Uniquely identify objects by id

On 08/08/2013 at 13:32, xxxxxxxx wrote:

User Information:
Cinema 4D Version:   R14 
Platform:      Mac OSX  ; 
Language(s) :     C++  ;

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Imagine an animation track and a sequence of objects, where there are as many objects as there are frames (one object is "assigned" to one frame). I have a sliding window that processes the objects that are relevant: say I am at frame 300, I am interested in 10 objects, numbered 290 to 300; when I am at frame 301, I am interested in 10 objects, numbered 291 to 301 etc. When I moved to frame 301 I would like to throw away object 290 and add object 301, while keeping the rest intact, including the results of the calculations done on each object.

For this window I would like to keep something like an object hashmap, keyed on object's unique ids.

Are the object unique ids available in Cinema 4d?

Thanks.

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On 08/08/2013 at 13:42, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi eight, with nine posts 😉
yes there i such.
I use:

BaseObject* foo = ...
LULONG guid = foo->GetGUID();

So far I have successfully used this as a unique identifier, persistent between C4D sessions.

On 08/08/2013 at 17:10, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Ah, nice!

Thanks a lot @ingvarai

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