I am also having trouble to get the Status bar to update while a script is running. My old scripts using Callcomand nevertheless update the Status bar fine ...?!? nevermind got it working again ... mistake on my end. (passed a small flot to the statusbar instead of 0-100. kind regards mogh

Thanks, Ferdinand

OK ... so I reinvented the wheel. # make unique tag name def makeUniqueTagName(theTag): if theTag != None: obj = theTag.GetObject() # get all names of the tags of same type usedNames = [] if obj != None: tag = obj.GetFirstTag() while tag != None: # skip the tag and # ignore tags of other types if tag != theTag and tag.IsInstanceOf(theTag.GetType()) == True: usedNames.append(tag.GetName()) tag = tag.GetNext() # If the name is already taken we will append a dot and number # and increment the number until a unique name is found. # Note that since we have created the tag we can assume that # the original name does not have a dot and number already. suffix = 0 uniqueName = theTag.GetName() while uniqueName in usedNames: suffix = suffix + 1 uniqueName = theTag.GetName() + '.' + str(suffix) theTag.SetName(uniqueName) return Maybe not the best nor cleanest code, but then again I am not used to code in Python. I am sure others might have a better solution, but this seems to work for what I need, so I am happy with how it turned out.

hi, if you wants to know how many AOVs you need for 10 objects you should use Ceil. After that, some math to have your ID raising by 1. numberOfAOVs = math.ceil(10 / 3.0) # will give you 4 for i in xrange(int(numberOfAOVs)): print ("create aov number {}".format(i)) for j in xrange (3): print ("value of field will be : {}".format(j + i * 3 ) ) I'm not a big fan of retrieving all the objects on each function. But first, make things works, than optimize. (at least at the beginning) Cheers, Manuel

@m_magalhaes That's okay. Thank you for letting me know!

Hi, Thank you @r_gigante, @zipit for your replies. The problem comes from the GetDDescription funtion because I use some of dynamic parameters on my objects. It is for this reason that op.IsDirty(c4d.DIRTY_DATA) returning True when I Move, Scale, Zoom or Rotate the perspective view.

Thanks! For whatever reason I couldn't get that particular code to work, but I eventually figured out a different method. I think my script is finished for now.

@Cairyn Thanks for this fantastic resource, I will definitely use this summer to level up with Python.

@zipit thanks a lot, but based on c++ docs made this (seems there are just more checking): def GetDDescription(self, node, description, flags) : data = node.GetDataInstance() if data is None or not description.LoadDescription(node.GetType()): return False singleID = description.GetSingleDescID() paramID = c4d.DescID(c4d.DescLevel(c4d.TESTPLUGIN_OFFSET)) if ( singleID is None or paramID.IsPartOf(singleID)[0] ): bc = description.GetParameterI(paramID) if (bc): if data.GetLong(c4d.TESTPLUGIN_MODE) == TESTPLUGIN_MODE_DISTANCE: bc.SetLong(c4d.DESC_UNIT, c4d.DESC_UNIT_METER) else: bc.SetLong(c4d.DESC_UNIT, c4d.DESC_UNIT_PERCENT) return (True, flags | c4d.DESCFLAGS_DESC_LOADED)

@zipit Hahahahaha! Thank you! I see my lines now. Who hoo!

@m_adam My apologies for not being clearer. I thought there was something wrong with how I was doing the Draw function. The issue was the TAG_IMPLEMENTS_DRAW_FUNCTION flag was missing. Thank you very much!

Thanks for validating my assumptions. Much appreciated. Yes, I already have multiple code branches and for S22 my workaround looks as described. Because it doesn't hurt to insert the RenderData in this case, it doesn't even need multiple branches. Thanks for looking into it, Maxime. Is this going to be fixed in a future version?

@m_magalhaes Remap did the trick! Thanks for the help, Manuel

@r_gigante Ahhhhhhhh, okay, I get it now. Thank you

Indeed a better sdk will be better. I actually also hope that sdk can recognize which parameters of the object are activated in the object manager. I know that because c4d supports opening multiple object managers at the same time, this is really convenient. But it will also make it impossible to know which object manager the user is using, so there is no way to identify it in the current SDK.

@m_adam it's strange, but this small script works fine without any problems with cinema 4d s22. cinema 4d r20 show this error only.

Hi @wob there is noting built-in for that in Cinema 4D. but you can use the regular python way to kill the current process import signal import os os.kill(os.getpid(), signal.SIGTERM) But I just let you know, that it may be useless by nature python should be pretty good at not creating any memory leak, and should free the data as soon as possible, moreover your approach ( I don't know the whole pipeline) but may also be a big issue for a user since this will clause Cinema 4D without asking for saving. People may lose their work. So I really encourage you to be very careful with the use of this. Cheers, Maxime.

Hi @wob unfortunately this is not possible, c4dpy is a regular Cinema 4D executed as command line with the NoGui, and as all NoGui Cinema 4D execution, GeDialog is disabled. So its a limitation, and as said by zipit there is no Tkinter shipped with Cinema 4D in order to force people to use Cinema 4D dialog. So possible workarounds are: Install pip and install any 3rd party GUI module (but this is not officially supported by Cinema 4D so you may have some odd issues, but it should work). Execute a python script before from a system python installation that will create the Dialog and later execute c4dpy to do the Cinema 4D work. Cheers, Maxime.

Thank you very much for your help to solve the previous doubts. I will continue to work hard.