Behaviour of MCOMMAND_JOIN diffrnt in R18 [SOLVED]

Helper

On 21/06/2017 at 06:19, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi! The scene that you can download below contains a Null object with a bunch of polygon objects under it.
I want to merge them into a single polygon object using MCOMMAND_JOIN, which works fine in R17, in
R18 however, the result contains only the very first object instead of all objects.

import c4d
  
def join_objects(objs, doc) :
    print 'Joining', len(objs), 'objects'
    settings = c4d.BaseContainer()
    settings[c4d.MDATA_JOIN_MERGE_SELTAGS] = True
    result = c4d.utils.SendModelingCommand(
        c4d.MCOMMAND_JOIN, objs,
        c4d.MODELINGCOMMANDMODE_ALL, settings, doc)
    if not result:
        return None
    return result[0]
  
obj = join_objects(op.GetChildren(), doc)
doc.InsertObject(obj)
c4d.EventAdd()

Download 2017-06-21-plugincafe-jointest.c4d.

Any idea what's going wrong in R18?

Helper

On 21/06/2017 at 08:38, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi!
In R18 MCOMMAND_JOIN works in a different manner than pre-R18.

For more details see:
https://developers.maxon.net/forum/topic/9836/13246_python-sendmodelingcommand&KW=&PID=52423#52423

Helper

On 21/06/2017 at 10:46, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thank you, no photo. Should've used the forum search first

Here's the updated join_objects() function

def join_objects(root, doc) :
    children = root.GetChildren()
    set_status("Joining %d objects ..." % len(children), 50)
    # Pre-R18 we need to pass the list of objects to join.
    if c4d.GetC4DVersion() < 18000:
        source = children
    else:
        source = [root]
  
    settings = c4d.BaseContainer()
    settings[c4d.MDATA_JOIN_MERGE_SELTAGS] = True
    result = c4d.utils.SendModelingCommand(
        c4d.MCOMMAND_JOIN, source,
        c4d.MODELINGCOMMANDMODE_ALL, settings, doc)
    if not result:
        return None
    return result[0]