Hi Manual,

Thanks for your help! Next time I will use the 'ask question' when posting a question.
You code does exactly what I need, much appreciated!

Cheers,
Martijn

Hi all,

I’m trying to make a little script that takes all selected cameras and puts them in a (newly created) stage object (one camera per frame).

Super useful if you want to render out stills on a render farm that doesn’t support takes.

I’ve got almost everything working:

• Getting the selected cameras and putting them in an array.
• Creating a stage object
• Looping through the array and putting the cameras into the camera slot of the stage object.
• Moving 1 frame forward

The two things I’m struggling with:

1. How to key frame the camera slot properly so it actually creates the animation (different camera per frame). I’m using the mydoc.RecordKey() property but how do I find out which id (?) the camera property has?
2. Ideally I want to catch errors when someone selects something other than a camera. Is there an easy way to catch that error? Should I loop through the array and check the individual elements?

Who can point me into the right direction?

Your help is much appreciated.

Best regards,
Martijn

script:

import c4d, math
from c4d import gui

# This is a little script that puts the selected cameras into a stage object with keyframes


# Main function
def main():
    # Clear Console for easy debugging
    c4d.CallCommand(13957, 13957)

    # Get selected cameras
    obj = doc.GetActiveObjects(1)

    # Check if selected objects are cameras, if not pop-up error
    #code should come here


    # Go to Start of timeline
    c4d.CallCommand(12501)

    #create stage object
    stage = c4d.BaseObject(c4d.Ostage)
    doc.InsertObject(stage)

    # Get active document
    mydoc = c4d.documents.GetActiveDocument()

    # Loop through the array of cameras & put selected cameras in stage object
    for x in obj:
        mytime = mydoc.GetTime()
        myfps = mydoc.GetFps() # define prject fps
        myframe = mytime.GetFrame(myfps) #get current frame
        print(myframe) # print frame number

        stage[c4d.STAGEOBJECT_CLINK] = x # put camera camera slot of stage object

        #set keyframe How??
        #mydoc.RecordKey(stage,[c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_REL_ROTATION,c4d.VECTOR_X]) #Add the keyframe to Rotation X successfully
        mydoc.RecordKey(stage, 1)



        # Go to next key frame
        c4d.CallCommand(12414)

    c4d.EventAdd() #update



# Execute main()
if __name__=='__main__':
    main()