Thanks, I'll test Dirty on selection.

Hi @BigRoy, Please check our Support Procedures in regards of the question structure, namely: Singular Question: The initial posting of a support topic must contain a singular question. Do not ask ten things at once, that makes it extremely hard to answer topics. Break up your questions into multiple topics. Asking follow-up questions is allowed but they must be bound to the initial subject. Singular Subject: From all this follows that a topic must have a singular and sparse subject tied to a specific problem. 'My Nodes API Questions' is not a valid topic as it splits up into too many subtopics. A valid subject could be 'accessing node attributes' or 'traversing a node graph'. One could for example first ask 'how to get the name attribute of a node?' and then ask a follow up question about 'how to get the icon attribute too?'. This specifically applies to plugins, just because you have two problems with one plugin does not mean that they should be asked in the same topic. Regarding you question, there's no high level API that allows you to get a list of all files you've mentioned at once. This effectively means that not only do you need to access this yourself, but you also need to do so for the render engines you'd like to support, as these are likely going to differ among them. Specifically for the Redshift AOVs and output files question, please check related threads: get the names of redshift multi passes AOV names from the render settings Add Expression Value in Render Settings Save Path As for the takes, the only application where they make any sense is the Render Queue. If you're not using it, it's only the active take that's being rendered. Of course you can deal with it by using SetCurrentTake function. I suggest you keeping this thread for the "render output files" part of your initial question and encourage you to make separate postings for your other questions that diverse from this topic here. Cheers, Ilia

Thank you @ferdinand for the help! Write raw memory does help a lot, appreciate!

thanks @ferdinand this makes perfect sense now. I appreciate the time you took to explaint he best practice.

Hey @qq475519905, sorry for the delay. As I said in the beginning, you can implement your own serializer using GoZ. But there is no dedicated exporter API in ZScript. I assume you are using some RoutineCall to achieve what you are doing. You cannot escape any GUI associated with such call. Cheers, Ferdinand

I use this to Thank You Ferdinand. This is how I imagine an SDK example should look like .... a simplest version , an altered simple version and a complex touching the boundaries of the subject. I am thankful and praise your work .... ! cheers mogh

Oh, you've edited your previous message! Thanks! I will try it.

@m_adam thanks for your prompt response. I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Thank you very much for all your detailed explanation, @ferdinand!

Thank you for @Dunhou answer. It was ultimately completed in JSON format

Hi @Neekoe, That's great to hear you've managed to solve the issue! For your future postings please note that according to our Support Procedures: We cannot debug your code for you and instead provide answers to specific problems. This effectively means that you're welcome to ask your questions and attach the code snippet that demonstrates your question or issue you're struggling with. However, we cannot debug your entire codebase, so you have to isolate your specific question and the corresponding part of code yourself before asking the question. Cheers, Ilia

Thanks for helping out @spedler!

Thanks @Neekoe to have shared your solution and thanks @Dunhou for helping. When you pass LV_TREE the Draw method is not called to have it called you need to pass either LV_USERTREE or LV_USER. Cheers, Maxime.

@ferdinand Thank you so much. He perfectly solved all my problems

@freeze I wrote this a few years back which might give you a good starting point. https://plugins4d.com/Product/FunRay https://github.com/kentbarber/rtow4d Cheers, Kent

@ferdinand Thank you for replying!

Hi @kimberlyhtown, Welcome to the Maxon developers forum and its community, it is great to have you with us! Getting Started Before creating your next postings, we would recommend making yourself accustomed with our forum and support procedures. You did not do anything wrong, we point all new users to these rules. Forum Overview: Provides a broad overview of the fundamental structure and rules of this forum, such as the purpose of the different sub-forums or the fact that we will ban users who engage in hate speech or harassment. Support Procedures: Provides a more in detail overview of how we provide technical support for APIs here. This topic will tell you how to ask good questions and limits of our technical support. Forum Features: Provides an overview of the technical features of this forum, such as Markdown markup or file uploads. It is strongly recommended to read the first two topics carefully, especially the section Support Procedures: Asking Questions. About your First Question I suppose you're asking about the Attribute Manager history, which one can access by using the following arrows: [image: 1738944299742-bf4e829b-8ae1-4eae-a86b-c8dbc57c713d-image.png] Unfortunately, no. the Attribute Manager is a quite complex part of C4D (e.g. with multiple AM having each their own history), hence it is not transparently exposed to our public SDK and one's typically limited by the functionality listed in our C++ SDK the AOM part: Active Object Manager. Cheers, Ilia

@ferdinand Thank you for answering ,I 'll try it.

Thanks for your response. We found the issue. Turns out we had to delay load our dlls for earlier versions of the plugin R21 etc

Hello everyone, we have moved this topic to a mail discussion, when there are outcomes relevant for other developers, I will post them here. Cheers, Ferdinand