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My free plugin, Redshift Light Manager, has been updated and released. You can download and update it in our Boghma plugin manager. And hope you enjoy it.
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If you have any ideas or suggestions, please feel free to let me know.

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Thank you.

Hi, @Gaal-Dornik
Of course you can add header, divider and icon in to Popup dialog.
this is a simple example for how to add title, separator and icon:

import c4d

def main() -> None:
    bc = c4d.BaseContainer()
    bc.InsData(c4d.FIRST_POPUP_ID, "item01")
    bc.InsData(c4d.FIRST_POPUP_ID+1, "item02")
    
    # add a title
    bc.InsData(0, "This is Title")
    bc.InsData(c4d.FIRST_POPUP_ID+2, "item03")
    bc.InsData(c4d.FIRST_POPUP_ID+3, "item04")
    
    # add separator
    bc.InsData(0, "")
    bc.InsData(c4d.FIRST_POPUP_ID+4, "item05")
    
    # add icon for an item
    bc.InsData(c4d.FIRST_POPUP_ID+5, f"item06 &i{5140}&")
    bc.InsData(c4d.FIRST_POPUP_ID+6, "item07")
    
    res = c4d.gui.ShowPopupDialog(cd=None, bc=bc, x=500, y=500)
    

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

And the result is like this:

You can also visit API Documentation page for more information.

@Dunhou
It's realy cool and usefull, keep going bro

Hi @ferdinand

Thank you so much for your explain, i understand what's happen now.

Cheers

Hi everyone!
This is Gheyret from Boghma! My new plugin Redshift ShaderLink has now been officially released.

Redshift ShaderLink is a plugin specifically developed to improve the work efficiency of Redshift users. With this plugin, users can use Cinema 4D Procedural shaders and apply them to scenes as light maps or Gobo maps.

Download

you can download it in our new Boghma Plugins Manager.
There are many other free plugins available in our Boghma plugin manager, and we look forward to your using them.

We also warmly welcome other third-party developers to leverage our platform and share their plugins with a broader audience of Cinema 4D users.
If you're looking for such a platform, feel free to contact us at any time!

Hi @Gaal-Dornik

Yes, you can create just regular command with c4d.gui.ShowPopupDialog
Just like this:

import c4d

def main() -> None:
    
    menu = c4d.BaseContainer()
    # Add some commands
    menu.InsData(5159, "CMD")
    menu.InsData(1007455, "CMD")
    menu.InsData(1018544, "CMD")
    
    # Show the popup menu
    c4d.gui.ShowPopupDialog(cd=None, bc=menu, x=500, y=500)
        

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

And this is the result:

For more information about c4d.gui.ShowPopupDialog, you can go to This page.

And about your question：

How to create a radial (pie) menu?

I've done some research on this:

• Just using c4d.gui.ShowPopupDialog to create the radial menu. But I don't like the style of that. I want to highly customizable of UI creation methed.
• Use c4d.gui.GeUserArea. we can use c4d.gui.GeUserArea to draw anything we want. But unfortunately, we can't just keep the UI widgets and make the background Dialog disappear.
• Use third-party UI Library like PySide(PyQt), we can create any style of UI interface, but the problem is that Cinema 4D doesn't support third-party libraries, so we can't normally use PySide in Cinema 4D Python, While there are people in this thread who can use it, I think PySide is too big for a gadget like Radial Menu (it's fully 300MB in size).

That's it. If you have intrested or some ideas for that, please tell me.

Cheers~
Gheyret

Thanks so much for @Dunhou and other Boghma member to do this amazing things!

Hi @i_mazlov
I can't use C++ at the moment, so I thought I'd try MultilineEditText for my purposes.
I looked for This post in the forum and now I have some ideas.
Thank you for your reply!

Cheers~

Thank you for your reply and solution！
Cheers~

Hi, everyone!

I'm looking for a way to get and set parameters from anywhere by dragging and dropping, just like GSG's Signal tag plugin does.

I checked a lot of forum posts and saw that python doesn't support to do that.
I came up with GeUserArea, but GeUserArea can only be used in GeDialog.
I also wondered if I could use CustomDataType to create a drag-and-drop operation that accepts parameters, but it doesn't seem possible to create CustomDataType in python.

I don't know if there's another or similar way to do that.

Hi Everyone!

I'm Trying to use GeListNode.ChangeNBit(c4d.NBIT_EHIDE, c4d.NBITCONTROL_SET) to hide some objects and save the project file and close it.
And I open the project file again and try to using GeListNode.ChangeNBit(c4d.NBIT_EHIDE, c4d.NBITCONTROL_CLEAR), I find that although the code works, but the hidden objects are still not displayed in viewport.

Is this a bug or something special thing happend?

