@i_mazlov Hi, thanks for letting me know that. cheers~

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Thank you. I got it working thanks to your hints.

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Hey @mikeudin, just as an FYI, one of our engineers pointed out that Description.CheckDescID is the likely culprit for the problem and that this method should be avoided when possible due to its resource hungry nature. Instead, you would just manually define the parameter ID you mean, e.g., c4d.DescID(c4d.ID_TAGFIELDS). The problem with this is of course that this statement has been made disjunct from the dynamic parameters example because I stripped that aspect away in my minimized code. The original code example says: # Fills DescLever type and creator completeId = desc.CheckDescID(descId, None) return True, completeId, tag So, they seem to be only after filling in the data type and creator ID and not resolving multi-level IDs. Which you could also do manually when you know the parameters you want to wrap, e.g.,: descId: c4d.DescID = c4d.DescID(c4d.DescLevel(c4d.ID_TAGFIELDS, c4d.CUSTOMDATATYPE_FIELDLIST, c4d.MAXON_CREATOR_ID)) return True, descId, tag Cheers, Ferdinand

@HerrMay Thanks!

Hey @zauhar, I do not think so that I have told you that, at least I hope so, because that what you say there is not quite correct A vertex map or a vertex color tag can be rendered. When you use the standard renderer, you will have to use the Vertex Map shader, and when you use Redshift, you will need the Vertex Attribute node (just drag and drop the tag in both cases in the respective reference fields of the shaders). Below is an example for the Redshift case: [image: 1686937459914-screenshot-2023-06-16-at-19.41.37.png] Other renderers support Cinema 4D vertex colors too, but you will have to ask their support how that works Vertex Map Shader Vertex Attribute Node Cheers, Ferdinand

Hi Ferdinand! Perfect! We got it, thank you so much for the quick reply.

Hi @i_mazlov, thank you for your reply. Yes, I thought as much. Too bad the take manager menu is not publicy exposed. And while I understand that Maxon as well as the community are not big fans of every plugin messing around with menu insertions, it still is a pitty. One can e.g. insert plugins into the menu of the material manager as done so by "CV-Swim". IMHO it should pose no problem when done carefully with UX in mind while doing so. Especially when one "only" appends entries to a menu. Nethertheless thank you for confirmation. Cheers, Sebastian

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Thanks again for the great explanation. I guess I will go for a different workflow then.

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Hi @i_mazlov , This solves my problem, for now I don't think I have another question, and I could consider my problem solved, thanks. cheers, James H.

Yes, thank you so much. This works perfectly. And thanks a million for the in depth explanation.

@ferdinand : The GetAllAssetsNew is a far more elegant solution for the problem I am trying to solve and I've rewritten the code so that it works now. We use Corona render and Redshift so it's a bonus that this works with pretty much all materials. Thank you very much for the help, I will put your information about the layer shader in my database for future reference as I'm sure it will become helpful in another project! Kind regards, Joep

I really do appreciate all your effort and I will take your warning seriously and create my own menu Tab. Thanks again. Regards, Pim

Hello @Ryan_Territory, Welcome to the Plugin Café forum and the Cinema 4D development community, it is great to have you with us! Getting Started Before creating your next postings, we would recommend making yourself accustomed with our Forum and Support Guidelines, as they line out details about the Maxon SDK Group support procedures. Of special importance are: Support Procedures: Scope of Support: Lines out the things we will do and what we will not do. Support Procedures: Confidential Data: Most questions should be accompanied by code but code cannot always be shared publicly. This section explains how to share code confidentially with Maxon. Forum Structure and Features: Lines out how the forum works. Structure of a Question: Lines out how to ask a good technical question. It is not mandatory to follow this exactly, but you should follow the idea of keeping things short and mentioning your primary question in a clear manner. About your First Question This exact question of yours has been asked before here for C++. Find a Python variant of the code below. For the technical details, I would recommend reading the older thread. Cheers, Ferdinand Result: [image: 1685984571549-557e9ddd-793a-4d07-aa6e-5ffd7ad05687-image.png] Code: import c4d # Define #Orslight, only must be done in pre 2023.0 API versions. c4d.Orslight: int = 1036751 def main(): doc = c4d.documents.GetActiveDocument() # Create Light light = c4d.BaseObject(c4d.Orslight) # Set the attributes light[c4d.REDSHIFT_LIGHT_TYPE] = c4d.REDSHIFT_LIGHT_TYPE_DOME # Define the texture parameter ID. texturePathId: c4d.DescID = c4d.DescID( # 1st DescLevel for the outer unexposed datatype of "Texture". c4d.DescLevel( c4d.REDSHIFT_LIGHT_DOME_TEX0, # The parameter ID (12000) for "Texture" 1036765, # The datatype ID for for "Texture", this type is not exposed, # we must use the raw ID. c4d.Orslight # The creator ID, Orslight in this case. ), # 2nd DescLevel for the inner exposed datatype of "Texture.Path". c4d.DescLevel( c4d.REDSHIFT_FILE_PATH, # The sub-channel parameter ID (1000) for "Texture.Path" c4d.DTYPE_STRING, # The data type ID of this component, string in this case. 0 # The creator ID, I just went with undefined here. )) light[texturePathId] = "asset:///file_c622e9ad3ea0e159" # Insert the light into the scene doc.InsertObject(light) c4d.EventAdd() if __name__=='__main__': main()

I found the solution on https://plugincafe.maxon.net/ It was enough in the for loop to add the following line of code: for object in list_object: if object != object_root: object.InsertUnder(object_root) c4d.EventAdd()

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