@m_magalhaes Oh gotcha. Thanks for the reminder. Totally forgot they UNDOTYPE_CHANGE have a different placement thant UNDOTYPE_NEW Thanks again. Have a great day ahead!

@m_adam Hi, and thanks for your feedback and suggestions. The Take System sounds like requiring too much user interaction after the import, and I think we won't therefore consider it/ The motion system and "global" Python Tag seem like coherent alternatives to loading every animation one after the other. Now, the last step is to choose one of those systems... I think we'll first implement the back to back loading of animations as suggested by @kbar, as this seems like the most lightweight and straightforward solution for a quick iteration. Cheers, Loïc.

ah... ok, now i understand the picture ! thanks, manuel I marked the thread as solved

Hi @turrican welcome in the plugincafe community. I moved your topic in the correct category and assigned tags, see (How to Post Questions) Please do it for your next topics. Regarding your question, yes it's possible to do it in python. however, I suggest you contact maxon support to report the initial bug regarding the FBX importer. Now you have to keep in mind here we don't code for you but help you to achieve what you want. So the steps in python for doing it are: Loops over each material. Retrieves their name. Create a Bitmap Shader and assign it to the correct channel of the material (normal). To loop over each material, keep in mind that material in Cinema 4D is BaseMaterial which is a child class of GeListNode so to loop over all material use # Retrieve the first material of the current document mat = c4d.documents.GetActiveDocument().GetFirstMaterial() # loop over each material while mat is not None: # Do the things for each mat mat = mat.GetNext() To create a bitmap shader (c4d.Xbitmap) and assign a texture to it find an example in shader_create_bitmap_r13.py. To know the ID of the normal channel, just drop and drop it into the console, see Python Console - Drag and Drop. Cheers, Maxime.

Thank you Manuel, that works perfectly. I can use CallCommand() but I don't want to as it will always call c4d.EventAdd() and as I can't specify which bd to set as the renderview. I tend to not use CallCommand() in a plugin as it is only be able to be called in the main thread (which would be fine in this case) and as it seems to 'simulate' user interaction.

@m_adam Ah OK great will test it and get back to you, Thanks sir.

Hello, The easiest way is to use a modeling command data. Something like this bc=c4d.BaseContainer() bc.SetInt32(c4d.MDATA_SUBDIVIDE_SPLINESUB,5) result=c4d.utils.SendModelingCommand(c4d.MCOMMAND_SUBDIVIDE, [op], mode=c4d.MODELINGCOMMANDMODE_POINTSELECTION, bc=bc, doc=doc, flags =c4d.MODELINGCOMMANDFLAGS_CREATEUNDO) c4d.EventAdd() You will find some code on this topic on how to use that kind of command based on the length of the spline. Cheers, Manuel

Hi @r_gigante Thanks for the confirmation. Hopefully, it will be possible in the near future. Have a great day ahead!

@s_bach Okay I will give it a try , and I will do a open source example project for anyone, who would love to do this with python only for Cinema 4D. lol I been making different types c4d python plugins for 3 years now, from 2015 for my studio I work for and I love making c4d plugins. But this will be my first time using GeUserArea Class to the fullest lol.

Hello Sebastian, I now understand what the difference is, thank you very much! With the customdata_customgui example file I actually made both a GUI and a custom DataType. So I only needed to change my resource file and modifiy my data code a bit! Best Regards, Florian

@m_magalhaes Hello, thank you very much for your inspiration. You've been very helpful. There is no need to overwrite TranslateDescID(), only two macros HandleDescGetVector and HandleDescSetVector can realize my idea. Thanks again! Cheers, Sean

Thank you, @s_bach I have enough here to figure out what I need to do. Cheers!

Hi @orestiskon SendModelingCommand and especially CurrentStateToObject need the object to be actually in the passed document. So you need to create a temporary doc and use it to operates. As bellow: import c4d def currentState(obj) : return c4d.utils.SendModelingCommand(c4d.MCOMMAND_CURRENTSTATETOOBJECT,[obj],c4d.MODELINGCOMMANDMODE_ALL,c4d.BaseContainer(),obj.GetDocument())[0] def main(): # Retrieve the python generator obj = op.GetDown() if obj is None: return objClone = obj.GetClone() if objClone is None: raise RuntimeError("Failed to clone the object") # Make the children Python Generator disapear obj.Touch() # Creates a temporary document that will be used to evaluate the cache of the object tempDoc = c4d.documents.BaseDocument() if tempDoc is None: raise RuntimeError("Failed to create a temporary doc") # Inserts the child python generator that exists only in memory into our tempo doc tempDoc.InsertObject(objClone) returnedObj = currentState(objClone) return currentState(objClone) Cheers, Maxime.

Hey Guys! I think I figured it out! Will resoond if there's any questions! Cheers! MattG

Thanks for the great suggestions! I just discovered I can also use "File | Save Object Preset" and "File | Load Object Preset" in the Attribute Manager.

I did that for the same reason @m_adam created a copy in his version: A node can only be member of one document at a time and also only be inserted exactly one time into the same document (long way of saying that Cinema is monohierachical). Cheers zipit

Thanks, @m_adam! That should put me a step closer.

While the bug is still there I set the topic as solved. I will bump the topic once the fix is in a release. Cheers, Maxime