SDK Change Notes for Cinema 4D 2024.2¶

Summarizes the API and API documentation changes made between Cinema 4D version 2024.0.0 and 2024.2.0.

Documentation Changes¶

Major Changes¶

Fixed Python debugging.
Added Visual Studio Code Integration Manual, outlining the functionalities of the Cinema 4D to Visual Studio Code bindings.
The maxon.NimbusBaseInterface have been improved to ease access of the translation layer from c4d.BaseList2D and maxon.GraphNode.
Fixed Reload Plugins functionality not working properly and duplicating layers.

Minor Changes¶

Improved all default codes provided in Python Element like the Python Scripting Tag or the Python Generator.
Fixed missing update of C4DPYTHONPATH310 to C4DPYTHONPATH311 environment variable to reflect correctly the Python version used by Cinema 4D.
Fixed an issue on Windows where the python dll directory was not correctly defined and prevented some 3rd party libraries to work.
Fixed an issue with the symbol parser when parsing a MAXON_ATTRIBUTE.

Fixed an issue in VariableTag.GetAllHighlevelData() that previously prevented the retrieval of per-point values for a Vertex Color tag.
Fixed an issue preventing nested parameters access on c4d.BaseList2D.
Fixed a potential crash when printing c4d.BaseList2D.
Fixed a memory leak when MSG_MULTI_DOCUMENTIMPORTED was sent to Python.

Improved documentation of maxon.Resource.GetCurrentLanguage().
Fixed an issue preventing string to be retrieved from a maxon.DataDictionary.
Fixed an issue in maxon.GraphNode.GetInnerNodes() when a list was passed as the last argument, nothing was returned.
Fixed documentation of maxon.AssetCreationInterface.SaveMemFileAsAssetWithCopyAsset().

API Changes¶

Classic API¶

Nothing was changed in Cinema 4D Classic API.

Maxon API¶

Added maxon.NodeSpaceHelpersInterface to get access to the data a NodeSpace holds.

Added support for maxon.NodePath in maxon.GraphNode.FindChild().