What was New in R13

In R13.058

• Additions:

  • BaseContainer.GetClone()
  • BaseView.PW_S(), BaseView.WP_S(), BaseView.PW_W(), BaseView.WP_W(), BaseView.ProjectPointOnLine(), BaseView.ProjectPointOnPlane()
  • HandleInfo.radius, HandleInfo.center, HandleInfo.CalculateNewPosition()

• Miscellaneous changes:

  • Gradient.InvertKnots() now returns a bool
  • BaseSelect.SelectAll() now works as expected

• Changes in the documentation:

  • Handles are now working in the examples : see Py-DoubleCircle, Py-RoundedTube and Py-SpherifyModifier
  • New example added for TagData plugins: Py-LookAtCamera
  • Information on getting the generator in a Python effector
  • New section in Plugin Structure about C4DPL_RELOADPYTHONPLUGINS message : Python Plugins Reloading
  • Cleanup (typos and small fixes) and missing functions/methods parameters documentation added

In R13.051

• MemoryFileStruct is now accepted by these functions:

  • BaseBitmap.InitWith()
  • GeClipMap.InitWith()
  • ColorProfile.OpenProfileFromFile()
  • ColorProfile.WriteProfileToFile()
  • c4d.documents.LoadFile()
  • c4d.documents.LoadDocument()
  • c4d.documents.MergeDocument()
  • c4d.documents.SaveDocument()

• The following methods and functions were implemented in past releases but were not documented:

  • MoData.GetFalloffs(), MoData.GetCurrentIndex() and MoData.GetBlendID()
  • BaseObject.GetAndCheckHierarchyClone() and BaseObject.GetHierarchyClone()
  • c4d.storage.GeGetMovieInfo() and c4d.storage.GeIdentifyFile()

In R13.029

• MemoryFileStruct is now accepted by these methods and functions:

  • BaseBitmap.Save()
  • MovieLoader.Open()
  • MovieSaver.Open()
  • c4d.gui.SaveShortcutSet()
  • c4d.gui.LoadShortcutSet()
  • c4d.storage.GeGetMovieInfo()
  • c4d.storage.GeIdentifyFile()
  • c4d.storage.ReadHyperFile()
  • c4d.storage.WriteHyperFile()

• Several changes in the render module:

  • Added optional argument of type BaseVolumeData for ChannelData constructor
  • Added VolumeData.GetWeights(), VolumeData.CalcVisibleLight() and VolumeData.GetSmoothedNormal()

• Gradient.InitRender() and BaseShader.InitRender() now take an InitRenderStruct parameter

• More methods added:

  • ShaderData.FreeRender()
  • BaseContainer.GetContainerInstance()
  • NodeData.GetDEnabling(), NodeData.IsInstanceOf() and NodeData.GetDocument()

• Added function ActiveObjectManager_SetObject()

In R13.016

Important Additions

• MoGraph access : New module c4d.modules.mograph
• Shader API : New module c4d.modules.render and plugin data class ShaderData

API Changes

Here is a list of all the new modules, classes, methods and functions in the Python API:

New Modules

• c4d.modules.mograph
• c4d.modules.render

• c4d.threading

New Classes

• BaseShader
• HandleInfo

• New custom data type classes:

  • FontData
  • UnitScaleData
  • LayerSet

• New tag classes:

  • NormalTag
  • PointTag
  • PolygonTag
  • SegmentTag
  • TangentTag

• New custom GUI classes exposed:

  • BitmapButtonCustomGui
  • QuickTabCustomGui
  • TreeViewCustomGui

• MoGraph support:

  • FalloffDataData
  • MoData

• Render support:

  • BaseVolumeData
  • VolumeData
  • ChannelData
  • Ray
  • InitRenderStruct

• New plugin data classes:

  • FalloffData
  • ShaderData

• MemoryFileStruct

• BaseThread
• C4DThread

New Methods

• BaseContainer.GetDirty()

• DescID.Write()
• DescID.Read()

• Matrix.Mul()
• Matrix.MulV()

• BaseSelect.Write()
• BaseSelect.Read()
• BaseSelect.GetLastElement()

• C4DAtom.__call__()
• C4DAtom.MultiMessage()
• C4DAtom.Write()
• C4DAtom.Read()
• C4DAtom.WriteObject()
• C4DAtom.ReadObject()

• BaseList2D.__str__()
• BaseList2D.GetData()
• BaseList2D.SetData()

