BaseDraw.DrawHUDText in Cinema4D 2024

Runner009

Good morning. I note that plugins that make use of BaseDraw.DrawHUDText developed and functioning on previous releases are not displayed on the 2024 release.
Is it a bug in the 2024 release or has something changed in managing BaseDraw.DrawHUDText?

ferdinand

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Ferdinand

Here is an example scene with a Python tag drawing "TEST" into a viewport and it works both on Win/Mac 2024.4.

file: draw_hud.c4d

Runner009

Thank you Ferdinand.
Your example works correctly.
However, I can't understand why the plugin I created doesn't show me the HUDs on 2024.
I will look at my code and if necessary I will resume this discussion.
Thank you for your support.

ferdinand

Hey @Runner009,

Thank you for your reply. We are happy to help, but without code or a concrete problem description we are unable to do so. There could be every well be a bug with DrawHudeText that happens under very specific conditions.

Cheers,
Ferdinand

FlavioDiniz

@ferdinand said in BaseDraw.DrawHUDText in Cinema4D 2024:

But generally speaking, no, DrawHUDText is not broken, at least not our knowledge.

Hi @ferdinand , sorry if this is an inappropriate place to post, but I should remember there's a bug on DrawHudText.
It's not related to the issue @Runner009 related, but this one: https://developers.maxon.net/forum/topic/15394/drawhudtext-issue-with-viewport-camera-navigation

I just downloaded the script you provided in the post above and tested in C4D 2024.2.0, and the issue exists, not sure if it was fixed in C4D 2024.4.

Best,
Flavio Diniz

ferdinand

Hello @FlavioDiniz,

thank you for reaching out to us. No, that was not fixed in 2024.4. The current plan is to fix it an upcoming minor release, but as always we cannot give any guarantees regarding an ETA. There are currently no workarounds for the other issue.

Cheers,
Ferdinand