Hello!

I've been trying to get the 'output' of a Texture Tag in a similar way to how the Shader Effector and the Displacer Deformer does.

Using the Displacer Deformer to explain what I mean. If the "Channel" parameter is set to "Color" instead of "Custom" I now feed the "Texture Tag" field a texture tag. The Displacer now using all the information from that texture tag to do its calculations, such as the shaders, the projection, and the PSR.

The Displacer is referencing the Texture Tag to calculate a greyscale value at a given position for each polygon point. Instead of using the Displacer though, I would want to be able to use in my own points with the Texture Tag and retrieve the greyscale value of those custom locations.

I'm not really sure where to start exploring this, I was looking at some things like ChannelData and VolumeData, but that didn't seem to be what I needed. Any help to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you so much, that's exactly what I needed!

Dan

Hi! Thank you for the response, I'm sorry about the late reply and sorry about posting in the incorrect place.

I'm trying to get the names of parameters of a Field Layer in a Field List. So Value in a Solid Field Layer, and Shape, Rate, Offset in a Time Field Layer for example.

Yes, op would be a Field Layer, but I'm actually having a bit of trouble figuring out how to get the Field Layer itself. I'm sure it's something simple but I'm having trouble getting it.

So if I have a Delay effector, and a Solid Field Layer inside of the Field. How would I get the Field Layer for the Solid Field Layer if I only have the Delay effector and the id [c4d.FIELDS,12] to retrieve it?

Thanks again,
Dan

Hello, I'm trying to retrieve the names of the parameters on Field Objects. The following could works when I use it on most other objects, with the ID changed of course. Using it on a Solid Field Layer in the following example it doesn't return a name though. Is there a special way to access descriptions on Field Layers?

Dan

   AutoAlloc<Description> senderdesc; 
   op->GetDescription(senderdesc, DESCFLAGS_DESC::NONE))
   const BaseContainer *desccontainer = NULL;
   //checking  [c4d.FIELDS,12,1000] the "Value" parameter on a Solid Field Layer 
   desccontainer = senderdesc->GetParameter(parameterID, *testcontainer, descarray);
   String parametername = desccontainer->GetString(DESC_NAME, "" );//trying to get its name, should be returning "Value", bit is instead empty

Hello. There seems to be a change from R19 to R20, in R19 I was able to have a nested folder within the Plugin folder and it would create a sub-folder along side it and that hierarchy would be reflected inside of Cinema's Plugins menu.

For example:

Plugins
       Test Plugin Folder 1
              Plugin 1
              Test Plugin Folder 2
                            Plugin 2

So this is how it would appear as a folder structure and how it would appear in Cinema in R19.

In R20 though having a folder structure like that outputs as this in the plugin menu.

Plugins
       Test Plugin Folder 1
              Plugin 1
       Test Plugin Folder 2
              Plugin 2

In no longer creates the sub-folder like it used to. Is it possible to get that functionality back with just using folders?

Daniel