How to change the Node spaces

[gelobui]

Hello Everyone Good day!

I just want to ask on how to change the Node Spaces using Python under the Render menu, refer to the image above. Many Thanks in Advance.

[ferdinand]

Hello @gelobui,

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About your First Question

It depends a bit on how you mean your question. There is GetActiveNodeSpaceId which allows you to get the ID of the current node space. But there is no setting equivalent of that function. So, you cannot set a node space by its ID.

What you can do, is call the command which switches node spaces. These are however dynamically assigned and can have a different meaning, depending on how many render engines are installed. You can just check the script log after changing the space.

On this installation I have for example no extra render engines or node spaces installed, therefore Redshift is there 72000, 4.

But on this machine I have the C++ SDK installed and therefore the Example nodes space, so Redshift is now 72000, 5:

When you really want to do this in a fail safe manner, you would have to parse the menu of Cinema 4D to know with which sub-id to call CallCommand.

Cheers,
Ferdinand