@m_adam Thank you!

Just to add on top, os.path.listdir and os.path.join in python 2 are context-specific, so if you input a Unicode string it will output a Unicode string, if you input a regular string it will output a regular string. Now the culprit is on c4d.documents.MergeDocument because normally this method accepts a C++ Filename object (which is the Classic API that under the hood uses the new MaxonAPI maxon::Url). Unfortunately, the Python parser is not able to convert from a Python Unicode string to a C++ Filename, but only from a Python ASCII string to a filename. So indeed casting from Unicode string to ASCII is the solution. Cheers, Maxime.

Thank you!

Thanks @kosmos3d for the contribution and making the whole community aware of it. Best, R

Hey Richard! Thank you for the response, I have VS2017 version 15.9 all set up now, I think..... haha. I can see all the solutions in VS as well, but I ran the powersheel commands without having 2017 installed and I could see them in 2019, do I need to re-run the command or is it on the compile side that 2017 is the right version? I've been reading through all that documentation and I have seen the resources on Git as well so thanks for helping me understand I'm looking in the right spots haha! Thanks for the help so far, I'm sure I'll be back soon with more questions haha! Cheers! MattG

Bringing the viewport into focus worked... wow, I had a feeling it was something simple like that!

@zipit Thanks,this paper Parallel Transport Approach to Curve Framing I will follow your suggestion to explore RMF. It may be that the language barrier prevents us from communicating well, but I still get a lot of help from your answer. I use Google translate

Hello and welcome to the forum, For your next threads, please help us keeping things organised and clean. I know it's not your priority but it really simplify our work here. Q&A New Functionality. How to Post Questions especially the tagging part. I've added marked this thread as a question so when you considered it as solved, please change the state In your code you Resize the object after initialized for the modeling command. That's why. but probably a simpler way to achieve what you want is to access the polygon's data. The PolygonObject is inherit from PointObject where you can retrieve the pointer of the points' vectors with GetPointW sometthing like so will work Vector* padr{ pol->GetPointW() }; if (padr == nullptr) return maxon::NullptrError(MAXON_SOURCE_LOCATION); padr[3] = Vector(-2, 0, 0); You can have a look at our "roundtube" example in the sdk.zip file that ship with every Cinema 4D version. This example will show you how to create a primitive from scratch. Cheers, Manuel.

Any update?

Just to point out, I already answered & posted a full sample scene in this thread: https://www.c4dcafe.com/ipb/forums/topic/109504-python-vertex-map/ plus a detailed explanation on how vertex map calculation works in a free post on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/script-club-1-07-34384586 (Just so we don't get work duplicated.)

Hi @heilei thanks again for the comment! We'll try, where meaningful, to improve the typography in future releases. Best, R

Ok, got it. Thank you for your reply and clear explanation, r_gigante, much appreciated!

OK, thanks a lot for the quick answer! Cheers

Hi; if you're looking for Python development - I'd have some time on my hands. Long-time C4D user and developer (currently creating a Python-for-C4D course actually). Not in the UK though (mainland Europe). If you want to talk about some details, drop me a mail under cairyn (at) tigress (dot) com.

Once again, thank you, Manuel. I had to do a few changes and it is working now. I even made it select the faces that are within a certain angle from the camera. Here is my code: for i,poly in enumerate(faces): a,b,c,d = poly.a,poly.b,poly.c,poly.d pta = points[a]*mg ptb = points[b]*mg ptc = points[c]*mg ptd = points[d]*mg v1 = pta-ptb v2 = ptb-ptc normal = v1.Cross(v2) normal.Normalize() if c != d: center = c4d.Vector((pta.x+ptb.x+ptc.x+ptd.x)/4.0,(pta.y+ptb.y+ptc.y+ptd.y)/4.0,(pta.z+ptb.z+ptc.z+ptd.z)/4.0) else: center = c4d.Vector((pta.x+ptb.x+ptc.x)/3.0,(pta.y+ptb.y+ptc.y)/3.0,(pta.z+ptb.z+ptc.z)/3.0) direction = cam_off - center norm_dir = direction.GetNormalized() angle = NINETY - normal.Dot(norm_dir) if (angle > 0.0 and angle < max_ang): selection.Select(i)

Hi @wuzelwazel, thanks a lot for sharing your progresses on the Ptex Shader and for sharing your code. I've moved the thread to the more appropriate "General Programming & Plugin Discussions" hoping other developers could contribute to the discussion. Cheers, Riccardo

https://developers.maxon.net/forum/topic/11570/plugin-affecting-c4d-modules-startup/9

@Cairyn Hi, Thank you. Solution: Float GeIncircle(Int32 n, Float r) { return r * cos(PI / n); } Float max_rrad = GeIncircle(n, r);