Refreshing the viewport while calculating

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On 09/06/2008 at 02:38, xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Cinema 4D Version:   10.5 
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Language(s) :     C++  ;

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Hey

During my plugin execution I am calculating the vertexpoints for a given heigth point, refining a octahedron (link to image) to a final object (link to image)

After executing the plugin, the viewport is not beeing refreshed until the calculation has been completed.
For the next step in my plugin I need a redraw while this mesh is build up. Is this possible ?

Cheers
Sascha

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On 09/06/2008 at 02:41, xxxxxxxx wrote:

What kind of plugin did you finally choose, generator. tag etc?

Usally you have to send MSG_UPDATE message to the object and call the EventAdd() function.

cheers,
Matthias

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On 09/06/2008 at 02:51, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hey Matthias,
I finally chose a command plugin. Within the execute I am allocating camera, target null object and my polyObject, adding them to the doc and calling several functions creating a height field, adding recursivly the new vertices and building a triangle strip (the polyobject)

Cheers
Sascha

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On 12/06/2008 at 02:21, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I have tried a few things with several update messages at serveral position inside my code. I don't recognize a visual update, but a higher calculation time. It seems, that, within a CommanPlugin, an editor view update is not an easy task. I am no pro, but i assume, a CommandPlugin does not use a cache like an ObjectPlugin does? The function GetVirtualObject() is called continously in an ObjectPlugin, but otoh making it difficult to bring more than one object into the document...

Cheers
Sascha

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On 19/06/2008 at 07:52, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Well I think, since a CommandPlugin is non-threaded, it seems, my object wouldn't be updatable during the calculation process...

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On 23/06/2008 at 02:14, xxxxxxxx wrote:

It is important that you call DrawViews(). Little example

> \> Bool MenuTest::Execute(BaseDocument \*doc) \> { \>      StopAllThreads(); \> \>      BaseObject \*op = doc->GetActiveObject(); \>      if(!op) return TRUE; \> \>      Random rnd; \>      rnd.Init(36363); \> \>      while(TRUE) \>      { \>           Vector pos = Vector(rnd.Get11()\*100.0, rnd.Get11()\*100.0, rnd.Get11()\*100.0); \> \>           op->SetPos(pos); \> \>           op->Message(MSG_UPDATE); \>           EventAdd(); \>           DrawViews(DA_NO_THREAD|DA_FORCEFULLREDRAW); \>      } \> \>      return TRUE; \> } \>

cheers,
Matthias

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On 23/06/2008 at 07:51, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hey Matthias,

Thanks for this hint.

HOLY MOTHER MARY GOD ! Is works in some way... but it runs soooooooo damn slow... Its better not to draw every polygon connected ^^

[Edit]
Yeah, every 100th or every 150th polygon is good deal

Cheers
Sascha