Accessing UserData in "compound" objects...

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On 22/03/2010 at 10:10, xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Cinema 4D Version:   11 
Platform:      Mac OSX  ; 
Language(s) :     C++  ;

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I'm reading userData from objects in a shader. This works fine for polygonal objects and spheres, but fails for most parametric objects like for Cylinder/Capsules/etc.

vd->op->link is simply nil in those cases, probably as the hit surface is created just before rendering.

Is there any way to access the objet that belongs to that surface?

Thanks

Kabe

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On 24/03/2010 at 03:43, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Sorry, I can't confirm. How do you obtain the link to the object?

Something like this works for me

  
Vector MandelbrotData::Output(PluginShader *chn, ChannelData *cd)  
{  
  if (cd->vd && cd->vd->op)  
  {  
      BaseObject *op = NULL;  
      op = cd->vd->op->link;  
  
      if (op)  
      {  
          BaseObject *parent = op;  
  
          while (op)  
          {  
              parent = op;  
  
              DynamicDescription *userdata = NULL;  
              userdata = parent->GetDynamicDescription();  
              if (userdata)  
              {  
                  void *handle = NULL;  
                  handle = userdata->BrowseInit();  
  
                  LONG cnt = 0;  
                  DescID descid;  
                  const BaseContainer *data = NULL;  
  
                  while (userdata->BrowseGetNext(handle, &descid, &data))  
                  {  
                      cnt++;  
                  }  
  
                  userdata->BrowseFree(handle);  
                    
                  //userdata found  
                  if (cnt > 0) return 1.0;  
              }  
  
              //step up the cache hierarchy until userdata or the end of the cache hierarchy has been found  
              op = op->GetCacheParent();  
          }  
  
      }  
  }  
  
  return 0.0;  
}  

cheers,
Matthias

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On 24/03/2010 at 06:00, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks Matthias!

The link to the object wasn't the issue, but op->GetCacheParent().

Cheers

Kabe