Yes, I already expected that. One comment, the same behavior occurs when you Copy and Paste a node into a new document. -Pim

@zipit, thanks for this extra information! Indeed my assumption is / was that Write is only called, when you save the scene file. -Pim

Hello, For your next threads, please help us keeping things organised and clean. I know it's not your priority but it really simplify our work here. Q&A New Functionality. How to Post Questions especially the tagging part. @zipit and @Cairyn have already answer here (thanks a lot) nothing to add. Cheers, Manuel

Hello, For your next threads, please help us keeping things organised and clean. I know it's not your priority but it really simplify our work here. Q&A New Functionality. How to Post Questions especially the tagging part. I've already done for this thread. I can just confirm what @zipit said. Nothing to add :) Cheers, Manuel

Hi zipit, I thought that might be the case... ={ Ah well - I'll have to figure out another way... Thanks for your help.

Aha, thanks.

Thank you, Riccardo. That was exactly what I was doing wrong. Dan

Thanks for all the support. I will use all the knowledge gained and start testing. I am sure, I will be back with more questions. -Pim

So my problem was actually not related to OSX but to compatibility issues between minor releases. Thanks to your replies I sorted it out. And I finally understand your versioning concept. Thank you Manuel, good job! Regards, Viktor Veličko WTools3D s.r.o. www.lwcad.com

Hi Daniel, thanks for following up again. Just to be sure nothing get's neglected I've recorded a video showing that also doing your steps is consistent with what me and Manuel have reported with regard to R21 You can see the video here. Best, Riccardo

Thank You @m_magalhaes and @zipit Both your suggestions were very helpful. The controller works very well @m_magalhaes I just needed to convert my user data input to BaseTime and it works perfectly. I was able to solve the updating issue to work how I want. I only needed to add: c4d.GeSyncMessage(c4d.EVMSG_TIMECHANGED) Now my timeline markers update nicely as I change values. This topic can be marked solved.

@m_magalhaes Hey! Added the code you provided and it works nicely, thanks so much! Cheers, Sandi

@zipit Thank you man ! I see how to fix it now！~~ Cheers harry

Hey zipit, thanks for the answer! Exactly what I needed! Best Regards, Florian

hello, I've forked the question to this thread cheers, Manuel

@m_magalhaes said in Writing data to the .c4d file: You can also use del that is pythonic bc = doc.GetDataInstance().GetContainerInstance(MyUniqueId) bc.RemoveData(2000) #del (bc[2000]) Wonderful, @m_magalhaes , thank you so much!

Hello, there is no thing as mouse direction. The mouse has a position. The direction is the result of comparing two mouse positions. as @zipit stated, you can create a tool that implements MouseInput(). Within MouseInput() you can use ViewportSelect.PickObject() to check what object and what point the mouse is currently over (Using BaseView.SW()). You can store the previous mouse position and compare it to the current mouse position to calculate the direction. Unfortunately, there is an issue with the Python version of PickObject() (How do I find the z-depth with Python ViewportSelect.PickObject()?), so you might have to implement your idea as a C++ plugin. You find some code in the pickobject.cpp example. best wishes, Sebastian

Hi, check RENDERFLAGS (Link). You will have listen in NodeData.Message() for them. I never did use this, but checking for RENDERFLAGS_PREVIEWRENDER sounds promising. Cheers zipit

Hello Sebastian, thanks for this quick response! I dind't know about this. But this solved my issue! Best Regards, Florian