Interesting!

Just out of personal interest, how would one start off with a custom lens that does nothing (just creates rays as the "default lens" would do)? If you could include code in your example that generates "unchanged" rays, that would be a great start for interesting custom lenses!

Cheers,
Frank

Thank YOU :-)

I did today, including it in projectdefinition.txt worked smoothly, thank you!
If I ever find out why copying it do the folders does not work, I'll post it here.

Didn't have the chance to boot up my Windows so far, but will report once I did :-)

Hallo,

I found the c4dapi.natvis file in R20's cinema.framework. Very happy to see they are still being delivered along with the SDK.

However, it does not work. At all. I copied it to the suggested locations:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers
• C:\Users[My_Name]\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Visualizers

It does not help, I can't see the value of any of Cinema's data types. Any tips?

Thanks in advance & greetings,
Frank

Hi Ricardo!

OK, thanks! If there a way to ask the Ngon system for more information about that?
Or do we have to recreate parts of the Ngon creation algorithm to find predict degenerate Ngons before calling BuildNgon() ?

Cheers,
Frank

P.S.: Sorry for the late reply!

If you're storing data in the tag's BaseContainer, you don't need to override Write() and Read(). That's meant for private class member whose data would be lost otherwise.

Also, you can remove the "return true" at the end of the functions. As you already return in the previous line, it will never be called.

Maybe it's just the classic "Open user folder, go into subfolder "prefs" and delete file "directorycache" before starting Cinema 4D" ?

Oh, it turns out, the last message wasn't triggered by our code. It appears anyway ;-)

I noticed it's a different error message sometimes.

So here goes my next question: Under which circumstances does BuildNgon() print the following error message:
/Volumes/Branches/build_osx/osx-4-release/depot/release/20.0/modules/c4dplugin/source/src/christian/ge_register.cpp(244): WARNING: Unknown baselist allocator - RegID: OBJECT
Optout defined by Installer / Updater.
?

Thanks & greetings,
Frank