Thanks Riccardo.

I am manually saving objects within my own Generator. It seems that if I write out, then read a VolumeObject that it does not save any volume data at all. Calling GetVolume() returns nullptr; My volumes do have data in them so I would expect it to save and load.

pObj = VolumeObject::Alloc();
pObj->ReadObject(hf, true);
maxon::VolumeInterface* data = pObj->GetVolume();

data is null;

Can someone confirm if this is actually true and the correct behaviour?

Hi,

Yes you can create a system that works for R20 and R21. For R20 just create a hash key against the serial number, the last 5 digits is usually good enough, which you can get from the call you mentioned GeGetSerialInfo. Then for R21 just use their UserID or SystemID as mentioned in the other docs.

You can then create a license file for each user if they manually send you these keys (serial or user id), and they could place it in the folder for their plugin. You could also automate the generation of this license file depending on who you are selling with.

Most important however is that you encrypt your plugins so that they can't see how you are licensing them. I am not sure how well this works with python however.

Cheers,
Kent

What you are after is the sceneloaderdata and scenesaverdata

https://developers.maxon.net/docs/Cinema4DCPPSDK/html/class_scene_saver_data.html

Kent

As far as I am aware all frameworks need to be in the frameworks directory, ie the same one the C4D frameworks are located in. That is where I place all my frameworks and it works fine. I have already requested an addition to the project tool to let us set our own additional framework folder. Hopefully sometime we will see it added.

Hi Manuel,

Thanks for the example. That is excellent. For now though I have moved onto using libcurl, but when I come back to this again I will be sure to use this example again. I hope this gets added to the documentation somwhere.

Cheers,
Kent

Hi Manuel,

I want to send a HTTP post request with a couple of parameters, which will then return some JSON data.

I can’t see how to do this from the link you sent. I could open a tcp connection myself to port 80 of my URL, construct and build my own HTTPS header, send it and listen for the returned data.

The HandlePost function of the NetworkHttpHandlerRef class looks like it was written to do exactly this. But there is no documentation showing how to use it and no examples.

https://developers.maxon.net/docs/Cinema4DCPPSDK/html/classmaxon_1_1_network_http_handler_interface.html

I have filled in the DataDictionary with my parameters but when I call HandlePost it always seems to think there is an error in the MAXON result, but it contains no error message telling me what went wrong.

I would like to call something like this

curl https://api.myapi.com/v1 -d "product=myproduct" -X POST

Kent

Is it possible to do a Curl style post using NetworkHttpHandlerRef?

I see that it has HandlePost, but so far haven't been successful in getting it working.

About to compile libCurl with OpenSSL support, but thought I would check here in case I don't need to.

Thanks!
Kent

Looks like your setting preprocessing definitions. So try the following instead...

AdditionalPreprocessorDefinitions.Win=ANYSETTING;SETTING2;SETTING3;

or

AdditionalPreprocessorDefinitions.Win64.Debug=ANYSETTING;SETTING2;SETTING3;