Thanks to you both for your answers. @m_adam Regarning my issue with the file linking, I'll try to come up with a procedure for reproduction of my issue soon: It was quite random, but I was in the flow of writing my script, so I circumvented with the string solution, but I would prefer the file solution for sure.

@i_mazlov Thank you for the friendly introduction and the hint to CUSTOMGUI and REALSLIDER, exactly what I was looking for. @baca Thank you for the additional tip.

Thanks for your help and nudging me into the right direction, I think I can work with that

@m_adam @m_adam said in Python tag initalization?: OM is not single threaded, Oh, that's an interesting insight for me. Perhaps I was misinformed, as Character Rigs had the tendency to get slow quite easily in C4D, and Animators look envy over to Maya, as they do have a parallel evaluation (and caching). Though I'm aware that there are changes/improvements to C4D performance lately. Thanks for the link. A lot of new information to learn an absorb

Hi you need to use call button def apply_deformed_mesh(meshes): """ Apply 'Set Deformed Mesh' on all meshes with weight tags. """ for obj in meshes: weight_tag = obj.GetTag(c4d.Tweights) if weight_tag: bc = weight_tag.GetDataInstance() # Set the button to 'Set Deformed Mesh' bc.SetInt32(c4d.ID_CA_WEIGHT_TAG_SET_BUTTON, c4d.ID_CA_WEIGHT_TAG_SET_DEFORMED_MESH) c4d.CallButton(weight_tag, c4d.ID_CA_WEIGHT_TAG_SET_BUTTON) # Update the scene c4d.EventAdd() Cheers, Maxime.

thanks @i_mazlov

Hi yes, GvNode are BaseList2D and GeListNode, like material, object, tags. There is the same discussion going on, so you may find it interesting Issue collecting all the shaders in a material. Cheers, Maxime.

Thanks for the confirmation. I guess I'll just let the users do some reordering the nodes themselves. lol The nodes are creating procedurally so the nodes are just stacked on top of each other. haha

Awesome, Thank you so much @m_adam ! Cheers and best regards Ben

Hi @merkvilson, Please give more information about your setup and provide a code snippet that shows your issue. I'm not able to reproduce your issue using the code snippet below in C4D 2024.2 There's a c4d.POPUP_ALLOW_FILTERING flag that you can pass to the ShowPopupDialog() function to allow showing the filtering entry in your menu: c4d.gui.ShowPopupDialog(cd=None, bc=menu, x=300, y=300, flags=c4d.POPUP_ALLOW_FILTERING) Cheers, Ilia import c4d def main() -> None: menu = c4d.BaseContainer() for idx in range(5): menu.InsData(c4d.FIRST_POPUP_ID + idx, f"Item {idx}") c4d.gui.ShowPopupDialog(cd=None, bc=menu, x=300, y=300) # c4d.gui.ShowPopupDialog(cd=None, bc=menu, x=400, y=300, flags=c4d.POPUP_ALLOW_FILTERING) if __name__ == '__main__': main() [image: 1702636223773-03915845-5d04-4cf4-a79c-1cb342e2aa60-image.png]

@i_mazlov Ah yes, my pose morph names are standardized so there should be no duplicated/redundant names. And yea, thanks for mentioning the dictionary route. Totally overlooked that. That could indeed be an easier way to set/get some values. Thanks!

Hi @m_adam - In this particular instance I'm calling it on objects that have children and I'm getting the prompt to include sub objects. If it were a modeling command or something like that it may include the ability to include or exclude the children programmatically. I'm creating 30 objects and each object has six flat projections that I want to set to the size of the object. That's 180 confirmation clicks.

Dear Ilia, I greatly appreciate your assistance; it was precisely what I needed. Thank you for your guidance and I wish you a wonderful day. Best regards, Tomasz

Hi, One last thing I've noticed. The last code shared by @HerrMay works great on all materials but the one I'm using to test my script, it's odd. On this particular material, the function consistently skip the shader which is in the Blend Channel of the Fusion shader. Even the Mask shader in the Mask channel is discovered and printed. [image: 1702592718593-db2bf693-59e6-4eb1-a42e-5c484b38f253-image.png] I've ran the debugger on the function : when the loop state is on the Color shader, the function is going up on the parent Fusion shader as expected but then the elif node.GetNext() condition isn't verified (?!) so it skips the last branch and go back to the material The thing is it doesn't happen with other materials nor other shaders : I've made this particular material's shader tree more complex and all the shaders are seen, even when a node has several children. A brand new material with the same shader setup is not a problem. There are two cases where the function scan the shader correctly and output the expected result : When using the recursive function written by @ferdinand Disconnecting and reconnecting the Filter shader from the Fusion shader. If I run the function again after doing that, the AO and Filter shaders are discovered and printed correctly. Do you have any idea of what it is happening here ? I'm planning to use this function for several commands and I don't like the possibility that it could fail in some cases, even if it is some niche ones.

@m_adam good to know, thanks.

Hi @m_adam , That's sad... Thanks, anyway.

Hey @m_adam, I never thanked you for your very helpful and thorough reply, so allow me to do so now: thank you very much! Your reply ended up being extremely useful, as it guided me in implementing the KD-Tree within my Python script, as well as helping me convert the Barycentric coordinates to UV coordinates. So, for that, once again; thank you! Now that this is implemented, I am faced with a challenge: it appears that the precision of the drawing of the Spline greatly depends on the subdivision/triangulation level of my geometry (for example, the Sphere in my parent message). In other words, if the geometry whose UV map I am drawing the shape of my Spline onto is very low-poly, the drawing of said Spline will be incredibly imprecise. It seems like the precision increases as I increase the amount of polygons on the geometry. Just curiously, without necessarily pasting my code here, I was wondering if - at the top of your head - this behavior was to be expected? Does this mean that, with the KD-Tree and Barycentric conversion method, I would never be able to programmatically draw a perfectly round circle Spline on a Plane object that, despite having a perfect UV map, only has 2 polygons? I can work around those constraints, but it'd be great to know if the current imprecision of my drawing approach isn't caused by something else. Thanks!

@i_mazlov Thank you very much for your response! I am not sure how long it would have taken me to figure out the "prefsPlugin: c4d.BasePlugin =... " part without your help. This is the code I wrote, which works exactly how I wanted it to (and now I have the script mapped to a hotkey). import c4d def main(): prefsPlugin: c4d.BasePlugin = c4d.plugins.FindPlugin(c4d.PREFS_NAVIGATION, c4d.PLUGINTYPE_PREFS) navigationValue: int = prefsPlugin[c4d.PREF_NAVIGATION_CAMERA] if navigationValue == 3: prefsPlugin[c4d.PREF_NAVIGATION_CAMERA] = c4d.PREF_NAVIGATION_CAMERA_CAM else: prefsPlugin[c4d.PREF_NAVIGATION_CAMERA] = c4d.PREF_NAVIGATION_CAMERA_CUR if __name__=='__main__': main() Thanks again!