Fields and Adding an Effector

[d_schmidt]

Hello! I have a situation where I'm adding a Random Effector to scene on a button press. That's working correctly, but when I save the scene and reopen it the Field interface and it seems to have reverted to the pre-R20 interface. I'm working in C++ but I managed to recreate the issue in Python for simplicity.

Before I save and load the Falloff tab looks like this.

After I save and load it looks like this.

The code I'm using is here:

import c4d
from c4d import gui
def main():
    randomEffector = c4d.BaseObject(1018643)#Random Effector ID
    doc.InsertObject(randomEffector)
    c4d.EventAdd()

if __name__=='__main__':
    main()

Is there a flag or something I'm missing?

Thanks for any help,
Dan

[Manuel]

hi

you have to send the following message to the object so it will switch internally from regular falloff to fields.

    randomEffector.Message(c4d.MSG_MENUPREPARE, doc)

Cheers,
Manuel

[d_schmidt]

@m_magalhaes

Thank you! Works perfectly.

Dan