@mp5gosu @m_adam I'll test out these options and see how it works out. Thanks for the information guys, I appreciate it!

@m_adam Thanks

Solved. There is TREEVIEW_OUTSIDE_DROP option.

Hi @pim, In Python, SpecialEventAdd can only pass integer value, so the sender part can store the data into the document BaseContainer send the SpecialEventAdd/ Process this event read back the data from the active document BaseContainer. You can find valuable information on this topic https://developers.maxon.net/forum/topic/8219/10712_pluginmessage-and-pycobject-solved/5. Cheers, Maxime.

@C4DS said in Send message to tooldata: PrepareData Your first answer works great! Thank you.

Yes - dragging session only occurs in a 2D space - I thought so. Thanks.

Thanks for the answer. I just started with a command plugin. New requirements emerged and yes, perhaps I now change over to a tool plugin.

Hi Bentraje, thanks for following up and sorry for coming late here. I've checked your geometry and the issue is not with the algorithm, but in both cases with the geometries you're using to compute the area who don't shown vertexes being properly "ordered". The algorithm I've briefly presented requires the vertexes to be ordered as if you're visiting them by walking on the outer edge of your n-gon or polygon in CCW or CW. It is then mandatory to generate an ordered list of vertexes before passing the data to the function to get the correct result. [image: 1553532189426-62d2c929-154a-4c85-b558-af1536d3153d-image.png] In order to come out with such an ordered list I warmly recommend you to visit the following old-threads: Get all ngons PolygonObject.GetPolygonTranslationMap() Get outer edges of each Ngon Best, Riccardo

Well, I do have a loop but I just pasted the code that would, hopefully, perform the calculation. And I did tried the GetDeformCache approach, but my mistake was, in fact the cloning of the object. Thank you so much for the code, Adam.

Hi Merkvilson, thanks for reaching out us. If the final intent is to simply get BaseBitmapinformation to be returned by your shader, rather than sampling a Xbitmap shader I suggest instead to simply query the color information by using BaseBitmap::GetPixel and eventually apply color space transformation. def Output(self, sh, cd) : x = int(cd.p.x * self.bitmap.GetBw()) y = int(cd.p.y * self.bitmap.GetBh()) col = self.bitmap.GetPixel(x, y) return c4d.Vector(float(col[0]/256.0), float(col[1]/256.0), float(col[2]/256.0)) Best, Riccardo

Hi, I'm glad you found something working for you. I just want to mention, this way of using the deform cache directly will only work for very specific setups, for arbitrary object configurations you will most likely need to iterate through the cache. So, I think, it's worth to give those manuals another read. Also Maxime has posted some snippets in Getting a polygonal version of an animated mesh, which might be useful for you. Cheers, Andreas

@s_bach Ok, Thanks.

This issue is now fixed in R21. Cheers, Maxime.

Hi Sebastian! Turns out my issues are two seperate, but equally self inflicted problems Inserting and activating works as expected, I am blocking the update with some custom UI stuff so I will have to find a solution for that. Calling EventAdd() in the closeEvent of the UI doesn't do anything. Is there another way to force Cinema to update everything? Killing the document not only doesn't update, but actually crashes Cinema, because I am trying to kill the document from within a callback that is reacting to MSG_DOCUMENTINFO_TYPE_LOAD. I am doing some more involved environment management and sometimes I have to close a document after loading. I have a workaround that will have to do for now. In the callback I change the document path to a string I can then look for in EVMSG_CHANGE. When I detect my string there, I can then kill the document. It's not very elegant and if anyone has a better solution I would be very happy, but otherwise consider this problem solved

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 mafster, thanks for reaching out us. With regard to accessing images being available in the Picture Viewer, I'm sorry to confirm that there is no PictureViewer-related classes/functions exposed in the API. This is valid for both C++ and Python API. Best, Riccardo

Hi, good we got you going It is not wrong per se to use multiple plugin directories. Actually Cinema 4D R20 was specifically designed to have multiple ones. You just need to make sure not to have duplicate plugins in these directories. Cheers, Andreas

@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!