Hello,

I think I found a bug with the SplineMask and Sketch and Toon material.
When I apply the material to it, turning its render visibility off doesn't do anything.

To replicate:

• create a spline mask with e.g. a rectangle and a circle as children
• apply a sketch and toon shader to it
• try turning off the visibility in renderer

With regular splines, MoSplines etc. it works as expected.

Am I missing something?
If so, help would be appreciated, if not I hope it gets fixed soon.

Thanks

Thank you for the elaborate reply, it worked! (And helped me to better understand the desc id system)

Hello,

I want to create an xpresso which accesses the offset parameter of a spline field layer in a plain effector. This proves to be more difficult than I thought because, unlike e.g. a linear field, the spline field layer is not a regular object in the hierarchy.

Naively I thought this would work with the general pattern of adding a port to the xpresso node using the description id:

offset_port = gv_node.AddPort(c4d.GV_PORT_INPUT, DESC_ID_OF_PARAMETER )

But I don't know what the description id should be in this case. Or if that is even the right way to go in this situation.

Dragging the parameter into the console returns:

Plain[c4d.FIELDS,11,1011]

Help is appreciated

Oh yes that's a much better approach!

I will provide executables from now on, sorry for the trouble

To be honest I was just stuck in an inaccurate frame for how to solve this... thanks for breaking it

Hey there,

I am making use of the trick where I put a correction deformer under a generator (extrude object in this case) to make it readable by the bounding box xpresso node

However, for some strange reason it only works when I add the deformer manually to the scene.
Using python to create the object somehow makes it impotent for this method.
Even dragging it out of the hierarchy and back in again, refreshing xpresso etc. doesn't help with the problem.

Only creating a new deformer manually seems to do the trick.

Please help me make sense of this and fix it.

Thank you

Works like a charm, thank you!

Hello,

in this thread it is explained how to set the size of the IRR.

I would also like to set parameters like the resolution.

When dragging the GUI element into the console it says:

Sniper[c4d.IRR_DETAIL]

and when I execute it without the ID I get

>>> Sniper 
<c4d.BaseList2D object called Sniper/Sniper with ID 430000000 at 4756143680>

How can I get access to this inside a script?

Thank you!

works like a charm, thank you!

Hello,

now with the updated Vector Import object in S26 I thought there might be a more elegant way to import an SVG directly to a spline.
But after playing around with it for a bit I am struggling to extract the spline from the setup using python only.

Here is my code:

        vector_import = c4d.BaseObject(1057899)
        self.document.InsertObject(vector_import)
        # set file path
        file_path = os.path.join(SVG_PATH, self.file_name + ".svg")
        vector_import[c4d.ART_FILE] = file_path
        # extract spline from hierarchy
        vector_import[c4d.ART_SHOW_HIERARCHY] = True
        c4d.CallButton(vector_import, c4d.ART_RELOAD)
        c4d.EventAdd()
        spline = vector_import.GetDown().GetDown().GetDownLast()

The problem seems to be that even after calling the reload button and c4d.EventAdd() which makes the hierarchy containing the spline visible in the GUI, C4D does not recognise that the vector_import object now has children.

Help would be appreciated!

I found a code sample here which does the job