Hi,

Not quite directly a revision of your code but this should help you get started.

import c4d
from c4d import gui

# Main function
def main():
    cloner = doc.SearchObject("Cloner") # Assuming there is already a Cloner Mograph Object 
    plain_effector = doc.SearchObject("Plain")# Assuming there is already a Plain Effector Object 

    effector_list = c4d.InExcludeData()
    effector_list.InsertObject(plain_effector, 1)

    cloner[c4d.ID_MG_MOTIONGENERATOR_EFFECTORLIST] = effector_list
    c4d.EventAdd()


# Execute main()
if __name__=='__main__':
    main()

@Dunhou
I fork that redshift light manager last time.
https://github.com/bentraje/c4d_redshift_light_lister

I just change the minimum for it to work on the latest C4D versions.
It works on C4D 2023, last time I check, and on RS 3.5, but not all parameters are fully supported since I didn't refactor that much.

Cinema4D can accommodate plug-ins written in C++ or Python. However, it only accept scripts written in Python.

Probably not that helpful but there is an existing script for the C4D OBJ Sequence Exporter
https://richh.co/c4d-native-obj-sequence-export-no-plugins/

Hi @blieque

You can do is the Basic>Enable Checkbox in every object.
If you drag it to the console, the parameter is [c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_GENERATOR_FLAG]

Thanks Adam for the confirmation.
I'll just send it for Maxon Suggestion for now.

Thanks!

Thanks @m_adam. Works as expected.
My bad, I was looking at the documentation hierarchy erroneously (i.e c4d > modules > graphview > GvNode)

Just a note: I think the if Multiply: line is supposed to be if isMultiply:.

Thanks again. Have a great day ahead!

Hi @m_adam

Thanks for the patience. Your suggestions and reminders works are greatly appreciated.

I guess the confusion stems mainly on my part because I posted slightly two different codes. You were responding to my initial post but I was thinking with the code from the succeeding post(the one in the rar file). Totally my bad.

Anyhow, here is the working code (using the initial post) which works as I expected:

import c4d

class ColorButton(object):

    def __init__(self):
        self.width = None
        self.height = None
        self.color = None
        self.color = None
        self.btn_id = None
        self.menu_list = None


    def create(self, dlg, w, h, color, btn_id):

        self.width = w
        self.height = h
        self.color = color
        self.btn_id = btn_id

        bmp_color = c4d.bitmaps.BaseBitmap()
        bmp_color.Init(w, h)

        for y in xrange(w):
            for x in xrange(h):
                bmp_color.SetPixel(x, y, color[0], color[1], color[2])

        bcBitmapButton = c4d.BaseContainer()
        bcBitmapButton[c4d.BITMAPBUTTON_BUTTON] = True

        bmp_btn = dlg.AddCustomGui(self.btn_id, c4d.CUSTOMGUI_BITMAPBUTTON, "", c4d.BFH_CENTER | c4d.BFV_CENTER, w, h, bcBitmapButton)

        bmp_btn.SetImage(bmp_color, True)

    def create_menu(self):

        self.menu = c4d.BaseContainer()

        for menu_item in self.menu_list: 
            counter = 0
            IDM_MENU = c4d.FIRST_POPUP_ID + counter
            self.menu.InsData(IDM_MENU, menu_item)

            counter += 1

class MyDialog(c4d.gui.GeDialog):

    def __init__(self):
        self.btn_id_list = []
        self.class_btn_id_dict = {}

    def CreateLayout(self):

        red_button = ColorButton()
        red_button.create(self, w=50,h=50,color=(255,0,0), btn_id=6000)
        red_button.menu_list = ['Menu1', 'Menu2', 'Menu3']
        self.btn_id_list.append(red_button.btn_id)
        self.class_btn_id_dict[6000] = red_button

