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Hello @gaschka,

Thank you for reaching out to us. Yes, this is an encoding issue. In general, Unicode is supported by the Python to C++ bindings, as you can see, French, German, and Turkish diacritics are all correctly transported, as well as Chinese characters.

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But all these are part of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) while the emojis are part of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP) of the Unicode table. It could either be that there is something not implemented or some bits get chopped off while data is sent to the C++ layer. I don't really know, the person who is responsible for the Python bindings, @m_adam, is on vacation. I will ask him once he is back, as I too would be guessing what is happening here exactly.

Cheers,
Ferdinand

Hi @gaschka,

In your next postings please provide more detailed description of your question. In this case you're lacking information about the file structure you're using, the code that performs the import, the information on how and what have you set the environment variable for.

Regarding your question, when splitting python code into separate pieces one usually uses the concept of packages rather than raw files. Hence, your question relates to local modules you'd like to use in your script. Please, have a look at the Python Libraries Manual especially the last section about the Local Plugin Search Paths.

Another point of interest for you would be a utility function LocalImportPath that simplifies the process of importing packages.

If you have any further questions, please let me know and provide a code sketch that showcases your issue.

Cheers,
Ilia

Thanks to you both for your answers.

@m_adam Regarning my issue with the file linking, I'll try to come up with a procedure for reproduction of my issue soon: It was quite random, but I was in the flow of writing my script, so I circumvented with the string solution, but I would prefer the file solution for sure.

@i_mazlov Thank you for the friendly introduction and the hint to CUSTOMGUI and REALSLIDER, exactly what I was looking for.
@baca Thank you for the additional tip.

Thanks for your help and nudging me into the right direction, I think I can work with that 🙂

@m_adam

@m_adam said in Python tag initalization?:

OM is not single threaded,

Oh, that's an interesting insight for me. Perhaps I was misinformed, as Character Rigs had the tendency to get slow quite easily in C4D, and Animators look envy over to Maya, as they do have a parallel evaluation (and caching). Though I'm aware that there are changes/improvements to C4D performance lately. Thanks for the link. A lot of new information to learn an absorb 🙂