@r_gigante Thanks for the response. The shoelace formula was new to me and it was interesting after reading some explanation. Unfortunately, for some reason it breaks. It works with a 4 point plane, but not with a 16-point plane. Here is the revised code I used import c4d x = [] y = [] def main(): baseVector = op.GetAllPoints() for vector in baseVector: x.append(vector[0]) y.append(vector[1]) def polygonArea(X, Y, n): # Initialze area area = 0.0 # Calculate value of shoelace formula j = n - 1 for i in range(0,n): area += (X[j] + X[i]) * (Y[j] - Y[i]) j = i # j is previous vertex to i # Return absolute ; return int(abs(area / 2.0)) if __name__=='__main__': main() print polygonArea(x, y, 16) You can also check the 4 point and 16 point plane here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6qfhy9yw3l3xdil/c4d081_area_irregular_shape.c4d?dl=0 The area (since this is a square) should result to 160,000 cm2 Thank you for looking at the problem.

Hi @m_adam, Thanks for the quick reply. I agree with you with you that I can better use a toolplugin. But that means calling the toolplugin from the command plugin and I thought it should also be possible from a command plugin. Unfortunately bd.SW(p) does not return what I expect. When I click in the origin of the front view, I get strange results. Here is what I do: mouseX = int(msg[c4d.BFM_INPUT_X]) mouseY = int(msg[c4d.BFM_INPUT_Y]) print "Mouse coord: ", mouseX, mouseY bd = doc.GetActiveBaseDraw() print "Converted coord: ", bd.SW(c4d.Vector(mouseX, mouseY, 0)) It seems, I read it somewhere, that the mouse coordinates I get, are relative to the command plugin dialog. Could that be the issue and if so, how to solve it?

Hi Merkvilson, thanks for reaching out us. If the final intent is to simply get BaseBitmapinformation to be returned by your shader, rather than sampling a Xbitmap shader I suggest instead to simply query the color information by using BaseBitmap::GetPixel and eventually apply color space transformation. def Output(self, sh, cd) : x = int(cd.p.x * self.bitmap.GetBw()) y = int(cd.p.y * self.bitmap.GetBh()) col = self.bitmap.GetPixel(x, y) return c4d.Vector(float(col[0]/256.0), float(col[1]/256.0), float(col[2]/256.0)) Best, Riccardo

Hi, I'm glad you found something working for you. I just want to mention, this way of using the deform cache directly will only work for very specific setups, for arbitrary object configurations you will most likely need to iterate through the cache. So, I think, it's worth to give those manuals another read. Also Maxime has posted some snippets in Getting a polygonal version of an animated mesh, which might be useful for you. Cheers, Andreas

Well, I do have a loop but I just pasted the code that would, hopefully, perform the calculation. And I did tried the GetDeformCache approach, but my mistake was, in fact the cloning of the object. Thank you so much for the code, Adam.

Hi Andreas It is an external application, and therefore does not require the ownership of Cinema4D. It's not a plugin. Which means, no connection to C4D. This application also imports OBJ, FBX, 3DS...etc formats and it is not necessary to have the original applications of these formats! The SDK therefore does not seem to allow a total independent import of .c4d scenes. There will therefore be no Cinema4D import/export. Unless I can get the description on the structure of a .c4d file. In this case, I would write my own import/export library ;) Of course, the information received will remain confidential.

Thanks a lot Daniel for following up here. Glad to listen that the update actually fixed it, although even on 20.030 I had no better luck to reproduce. Best, Riccardo

Hi Daniel, I filed a bug report with regard to this unexpected behavior. I will keep you updated on resolution. Best, Riccardo

@s_bach Ok, Thanks.

What the customer failed to mention was that the Team Render Client he used is on the same physical machine as his main Cinema 4D. Since both share the same plugins folder, the plugins were obviously installed manually for the main Cinema 4D, and thus also available for the local Team Render Client. Case closed.

Hi mp5gosu, I've better checked (my fault, it was a false positive) and i see the difference. I'm on it and I'll let you know when more info are available. Best, Riccardo

No worries about the wait, Maxime. I'll have to spend some time looking into all of it! Thanks you for such a through response.

HI Andreas, no worries, this question was not exclusively targeted at Maxon, the opposite is the case. I was hoping for some information by other users here, like @kbar or even @m_adam (back in the days Maxime was not associated with Maxon. ;)) Meanwhile, I'm going to build a toolchain and see what works for me. I'll report back here if I have something to show. That may help someone else.

@a_block No need for apologies. I thought the bearded guy had something to do with it ... Hence the reason I posted the message again. Luckily, JIT before the easter bunny was to blame.

I'm trying to use this super handy plug-in to build help system for my plug-ins. Thanks for sharing this! After some days of working i have a some suggestions and bug reports. After each publishing, resulting index.html have a title tag "Plugins 4D Documentation". Is it possible to add ability inserting images with other formats like gif, jpg? Now i have to copy my images to images folder and type using markdown code like this (not showing in Preview window):  Preview window stops showing any text content if it contains symbol '–'. But after publishing results, final HTML is ok. Would be great to add ability to add favicon image.

Hi @m_adam Thank you for your reply. It works perfectly!

Hello, the "checked" state does not have any functionality. It is just a visual marker for your user. Or to put it differently: you don't need to read if an element is "checked" since you yourself set this "checked" state in the first place when you create the menu with ShowPopupDialog(). best wishes, Sebastian

Unfortunately, that's what I thought :( So I'll have to write a MakeEditable function ;) Thanks Ricardo

@m_adam yes it solves the pb. Thanks Maxime

Hi, good we got you going It is not wrong per se to use multiple plugin directories. Actually Cinema 4D R20 was specifically designed to have multiple ones. You just need to make sure not to have duplicate plugins in these directories. Cheers, Andreas