GetContour() issues
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On 02/03/2011 at 02:46, xxxxxxxx wrote:
User Information:
Cinema 4D Version: 11.x
Platform: Windows ;
Language(s) : C++ ;---------
It seems like it's come up a number of times, yet there's no real solution found for it...My plugin is a generator object that outputs a spline object, but it gets information from other objects. That means I have to use GetVirtualObjects() to get it to update. But unless I use GetContour(), a lot of objects and tags won't recognize its spline. (Hair module, Align to Spline Tag, Spline Node, several NURBS objects... they won't read it.)
The thing is, Mograph's Tracer Object seems to be a spline object, changes dynamically, and is readable as if GetContour is called every frame.
Did they do something to the GetVirtualObjects() or GetContour() calls to make it work, or did they do a custom solution for it?
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On 02/03/2011 at 03:34, xxxxxxxx wrote:
How does your plugin object communicate with other objects, through parent-child relation or through link fields, lists etc?
cheers,
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On 02/03/2011 at 03:39, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Mine uses a couple of In/Exclude link boxes to read the input objects.
As for the RegisterObjectPlugin method, I have OBJECT_GENERATOR|OBJECT_ISSPLINE for the info. -
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On 03/03/2011 at 01:58, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Uhh... follow-up question...
Is there a way to manually invoke the GetContour method from another function in the same plugin? I tried calling GetContour from within GetVirtualObjects, but it didn't look like it updated at all.
Right now the only workaround I found was to have a dummy description on my object and add animation keyframes to it. It calls GetContour every frame during animation, but during viewport editing it doesn't, and there are things like Particles that I can read inside GetVirtualObjects but not in GetContour...
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On 03/03/2011 at 02:22, xxxxxxxx wrote:
I am not sure myself. I will forward the problem to our developers.
cheers,
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On 03/03/2011 at 02:25, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Thanks Matthias,
I'll do some experiments on my side. Hopefully I can find a decent workaround.
Cheers,
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On 28/06/2011 at 08:03, xxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm also having a hard time with this. I use a link field to link to a mesh, on which i base my spline. My spline only updates when i change some value in the attribute editor.
i'm using python, r12.
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On 01/07/2011 at 05:24, xxxxxxxx wrote:
i've sort of worked it out in a tag instead. if you create spline, add the tag to it, then link to a mesh in the tag, the tag will modify the spline so it goes through all the vertices of the mesh. gives exactly the same result as the tracer with deforms and sweepnurbs.
one problem is that the spline disapears in the viewport sometimes.Osfspaghetti.res:
#############################################CONTAINER Osfspaghetti
{
NAME Osfspaghetti;
INCLUDE Obase;GROUP ID_OBJECTPROPERTIES { LINK PYMESHLINK_MESH { ACCEPT {Opolygon;} } }}
#############################################Osfspaghetti.h:
#############################################
#ifndef _Osfspaghetti_H_
#define _Osfspaghetti_H_enum
{
PYMESHLINK_MESH = 10000
};#endif
#############################################Osfspaghetti.str:
#############################################
STRINGTABLE Osfspaghetti
{
Osfspaghetti "Spaghetti";PYMESHLINK_MESH "Object";}
#############################################SF-spaghetti.pyp
#############################################
import c4d
import math
import sys
import os
from c4d import plugins, utils, bitmapsPLUGIN_ID = 1000001
class spaghettiData(plugins.TagData) :
def Execute(self, tag, doc, op, bt, priority, flags) :
if op.GetTypeName() != "Spline":
return c4d.EXECUTIONRESULT_OK
else:
bc = tag.GetDataInstance()
mesh = bc.GetLink(c4d.PYMESHLINK_MESH)
if not mesh:return c4d.EXECUTIONRESULT_OK
pCount = mesh.GetPointCount()
if mesh.GetDeformCache() is None:
points = mesh.GetAllPoints()
else:
points = mesh.GetDeformCache().GetAllPoints()
if pCount != op.GetPointCount() :
op.ResizeObject(pCount)
MG = mesh.GetMg()
op.SetMg(MG)
op[c4d.SPLINEOBJECT_CLOSED] = True
for i,p in enumerate(points) :
op.SetPoint(i, p)
op.Message(c4d.MSG_UPDATE)return c4d.EXECUTIONRESULT_OK
if __name__ == "__main__":
path, file = os.path.split(__file__)
bmp = bitmaps.BaseBitmap()
bmp.InitWith(os.path.join(path, "res", "spaghetti.tif"))
plugins.RegisterTagPlugin(id=PLUGIN_ID, str="SF-spaghetti",
g=spaghettiData,
description="Osfspaghetti", icon=bmp,
info=c4d.TAG_VISIBLE|c4d.TAG_EXPRESSION)
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On 05/07/2011 at 06:32, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Sorry for the delay, I'll try to find a solution.
cheers,
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On 05/10/2011 at 05:40, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Have there been any news in this regard? I actually had this problem popping up multiple times, but I am not sure if there is a clean solution.
