Posts made by nealhulme

Thanks @Manuel , that is useful to know... how can be marked as 'Solved'?

@bentraje

Thanks for the fix, at least it works how I want now. I did manage to find the value I wanted was 2 by printing it to the console but didn't think to put the line twice so it didn't seem to work. Hopefully someone may be able to explain why it is necessary to add the line twice?

I'm trying to create a simple script that creates a simple organisation structure using nulls. It's 99% of the way there but there is a minor detail that is evading me. You will also have to excuse the coding, this is my first foray into coding in Python so it is not the most elegant coding I'm sure.

When I set up the initial folder structure manually I set the 'Icon Color' of the Null object to 'Display Color'. In the documentation it seems I can only set it as None or Custom (ID_BASELIST_ICON_COLORIZE_MODE_NONE or ID_BASELIST_ICON_COLORIZE_MODE_CUSTOM). Obviously I could set it to a custom colour to match the layer colour but I would prefer it to be linked. Is this an option? Is there a value I can use to implement this?

from typing import Optional
import c4d
from pprint import pprint

doc: c4d.documents.BaseDocument  # The active document
op: Optional[c4d.BaseObject]  # The active object, None if unselected

def CreateLayer(name, data):
    newLayer = c4d.documents.LayerObject()
    newLayer.SetName(name)
    newLayer.SetLayerData(doc,data)
    newLayer.InsertUnder(doc.GetLayerObjectRoot())
    return newLayer

def CreateFolder(name, icon, layer):
    newFolder = c4d.BaseObject(c4d.Onull)
    newFolder[c4d.ID_BASELIST_NAME] = name
    newFolder[c4d.ID_BASELIST_ICON_FILE] = icon
    newFolder[c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_USECOLOR] = c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_USECOLOR_LAYER
    newFolder[c4d.ID_BASELIST_ICON_COLORIZE_MODE] = c4d.ID_BASELIST_ICON_COLORIZE_MODE_NONE
    newFolder.SetLayerObject(layer)
    doc.InsertObject(newFolder)
    c4d.EventAdd()
    return newFolder


def main() -> None:
    layerArchive = CreateLayer("ARCHIVE", {
        'solo':False,
        'view':False,
        'render':False,
        'manager':True,
        'locked':False,
        'animation':False,
        'generators':False,
        'deformers':False,
        'expressions':False,
        'xref':False,
        'color':c4d.Vector(128/255,128/255,128/255),
        })
    folderArchive = CreateFolder("ARCHIVE", "1052837", layerArchive)
    folderSpacer = CreateFolder("- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -", "1031728", layerArchive)

    layerCameras = CreateLayer("CAMERAS", {
        'solo':False,
        'view':False,
        'render':True,
        'manager':True,
        'locked':False,
        'animation':True,
        'generators':True,
        'deformers':True,
        'expressions':True,
        'xref':True,
        'color':c4d.Vector(255/255,87/255,34/255),
        })
    folderCameras = CreateFolder("CAMERAS", "1052837", layerCameras)

    layerLights = CreateLayer("LIGHTS", {
        'solo':False,
        'view':False,
        'render':True,
        'manager':True,
        'locked':False,
        'animation':True,
        'generators':True,
        'deformers':True,
        'expressions':True,
        'xref':True,
        'color':c4d.Vector(255/255,193/255,7/255),
        })
    folderLights = CreateFolder("LIGHTS", "1052837", layerLights)

    layerGeo = CreateLayer("GEO", {
        'solo':False,
        'view':True,
        'render':True,
        'manager':True,
        'locked':False,
        'animation':True,
        'generators':True,
        'deformers':True,
        'expressions':True,
        'xref':True,
        'color':c4d.Vector(33/255,150/255,243/255),
        })
    folderGeo = CreateFolder("GEO", "1052837", layerGeo)

    layerGenerators = CreateLayer("GENERATORS", {
        'solo':False,
        'view':True,
        'render':True,
        'manager':True,
        'locked':False,
        'animation':True,
        'generators':True,
        'deformers':True,
        'expressions':True,
        'xref':True,
        'color':c4d.Vector(139/255,195/255,74/255),
        })
    folderGenerators = CreateFolder("GENERATORS", "1052837", layerGenerators)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()