@r_gigante Thanks!Greate help for me! I got it!

@m_adam Thanks a lot, great help, I will try your way

@ilad Well, it's not limited to non-animated objects. As @r_gigante posted, you're actually modifying the points and the matrix. Both operations can also be achieved manually. So, no difference if animated or not. The only thing you have to keep in mind when modifying animated objects is to make sure, all keys containing Matrix/PLA data have to be handled as well.

@m_adam Thank you very much ! it is certainly helpful !!

hello, thanks @tummosoft, it's nice to see it's helpful :D @ilad By the way instead of ID_BASEOBJECT_POSITION you could have use ID_BASEOBJECT_REL_POSITION. Both Ids are the same. If you want to know how to get those ids you can use the python console and drag and drop parameters, more information on this page In this case the DescID is composed of two DescLevel. The first define the Vector type, the second de Float type for X, Y and Z. (DescID can have less or more levels) To change the Size.Y of the cube, the descID will be : c4d.DescID(c4d.DescLevel(c4d.PRIM_CUBE_LEN, c4d.DTYPE_VECTOR, 0), c4d.DescLevel(c4d.VECTOR_Y, c4d.DTYPE_REAL, 0))) To change the scale of the object the descID will be : c4d.DescID(c4d.DescLevel(c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_REL_SCALE, c4d.DTYPE_VECTOR, 0), c4d.DescLevel(c4d.VECTOR_Y, c4d.DTYPE_REAL, 0))) Cheers Manuel

Hi @mikeudin, thanks for reaching out us. With regard to your request, although it's not expected it to work inside the Cinema 4D Script Manager you can get it properly working using the c4dpy executable (here's the 20.059 compatible version) as much as you do on the Python Shell or on SublimeText console as you can see from the log below. $ more test.py import inspect # Save this code as script py-file and start def main(): code = inspect.getsource(main_new) # place function code to str variable print code # print code text. Works on Python Shell, but not in C4D Scripts Manager def main_new(): # This is a comment # New comment string # Change this code, to check the console output pass if __name__ == '__main__': main() $ ./c4dpy.app/Contents/MacOS/c4dpy test.py def main_new(): # This is a comment # New comment string # Change this code, to check the console output pass $ Best, Riccardo

@Cairyn and @m_magalhaes Thanks for the responses. The dictionary route seems like a good workaround. I think I'm going with it. Have a great day ahead!

Thank you so much. I was thinging that I had to provide an edge index. Never thought that it would just require to select the points that define the edges. Great!!!

Sorry for late reply, there was an issue with my account. Many thanks for comprehensive answers. The topic looks kind of mind bending now, not much easier than after I realised Api doesn't really have what I expected to have for the task accomplishment Now I think the better way might be to simulate the mouse over the viewport, so it will be an independent app which will only need from the Cinema to know where the viewport is. That seems easier I hope. When my research or development will reach some success I will share what I learned here, maybe it will be handy for somebody else. Thanks once more!

hi, when you will be sure that it's solved, don't forget to mark this thread as solved please. Cheers Manuel

Hello, Polygonize() is just using SendModelingCommand() with MCOMMAND_CURRENTSTATETOOBJECT. You can actually see the C++ source in c4d_basedocument.cpp in the cinema.framework. But I don't think that this commands merges all objects into one polygon object. best wishes, Sebastian

wow! i love that. great job!

@a_block said in Cinema 4D Script: Web Search Selected Text: I have added the "showcase" tag, so people are hopefully able to filter for your and other similar threads more easily. Great! Thank you!

@m_adam Thank you!

Hi Shir, thanks for following up and providing your additional info. Showing parameter in the Attribute Manager or a custom icon in the Object Manager is not such a big issue: you can start looking at Py-RoundedTube which is an ObjectData derived plugin where all such a stuff (and more) is shown. That said, the real question is instead to understand what your rig is actually doing and see if it's reasonable to implement the Xpresso functionality from a set of "primitive" functions you implement in your plugin or if would be instead easier to programmatically recreate the Xpresso rig in an XpressoTag then attached to the object generated by your plugin. Actually this assessment can't be done from here where the final functionality and the complexity of your Xpresso network is unknown. So far I do see three approches: start on your own, step-by-step, dissect the code from the example I mentioned above and try to move your steps alone outsource the task to some paid developer or call for volunteers in our very helpful PluginCafe community. I'm sorry not be more helpful but, as said in the first post, we can't deliver turn-key plugins or scripts but rather help our customer to learn from our resources. Best, Riccardo

Hi @Jvos, First of all, (no worry at all) I would like to remind you to read How to Post Questions especially the part about categories. Since your topic is related to Cinema 4D please next time create a topic within cinema 4d development. (I've moved it). Regarding your issue, pretty much all parameters in Cinema 4D are stored in a BaseContainer. A BaseContainer is a dictionary which links an ID (Int) to a Data. When you are doing Object[Something] you access the value within this BaseContainer. If you write in the console c4d.REDSHIFT_LIGHT_PHYSICAL_INTENSITY, it will print you the ID of this parameter. Then to get the value of a parameter which is stored in the object's BaseContainer, you don't have to pass a string, but the ID, which is registered with a SYMBOL NAME because it's easier to remember than an arbitrary number (In some case there is no SYMBOL equivalent for an ID). So as @mikeudin suggested the eval function is the right way to go, or you can directly store the ID in your list. attributes = [c4d.REDSHIFT_LIGHT_PHYSICAL_INTENSITY, c4d.REDSHIFT_LIGHT_PHYSICAL_EXPOSURE] Finally, there is no official C4D slack/discord or chat. Cheers, Maxime.

Hi, @Jvos it looks like your question got answered. Afterwards you deleted this thread. I'd like to ask you not to do so. This forum is all about sharing knowledge. There are no stupid questions and nothing to be ashamed about. Every answered question might help a future developer. I have moved this thread into the Cinema 4D Development category. Cheers, Andreas

Hi @cmpxchg8b and @a_block , I don't know much about matrix, but here is what I found. If the point with arrow should rotate to aim, then all the possible position of the point must lay on the sphere surface which sphere's center is the parent object. And one point and a vector can form a line in space. So the question becomes a line-sphere intersection problem. After solving the equations, we can get 2 points: original point and transformed point(s). After that, we can find the transform matrix between 2 points.