Hi @baca, sadly it is not possible to get the exact same random in Python than the one used internally for this feature. So the only way would be to actually clone some objects an retrieve their position as shown in read_modata_color.py. The previous example retrieve the color and not the position, so instead of retrieving the MODATA_COLOR, use the MODATA_MATRIX. Cheers, Maxime.

Hi @BretBays this is correct, if you want to make a Brush the easiest way is to register a SculptBrushToolData , you can find examples in Python in Github or in C++ in Github. SculptBrushToolData is derived from DescriptionToolData, meaning they can have a description visible in the attribute manager and therefor you can add your own checkbox if needed. Cheers, Maxime.

Thanks Ilia! That was exactly what I needed! Dan

Hi, thank you for the tips. Here is my C++ -treegenerator-plugin, written for R25: http://www.klausfilm.bplaced.net/TreeGenerator/Website_Treegenerator.html Cheers Klaus

Hi @baca, this is unfortunately not possible there is some default CheckDirty in place to support the default FiledList, but since you can not override CheckDirty in an effector yourself you can't add another FieldList dependency check. Cheers Maxime.

Hi @gaschka, In your next postings please provide more detailed description of your question. In this case you're lacking information about the file structure you're using, the code that performs the import, the information on how and what have you set the environment variable for. Regarding your question, when splitting python code into separate pieces one usually uses the concept of packages rather than raw files. Hence, your question relates to local modules you'd like to use in your script. Please, have a look at the Python Libraries Manual especially the last section about the Local Plugin Search Paths. Another point of interest for you would be a utility function LocalImportPath that simplifies the process of importing packages. If you have any further questions, please let me know and provide a code sketch that showcases your issue. Cheers, Ilia

Hi thanks for the report, python should never crash, so it's going to be fixed in the next release. In any case the port should be a valid a port, but an exception should be raised when None is passed. Cheers, Maxime

@m_adam @m_adam said in Python tag initalization?: OM is not single threaded, Oh, that's an interesting insight for me. Perhaps I was misinformed, as Character Rigs had the tendency to get slow quite easily in C4D, and Animators look envy over to Maya, as they do have a parallel evaluation (and caching). Though I'm aware that there are changes/improvements to C4D performance lately. Thanks for the link. A lot of new information to learn an absorb

Thanks for your help and nudging me into the right direction, I think I can work with that

Thanks to you both for your answers. @m_adam Regarning my issue with the file linking, I'll try to come up with a procedure for reproduction of my issue soon: It was quite random, but I was in the flow of writing my script, so I circumvented with the string solution, but I would prefer the file solution for sure.

@i_mazlov Thank you for the friendly introduction and the hint to CUSTOMGUI and REALSLIDER, exactly what I was looking for. @baca Thank you for the additional tip.

thanks @i_mazlov

Hi James, You can use GetDeformCache() for that in place. The rest of the code would stay exactly the same, just add the following three lines before retrieving object points and polys: obj = obj.GetDeformCache() if not obj: raise RuntimeError("Couldn't retrieve objects deform cache") By the way, there's a great example that showcases the workflow with generators and deform caches: geometry_caches_s26.py Cheers, Ilia

Hi you need to use call button def apply_deformed_mesh(meshes): """ Apply 'Set Deformed Mesh' on all meshes with weight tags. """ for obj in meshes: weight_tag = obj.GetTag(c4d.Tweights) if weight_tag: bc = weight_tag.GetDataInstance() # Set the button to 'Set Deformed Mesh' bc.SetInt32(c4d.ID_CA_WEIGHT_TAG_SET_BUTTON, c4d.ID_CA_WEIGHT_TAG_SET_DEFORMED_MESH) c4d.CallButton(weight_tag, c4d.ID_CA_WEIGHT_TAG_SET_BUTTON) # Update the scene c4d.EventAdd() Cheers, Maxime.

@i_mazlov Thank you very much for your response! I am not sure how long it would have taken me to figure out the "prefsPlugin: c4d.BasePlugin =... " part without your help. This is the code I wrote, which works exactly how I wanted it to (and now I have the script mapped to a hotkey). import c4d def main(): prefsPlugin: c4d.BasePlugin = c4d.plugins.FindPlugin(c4d.PREFS_NAVIGATION, c4d.PLUGINTYPE_PREFS) navigationValue: int = prefsPlugin[c4d.PREF_NAVIGATION_CAMERA] if navigationValue == 3: prefsPlugin[c4d.PREF_NAVIGATION_CAMERA] = c4d.PREF_NAVIGATION_CAMERA_CAM else: prefsPlugin[c4d.PREF_NAVIGATION_CAMERA] = c4d.PREF_NAVIGATION_CAMERA_CUR if __name__=='__main__': main() Thanks again!

@Dunhou Thanks for the reference but yea I'm unfortunately using the xpresso here instead of the new node editor. Which in all regards, an unfortunate scenario is xpresso is not integrated to the new node editor. @m_adam Gotcha. Thanks. Looking forward to the update.

Thanks for the confirmation. I guess I'll just let the users do some reordering the nodes themselves. lol The nodes are creating procedurally so the nodes are just stacked on top of each other. haha

@i_mazlov Ah yes, my pose morph names are standardized so there should be no duplicated/redundant names. And yea, thanks for mentioning the dictionary route. Totally overlooked that. That could indeed be an easier way to set/get some values. Thanks!

Hi @merkvilson, Please give more information about your setup and provide a code snippet that shows your issue. I'm not able to reproduce your issue using the code snippet below in C4D 2024.2 There's a c4d.POPUP_ALLOW_FILTERING flag that you can pass to the ShowPopupDialog() function to allow showing the filtering entry in your menu: c4d.gui.ShowPopupDialog(cd=None, bc=menu, x=300, y=300, flags=c4d.POPUP_ALLOW_FILTERING) Cheers, Ilia import c4d def main() -> None: menu = c4d.BaseContainer() for idx in range(5): menu.InsData(c4d.FIRST_POPUP_ID + idx, f"Item {idx}") c4d.gui.ShowPopupDialog(cd=None, bc=menu, x=300, y=300) # c4d.gui.ShowPopupDialog(cd=None, bc=menu, x=400, y=300, flags=c4d.POPUP_ALLOW_FILTERING) if __name__ == '__main__': main() [image: 1702636223773-03915845-5d04-4cf4-a79c-1cb342e2aa60-image.png]

Hi yes, GvNode are BaseList2D and GeListNode, like material, object, tags. There is the same discussion going on, so you may find it interesting Issue collecting all the shaders in a material. Cheers, Maxime.