• PolygonObject.GetPolygon()
• PolygonObject.GetSelectedEdges()
• PolygonObject.SetSelectedEdges()
• PolygonObject.GetSelectedNgons()
• PolygonObject.GetHiddenNgons()
• PolygonObject.ValidateEdgeSelection()
• PolygonObject.GetEdgeSelection()
• PolygonObject.GetNgonEdgesCompact()

• BaseDraw.SetPointSize()
• BaseDraw.ConvertColor()
• BaseDraw.ConvertColorReverse()
• BaseDraw.SetDepth()

• BaseMaterial.GetRenderInfo()

• SplineData.SetKnot()
• SplineData.MakePointBuffer()
• SplineData.MakeLinearSplineLinear()
• SplineData.MakeLinearSplineBezier()
• SplineData.MakeSquareSpline()
• SplineData.MakeCubicSpline()
• SplineData.MakeRootSpline()
• SplineData.MakeInversSpline()
• SplineData.MakeSinSpline()
• SplineData.MakeAbsCosSpline()
• SplineData.MakeUserSpline()
• SplineData.SetZero()
• SplineData.InitDefaultFlag()
• SplineData.AdaptRange()

• GeClipMap.SetFont()
• GeClipMap.GetFont()

• BaseDocument.GetActiveObjectsFilter()
• BaseDocument.SetRewind()
• BaseDocument.ForceCreateBaseDraw()
• BaseDocument.FindSceneHook()

• SplineCustomGui.SetGridLineCountH()
• SplineCustomGui.SetGridLineCountV()
• SplineCustomGui.GetGridLineCountH()
• SplineCustomGui.GetGridLineCountV()
• SplineCustomGui.GetScreenPosition()

• HtmlViewerCustomGui.SetURLCallback()

• GeUserArea.DrawGetFontBaseLine()
• GeUserArea.DrawSetTextRotation()

• GeDialog.FindCustomGui()
• GeDialog.AddRadioGroup()
• GeDialog.AddRadioButton()
• GeDialog.AddRadioText()
• GeDialog.SetMultiLinePos()
• GeDialog.SetMultiLineMode()
• GeDialog.AddDlgGroup()

• HairLibrary.GetPolyPointST()

• BaseDrawHelp.GetViewSchedulerFlags()

• NodeData.Read()
• NodeData.Write()
• NodeData.CopyTo()
• NodeData.GetDocument()
• NodeData.IsInstanceOf()
• NodeData.GetDEnabling()

• BitmapLoaderData.GetSaver()
• BitmapLoaderData.GetInformation()

• BitmapSaverData.GetMaxAlphas()
• BitmapSaverData.GetMaxResolution()

• CommandData.ExecuteOptionID()
• CommandData.GetState()

• TagData.AddToExecution()

• ViewportSelect.GetNearestPoint()
• ViewportSelect.GetNearestPolygon()
• ViewportSelect.GetNearestEdge()

New Functions

• c4d.GePluginMessage()
• c4d.GetObjectType()

• c4d.documents.GetFirstMarker()
• c4d.documents.AddMarker()

• c4d.gui.GetMenuResource()
• c4d.gui.SearchMenuResource()
• c4d.gui.SearchPluginMenuResource()
• c4d.gui.SearchPluginSubMenuResource()
• c4d.gui.UpdateMenus()
• c4d.gui.GeGetScreenDimensions()
• c4d.gui.ActiveObjectManager_SetObject()

• c4d.modules.bodypaint.SendPainterCommand()

• c4d.modules.graphview.GetMaster()

• c4d.modules.mograph.GeGetMoData()
• c4d.modules.mograph.GetMoDataDefault()
• c4d.modules.mograph.GetMoDataDefaultType()

• New register plugin data functions:

  • c4d.plugins.RegisterFalloffPlugin()
  • c4d.plugins.RegisterShaderPlugin()
  • c4d.plugins.RegisterNodePlugin()
  • c4d.plugins.RegisterManagerInformation()

• c4d.storage.GeGetPythonPath renamed to c4d.storage.GeGetPluginPath()
• c4d.storage.WriteHyperFile()
• c4d.storage.ReadHyperFile()

• c4d.threading.GeThreadLock()
• c4d.threading.GeThreadUnlock()
• c4d.threading.GeIsMainThread()
• c4d.threading.GeGetCPUCount
• c4d.threading.GeGetCurrentThreadId()
• c4d.threading.IdentifyThread()
• c4d.threading.GeGetCurrentThread()
• c4d.threading.GeCheckBackgroundThreadsRunning()
• c4d.threading.GeStopBackgroundThreads()
• c4d.threading.GeProcessBackgroundThreads()

• c4d.utils.TransformColor()
• c4d.utils.CalculateTranslationScale()