Changes in Cineware SDK 19.0

Table of Contents

• New Features Support
• Documentation Improvements
• API Changes
  • customgui_range.h
  • c4d_browsefiles.h
  • c4d_file.h
  • c4d_hndata.h
  • c4d_hnweighttagdata.h
  • c4d_hyperfile.h
  • c4d_lodobjectdata.h
  • c4d_meshdeformerobjectdata.h
  • c4d_parameter_ids.h
  • c4d_renderconnection.h
  • default_alien_overloads.h

New Features Support

• LOD Object

Documentation Improvements

The Polygon and Object Caches page was improved with better explanation on Cineware SDK preferences for object caches.

API Changes

The most important API change is the Alien Alloc() functions (for objects, tags and shader) have now 3 parameters. The parameter 'node' has been added to give the parent node the data gets assigned to.

The existing code has to be adapted before it can be compiled.

customgui_range.h

// New header
 
using namespace cineware;
 
class RangePair;
class RangeData;

c4d_browsefiles.h

// New header
 
using namespace cineware;
 
class BrowseFiles;

c4d_file.h

using namespace cineware;
 
class LocalFileTime
{
public:
 
  LocalFileTime operator - (const LocalFileTime& t) const;
};

c4d_hndata.h

// New header
 
using namespace cineware;
 
struct PolyWeight;
struct HNData;

c4d_hnweighttagdata.h

// New header
 
using namespace cineware;
 
class HNWeightTagData : public NodeData;

c4d_hyperfile.h

using namespace cineware;
 
enum CINEMA4D_VERSION
{
  CINEMA4D_VERSION_R18
};

c4d_lodobjectdata.h

// New header
 
using namespace cineware;
 
class LodObjectData : public NodeData;

c4d_meshdeformerobjectdata.h

// New header
 
using namespace cineware;
 
class MeshDeformerObjectData : public NodeData;

c4d_parameter_ids.h

using namespace cineware;
 
Olod

c4d_renderconnection.h

using namespace cineware;
 
RENDERCONNECTION_COMMAND_FRAMESCENE
RENDERCONNECTION_COMMAND_SELECTOBJECT
 
// Moved from private_symbols.h
SELECTION_NEW
SELECTION_ADD
SELECTION_SUB
 
enum OVERVIEW;
 
class IpCommunicationThread : public BaseCommunicationThread
{
public:
 
  Bool FrameScene(OVERVIEW mode, Vector& newPos, Vector& newRot);
  Bool SetActiveObject(Int32 appid, const void* mem, Int32 size, Int32 mode = SELECTION_NEW);
};
 
Bool IsServerStarted(const Char* ipAddress, Int32 timeOut = 0);
// New optional parameter 'timeOut' (Renamed 'ip_address' as 'ipAddress')
 
Bool StartRenderServer(const Filename& filename, Int32 listen_port = 1234, Bool forceNewServer = true, Int32 startUpWaitTime = NOTOK, const String& args = String());
// New optional parameters 'startUpWaitTime' and 'args'

default_alien_overloads.h

using namespace cineware;
 
cineware::NodeData* AllocAlienObjectData(cineware::Int32 id, cineware::Bool& known, cineware::BaseList2D* node);
// New parameter 'node'
 
cineware::NodeData* AllocAlienTagData(cineware::Int32 id, cineware::Bool& known, cineware::BaseList2D* node);
// New parameter 'node'
 
cineware::NodeData* AllocAlienShaderData(cineware::Int32 id, cineware::Bool& known, cineware::BaseList2D* node)
// New parameter 'node'