Hi,

no worries, the first line is so big because of a stray "=" on the next line, underlining the first to be interpreted as a heading.

I'll move this thread to the General Programming & Plugin Discussions category, because in the end C4D does not provide any means to provoke UAC, nor do we deem it necessary inside our API as it is a pretty system specific thing. Yet, the discussion might lead back to C4D related questions, and then I'll either happily move it back or we'll have a new thread in the Cinema 4D Development category.

In general I think, it would probably be better to convince your users to install the plugin into either the plugins folder in the "user folder" or even (assuming R20+) a completely separate directory added to the users prefs.

Another thought, while definitely possible with Python, I'd say an update mechanism should change/replace files while the main application is running. After all you can not be completely sure, which files the application decides to lock at certain points off time, in which case your updater would probably run into issues. My recommendation is to rather update by restarting the main app (for C++ it's inevitable anyway).

Cheers,
Andreas

Hi,

welcome to Plugin Café.

Do you have any context?

Bye,
Andreas

Yes, it will be to discuss plugins and their development. The subject of my discord is 3D, with several chat rooms dedicated to Cinema4D.
I would put the invitation on my profile, instead of the website;)

You can come and see if you want, here's an invitation:
https://discord.gg/4SFvDa

PS: If you come, let me know so that I can give you access to all the sections

@m_adam Thank you!

Thank you Maxime, I'll test all this 😉

I've wrote it by myself 🙂
Its presentation is here: https://developers.maxon.net/forum/topic/11336/script-harden-edges-of-all-uv-borders-break-phong-shading
May be it'll be useful for someone
Cheers

This does not belong here. This site is about developing plugins and the SDK in general.
You may want to visit the support website

By the way, if you own C4D R15, you already have TeamRender available. Just run your installation disc on a node of your choice and select TeamRender Client.

Hi Shir, thanks for following up and providing your additional info.

Showing parameter in the Attribute Manager or a custom icon in the Object Manager is not such a big issue: you can start looking at Py-RoundedTube which is an ObjectData derived plugin where all such a stuff (and more) is shown.
That said, the real question is instead to understand what your rig is actually doing and see if it's reasonable to implement the Xpresso functionality from a set of "primitive" functions you implement in your plugin or if would be instead easier to programmatically recreate the Xpresso rig in an XpressoTag then attached to the object generated by your plugin.

Actually this assessment can't be done from here where the final functionality and the complexity of your Xpresso network is unknown.

So far I do see three approches:

start on your own, step-by-step, dissect the code from the example I mentioned above and try to move your steps alone outsource the task to some paid developer
or call for volunteers in our very helpful PluginCafe community.

I'm sorry not be more helpful but, as said in the first post, we can't deliver turn-key plugins or scripts but rather help our customer to learn from our resources.

Best, Riccardo

@s_bach

i see. thx, nevertheless.
well, as said, the only way to avoid that collision seems to be: put the plugins into the plugin-folder of the main application.

while discussing the other part of my problem (see symbolcache-topic) on other forums (the german c4dnetwork, that is), it became apparent, that other ppl also do have those collision-messages with r20 - and they, too, do not experience those plugins to be not working.

if at any time this "problem" should become of interest for you, let me know, if there's something that i could do/deliver/add any detail, to support you in your efforts.

cheers,
mesut.

Hi CMPX,

thanks very much for the comment. It's definitively something helpful we'd consider to add in the future.

Best, Riccardo

Hi,

thanks for the additional feedback.

Please keep the discussion going, as we are late as always, the "feedback window" is not closed, yet. Well, I doubt it should ever be closed, we are always interested in your feedback. It's just the our first round of feedback evaluation, that was supposed to end end of November. So, please go ahead and pull more community members into the discussion. We'd really like to get some more opinions and feedback, especially when approaching such topics as reorganizing the category structure.

The breadcrumbs idea is nice.
And as soon as we have fixed the problem of users not being able to mark posts (not only entire threads) as correct answer, we'll also discuss about making threads questions by default.

Cheers,
Andreas

Plugin updated. Some bugs fixed 🙂

Ok. I posted with a link on my dropbox 😉

Hi @cmpxchg8b and @a_block ,
I don't know much about matrix, but here is what I found.
If the point with arrow should rotate to aim, then all the possible position of the point must lay on the sphere surface which sphere's center is the parent object.
And one point and a vector can form a line in space.
So the question becomes a line-sphere intersection problem.
After solving the equations, we can get 2 points: original point and transformed point(s).
After that, we can find the transform matrix between 2 points.

Hi,

no, unfortunately we can not provide a live stream. And given our extremely shy nature a recording is no option either 😉
But we will certainly provide our slides for download afterwards. Some example code can actually already be found on GitHub. And depending on the interest of the community and our time and resources, we are also considering webinars. And with this year's interest, I'm pretty sure it will not have been the last DevKitchen.

Cheers,
Andreas

Hi Axel,

welcome in our small developer forum. 😃

Unfortunately, it's not the right place to discuss issues with MAXON Labs plugins. This forum is really focused on discussing development related topics with 3rd party developers. The comment you posted on MAXON Labs directly already was the right approach.

The thing with MAXON Labs is, that these are all side projects of our developers, often done in spare time. As the page states, MAXON does not promise any support or future maintenance. With that said, usually our developers provide support nevertheless, just because the want these projects top work ok. But then it also heavily depends on their current workload. I made the developer aware of the issue and it can be reproduced (which is always the first step to a fix), but I can't make any promises when he might find the time to look into it.

Cheers,
Andreas

We published the final DevKitchen timetable in above mentioned blog post.