This is the project file I tested, and it's already hide the 4 objects top of the OM:
show-hide_test.c4d

And this the simple testing code for displayed them:

import c4d

doc: c4d.documents.BaseDocument  # The currently active document.
op: c4d.BaseObject | None  # The primary selected object in `doc`. Can be `None`.

def main() -> None:
    objs = doc.GetObjects()
    for obj in objs:
        if obj.GetNBit(c4d.NBIT_EHIDE):
            print(obj.ChangeNBit(c4d.NBIT_EHIDE, c4d.NBITCONTROL_CLEAR))
            print(obj.GetNBit(c4d.NBIT_EHIDE))

    c4d.EventAdd()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

P.S: I also found that after running the test code in the above project file and saving the project, closing it and then opening it again, those hidden objects came back.

Hi ! @Gemini ,
You can simply drag and drop the parameter you want to Script Manager to get or set it.
Just like this:

Hi @ferdinand ！
Sorry for late reply, and thank you very much for your detailed and thorough explanation, and for taking the time to explain the relationship between linear algebra and trigonometry in the context of computer graphics and transformations.
As a beginner, all I want to do here is to practice as much as I can with the knowledge I've learned, and I apologize if I didn't explain clearly.
Yes, in the code I want to implement is placing two tangent handle relative to the two input objects a and c.
Compared to calculating with trigonometric functions, your suggestion seems more straightforward and clear, and I never would have thought to use vectors to achieve this, I need to keep practicing.
I will take the time to review the thread you mentioned.
Thank you again for your support and guidance. Thank you very much for your insights!

Hi everyone!
I have recently been learning some basics of linear algebra.
In order to verify my learning results, I created a Bezier spline Generator with Python Generator.
But when I set the tangents of the spline, something confused me.
When I moved the point of the spline, the left and right handles of the tangent would switch positions, or would they flip 180 degrees? I don't quite understand what's going on here.

And there is my test code and Scene file:

import c4d
import math

def main() -> c4d.BaseObject:
    null = c4d.BaseObject(c4d.Onull)

    a = op.GetDown()
    b = a.GetNext()
    c = b.GetNext()

    obj = b.GetClone(0)
    obj[c4d.NULLOBJECT_RADIUS] = 5
    obj[c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_USECOLOR] = 2
    obj[c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_COLOR] = c4d.Vector(1,0,0)
    obj2 = obj.GetClone(0)
    obj2[c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_COLOR] = c4d.Vector(0,1,0)

    a_pos_local = ~b.GetMg() * a.GetMg().off
    a_polar_angle = math.atan2(a_pos_local.y, a_pos_local.x)
    a_length = a_pos_local.GetLength()

    b_pos_local = ~b.GetMg() * c.GetMg().off
    b_polar_angle = math.atan2(b_pos_local.y, b_pos_local.x)
    b_length = b_pos_local.GetLength()

    polar = (a_polar_angle + b_polar_angle)/2 + (math.pi / 2)
    leng = (a_length + b_length)/2
    x = leng * math.cos(polar)
    y = leng * math.sin(polar)
    vec = c4d.Vector(x,y)


    move_vec1 =  vec.GetNormalized() * op[c4d.ID_USERDATA,1]
    m1 = ~op.GetMg() * b.GetMg() * c4d.utils.MatrixMove(move_vec1)
    m2 = ~op.GetMg() * b.GetMg() * c4d.utils.MatrixMove(-move_vec1)

    obj.SetMg(m1)
    obj2.SetMg(m2)

    obj.InsertUnder(null)
    obj2.InsertUnder(null)
    
    spline = c4d.SplineObject(3, c4d.SPLINETYPE_BEZIER)
    spline.SetPoint(0, a.GetMg().off)
    spline.SetPoint(1, b.GetMg().off)
    spline.SetPoint(2, c.GetMg().off)
    
    vl = ~b.GetMg() * obj.GetMg().off
    vr = ~b.GetMg() * obj2.GetMg().off
    spline.SetTangent(1, vl, vr)
    
    spline.InsertUnder(null)

    return null

tangent.c4d

Thanks for your explaination @ferdinand
Now I understand what's going on here.

Cheers!

This is my plugin , I promise I'm not reuse plugin id, and I can't use it, it will show that the plugin ID has been registered
But I get this: (It's a TagData Plugin, but I can get another Command-Type here.)

So many Object, Tool and Tag type plugins have a command type.

Hey @ferdinand ，
Thank you for your clarification.
What I meant by the difference is what will happen when users execute commands with the same ID but different types.
How do they differ in terms of their functionality?
For instance, if executes a Tool-type Cloud Tool and Command-type Cloud Tool, what would happen in each case?
and if they perform the same function, can I then avoid manually screening them?