One things I forget, is that if you want to extend redshift currently the only way would be via the OSL node they provide, and provide an asset for this OSL node. Cheers, Maxie.

Hi @spedler regarding your issue, it's correct all changes done within the resource editor need to be saved, via the menu (file -> Save Database) otherwise change will get lost. Regarding the needs for the double-click, that's a missing refresh in our cache, I've reported to the responsible dev, thanks a lot ! Cheers, Maxime.

Thanks for the reply, @ferdinand

Thanks for the reply, @ferdinand. I can confirm that below syntax doesn't work. I still get the same error. AdditionalLinkOptions=%(AdditionalOptions) /DELAYLOAD:"mydll.dll" I'll see what alternatives I could use.

Hey thanks for the report, I indeed fix one issue with the InsertLayer but in your case it was another one, sadly there is no workaround for you (except the one you found). The fix will be provided in the next release. Cheers, Maxime.

Hi @pyxelrigger there is no real way to execute a script outside of Cinema 4D without Cinema 4D. The only option is to execute c4dpy which is a complete Cinema 4D instance run as a python interpreter. For more information about it, please read c4dpy manual. Note that you have the same limitation as a standalone Cinema 4D so you can't execute multiple c4dpy instance at the same time or they need to be in different folders. Except that note that tkinter does not come by default with Cinema 4D, so you will need to install manually and don't really officially support, so it may or may not works, but from our personal experience in the SDK team, it should work. Cheers, Maxime.

Hey @ThomasB, Thank you for reaching out to us. Without your code we cannot really help you, we are not the oracle of Delphi There are many things which could go wrong in your plugin. But in general what you are doing is correct; add a dummy point object with your snap points to your cache, when you want to introduce special snapping points for your custom generator object. Snapping onto the points of the returned geometry should work out of the box (but snapping sometimes struggles a bit with deep caches). There is however only limited support for adding special snapping points, as it is not really intended to add you own snap logic in that manner. The snapping module both in Python and C++ does not allow you to implement your own snapping logic, you can just read some data. You should also keep in mind that the snapping is an older part of Cinema 4D which has its flaws. You should check if your problem also does occur when you try to snap onto the converted cache of your object (current state to object). If that is the case, you know it is not something your plugin does, but simply the fact that the snapping struggles with that specific geometry/scenario. Cheers, Ferdinand

Thanks, buddy! It worked. To be honest, I never really understood what Message(c4d.MSG_UPDATE) was all about, and now ExecutePasses is new to me

@ferdinand Thank you very much! I got the min and max distances also working with your input! I used the code example from the docs to traverse through the DeformCache and it worked instantly

found the solution ... the corresponding type is called: FLweight

hi @i_mazlov, thanks for the answer. good to know about this status / limitation. for my current case I found a solution without folders..

Hi Adam, thanks for the update and the workaround!

@ferdinand Oh wow! Thank you so much for letting me know about Keenan Crane, as I was not familiar with him. I am in awe of the exhaustive list of tools he and his lab have published. The Globally Optimal Direction Fields paper seems indeed to be exactly what I am looking for. I was also surprised to see that I had already skimmed the Youtube video of the paper back in December. Thank you so much @ferdinand for this invaluable piece of information. Time to dive in! Cheers!

Hey @datamilch, Thank you for reaching out to us and answering your own question. In general we prefer it when topics do not get deleted, so that other users can benefit from a topic. You should also not be able to delete this topic anymore since more than three hours have passed since you posted and because your topic has replies. Cheers, Ferdinand

@ferdinand Understood. thank you

@czt_306 It looks realy cool!

hi @ferdinand, this solved it, thanks! I suspected, that I would have to write back the data, as in many other cases. but I didn't know how exactly. As for the executable code: will do so, next time! cheers Sebastian

hi @ferdinand, thanks for the information. found a workaround, that is good enough so far. I use the 3d-gradient in texture space and transform the texture tag matrix as I need it. the change in color will not occur that often.