Hi Aurelein!

Great to see the importer is happening.

Just thought this old blog post of mine might help you.

http://tools4polygons.blogspot.com/2015/12/multiple-uvs-and-lightmaps-in-c4d.html

Cheers,
Kent

Hi Maxime,

Sorry I have had no further time to look into this. Hopefully in the next few weeks. My issue was with R20. It was an obj from the Moana dataset. I expect the polygon indices to match up with the same values within the ptex files, but it doesn't look like they do. I will need to investigate further to determine if it is the OBJ loader or not. But since people have indicated issues before that does fit with what I am experiencing. The OBJ file format has many different paths regarding how it could be loaded and interpreted. So it doesn't surprise me if one of these paths doesn't respect the polygon order.

Cheers,
Kent

Thanks Sebastian. I did not realize it was a generator. Couldn't find it mentioned in the docs. However I was searching for VolumeLoader in the docs and on here, and I think the official docs searching system doesn't always return the results.

Anyway, all good now. Thanks again.

Anybody here know how to access the volume grids in a VolumeLoader?

Cheers,
Kent

I just updated the plugin to include the Alt-Text for command icons.

When you drag and drop a command into the DropZone and then paste your text into the section you will get something like this...

![Add Doodle Frame][COMMAND_1022215]

It will look like this in the HTML code when published...

<p><img src="images/COMMAND_1022215.png" alt="Add Doodle Frame"/></p>

For Show Help, I could include a separate library to pop up a help dialog with the correct page, I already have it implemented in my other plugins. But if you wish to pop up your own dialog, or just launch a browser with the link, you can add the ID of the page to the end of the index.html?id=SECTIONID

So something like this: https://help.plugins4d.com/?id=1026

You can get the id for a page by right clicking on the section and choosing "Copy ID To Clipboard".

I will add in your feature requests to my list.

OSX will be coming later on. At the moment I am only support R20 since its a free plugin, so don't have the time/resources to put into it.

Hi everyone,

I have released a plugin I use to create documentation for my plugins.

The plugin is free. Currently available for R20 for Windows. I will add an OSX version if people ask for it.

https://www.plugins4d.com/docs

If you use it for anything let me know. Also if you have any features requests then send them my way.

Cheers,
Kent

I am writing a ptex importer and have a sneaky suspicion that the C4D OBJ loader does not maintain the order of the polygons as they are written in the file.

Has anybody else come across this?

I think I am going to have to write my own OBJ loader just to keep my own sanity about what is actually loaded and how the polygon object is created.

Thanks, I was wondering how to access the data. This will come in useful further down the line.

Cheers,
Kent

I came across the following docs about a Volume Builder Tag.

https://help.maxon.net/us/#TVOLUMEBUILDER-ID_VOLUMEBUILDER_TAG_MAINTAB

But I don't see any such tag in the Tags menu in C4D.

Also I don't see any mention of such a tag id in the SDK.

There are resource files for it... tvolumebuilder.h, .res, .str etc...

Am I missing something, feeling like I might be staring at it in the UI and just not actually seeing it.

Thanks,
Kent