Description how to write a Coffee plugin

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On 26/04/2010 at 06:57, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi

I just got Cinema4D and I want to write a C.O.F.F.E.E. plugin that reads the render settings.
But I have problems to start the development.
Are there any tutorials?

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PS: The following part is about the documentation I have found so far.
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I would say the documentation is not a documentation at all, it is really bad in this area.

From the Cinema4D help:
_Chapter "Programming plugins"
How to create a plugin?
"Simply write your COFFEE prorams in any text editor and save it as a regular ASCII text file"
_Yes, thanks for the info, i will do that....

Ok, then I downloaded the "C.O.F.F.E.E. SDK documentation". This is the complete index of the SDK:
Merged Alphabetical Index _  -_[ _BaseList2D
 - CCurve
 - CCurveType
 - Changes in the SDK
 - Changes since 9.520
 - CInterpolation
 - CKey
 - CLoopType
 - CTrack
 - CTRACK_CATEGORY_IDs
 - DIRTY_Flag
 - general
 - Introduction
 - Reference

_This cannot be all you need to write plugins? So where is the rest of the SDK documentation for COFFEE?

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On 26/04/2010 at 07:47, xxxxxxxx wrote:

What you've got is the release 11 addendum to the main COFFEE SDK. Go to http://www.maxon.net/support/for-developers/older-sdk-downloads.html and download the COFFEE SDK for R9.5 in either .zip or .chm format.

Next, go to http://www.ruimac.com/coffee_book/ and buy a copy of this extensive tutorial on writing COFFEE scripts and plugins. It's only 25 euros and well worth it if you want to write COFFEE, and is a good start for later moving up to C++ plugins.

Steve

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On 26/04/2010 at 08:13, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Many thanks Steve!

This is really something they should change. Or perhaps make a comment somewhere in the help files besides the only information that I should use a text editor... How should someone know that he has to look in older downloads of a version release a few years ago...

Hopefully starting to develop the plugin now.