This btw. also happens, when the spline objects shape depends on the object transformation. GetCountour isn't called when the transformation changes as well.
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On 04/12/2011 at 03:31, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Is there a way to return more than one Spline?
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On 04/12/2011 at 03:56, xxxxxxxx wrote:
If you're using GetVirtualObjects to return your splines, just create a null object and make the generated splines child objects of the null. Then return the null.
If you have to use GetContour, you can't do that because then you have to return a pointer to a SplineObject, not a BaseObject. So what I do is create a Connect object, make the splines children of that, do a SendModelingCommand with MCOMMAND_JOIN on the Connect object, cast the result to a *SplineObject and return that.
The whole issue with GVO and GC is a mess, it should have been fixed years ago. We shouldn't need both, just the generic GVO function.
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On 04/12/2011 at 04:18, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Yeah. I've got two other plugins I as working on that are spline-dependent (custom spline IK with rail spline option and one for poly deformation).
Another issue I have is that there is no way for me to adjust the execution point of Splines I'm using. (Splines are always set to Generator priority, which heavily limits their use for tags that need priority set to Experssion.)
I've yet to hear any news of either an overhaul or at the very least a hack to deal with SplineObjects... -
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On 04/12/2011 at 04:32, xxxxxxxx wrote:
I don't know if it will help your problem, but there's a hack on my site to deal with the issue of GetContour not being called except when the AM is updated. It might be of some use, you can find it at http://www.microbion.co.uk/graphics/c4d/cookbook-3.htm.
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On 04/12/2011 at 04:51, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Yeah, that would work great! My original setup was to manually add in keyframes in C4D using a dummy Description to force the update. Your solution's much more elegant. I can probably get UberTracer finally running with that one.
I'll start working on it again this week.
Thanks Spedler.
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On 10/04/2012 at 07:28, xxxxxxxx wrote:
See solution posted here.
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On 29/08/2014 at 03:33, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Getting back to updating my plugin after all these years...
It seems that if I call the GetContour() method within the GetVirtualObjects() method, the spline finally updates as expected. The splines also redraw for Sketch & Toon.
BaseObject *UberTracer::GetVirtualObjects(BaseObject*op, HierarchyHelp*hh){ return UberTracer::GetContour(op, op->GetDocument(), op->GetDocument->GetLOD(), hh->GetThread()); } SplineObject *UberTracer::GetContour(BaseObject* op, BaseDocument* doc, Float lod, BaseThread* bt){ /*code for spline generation in here*/ }...is it safe to code an object this way, or will there be side-effects?
I've tried the CheckDirty workaround and it doesn't really work as I need it to. -
On 25/10/2014 at 03:13, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Welp... answering my question, running GetContour() inside GetVirtualObjects() seems to work almost perfectly.
Update calls are regular, and Generators and Sketch & Toon will recognize the spline.
BUT the Hair Renderer will not recognize the spline if GetContour is called in GetVirtualObjects.
I just have to figure out a way to do a CompareDependenceList() call inside GetContour to optimize the redraw calls...
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On 25/10/2014 at 08:53, xxxxxxxx wrote:
I think this happens because the Hair engine expects to be fed a SplineObject (as returned by GetContour), but what GVO returns is a BaseObject. As far as I know, and I spent a lot of time on this a couple of years ago, there is no way to make this work because GVO will not return a SplineObject. I mean, obviously it can return a spline but not as a SplineObject, which is a subclass of BaseObject.
Steve
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On 27/10/2014 at 01:30, xxxxxxxx wrote:
I guess that does make sense.
Anyways, I'm overhauling my ubertracer code from scratch for R16 and Yannick's CheckDirty() suggestion seems to work so far. I'll just have to do several more case tests to make sure it doesn't break.