Hi Frank, actually I think, all the examples on GLProgramFactory have been there for quite I while. I just checked and they were already available in Cinema 4D R13, maybe even earlier (there are actually quite a few, see GitHub). Unfortunately that is all we have on this topic, chances are pretty bad, we can shed any additional light on this topic. I turned this thread into a question. Cheers, Andreas

Nice, congrats I have to admit, I forgot to turn this thread into a question. I did so now and I also marked it as solved, as your last post seems to imply. Cheers, Andreas

Hi @Jvos, First of all, (no worry at all) I would like to remind you to read How to Post Questions especially the part about categories. Since your topic is related to Cinema 4D please next time create a topic within cinema 4d development. (I've moved it). Regarding your issue, pretty much all parameters in Cinema 4D are stored in a BaseContainer. A BaseContainer is a dictionary which links an ID (Int) to a Data. When you are doing Object[Something] you access the value within this BaseContainer. If you write in the console c4d.REDSHIFT_LIGHT_PHYSICAL_INTENSITY, it will print you the ID of this parameter. Then to get the value of a parameter which is stored in the object's BaseContainer, you don't have to pass a string, but the ID, which is registered with a SYMBOL NAME because it's easier to remember than an arbitrary number (In some case there is no SYMBOL equivalent for an ID). So as @mikeudin suggested the eval function is the right way to go, or you can directly store the ID in your list. attributes = [c4d.REDSHIFT_LIGHT_PHYSICAL_INTENSITY, c4d.REDSHIFT_LIGHT_PHYSICAL_EXPOSURE] Finally, there is no official C4D slack/discord or chat. Cheers, Maxime.

Hi Andreas, Ok, so I have to rotate the points to rotate a polygon. I thought so. That is why I assumed that when I can rotate points, I can rotate polygons. Thanks. Regards, Pim

Thank you for the kind help! @m_adam: The plug-in you have linked is very useful. I could fix some problems with the "Select polygons by normal direction" function. Working with badly constructed meshes is no fun job either way. Kind regards, Julien.

Hi Steve, having the USE_MAXON_API being defined - actually using C4D=true in projectdefinition.txt - is required in order to be sure that all the cinema.framework classes are properly compiled. Although there could be situations where some cinema.framework classes can work without that define, we highly discourage this approach since you can end up in situations where the code compiles until you include that specific class which indeed needs that define (which it's already happening in that case). If specifying C4D=true actually brings too much pain, please open a new thread and let's proactively discuss the issues your code is facing and let's get rid of them. Best, Riccardo

Omg! I had an old version of the plugin defined in the Plugins list in prefs that set the paths to []. Blush Deluxe! Sorry for wasting your time. Works perfectly fine. Regards Bonsak

Thanks so much this is exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you very much for your support !

Ah! So event_data['msg_data']['id'] is the id of the userdata. Didnt read your code comments Thanks alot! Regards Bonsak

@m_adam thanks for R23.110 C4DPYTHONPATH37 !

Awesome! Thanks. Regards Bonsak

Hi Rage, Unfortunately several importers and exporters do not have a constant for their ID. This is the case for FBX. The ID for the FBX exporter is 1026370. To find the ID of a specific exporter you can use the following code: import c4d saverPlugs = c4d.plugins.FilterPluginList(c4d.PLUGINTYPE_SCENESAVER, True) for plug in saverPlugs: print('{} : {}'.format(plug.GetName(), plug.GetID())) I turned the topic into a Q&A. Please remind to use this feature of the forum.

One last note. I just tried this on OSX and it works fine. So it is just an issue for Windows machines and whatever version of IE the widget is using.

Hi, in general your approach looks correct to us. Somehow I'm starting to regret we have a thoughtful and attentive community here. We can not hide a single change/omission in the docs without any one of you finding out about it... sigh! Yes, indeed the "Move/Copy Constructors" manual has been removed from the R20 docs, as it needed thorough review and at least partly rewriting we did not find the time for, yet. But it wasn't removed without at least partial replacement. Especially for your case the BaseArray manual contains a section on implementing classes for use with BaseArray. Thanks for the idea of a "documentation issue" tag. Cheers, Andreas

@y_puech said in ParseTupleAndKeywords in R20: Hi Victor, There's a logic error in the code you posted from the first post. The condition for R20 if (str.IsEmpty()!=false) returns false if the string has content. It makes more sense to call IsPopulated() for the R20 code instead of IsEmpty(). You are right, thank you!!!

@a_block No inconvenience at all, just happy to hear it's not only me!

Hey @a_block , I finally got some time to try again, and I actually had two problems First, I'm adding that object as a dependent because one of my modifiers need it, and it was sending a Join modeling command to read it as a single polygon. The command was invalidating the cache, entering a loop. Now I first clone it before join, and the cache flag remains intact. Just looking at the CACHE dirty count of the object was not enough to detect if the deform cache was dirty, I need to look at it's cache dirty cache count. Sounds weird but works, and makes sense to me. if ( distributionObject != nullptr ) { // Check deformed cache auto distributionObjectCache = distributionObject->GetCache( hh ); if ( distributionObjectCache != nullptr ) { auto dirtyCount = distributionObjectCache->GetDirty( DIRTYFLAGS_CACHE ); if ( distributionObjectDirtyCount_ != dirtyCount ) { dirty = true; distributionObjectDirtyCount_ = dirtyCount; } } } op->AddDependence( hh, distributionObject, DIRTYFLAGS_DATA | DIRTYFLAGS_CACHE ); }

Hi, Are you using the Spline GUI inside a dialog? It looks like so if there's no arrow. If that's the case you can call SetLayoutMode(c4d.LAYOUTMODE_MINIMIZED) on the Spline custom GUI to change its layout to the minimized/spline element only.

Hi, As I turned this discussion into a Q&A topic, if you're satisfied with my last post's solution then you can mark it as the correct answer or mark the topic as solved. For more information see Q&A New Functionality.