Thank you @r_gigante for the reply!

Sorry if the intent is unclear: this self-contained script was something I came up with last night to demonstrate an issue I'm having in my plugin which is too many scripts to post to the forums. Since the user can't select an object after the script is running, I added that catch to make sure an object was selected to show what was going wrong.

My Goal
I am trying to save a link to a scene object and its matrix to a hyperfile so the user can load the hyperfile in another session and restore the link to the object so that I can apply the saved matrix. I don't need the object itself.

Update
I updated the original script's GetLink() method to pass a reference to the active document, but that did not solve the issue.

@r_gigante

Thanks for the response.
Unfortunately, I still can't read C++ codes at the moment.
Is there a python equivalent of that page? I can't seem to see one. There is a page for that but it's like a dictionary. It does not contain any sample codes like in C++

If it does not exist, do you have any C++ with an equivalent Python page in the documentation? I'll just to interpolate them as much as possible.

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I also checked the Github sample and it does contain a GeUserArea sample

But the button part is still in GeDialog. Is it possible to make the GeUserArea part to be clickable like a button?

@wuzelwazel

Yes, I'm referring to the file you uploaded earlier.
There is some delay when hitting Undo.
You can see it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hayep6r4iyowqt5/c4d194_deformer_affect_outside_hierarchy_02.mp4?dl=0

RE: perhaps making sure the objects with the surface deformers are lower down the list
In your file, yep they are. That's why I was wondering why there is a lag.

Hi jhpark, thanks for reaching out us.

Aside from the notes left by @blastframe - thanks dude for the remarks - I think it's worthy, thinking of a more generic scene, to mention the need BaseDocument::ExecutePasses() to be sure that everything is actually evaluated before querying the scene rather than the EventAdd() which serves a different scope.
This function is responsible to execute the scene evaluation and, consequently to be sure that, moving from a frame to another, all the items in the scene reflect the changes imposed by the frame switch.

The approach used by @blastframe actually operates on CTracks and key but, although this approach works fine for your specific case, when more evaluation dependencies are created in the scene you could easily end up in unexpected results.

The code could then look like

frames_count = 10 # [Set] frames counter for f in range(0, frames_count): doc.SetTime(c4d.BaseTime(f, doc.GetFps())) # evaluate the scene doc.ExecutePasses(None, True, True, True, c4d.BUILDFLAGS_NONE) obj = doc.SearchObject('Cube') # get object position x = int(obj.GetMg().off.x) y = int(obj.GetMg().off.y) z = int(obj.GetMg().off.z) # get object color r = int(obj[c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_COLOR].x * 255) g = int(obj[c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_COLOR].y * 255) b = int(obj[c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_COLOR].z * 255) print("Frame = " + str(f) + ", (X,Y,Z) = " + str(x) + "," + str(y) + "," + str(z) + ", RGB = " + str(r) + "," + str(g) + "," + str(b))

RE: So if it recreates the same things it is probably because images are not local to your class but only to your function,
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for the heads up. Works now as expected 🙂

@bentraje said in Simple way to save images?:

Union

This means it can be either a str or either a c4d.storage.MemoryFileStruct. (Both don't really make sense).

Cheers,
Maxime.

Hi @zipit

Thanks for the response. The thread reference works as expected.
Here is the code I used:

op = plugins.FindPlugin(1027974) # Retrieved from the script log if op: print op[c4d.XPPREFS_SYSHUD_SHOW] # we know the enum from the console

Have a great day ahead! 🙂

@m_adam You are a legend!

I've learned a lot about UI in Cinema 4D from this post, thank you very much.

Hi eldiren, thanks for reaching out us.

With regard to your request, please consider that ProRender has been integrated by using a non-public API which among the different features also gives permits to integrate the renderer buffer with the viewport.

At the moment aside from the documentation about VideoPostData for non-interactive or semi-interactive rendering purposes and the approach seldom used of representing in a GeUserArea or via the SceneHook::Draw function the results of a renderer buffer, there are not yet examples showing how to integrate external renderers in Cinema 4D.

Best, R

Thanks, great explanation!
One small issue. Delete doesn't work because objParent' is not defined.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "scriptmanager", line 251, in DeletePressed NameError: global name 'objParent' is not defined

Here the code that, I think, solves the issue:

def DeletePressed(self, root, userdata): "Called when a delete event is received." for tex in reversed(list(TextureObjectIterator(self.listOfTexture))): if tex.IsSelected: objParent = tex.GetParent() # Added listToRemove = objParent.GetChildren() if objParent is not None else self.listOfTexture listToRemove.remove(tex)

@m_magalhaes

RE: Does using the object list iterator is mandatory or not ?
For this one, it kinda is since the whole code base rest on the for loop section.

RE: you can see in this file that i can use UserData
Thanks for the clarification. I see what you mean now. It works on my use case.

Have a great day ahead!

@m_magalhaes
Thanks for bringing this up, as it seems I had overlooked it on multiple occasions.
Which also points me to the fact that the R19 SDK did have a String::operator == ()
Also overlooked that all those years. I need better glasses.

Yes because I've done it 🙂

I don't have a lot to add here, @zipit almost pointed everything moreover doing proper profiling for hard drive can be a bit tricky to set up for couple of reasons:

Another process may randomly use hard drive (e.g Antivirus checking). Cached file optimization made by either the OS, the processor or even the hard drive itself.

Cheers,
Maxime.

Thank you @m_magalhaes! I needed to open the plugins.sln solution instead of the project file. I feel like I've learned something, but I'm not sure what 👍 🤕

Hello

Sorry for the delay, Christmas time didn't helped.
I've opened a bug entry for that issue.
I'll be back when i'll have more information.

I've added the "Bug report" tag to this thread

Cheers,
Manuel

hello,
without information from your part, i'll consider this thread as solved and change its states

Cheers,
Manuel

Hello,

@blastframe said in Disabling a Protection Tag:

tag[c4d.PROTECTION_P_X] = 0

you should use the right type, this is a Boolean.

tag[c4d.PROTECTION_P_X] = False

you can use those symbols to define the function :
c4d.PROTECTION_NONE
c4d.PROTECTION_LOCK
c4d.PROTECTION_LIMIT

tag[c4d.PROTECTION_P] = c4d.PROTECTION_NONE

Last point, using SetParameter doesn't change the fact that you need to send a message to the tag.

Cheers,
Manuel

Hi Riccardo,

many thanks for the infos 🙂

Cheers
Renato