@ferdinand Thank you!

Oh I see.. The ExecutePasses was the key ! Thank you for your answers !

@ferdinand aaaa i understood, thanks for help megaman)

Hi, Those IDs should not change but there are not guaranties. There are no symbols to define those IDs. You can use the following code to displays all the registered Managers. import c4d from c4d import gui def main(): pluginList = c4d.plugins.FilterPluginList(c4d.PLUGINTYPE_MANAGERINFORMATION, True) for plugin in pluginList: print (plugin, plugin.GetID()) # Execute main() if __name__=='__main__': main() Cheers, Manuel

@ferdinand hey ferdinand , thanks for all of this information ! i also noticed that definitions are missing in the python SDK (specifically the BlendModes)

tx ferdinand, and yes intertwined threads .-)

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Hey @cairyn, yeah, you are right. @m_adam already pointed this out too. I screwed up and overwrote my clipboard when I tried this out. I have edited my initial posting, to not confuse future readers. GetC4DClipboardOwner works fine in regards to the Picture Viewer and Bodypaint, but the argument ownerid of CopyBitmapToClipboard is effectively meaningless in the public API, as it lacks the window handle context to actually cause the ownerid to be stored. The owner id will always be set to 0. And to underline the answer to your major question: It seems very unlikely that you could crash Cinema 4D with writing a made-up owner id into the clipboard (in the case the function would work properly and actually store the id). It is hard to give here absolute answers, as there is a lot of code in our code base. In the context of the clipboard alone, crashing can be excluded, but there could be other parts of Cinema 4D which make assumptions based on the owner id. Which is why I would recommend not using the predefined ones (which is rather theoretical due to said limitations of CopyBitmapToClipboard). Cheers, Ferdinand

Thank you very much!

Hey @baca, as I said, the control object structure you want is not possible. I tried and wrote the necessary code when I answered here initially, and Cinema 4D will really start to freak out. You cannot have nested hierarchies of muted caches. If you really want to do this, then you must use the approach proposed by me. If you want to also hide the objects in renderings, then you will have to also set that parameter. If you poke around long enough, you might find a solution by muting the caches, but this is out of scope of support. As I said, I did already try when I wrote my first posting, maybe you have more luck. But as also stated in my first posting, you are poking here the sleeping bear called "classic API node dependencies". Cheers, Ferdinand

@m_adam Thanks so much! You are a very professional guy!!!

Sorry for the late reply In order to do that you will need to start a new thread, and you need to keep alive the thread as long as it execute, meaning you will need to store it in a global variable. Best way would be to reach octane directly as 3rd party are free to implement this as they want. Cheers, Maxime.

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@m_magalhaes Thank you!

Hello @lingza, well as lined out, you cannot implement a VertexmMapTag which is the same as a normal VertexMapTag but has extra parameters to realize your desired functionality. You can solve this problem with either the pattern I described under point 3 in my last posting, or by implementing a ToolData plugin which simply generates the tag. The solution using a driver tag has the advantage that the user can continuously tweak the output of the vertexmap, while a tool must be picked up again. Actually, I mean that I want to create a tag which contains the vertex weights, then vertex weights are used by ZRemesher after I put the tag into Density Map linkbox. So I don't need a "vertex map" indeed, but I need a tag I describe above. This is unfortunately not true. You will need a vertex map tag, as this parameter, the Density Map parameter, will accept only a VertexMapTag. It will not know what to do with a CustomDataTag . I would recommend having a look at the project file I have posted above, it contains a practical example for the pattern of a tag driving a vertex map. Cheers, Ferdinand

Thanks for the update!

@noseman seems that it's needs to be updated https://github.com/nrosenstein-c4d/c4d-prototype-converter/issues/52

Thanks so much!!! Your answer makes me understand that PolygonObject.GetPolygonS(self) and PolygonObject.GetPolygonH(self) respectively represent selection states in a list from BaseSelect and visibility states in a list from BaseSelect.

@ferdinand thanks for explanations and example.

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