Hello @pyr, without any further replies or questions, we will consider this thread as solved by Thursday and flag it accordingly. Thank you for your understanding, Ferdinand

Hello @victor, without any further replies or questions, we will consider this thread as solved by Thursday and flag it accordingly. Thank you for your understanding, Ferdinand

Hello @janine-mcmaster, without any further replies or questions, we will consider this thread as solved by Thursday and flag it accordingly. Thank you for your understanding, Ferdinand

Hi, I am back at work now, if any questions remain, please feel free to ask them. Cheers, Ferdinand

Thanks for the response. I was assuming that would be the case. John Terenece

Mike, thank you a lot!

@m_magalhaes Thank you for answer!

Thanks, that was exactly what I needed!

Thanks Maxime, "NOCAMERA;" worked, and the priority was a typo, now it does work!

Hi @everyone, as a little disclaimer, this is my private take on this topic. Cinema does calculate the length of a spline (at least with SplineHelp) in a rather unpretentious fashion as the sum of the Euclidean norms of the underlying LineObject segments, i.e., there is no fancy arc-length calculation going on. Which makes sense in Cinema, since the discrete LineObject is what does effectively count, and not the smooth SplineObject. Since you can get access to the LineObject of a SplineObject and also convert between SplineObject and LineObject vertex indices with SplineHelp.SplineToLineIndex() , this also means that you can both calculate the length of spline as a total and up to a specific vertex. Which then should mean that you can calculate the relative offset for a spline vertex yourself. Practically you can cut out the SplineObject altogether when sampling a spline and just use its associated LineObject. The one nice thing that SplineHelp does for you is though, that it implements a parallel transport for the frames of spline points for you. I.e., realizes that the normals of spline points point into a direction humans would consider "correct" (mathematically these normals are not correct, due to them being modified by parallel transport, but they will look smoother, won't flip when then curvature of the spline flips). Cheers, Ferdinand

Thank you so much. That did it!!

Amazing, thank you @ferdinand! I figured GetActiveDocument() was the issue, so I was attempting to use takeData.GetCurrentTake() instead in the GetResolutionTakes callback but it still was exactly the same issue where the active take does not change. I didn't know about the callback data argument that already contains the correct document state in data[0], so thank you for letting me know to use that instead and pointing me to further details in the RegisterToken Documentation. Replacing: doc = c4d.documents.GetActiveDocument() with doc = data[0] renderData = doc.GetRenderData(takeData) with renderData = data[1] to get the following code below worked perfectly: def GetCameraName(data): doc = data[0] bd = doc.GetRenderBaseDraw() sceneCam = bd.GetSceneCamera(doc) camName = sceneCam.GetName() return camName.upper() def GetResolutionActive(data): renderData = data[1] renderResX = round(renderData[c4d.RDATA_XRES]) if renderResX >= 1920: return "highRes" else: return "lowRes" Thank you again very much for the help! Really appreciate it.

@m_magalhaes Thanks for the confirmation. I have meanwhile found that while the API doesn't cover the OM window states, you can still call CallCommand and IsCommandChecked on the functions. c4d.CallCommand(100004762) # Show Search Bar c4d.CallCommand(100004719) # Show Path Bar c4d.CallCommand(100004746) # Show Filter They only address the last used OM though; it doesn't seem to be possible to target a specific OM (like it is possible with the Open/Close flags which are stored as NBITs). And of course it doesn't tell me anything about the current visibility of an object in the OM. If the developers will think about commands to cover the filter/search/root conditions, they may want to go one step back and think about a more general concept to handle the multi-copy windows (Object Manager, Attribute Manager, Timeline) in some way that allows me to ask what was the last window, the active window, a window by index.

Unfortually no you can't.

@ferdinand Sorry for the late reply. Yes you understood me correctly. Will this be fixed in new c4d versions?

Correct, thanks for poitning it I will add a task to improve documentation of Custom GUI

@ferdinand I get Ngon translation map and applied MCOMMAND_MELT but stuck again — as I understand SendModellingCommand only returns new object with melted ngons, but my goal is to correct object that already exists in scene... Is there any other ways of setting up Ngon translation map with python?

ok, my apologies. i guess my question is at what point to i check for dirty, and at what point do i insert the nulls?

@mfersaoui Hi, I found the following solution: FileMenu = c4d.BaseContainer() resource = c4d.plugins.GeResource() resource.InitAsGlobal() FileMenu.InsData(c4d.MENURESOURCE_SUBTITLE, resource.LoadString(12587))