Since this topic is older than a week I marked is as closed, but feel free to reopen it if you have further questions. Cheers, Maxime

Hi, sorry for bringing back up this topic but the Compare() method still gives weird results in 2024.5.1. [image: 1730828935913-cinema_4d_d5fwj9o4rq.gif] Comparing a material duplicated with Ctrl-Drag returns sometimes True, sometimes False Comparing a material against a copy-pasted version (in the same scene) always returns False Comparing two identical materials both copy-pasted together in one-go in another scene always returns False, even if True was returned in the original scene. Please note that I'm using Corona Materials here but results are the same with the Standard Material.

You're welcome, Manuel. Actually, I usually prepare all the textures and mapping to be in UVW mapping, when texturing is required. But, mainly, what I need is exporting geometry that is animated.

Thanks, I understand. I am now going to do it outside DrawMsg in parallel (thread) plugin. See my other post. https://developers.maxon.net/forum/topic/12310/best-plugin-type-for-background-thread-processing -Pim

hello, I'will consider this thread as solved tomorrow if you have nothing to add Cheers, Manuel

Thank you so much! This helps me a lot with the understanding of what was going on. I am digging back into my work on this today and will follow up with your advice.

i forgot to mention: For your next threads, please help us keeping things organised and clean. I know it's not your priority but it really simplify our work here. Q&A New Functionality. How to Post Questions especially the tagging part. I've added the tags and marked this thread as a question so when you considered it as solved, please change the state Cheers, Manuel

My apologies: I didn't understand how BaseLink worked and this clarified things. Thank you!

@m_adam Thanks for the info! I knew I was still missing a few flags

hi, thanks a lot for sharing your code Don't forget to change the state of this thread to solved. (if it is) cheers, Manuel

Hi Kantronin, thanks for reaching out us and welcome to PluginCafé. To make Cinema 4D programatically executing modeling commands, you can make use of SendModelingCommand which properly satisfy your scope. Aside from the example shown in the documentation you can also have a look at this post from @maxime and this other post about Optimize command. Last but not least be aware that the modeling command settings are specified in the BaseContainer passed to the SendModelingCommand and whose parameters can be found in the MCOMMAND page. Finally please remind to use Tags and Ask as a question for any future support entries

Ok, got it. Thank you for your reply and clear explanation, r_gigante, much appreciated!

OK, thanks a lot for the quick answer! Cheers

Hi @pyr, I've just reached the development team about it. So for them, this is not a bug since FieldList store only baseLink. In Python, we don't have BaseLink, but if you are not aware of what it is, please read BaseLink Manual. But since there is no BaseLink in Python, if a link points to a destructed object (like in your case, Python simply returns None) So I guess your workaround is ok. Cheers, Maxime

@C4DS Thank you for your help! It works！ Cheers~

@r_gigante Thanks for the reference. For anyone trying to achieve the same, here is a sample file. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z1lzyphp8qnt9kw/AAB2P5gNo16IHafgc6xPEsy4a?dl=0 Thanks again for @zipit for the help.

Great example, thank you. -Pim

@m_adam You are a genius! Thank you, Maxime