[Melange] How to add PLA to a PolygonObject?

Helper

On 20/12/2013 at 08:39, xxxxxxxx wrote:

User Information:
Cinema 4D Version:   R15
Platform:   Windows ; Mac ; Mac OSX ;
Language(s) :     C++ ;

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Hi there,

I have created a PolygonObject :

int nbPts(8);   
int nbFaces(12);   
_melange_::BaseObject* c4dMesh = _melange_::BaseObject::Alloc(Opolygon);   
((_melange_::PolygonObject* )c4dMesh)->ResizeObject(nbPts, nbFaces, 0);

How should I proceed to add PLA to my object?
Should I create a CTrack? But this requires a tag to be created and there is no PLA tag. Indeed when importing a FBX file with vertex cache, no PLA tag is created.
Should I then add a CCurve?

Any help would be appreciated, I couldn't find an example of creating PLA from scratch.

Regards

Helper

On 03/01/2014 at 07:13, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi,

I could answer my own question, so if anyone is interested in adding PLA, here is a way to do it :

First add a track to the polygon object "c4dMesh"

_melange_::CTrack *plaTrack(   
               _melange_::CTrack::Alloc(   
               c4dMesh,   
               _melange_::DescID(   
                    _melange_::DescLevel(CTpla, CTpla, 0)),   
               "PLA"));   
          c4dMesh->AppendCTrack(plaTrack);   
          _melange_::CCurve *plaCurve(plaTrack->GetCurve());

Now add a key for each time sample and fill the data.

_melange_::BaseTime t;   
          _melange_::CKey *plaKey(plaCurve->AddKey(t));   
  
          _melange_::CustomDataType *plaData(_melange_::PLADataTypeClass::AllocData());   
          _melange_::PointTag *pointTag;   
          _melange_::TangentTag *tangentTag;   
          ((_melange_::PLAData* )plaData)->GetVariableTags(pointTag, tangentTag);   
          pointTag->Resize(static_cast<_melange_::LONG>(nbPoints));   
          tangentTag->Resize(0);   
  
          _melange_::Vector *a = pointTag->GetPointAdr();   
          for (size_t i_pt(0); i_pt < nbPoints; ++i_pt)   
          {   
               a[i_pt].x = animatedPoints[3 * i_pt];   
               a[i_pt].y = animatedPoints[3 * i_pt + 1];   
               a[i_pt].z = animatedPoints[3 * i_pt + 2];   
          }   
  
          _melange_::GeData dat(CUSTOMDATATYPE_PLA, *plaData);   
          plaKey->SetParameter(CK_PLA_DATA, dat);

Hope someone finds this useful one day!
Regards