Conveert Hair object to Polygon object

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On 26/05/2012 at 07:56, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi all hope your haveing a good day right i want to make edible a hair object i know how to make a Opolygon object edible as in the script below what do i need to do to change it to make hair object edible cheers in advance.

def MakeEditable(op) :

if (not op) | op.CheckType(c4d.Opolygon) | op.CheckType(c4d.Ospline) : return op
    op = [op.GetClone()]
doc = c4d.documents.BaseDocument()
doc.InsertObject(op[0],None,None)
op = c4d.utils.SendModelingCommand(
                            command = c4d.MCOMMAND_MAKEEDITABLE,
                            list = op,
                            mode = c4d.MODELINGCOMMANDMODE_EDGESELECTION,
                            doc = doc )
return op[0]

Thank you Ray.

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On 27/05/2012 at 15:02, xxxxxxxx wrote:

The hair ID's are found in: ..\..\..\..\modules\hair\res\description\ohair.h
Grab your hair object like any other object. Then use those ID's to change the attributes of the hair object as desired.

import c4d  
from c4d import utils  
  
def main() :  
  
  obj = doc.GetActiveObject() #Your hair object  
  
  obj[c4d.HAIRSTYLE_GENERATE] = c4d.HAIRSTYLE_GENERATE_SPLINE  #Use which option you want  
  bc = c4d.BaseContainer()  
  convert = utils.SendModelingCommand(c4d.MCOMMAND_MAKEEDITABLE, list = [obj], mode = c4d.MODIFY_ALL, bc=bc, doc = doc)  
  doc.InsertObject(convert[0])  
  c4d.EventAdd()  
  
if __name__=='__main__':  
  main()

-ScottA

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On 28/05/2012 at 09:41, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi ScottA thank you for your reply it works great on a preprepare hair object in cinama but when i generate the hair object in python its not working and use the script below is the one im trying to get it to work with any ideals cheers bud.

def main() :


      c4d.CallCommand(1018401) # Add Hair
      Cube= doc.SearchObject("Cube")
      obj = doc.SearchObject("Hair")
      obj[c4d.HAIRSTYLE_LINK]= Cube
      obj[c4d.HAIRSTYLE_INSTANCE_LINK]= Cube   #Puts the INSTANCE into the hair's link field
      obj()[c4d.HAIRSTYLE_GENERATE]=6

        obj[c4d.HAIRSTYLE_GENERATE] = c4d.HAIRSTYLE_GENERATE_POLYGONS_INSTANCE
      bc = c4d.BaseContainer()
      c4d.EventAdd()
      convert = utils.SendModelingCommand(c4d.MCOMMAND_MAKEEDITABLE,
                  list = [obj],
                  mode = c4d.MODIFY_ALL,
                  bc=bc, doc = doc)
      doc.InsertObject(convert[0])
      c4d.EventAdd()


if __name__=='__main__':
main()

Cheers Ray.

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On 28/05/2012 at 12:17, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Give this a try:

import c4d  
import sys, time  
from c4d import utils  
def main() :      
               
  obj = doc.GetActiveObject()      #The object you want to add the hair on  
  c4d.CallCommand(1018401)         #Adds the hair object and automatically links it to the active object   
  
  hair = doc.SearchObject("Hair")  #Grab the new hair object and give it a variable assignment so we can use it for stuff  
  
  Cube= doc.SearchObject("Cube")   #Grab the instance object we'll add to the hair's instance field later on  
  
  
  #Change the "Generate" option to "instance" mode  
  hair[c4d.HAIRSTYLE_GENERATE]=c4d.HAIRSTYLE_GENERATE_POLYGONS_INSTANCE  
  
  #Now that the mode is correct...We can put the instance object into the link field         
  hair[c4d.HAIRSTYLE_INSTANCE_LINK]= Cube           
  
  c4d.EventAdd()                               #Force C4D to update the changes   
  c4d.DrawViews(c4d.DRAWFLAGS_FORCEFULLREDRAW) #IMPORTANT!! Redraw all the views before proceeding further!!!  
  
  time.sleep(2)  #Give the sysytem time to catch up  
  
  convert = utils.SendModelingCommand(c4d.MCOMMAND_MAKEEDITABLE,  
                list = [hair],  
                mode = c4d.MODIFY_ALL,  
                bc=c4d.BaseContainer(), doc = doc)        
  doc.InsertObject(convert[0])   
         
  c4d.EventAdd()  
      
if __name__=='__main__':  
  main()

Generating hairs can take a long time. Depending on how many you're generating.
It might be bad practice to do this kind of thing from a script. So be careful with how many hairs you generate.

Using Sleep() & DrawViews() like I did in this case lets C4D sort of catch it's breath for a second. And get caught with all of the changes that happened.
But it's a terrible hack...Not something I'd want to use a lot.
There might be a better(safer) way to make the script pause and catch up.

-ScottA

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On 28/05/2012 at 12:44, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks ScottA i would of never got that 1 your a life saver.
Cheers Ray.

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On 28/05/2012 at 13:00, xxxxxxxx wrote:

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On 28/05/2012 at 13:05, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi worked dream juast at add 1 line of script to get it to run final script for any 1 how needs this

import c4d
import sys, time
from c4d import utils
def main() :
      obj = doc.GetActiveObject()      #The object you want to add the hair on
      c4d.CallCommand(1018401)         #Adds the hair object and automatically links it to the active object
      hair = doc.SearchObject("Hair") #Grab the new hair object and give it a variable assignment so we can use it for stuff
      Cube= doc.SearchObject("Cube")   #Grab the instance object we'll add to the hair's instance field later on
      #Change the "Generate" option to "instance" mode
      hair[c4d.HAIRSTYLE_GENERATE]=c4d.HAIRSTYLE_GENERATE_POLYGONS_INSTANCE
      #Now that the mode is correct...We can put the instance object into the link field
      hair[c4d.HAIRSTYLE_LINK]= Cube
      hair[c4d.HAIRSTYLE_INSTANCE_LINK]= Cube
      c4d.EventAdd()                               #Force C4D to update the changes
      c4d.DrawViews(c4d.DRAWFLAGS_FORCEFULLREDRAW) #IMPORTANT!! Redraw all the views before proceeding further!!!
      time.sleep(2) #Give the sysytem time to catch up
      convert = utils.SendModelingCommand(c4d.MCOMMAND_MAKEEDITABLE,
       list = [hair],                  mode = c4d.MODIFY_ALL,
       bc=c4d.BaseContainer(), doc = doc)
      doc.InsertObject(convert[0])
      c4d.EventAdd()



if __name__=='__main__':
main()

The line of script add was

hair[c4d.HAIRSTYLE_LINK]= Cube

Once again ScottA great job.

Cheers Ray

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On 28/05/2012 at 13:43, xxxxxxxx wrote:

You're welcome.

Just don't use it in anything you sell, or make for other people.
Not because of credit issues.. But because using Sleep() like that is probably a bad idea. And can easily lead to crashes.

-ScottA