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()