Hi all, thanks for posting and indeed we are going to explore metadata handling in general. Cheers Jana

Hey @Cankar001, thank you for reaching out to us. It is great to hear that you found your solution! But I have troubles understanding all details of the rest of your question. However: PluginStart ist just an alias for the plugin message C4DPL_INIT. A Cinema 4D instance has various stages in its startup and teardown sequence, as expressed by the plugin messages C4DPL_MESSAGES (see also: Plugin Messages). Through out the startup and teardown of Cinema 4D not all systems are available, as binaries/modules are loaded and unloaded and the systems associated with them are being pulled up and torn down. In the end it depends a bit on what you tried to do concretely, but generally speaking, it could very well be that something is not yet "up" when C4DPL_INIT is emitted. But in general, most modules, registries, etc. should be accessible at this point (plugins are loaded after the core and unloaded before the core). To get here a more precise answer, I would recommend opening a new topic with concrete code. Cheers, Ferdinand

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@ferdinand Thank very much! i'll check what can i do.

@ferdinand Thank you for the response, reinstalling everything solved the issue!

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Hi just in case for Cinema 4D, there is already Move by Maxon. With that's said it's always nice to have new plugins in Cinema 4D. I have to admit I struggle a bit to understand if you ask for someone to help you to solve your issue or take over the Cinema 4D development of this plugin. If this is the second one I would encourage you to be a bit more clear in order to maybe convince someone to take over. In any case good luck and if you have any technical question related to Cinema 4D, feel free to ask in the Cinema 4D category. Cheers, Maxime.

We removed it because it was just extra work for us to close all the threads where people never bothered to mark them as solved. But I am happy that you seem to have found your solution.

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@dkhuscroft Welcome to the Maxon developers forum and its community, it is great to have you with us! Getting Started Before creating your next postings, we would recommend making yourself accustomed with our forum and support procedures. You did not do anything wrong, we point all new users to these rules. Forum Overview: Provides a broad overview of the fundamental structure and rules of this forum, such as the purpose of the different sub-forums or the fact that we will ban users who engage in hate speech or harassment. Support Procedures: Provides a more in detail overview of how we provide technical support for APIs here. This topic will tell you how to ask good questions and limits of our technical support. Forum Features: Provides an overview of the technical features of this forum, such as Markdown markup or file uploads. It is strongly recommended to read the first two topics carefully, especially the section Support Procedures: Asking Questions. About your First Question This is a development forum, we cannot provide end user support. Please visit our Support Center for end user questions. Cheers, Ferdinand

@ferdinand Wow, I couldn't find the support center so I had to ask a question here. Thank you so much for letting me know.

Hello @seora, Thank you for reaching out to us. There is noch such functionality to encrypt Python scripting elements. You can encrypt Python plugins, but not things like a Python tag or generator object. I have moved this thread since its is not about the Python API but a feature of Cinema 4D. Cheers, Ferdiand

Hello @hSchoenberger, Sorry, but this is a C4D SDK question! It is NOT about the Octane SDK. "How can I list all installed renderer plugins in C4D with their version?" Although you have put your sentence into quotes, that was not what you asked, your questions were: Is there any way to get some information about renderer plugins? I want to get the version of the Octane plugin. So how I can loop through all plugins loaded and get some information from the plugins like the version? And I answered that: There is no public interface with which you could get the version of a plugin. And when plugins provide version information on their own, you must ask their vendors about that. You can access the flags a plugin has been registered with BasePlugin.GetInfo, the disk-level is in-accessible for you. You can detect installed render engines by looping over all video post data plugins and check if they have PLUGINFLAG_VIDEOPOST_ISRENDERER set (this assumes that the to be detected render engine sets this flag on registration - which is usually unavoidable as you otherwise cannot hook in the render system of Cinema 4D, but there might be 'rogue' render engines out there which side step things). import c4d doc: c4d.documents.BaseDocument # The currently active document. op: c4d.BaseObject | None # The primary selected object in `doc`. Can be `None`. def main() -> None: """Called by Cinema 4D when the script is being executed. """ plugin: c4d.plugins.BasePlugin for plugin in c4d.plugins.FilterPluginList(c4d.PLUGINTYPE_VIDEOPOST, True): if (plugin.GetInfo() & c4d.PLUGINFLAG_VIDEOPOST_ISRENDERER): print (plugin.GetName()) if __name__ == '__main__': main() # Example output for a vanilla installation. Physical Redshift Viewport Renderer Cheers, Ferdinand

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@Dunhou Thanks, I'm having a lot of fun making TP run like a train, I'm trying to optimize the code by vectorizing some functions and gain new FPS. I will keep this post updated on developments as much as possible

Hi @m_adam It's nice to hear that, and thank you!

you can test for all cases, that's why I call those edges "candidates". The devil is always in the details. There are many ways to skin this cat. best Paul