Fellow developers,
in Cinema 4D R23.008 and only on macOS, it has been discovered an unexpected behaviour that causes the installation of a module via pip to crash.
We apologise for any inconvenience it might cause and we'll keep you post on its resolution.
Best,
The Maxon SDK Team
The new Cinema 4D Subscription Release (S22) has been officially released and is available for download. The next generation of Maxon’s 3D application and first subscription-only release affords customers early access to massive performance and interactivity improvements. For further details visit the official S22 page
The updated development resources can be found as usual on developers.maxon.net.
The Maxon SDK Team
The second service release of Cinema 4D R21 has been officially released and is now available for download through the usual channels.
The updated development resources can be found on developers.maxon.net.
The Maxon SDK Team
Dear Development Community,
due to some recent "module ID" conflicts we've seen reported in the last months, we remind you that the module ID used in the projectdefinition.txt MUST be unique to the dynamic library.
The module ID is used by Cinema 4D to distinguish modules and, "similarly" to plugin ID, it's supposed to be unique.
The practice of using any of the projects shipped with the sdk.zip as a template is fine as long as you keep attention on changing the module ID provided by default.
Finally it's worthy reminding that the module ID should follow a reverse domain notation order as suggested from the value available here where based on your username and, eventually, the website used in your profile, we suggest a potential root representation.
The SDK Team
Dear Community,
with the incoming Winter Holiday season, being most of the Team in vacation from December 23rd to January the 2nd, you might experience slowdowns in the usual support workflow. Please be patient until the full team is back in January 2020.
Best wishes,
The Maxon SDK Team
Dear PluginCafé user,
on Monday, November the 25th, from 07:00 to 08:00 UTC, due to planned maintenance activity, the services will be down and unreachable during this period.
Please be sure to quit from this server duly.
Apologizing for any inconvenience this might cause, give best.
Maxon SDK Team
Hi rui_mac, thanks for reaching out us.
With regard to the issue reported, I'm a bit surprised to see c4d.documents.KillDocument() executed considering the way garbage collection is handled in Python (i.e. you don't have to take care of freeing memory - if not on very explicit cases - since Python does it automatically)
Nevertheless, if you could provide us with a simple code to reproduce the issue we could get a better understanding of the cause.
Riccardo
Hi final3d, thanks for writing us.
Please file your suggestions and recommendations on Maxon Support page paying attention to select "Suggestions and Ideas for Maxon".
This forum is only aimed to discuss development-related topics.
Best, Riccardo
Being the SDK formerly known as Melange renamed in Cineware SDK, the category hosting the related discussion has been renamed accordingly.
Cheers,
MAXON's SDK Team
Hello,
by default, the MSVC build settings of the Cinema 4D R21 SDK activate Advanced Vector Extensions. This can cause issues on client systems that do not support AVX (the plugin will not show up for them).
The AVX settings are defined in the frameworks\settings\Base.props file.
To disable AVX support, simply remove the line
<EnableEnhancedInstructionSet>AdvancedVectorExtensions</EnableEnhancedInstructionSet>
The new major version R21 of Cinema 4D has been officially released and is now available for download. Everyone can now create accounts on the new MyMaxon portal (my.MAXON.net) and download the latest version of Cinema 4D.
An overview of all new development resources can be found on developers.maxon.net.
Cinema 4D Release 21 has been announced. The new release introduces several relevant changes for plugin developers.
More information on Cinema 4D R21 is found here:
The adapted C++ and Python SDKs will be published with the release of Cinema 4D R21 in September.
Dear Community,
we will need to leave you alone for a few days during which you'll experiment limited support bandwidth since the MAXON's SDK Team will be traveling to Frankfurt am Main to attend a yearly-recurring company meeting.
See you next week again,
Riccardo in the name of the entire team
Dear Users,
we'd like to make you aware that it's now possible to delete both posts and thread started by yourself. Once deleted the posts/thread will look greyed out to you, meaning that you can still safely restore it. All the deleted posts/threads will be also reviewed internally by Global Moderators to be sure that no knowledge is lost or looks inconsistent. Global moderators will also purge, from time to time, those deleted posts/topics deemed as unnecessary.
Last but not least, you are now provided with a "Topic Tools" button, where beside giving you the option to delete a topic, gives you the option to mark a topis as Ask as a question.
Cheers,
MAXON SDK Team
Dear Community,
in the wake of promoting a more and more effective communication and improve our UX on managing Cinema 4D APIs, we have introduced by today a new Q&A mechanism which is immediately available to you.
The new Q&A mechanism, which works in parallel with the current support discussion paradigm gives you the chance to set a topic as an "unsolved question" - by selecting the "Ask as a question" from the Topic tools drop-down and, upon the different answers are received, to mark it as "solved" by selecting one of the posts as "correct answer". Please also bear in mind that the topic can also be set to the "solved" state from the topic-tools drop-down without explicitly marking a correct post.
A typical workflow is:
Last but not least a few additional notes:
Cheers,
MAXON SDK Team
Dear Community,
considering the recent release of the new discussion board, we'd like to open a discussion on tags, tagging operations and anything orbiting around such topics.
The tagging paradigm we've decided to adopt in this board replaces the need for sub-categories and makes contributors' life easier when it comes to posting a new support topic (due to the limited number of main categories). The reverse side of this easy-to-go approach is that without topics being properly tagged searching for things could get harder and harder resulting in a weak knowledge-base.
For this reason, once more please make up your mind on tags and read the following topics:
As you could have already experienced, every category in this forum has its own whitelist of tags that can be updated from time to time and that should help the visitor making himself comfortable with them. Since the whitelists aren't set in stone as well as the single tags are not, we'd like to hear from you about the tags that you'd consider relevant, those that might be purged or, finally, which tags should be moved/copied in which category.
Although we decided, after a long discussion, for these tags and tag whitelists trying to get ourselves in your shoes, feel free to contribute to this discussion with comments or questions and we'll be glad to answer and lead all together to a better tagging system.
Cheers,
MAXON SDK Team
Dear Developer Community,
now, that Cinema 4D R20 has been announced, MAXON is planning an event in Frankfurt am Main on November 1st and 2nd, 2018. Due to the rather large changes inside of the SDK's, we are thinking about having a DevKitchen in parallel to this event.
The DevKitchen would be a one day event with several presentations targeted at plugin developers. Currently we have the following topics in mind:
These topics are not set in stone, yet. If you are interested in other topics or have specific topics for discussions, please let us know.
We may also have the option for a second day, probably used for hands-on workshops, if there's enough interest.
Of course the SDK Team will be there almost entirely, so there's also the possibility for additional Q&A and extensive discussions.
DevKitchen itself is free and as a DevKitchen attendee you will also get free access to the entire surrounding event, including free lunch and drinks.
In order for DevKitchen to happen, we would need roughly 15 pre-registrations until September, 28th. Please send such via email: sdk_support@maxon.net
There's another interesting option: As a plugin developer you might want to present your plugins at the event or even do a talk or presentation. If this sounds interesting to you, please contact us for further discussion.
Looking forward to meeting you,
your SDK Team