Hi Bentraje, thanks for following up and sorry for coming late here.

I've checked your geometry and the issue is not with the algorithm, but in both cases with the geometries you're using to compute the area who don't shown vertexes being properly "ordered".
The algorithm I've briefly presented requires the vertexes to be ordered as if you're visiting them by walking on the outer edge of your n-gon or polygon in CCW or CW. It is then mandatory to generate an ordered list of vertexes before passing the data to the function to get the correct result.

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In order to come out with such an ordered list I warmly recommend you to visit the following old-threads:

Get all ngons PolygonObject.GetPolygonTranslationMap() Get outer edges of each Ngon

Best, Riccardo

HI Andreas,

no worries, this question was not exclusively targeted at Maxon, the opposite is the case. I was hoping for some information by other users here, like @kbar or even @m_adam (back in the days Maxime was not associated with Maxon. ;))

Meanwhile, I'm going to build a toolchain and see what works for me. I'll report back here if I have something to show. That may help someone else.

I'm trying to use this super handy plug-in to build help system for my plug-ins.
Thanks for sharing this!
After some days of working i have a some suggestions and bug reports.

After each publishing, resulting index.html have a title tag "Plugins 4D Documentation". Is it possible to add ability inserting images with other formats like gif, jpg? Now i have to copy my images to images folder and type using markdown code like this (not showing in Preview window):  Preview window stops showing any text content if it contains symbol '–'. But after publishing results, final HTML is ok. Would be great to add ability to add favicon image.

@m_adam yes it solves the pb.
Thanks Maxime

Hello,

I just want to add that an example on how check a spline can be found in the BaseObject Manual.

best wishes,
Sebastian

Hi guys,

I'm finally glad to state that by upgrading the platform to a more recent version you should be able not only to mark a topic as Solved but also to select the correct post solving the thread.

Please verify on your side with your next-to-come threads and in case report any unexpected behavior.

Best, Riccardo

@a_block said in Cinema 4D Script: Web Search Selected Text:

I have added the "showcase" tag, so people are hopefully able to filter for your and other similar threads more easily.

Great! Thank you!👍

Hi,

thanks for pointing this out to us.
Yet, we were not able to reproduce this issue. What we found so far, when doing a search for "EventAdd()" (or anything similar resulting in a large number of results) and the search is set to show posts instead of threads, then switching between result pages can indeed take some time (at least for the first switch). During this time the page is indeed completely unresponsive and seems frozen, which is not nice. But here it always returned and showed the expected content after a bunch of seconds (I think in my tests longest was about 15 seconds).
We'll keep an eye on this.

Cheers,
Andreas

Hi @SteveJLV welcome in the plugincafe community,

I would like to point you to some rules:

Read Before Posting. Nothing wrong here, but just in case. Q&A New Functionality. I've setup your topic correctly.

As you already figured it out, you never assign a new value to the variable. In Python, everything is passed by value by default in 90% of the time.
Meaning when you do x = y will actually copy y to x, so afterward if you do x + 10 it will not affect y value.

If you have more questions, don't hesitate.
Cheers,
Maxime.

Hi,

I'm sorry for getting back late to you.

We have never done this ourselves nor have we heard of anyone.
The reasons for the difference between C++ and Python API are probably historic. Also back then we had no generic concept for callbacks in Python. Now, with MAXON API and appearance of Delegates and Observables such things will probably handled much nicer in future. Maybe it were also performance considerations.
Many words, for a "I don't know", sorry.

In any case we'll forward this a an idea to our development, so it is at least considered for a future release.

Cheers,
Andreas

Problem solved. The Volume Mesher is to blame. Putting it in a Connect object and using that as the clone object did the trick.

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.