Thanks Ferdinand. I actually made a powershell script that did essentially the same thing as #2. Deletes the current version in the c4d plugins folder, copies the newest Build and copies in the res folder.

Is there any way to set Visual Studio to copy the whole res folder to the /bin/release/plugins/xxx folder instead of using a shortcut? When copying the plugin to the cinema plugin folder the res folder is empty...you have to go back to the res folder (which seems to be a shortcut to itself?) and manually copy the contents into the res folder in the cinema plugin folder.

Both Cinema_4D_CPP_SDK_2025_0_0 and Cinema_4D_CPP_SDK_2025_0_1 do not have the same file structure as Cinema_4D_CPP_SDK_2025_3_1, no CMakeLists.txt, ect

Is this correct? Redownloaded/expanded both just to confirm.