@r_gigante Maybe a little late, but thanks for the info anyway. Always useful, and much appreciated! I went with a custom implementation using a BaseArray to store the information, and from there used the specific index in the array as the value in an HashMap Instead of the wanted: maxon::HashMap<Int32, DataStruct> mymap; I went with: class MyHashMap { ... maxon::BaseArray<DataStruct> mArray; maxon::HashMap<Int32, Int32> mArrayIndexMap; }; This is more or less what you have described. The only drawback here is that I still haven't found out how to implement range-based loop support ... but I went with using the old-fashioned indexed loop usage. Good enough for its purpose.

@jcooper said in How to set completely custom render output filename?: How do I control how much zero-padding is used for the $frame token? We typically use 4-digit, zero-padded frame tokens, but what if a situation called for, say, 6 digits? Hi John, with regard to the $frametoken the zero-padding is hardcoded but as stated by @zipit you can workaround it by registering your token (see here) . How do I get at the RenderData for a specific renderer such as Redshift? For instance, it has its own "filename" attribute, but I don't know how to access/modify it from the python API. You need to retrieve the RedShift BaseVideoPost and retrieve the corresponding data from its BaseContainer. Check the code below # Get the active RenderData renderData = doc.GetActiveRenderData() if renderData is None: raise RuntimeError("Failed to retrieve the render data.") # Get the active render settings renderSettings = renderData.GetData() if renderSettings is None: raise RuntimeError("Failed to retrieve the render settings.") # Get the first video post videopost = renderData.GetFirstVideoPost() if videopost is None: raise RuntimeError("Failed to retrieve the videopost associated with the render data.") # Search for the RedShift videopost while videopost is not None and videopost.GetType() != 1036219: print "RedShift is not set as renderer in the active RenderData, check next" videopost = videopost.GetNext() rsAOV = None # Retrieve the AOV -> Filname param value if videopost is not None and videopost.GetType() == 1036219: rsAOV = videopost[c4d.REDSHIFT_RENDERER_AOV_PATH] # Reads the path stored in the render setting path = renderSettings[c4d.RDATA_PATH] # Add token to the path path = path + rsAOV # Tokenizes the path from the render engine rpd = {'_doc': doc, '_rData': renderData, '_rBc': renderSettings, '_frame': 1} exclude = [] finalFilename = c4d.modules.tokensystem.FilenameConvertTokensFilter(path, rpd, exclude)+".png" print finalFilename

Just FYI: you find that information regarding ./res/libs/win64 in the documentation: Development for Microsoft Window

Hey, I understand your frustration unfortunately here Python is not to blame but Cinema 4D API in general since Python is only a subset of the C++ API and you have the same limitation (in your case) in C++. But yes we try to improve. Cheers, Maxime.

It could be. I never got around to investigating it any further. But if/when I do I will have a look at that flag for sure. Since in my tests there was definitely something going on with the polygon indices. Thanks for investigating this further and also for reporting your findings. Really helpful.

@Cairyn Ah youre right, the Return was the cause of the errors, not the triple quotes. Got it all working now! (after taking a few tries to get the "indents" with the strings right) Thanks a ton!

@esan said in OperatorSetData for "Lists"?: Another quick question. is there still a bug on c4d.GV_OBJECT_OPERATOR_OBJECT_OUT? Yes it's still there and being R20 maintenance ended it's likely to remain. Best, R

You are right. self.width = c4d.gui.SizePix(w) self.height = c4d.gui.SizePix(h) self.color = color wasn't actually used. Will close this thread now and crawl to my little cave of shame. lol

@m_adam said in How to create splitted dialog window: But in any case, here it's how it works. Thank you very much, Maxime! Great example!

Hi @blastframe this is also the behavior of AutoKey in the Editor, so I would say is not an API issue. But you can use BaseDocument.Record to simulate the click of AddKeyFrame (but of course correct parameter have to be checked). Cheers, Maxime.

@m_adam Thanks for the response. For some reason, the return value is not accepted by the SetFont. It does not error out. It just uses the default font. In addition, how were you able to determine that the [508] is for the font name? I can't seem to see such reference in the documentation. You can check the working code here: import c4d from c4d import gui # Welcome to the world of Python def GetSegoeUiBoldFont(): bcFonts = c4d.bitmaps.GeClipMap.EnumerateFonts(c4d.GE_CM_FONTSORT_HIERARCHICAL) for familyId, familyBc in bcFonts: for fontDescriptionId, fontDescription in familyBc: if fontDescription[508] == "SegoeUI-Bold": return fontDescription print fontDescription def main(): w = 50 h = 50 image_with_text = c4d.bitmaps.GeClipMap() image_with_text.Init(w=w,h=h,bits=32) image_with_text.BeginDraw() image_with_text.SetColor(125,255,255) image_with_text.FillRect(x1=0,y1=0,x2=50,y2=50) image_with_text.SetColor(0,0,0) font_bc = GetSegoeUiBoldFont() print font_bc font_size = 15 image_with_text.SetFont(font_bc,font_size) image_with_text.TextAt(x=10,y=15,txt='head') image_with_text.EndDraw() bmp = image_with_text.GetBitmap() c4d.bitmaps.ShowBitmap(bmp) # Execute main() if __name__=='__main__': main()

I found the problem this is not the issue.

Just for future reference ... The topic's tag indicates this to be "solved" when it definitely isn't. But as this is a R16 issue only I guess no further time will be taken to figure out why this issue exists in R16 and not in newer releases. Also, there is currently no workaround as far as I know. The only thing one can do is check for the current C4D version running and avoid writing to a MultipassBitmap.

Thanks @m_adam. First time using the c4d.DrawViews(). It works as expected. Thanks for the introduction.

Hello, as Riccardo has pointed out, AdditionalIncludeDirectories has nothing to do with DLLs. It is used to define search paths for header files. See Additional include directories. It was never valid. Also, looking at the error, the plugin was installed into the C:/Program Files folder. In R21, there is no reason to install plugins there; one can install plugins at any location and just tell Cinema 4D the plugin path. best wishes, Sebastian

Hi Maxime, thanks a lot! Both are valid solutions for me. Very helpful. Cheers

@blastframe @m_magalhaes Thanks for the response and the confirmation that Undo is not included in the GeDialog(GUI). That said the supplied code works on my use case. Thanks again!

@r_gigante Thank you for the response and especially for the alternative code (first time to see a line with msg[c4d.BFM_ACTION_VALUE]. Both code works as expected.

@m_adam Ah. Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification and link.

SaveDocument is already present in the original code in the extended threading class "ExportThread" TO not make it happens in a thread. So to directly execute it in ExecuteConversion. The use of SendCoreMessage is a way, from a thread (and it's the case for you in ExportThread::Main) to send a message, that Cinema 4D will process on the Main thread (I didn't use in my code because in my case I'm in the main thread). So you can react to this message and do something (in your case SaveDocument). It was just for your information, regarding what's your thread is doing (only calling SaveDocument) I would say that using a thread here make no sense, and you should directly call SaveDocument in your ExecuteConversion function. Hope it's more clear. Cheers, Maxime.