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hello,

You can have a look at 2D viewport drawing using a SceneHook , Drawing a spline in the viewport also can help.

Don't hesitate to ask, we'll be happy to help.

Cheers
Manuel

hello,

@d_schmidt is this related to this topic ?

What i can tell is that the function GetContour is the one used when you edit the generator, and it only return one object and not a hierarchy. If you want to return a spline you have to merge all the spline you want in different segment.

I don't understand what is your goal here (your code seem to be the result of lot's of test) so i can't really tell if you should only use GetVirtualObject or not even overload it.

Can you provide a bit more information about your goal here, if you just want to modify the spline, why you didn't created a modifier ?

Cheers
Manuel.

Hi @blastframe, thanks for the video.

Unfortunately, I can only confirm the issue.
So far Polygon Groups to Object command is the exact inverse command of Connect Objects commands, so that's why it's working since polygon and points are recreated in the same order where the split command is not capable of this.

With that's said here 3 ways to investigates:

1. Recreates the Connects and the Split command yourself so you can track points manually here and know which point belongs to what.
2. Creates a copy UV command that will use the global point position instead of ID. But that means if two points share the same global position they will also share the same UV position (this can be an issue, but if it's not going to happen this method is probably the easiest to implement).
3. Uses the Polygon Groups to Objects commands, then by doing a CRC of all sources points position in global position with the global point position of each generated object you can quickly see if a mesh is equivalent or not.
   This may have some limitation but I think it's still a robust way if pointCount + polygon count are the same, and CRC the same its most likely the mesh are equals so it's more or less safe to copy UV.
   This can be an issue if you have for example 10 time the same objects positioned in the same global position (I don't see why anyone will do this) and you want to have UV in a different position, this will not works.

For sure if you need help for one of the way provided or even yours feel free to ask.
Cheers,
Maxime.

hello,

just a quick question,from where are you drawing, an object, a Scenehook ..

Cheers
Manuel

Hi, maybe I misunderstand the issue, but the split command does work here to preserve point order, could you provide a scene with an exact reproduction step by step where it does not work?

At least doing the following:

1. Creates a character object.
2. Make it editable
3. Middle Click to select everything
4. Connect Object
5. Go to UV, Optimal Mapping, Apply Optimal Cubic mapping
6. Realign mode, Apply
7. Select parts (U,W)
8. Left click Split
9. Copy Past the UV tag
10. Works great.

Of course when you split if you only split a part (meaning not the full polygon/vertex of the target part) you will get issue when copy past, since your original (the splitten part) have less vertex/polygon than the object, so the uv have to be created for theses vertex and they are set to the origins 0.0.

Cheers,
Maxime.

Hello,

nothing more to add here except that we confirm and thanks @C4DS for his answer.

Cheers
Manuel

Hi @pim, does the solution provided is ok for you?

Since no news, I mark it as solved (closed), but feel free to open it again.

Hi @fwilleke80 does it solved the issue?

Cheers, Riccardo

Hi @Ogers,

Unfortunately, I'm afraid is not possible.
To be clear here are the possibilities.

• list item Extends the menu for all layouts by accessing the Menu BaseContainer with c4d.gui.GetMenuResource and modify this BaseContainer. For more information see Enhancing the Main Menu
• You can load a layout and it will set it as active with c4d.documents.LoadFile. This way you can force which layout to be active. Default Layouts are stored in C:\Program Files\MAXON\Cinema 4D R20\library\layout)
• It's not possible to customize/create/edit palette through the SDK.
• It's not possible to retrieve the active layout.

Cheers,
Maxime.