        blue_button = ColorButton()
        blue_button.create(self, w=50,h=50,color=(0,0,255), btn_id=7000)
        blue_button.menu_list = ['Menu4', 'Menu5', 'Menu6', 'Menu7']
        self.btn_id_list.append(blue_button.btn_id)
        self.class_btn_id_dict[7000] = blue_button


        green_button = ColorButton()
        green_button.create(self, w=50,h=50,color=(0,255,0), btn_id=8000)
        green_button.menu_list = ['Menu8', 'Menu9']
        self.btn_id_list.append(green_button.btn_id)
        self.class_btn_id_dict[8000] = green_button

        return True

    def IsPositionOnGadget(self, gadgetId, x, y):
        # Be sure that the windows is opened,
        # in our case since we call it in BFM_INTERACTSTART it's ok
        buttonData = self.GetItemDim(gadgetId)
        
        if not buttonData["x"] < x < buttonData["x"] + buttonData["w"]:
            return False

        if not buttonData["y"] < y < buttonData["y"] + buttonData["h"]:
            return False

        return True
    
    def function_to_determine_gadgetId_under_mouse_cursor(self, x, y):
        for gadgetId in self.btn_id_list:
            if self.IsPositionOnGadget(gadgetId, x, y):
                return gadgetId
            
    def Message(self, msg, result):
        if msg.GetId() == c4d.BFM_ADJUSTSIZE:
          self._x = msg[3] # Retrieve Y size of the GeDialog
          self._y = msg[4] # Retrieve Y size of the GeDialog

        # We are on the main thread here
        elif msg.GetId() == c4d.BFM_INTERACTSTART:
            c4d.StopAllThreads()

            state = c4d.BaseContainer()
            self.GetInputState(c4d.BFM_INPUT_MOUSE, c4d.BFM_INPUT_MOUSERIGHT, state)

            if state.GetInt32(c4d.BFM_INPUT_VALUE) == True:

                x = state.GetInt32(c4d.BFM_INPUT_X)
                y = state.GetInt32(c4d.BFM_INPUT_Y)
                g2l  = self.Global2Local() 
                x += g2l['x']  
                y += g2l['y']

                gadgetId = self.function_to_determine_gadgetId_under_mouse_cursor(x=x,y=y)

                if gadgetId in self.btn_id_list:

                     if self.IsPositionOnGadget(gadgetId=gadgetId, x=x, y=y):

                          button_class = self.class_btn_id_dict[gadgetId] 
                          button_class.create_menu()


                          l2s = self.Local2Screen()
                          print str(x+l2s['x']) + " :: " + str(y+l2s['y'])
                          self.KillEvents()
                          res = c4d.gui.ShowPopupDialog(cd=self, bc=button_class.menu, x=x+l2s['x'], y=y+l2s['y'])
                          return True

        return c4d.gui.GeDialog.Message(self, msg, result)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    dlg = MyDialog()
    dlg.Open(dlgtype=c4d.DLG_TYPE_ASYNC, pluginid=20304050)

@r_gigante

Thanks for the reference.
For anyone trying to achieve the same,
here is a sample file.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z1lzyphp8qnt9kw/AAB2P5gNo16IHafgc6xPEsy4a?dl=0

Thanks again for @zipit for the help.

@m_magalhaes @zipit

I managed to flip the mesh (not necessarily a pose morph target since I'd have to know the API).
Anyhow, here is a demo of it working:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bh4p26s4m9qwljw/c4d272_flip_miror_mesh.mp4?dl=0

Here is wip script. It only works if the x-axis is dead set on 0.
Also, it is slow since it has to loop within a loop.

