Hi @ferdinand, ah okay I see. Some part of me already suspected it could be a bug. Thanks for taking the time to look into it. Regarding the scope of question. You are absolutely right. And while I understand that it can make answering branching questions hard, it is sometimes not that easy to split things up. But all good, no offense taken. One last thing, I know you guys are not here to develop solutions or come up with algorithms. Still, I was wondering if a possible solution could be to move the selected points to a custom vector position and afterwards simply send an "Optimize" modeling command? Cheers, Sebastian

One last thing: Have you tried using LICENSEMODEL::MAXONAPP as an alternative login method? ::MAXONACCOUNT is being deprecated as I said, and I do not quite remember why we chose it here nonetheless. User support surely can help you with the details here.

Yes, you found the thread about point selection just right!

Oh sorry, thank you. I totally missed that.

Thanks for that @ferdinand @m_adam , yes, Ferdinand is right, Maxime's point is too "pro" for me, and with some maxon decorators I never used in some way mess me up, with Ferdinand's "rookie" like explain that I can understand this more, thanks for your both respected work. Cheers~ DunHou

Hi @ll2pakll, I am glad that you solved your issue. Message(c4d.MSG_UPDATE) is indeed required to finalize your spline editing. If you want a complete example on spline editing please take a look at geometry_splineobject.py example. Cheers, Maxime.

I want to mirror a polygon selection along specified modeling axis, but i'm kinda stuck since i can't apply the dedicated Mirror Tool, the basic Scale Tool also doesn't allow to set the tool settings...

Thanks man, i'll take a look at it!

Hey @del, Thank you for pointing out that this part of our examples, I overlooked this aspect this morning. I have fixed the issue in our local repository for import_obj_r13.py. The updated line is: objImport[c4d.OBJIMPORTOPTIONS_PHONG_ANGLE_DEFAULT] = c4d.utils.DegToRad(22.5) and it will go live with the next docs update. I cannot update the legacy version of the SDK in import_OBJ.py as I lack the permissions to write there even in our local repository. Cheers, Ferdinand

Thanks for your detailed answers, i hoped there is a simpler way to do it)... Pie menus is a very common thing nowadays, why maxon developers haven't implemented it already? In modo for example you can create pie menus, popups...etc without any coding. Not every user is ready/have the time/etc to learn python to build a simple popup, but almost every user needs to customize their working software. I really hope you'll implement these features soon.

Hi @ferdinand Thank you so much for your explain, i understand what's happen now. Cheers

@spedler Thank you for your help

Hey @ll2pakll, yes, any kind of simulation/solver is usually quite a bit of work; and as with most things, most of it is pushing data around in a 'clever' way and not the actual algorithm. You might get away with just saturating the system (add frames or "redraws"), but be warned, you will run into more problems with this approach. To have a robust solver, you must decouple it from the FPS and scene update events; this is not just a Cinema 4D thing, but universal. Cheers, Ferdinand

@ferdinand Your solution of replacing the doc = c4d.documents.GetActiveDocument() line with doc: c4d.documents.BaseDocument = op.GetDocument() really worked. From my point of view, as an ordinary person, your level of understanding of the code seems to be something beyond the realm of possibility. I wish you a good day and thank you again for your help.

@ferdinand Thank you very much for your reply. I only need to animate one parameter and I have already written something similar to this parameter cache myself, you saw it in a previous question and advised me to change the location of the cache for more reliability. I will take your advice in the future to avoid reinventing the wheel. Thanks again for your help.

Hi @Brakusha, welcome in plugin cafe ! c4d.ID_OPERATOR_COFFEE is working in all versions, please open a new topic with a code that demonstrate the issue and with a short explanation about what you want to achieve. I would also highly recommend you to read our Support Guideline to know how to get the best support from us. Cheers, Maxime.

Thank you for the answers.

@ferdinand said in Adding ports to nodes.: DescID Thank you so much. I am pleasantly surprised at the level of your responsiveness. When I wrote "Global Data" I accidentally used the wrong word, I meant "Global Coordinates". I have read your links and code very carefully. Actually the concept of DescID is not so much complicated as confusing, the easiest thing would be to have something like an interactive online converter that could show the attributes of the desired objects and their corresponding id. I will try to understand the concept of DescID, deeper. And thank you again for your very detailed answer. Have a nice day.

Hi Bjorn, I have a working version of this now which you can download from my site at https://microbion.co.uk/files/rounditr2024.zip It's PC-only at the moment and requires C4D R2024. Try this and see if it does what you need. There's some basic documentation included which I'll tidy up for the final version. There doesn't seem to be a DM facility here so we'd better take any further discussion to email. You can get hold of through the contact page on my site (link is in the PDF in the zip file). Do let me know what you think. Cheers, Steve

Got it! Thanks.