How to hide an object's native attributes

Oliver

Hello all, I would like to know if C4D can hide an object's native attributes (e.g., hiding the Object tab of a spline object). This would help avoid unnecessary attributes when selecting the corresponding controllers while animating, thus improving efficiency. In the following code, I found that SetParameter doesn't work. I can only hide custom user data attributes

import c4d

def main():
   obj = op
   description = obj.GetDescription(c4d.DESCFLAGS_DESC_NONE)
   doc.StartUndo()

   for bc, paramId, groupId in description:

       if bc[c4d.DESC_NAME] == 'Object Properties':
           doc.AddUndo(c4d.UNDOTYPE_CHANGE, obj)
           print(bc[c4d.DESC_HIDE])                    #  return None
           bc[c4d.DESC_HIDE] = False

           obj.SetParameter(groupId, bc, c4d.DESCFLAGS_SET_NONE)
         # obj.SetUserDataContainer(groupId, bc)      # hide userData attr
           obj.Message(c4d.MSG_CHANGE)

   doc.EndUndo()
   c4d.EventAdd()

if __name__ == '__main__':
   main()

i_mazlov

Hi @Oliver,

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About your First Question

The GetDescription() function returns a copy of the object's description, which means that any modifications will be on the local description instance and will not be reflected on the object itself:

This effectively means that you don't have any control to hide existing attributes in the description your plugin doesn't own.

Cheers,
Ilia

Oliver

@i_mazlov Thank you