Thank you Ferdinand.
I have everything working now. The #include <> brackets was just a copy paste thing from the docs. I just had to add the path as you pointed out "maxon/distancequery.h".
One last question about the behavior of
float distance = distanceQuery.GetClosestMeshPrimitive(p, info).

Suppose the user have scaled the polygon mesh using the scale values under the attributes/coordinates. How will this be reflected as a result of the returned distance (assuming the point in the point mesh is first converted to global coordinates and then to local coordinates in the polygon node) like your example above? I see an issue here in my tests where the distance returned is unaffected by the scaling. Either I have done something wrong or the distanceQuery is done on the non "deformed/scaled" mesh.

The point generator in this case is not transformed or deformed in any way.

I was very happy to find this nice example. Thanks Ferdinand!
However looking at the docs and If I have understood this correctly, I should be able to include <distancequery.h> to get access to the DistanceQueryInterface.
My problem is that the <distancequery.h> source file is not found.
All common frameworks are available to my build system.
Any help or hint on what to look for would be much appreciated. I'm sure I have overlooked something trivial.

set(maxon_targetFrameworkDependencies
asset.framework
cinema.framework
cinema_hybrid.framework
crypt.framework
core.framework
corenodes.framework
command.framework
image.framework
math.framework
misc.framework
mesh_misc.framework
python.framework
)

Thank you so much Ferdinand!
I have a way forward now for my plugin using the EffectorData ModifyPoints() method.

Kind regards
Fredrik

Hello!
This is my first post here. See my bio for background.
I have been studying the SDK docs the last two weeks and I'm taking my first steps trying to build plugins for Cinema4D. So I have a question and I'm looking for directions...

Does C++ SDK allows you to create some sort of a custom Matrix Object style distribution?
What I want to achieve is a generator/distribution that output point data that can be read by a cloner.
It is important that the points encode position, orientation and size or scale and that the cloner can read that data and apply it to instances. Is this doable with the C++ SDK?
If I have understood the SDK correctly, a point object can only encode position and possibly normals and that won't fulfill the requirements in my case.

Any hint or help pointing me in the right direction would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
/Fredrik