be an annoyance.Sounds like the only way other than manually parsing/rebuilding the polygonal object..
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On 07/10/2014 at 03:50, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Are you through with this then?
I'd like to close this issue then.
I think, this also might be a nice topic for the C$D programming blog (http://c4dprogramming.wordpress.com/). It's noted down. -
On 24/10/2014 at 05:06, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Originally posted by xxxxxxxx
I found the following post ( thanks Yannick and Nicklas ) :
https://developers.maxon.net/forum/topic/6878/7704_write-object-to-hyperfile
Which suggests putting the objects inside a dummy doc, saving to a memory file and then writing the memory to a hyperfile.. Its also mentioned that the bytesequence wouldnt be platform independent. Not the end of the world i suppose but could be an annoyance.
Sounds like the only way other than manually parsing/rebuilding the polygonal object..Why don't you simply store the BaseDocument that contains your object to a file, using the SaveDocument() function?
Alternatively, you could try if C4DAtom::WriteObject(hf) does the job for you.
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On 25/10/2014 at 11:05, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi jack,
I didn`t want to expose anything in my plugin to users so saving doc was not an option. I ended up using the save memory to hyperfile option. Not sure if i tried C4DAtom::WriteObject(hf) at the time i might give that a look..
Ideally it would be
usefulif there was a way to store objects internally ( ie to the plugin basecontainer or similar ) but don`t think there is a way to do that.