import c4d
from c4d import gui


# Main function
def main():
    neutral_geo = doc.SearchObject('neutral_geo')
    posed_geo = doc.SearchObject('posed_geo')
    neutral_world_matrix = neutral_geo.GetMg()
    posed_world_matrix = posed_geo.GetMg()
    
    neut_lcl_pnts = neutral_geo.GetAllPoints()
    neut_gbl_pnts = [point * neutral_world_matrix for point in neut_lcl_pnts]
    
    posed_lcl_pnts = posed_geo.GetAllPoints()
    posed_gbl_pnts = [point * posed_world_matrix for point in posed_lcl_pnts]
        
    match_pnts = []
    left_pnts = []
    right_pnts = []
    
    for idx, point in enumerate(neut_gbl_pnts):
        if point[0] == 0.0: # ignore points at the world x axis
            continue
        
        if point[0] > 0.0:
            left_pnts.append((idx,point))
        
        if point[0] < 0.0:
            right_pnts.append((idx,point))
            
    
    for left in left_pnts:
        for right in right_pnts:
            if left[1][1] == right[1][1]: # check if Y pos match
                if left[1][2] == right[1][2]: # check if Z pos match
                   if left[1][0] == -1 * (right[1][0]):# check if X pos are inverse
                       match_pnts.append((left[0],right[0]))
        
        
    for pnt in match_pnts:
        
        reversed_left = posed_lcl_pnts[pnt[1]]
        reversed_left[0] = reversed_left[0] * -1
        reversed_right = posed_lcl_pnts[pnt[0]]
        reversed_right[0] = reversed_right[0] * -1
        
        
        posed_geo.SetPoint(pnt[0], reversed_left)
        posed_geo.SetPoint(pnt[1], reversed_right)
        
    posed_geo.Message(c4d.MSG_UPDATE)
     
    c4d.EventAdd()

# Execute main()
if __name__=='__main__':
    main()

Hi,

AFAIK, it is not possible to change the camera selection after adding it to the render queue.
So you have to do the following through script:

1. Change to Camera A
2. Save Document
3. Add to Render Queue
4. Change to Camera B
5. Save Document
6. Add to Render Queue
   etc etc

It works but the setback is on saving document. I have a 1GB ish document file and it takes a lot of time to save the document and doing it everytime I want to add a camera to queue (through scripting) is just painful.

Is there away to just expose that camera parameter on render queue dialogue? So I don't have to save every document for every camera.

Regards,
Ben

@m_adam

Thanks. Works as expected!

Hi @ferdinand

Yes, I'm referring to that script.
Is there a corresponding UNSOLO script?

Hi,

The sample script provides a way to solo a node.
But how do I exactly unsolo it?

Or is it just possible to iterate through all the nodes. And just manually brute force it myself.

Something like this. And just call it a day.

for node in node_list:
     node.solo = False

Regards,
Ben

RE: Yes, GraphModelHelper.ListAllNodes requires at least one attribute to be set in the data dictionary.

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.
Anyway, the suggested alternative (i.e. write a separate iterator) still works as expected. Same as before.

Hi,

I created a thread before on listing all nodes but it is limted to having a filter property.

I tried using an empty dictionary but it errors.

I just want to have a list of all the nodes in a given graph/material (like what doc.GetMaterials() does) and perform my own filtering later on.

Is this possible?

@spedler @ferdinand

Thanks for the response! Just checked the documentation, can't use GeGetPluginPath(). Per documentation, it does not behave the same with as C++. So I ended up using the __file__ method.

Works as expected. Thanks for the illustration code!

@ferdinand

Thanks for the response.

With the illustration code you provided, I misunderstood the documentation. Thanks for the clarification.

Basically, I thought the

PluginMessage/RegisterPlugin functions should be method (i.e. they should be under the class of the plugin data, command data etc).

They actually live outside the classes.

It now works as expected.
Thanks!

@ferdinand

Ah gotcha. There is no way around it as again I don't want to initialize the plug-ins at all until the UI + check works out.

Anyway, having the the GUI dialog before C4D launches is not bad.
I was just wondering if I can do it after without initializing all the plugins.

Hi,

I have a plug-in directory that goes like this:

myPlugin.pyp
config.json

In my pyp file, I have this code block

import json

json_file = r"config.json"
with open(json_file, "r") as f:
	data = json.load(f)

but it gives me an error of FileNotFoundError:[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'config.json

Is there a way around this?