Topics created by dskeith

Hello @dskeith,

without any further questions and other postings, we will consider this topic as solved and flag it as such by Friday, 17/06/2022.

Thank you for your understanding,
Ferdinand

Hello @dskeith,

without any further questions and other postings, we will consider this topic as solved and flag it as such by Friday, 17/06/2022.

Thank you for your understanding,
Ferdinand

this script breaks an poly object into island, colorized it by random, offset to center of bounding box and some noise. after that i connects all islands again.

its super fast compared to my older "solution"

import c4d from c4d import gui import random def AddVertexColor(s,center,rad): cnt = s.GetPointCount() tag = c4d.VariableTag(c4d.Tvertexcolor, cnt) data = tag.GetDataAddressW() bs = s.GetPointS() bs.SelectAll(cnt) done = [] points = s.GetAllPoints() r = random.random() for i in range(cnt): g = (points[0]-center).GetLength() / rad b = c4d.utils.noise.Noise(points[0]*0.01,rad) c = c4d.Vector(r,g,b) c4d.VertexColorTag.SetColor(data, None, None, i, c) s.InsertTag(tag) def main(): random.seed(666) selection = doc.GetActiveObjects(c4d.GETACTIVEOBJECTFLAGS_NONE) for s in selection: center = s.GetMp() rad = s.GetRad().GetLength() c4d.CallCommand(12298) c4d.CallCommand(17891) mesh = s.GetDown() while mesh: AddVertexColor(mesh,center,rad) mesh = mesh.GetNext() c4d.CallCommand(100004768) c4d.CallCommand(16768) # Execute main() if __name__=='__main__': main()

Thank you @zipit and @m_magalhaes for your replies! @zipit your response put me on the right track. The issue was that I was trying to do all of the conversions using C4D's left-handed coordinate matrices, and it was auto-fixing my "malformed" matrices.

I ended up porting the Three.js Matrix4 and Euler classes from JS to python and using them in my script.

So, the final code (leaving out the ported methods) looked something like:

mg = self.op.GetMg() parent_mg = self.op.GetUpMg() c4d_to_three = c4d.Matrix( off=c4d.Vector(0), v1=c4d.Vector(1, 0, 0), v2=c4d.Vector(0, 1, 0), v3=c4d.Vector(0, 0, -1) ) # Convert to new coordinate space # http://www.techart3d.com/2016/02/convert-left-handed-to-right-handed-coordinates/ mg_three_coords = c4d_to_three * mg * c4d_to_three parent_mg_three_coords = c4d_to_three * parent_mg * c4d_to_three mg_mat4 = Matrix4(mg_three_coords) parent_mg_mat4 = Matrix4(parent_mg_three_coords) inv_parent_mg_mat4 = parent_mg_mat4.Clone() inv_parent_mg_mat4 = inv_parent_mg_mat4.Inverse() node_local = inv_parent_mg_mat4.Clone() node_local = node_local.MultiplyMatrices(inv_parent_mg_mat4, mg_mat4) position, scale, rotation = node_local.Decompose() if position != c4d.Vector(0): self.props["position"] = position if scale != c4d.Vector(1): self.props["scale"] = scale if rotation != c4d.Vector(0): self.props["rotation"] = rotation

Hi @dskeith thanks for reaching out us.

As pointed out by @PluginStudent, the NBIT_SOLO_LAYER behavior is explained in the Layer Manuel although it make sense to add a note to the Python API as well.

With regard to a complete example, I've partially reworked your code to make sure that by executing the script multiple times you can run across all the solo configurations that the scene can handle.

import c4d # Main function def main(): layer_root = doc.GetLayerObjectRoot() if not layer_root: return # Get the first layer in the scene layer = layer_root.GetDown() if not layer: return soloSet = False while layer is not None: # Set `rawdata` to True flag so to get the original layer values without any additional global changes layer_data = layer.GetLayerData(doc, rawdata=True) # check the current layer solo state: if layer_data["solo"] == False: # if not "solo" then set to True layer_data["solo"] = True # update the layer layer.SetLayerData(doc, layer_data) # update the flag soloSet = True break # deactivate if layer solo was True layer_data["solo"] = False layer.SetLayerData(doc, layer_data) # go to next layer layer = layer.GetNext() # if one (or more) solo was set the set NBIT_SOLO_LAYER otherwise clear if soloSet == True: doc.ChangeNBit(c4d.NBIT_SOLO_LAYER, c4d.NBITCONTROL_SET) else: doc.ChangeNBit(c4d.NBIT_SOLO_LAYER, c4d.NBITCONTROL_CLEAR) # Add an event c4d.EventAdd() # Execute main() if __name__=='__main__': main()

Cheers

@rossc1 Thanks for the inputs, I will for sure add a note in the documentation regarding this issue.

Just as a follow-up from the current status, it is confirmed and while there is a behavior change in our side due to the new licensing mechanism, the issue also comes from Visual Studio Code, reading directly raw string to detect a valid interpreter, and fail if something is not formated as it wants. However, we received the official confirmation from Visual Studio Code that they will not change their implementation, and not support custom interpreters. But we are still on it.

Regarding your needs for an IDE, you can use Pycharm, the only pre-requires is to rename c4dpy to python, unfortunately, we can't officially recommend doing such things since newer OS (Catalina) prevent user changing content of an application package but @dskeith explained everything cleary in How to use c4dpy for Cinema4D R20 SP1.

Cheers,
Maxime.

Hello,

which tool do you actually want to configure?

best wishes,
Sebastian

Hi, Donovan thanks for reaching us.

The mystery variable is actually an int flag to retrieve if the user cancels the PickSession or not. def OnPick(flags, active, multi): if flags & c4d.PICKSESSION_FLAG_CANCELED: print "User cancel" print "active: ", active print "multi: ", multi def main(): doc.StartPickSession(OnPick, multi=True) No there is no way. Actually nothing, it's up to you to detect when the user cancels with PICKSESSION_FLAG_CANCELED and do whatever you want. Cinema 4D handle automatically undo. But you can call BaseDocument.GetSelection before and BaseDocument.SetSelection after if the user cancels the pick session)

Finally, note the C++ version offer to adds userdata ( For more information please read the C++ documentation https://developers.maxon.net/docs/cpp/2023_2/struct_pick_session_data_struct.html)

If you have any question, please let me know.
Cheers,
Maxime.

Hi Donovan,

thanks for your feedback. Currently we are bound mostly by DevKitchen preparations. But we promise to get back to this issue and think about other options as soon as we find the time.

Until then: If you click on the "unread message queue", there in the top right you have commands to mark messages as read, either all or just for certain categories. Maybe this can at least ease your pain, until we find the time to address the issue.

Bye,
Andreas