Thanks, Maxime! :)

I tested the code, and it works.
But this is not what I exactly wanted.

As I mentioned, the problem is that some users are installing C4D in a custom directory and I can't find preferences path nor an actual installation path.

I also tried os.walk() Method to find MAXON directory, but it has two significant problems.

1. It's too slow
2. there are several folders called MAXON

The only thing that users can define is the release number, and I have to find it according to the string, for example, "R20".

Here is how the installer works.

It works on most of the computers but some users already reported that it can't find their directory so they are forced to manually define it but most of them are defining global directory. If you remember, I had to remove symbolcache file and this is one of the reasons why I made this installer.

Thanks, Maxime!

Can you tell me about Copyright and EULA? How can I use this code in my software?

Hello PluginCafe :)

I'm writing a standalone application which will be used for installing my C4D plugins.
I need to find an appropriate way of finding plugins directory.

Currently, I'm using a simple expression to define the preferences folder.
Then I'm iterating through each file in the preferences folder and then creating plugins directory with os module.

here is the code.

import os
from getpass import getuser as user

def plugins_path(release_number):
    if os.name == 'nt': MAXON = r"C:\Users\{}\AppData\Roaming\MAXON".format(user()) #Windows
    if os.name != 'nt': MAXON = r"/Users/{}/Library/Preferences/MAXON".format(user()) #OSX

    plugins_path = ""
    for i in os.listdir(MAXON):
        if release_number.upper() in i.upper(): plugins_path = os.path.join(MAXON, i, "plugins")

    if os.path.exists(plugins_path): return plugins_path

user_input = "R20"
print(plugins_path(user_input))

The problem is that some users are installing C4D in a custom directory and my code is very limited for this task.

Is it possible to find an exact directory of C4D's plugins folder?

Hello PluginCafe! :)

I hope the title is self-explanatory.
Unfortunately, there is almost 0 info about ShaderData plugins on the forum.

It is worth mentioning that I already figured out how to load textures into Xbitmap from the disk, but this is not exactly what I need.
Currently, I'm trying to somehow load Pre-Defined Bitmap image Xbitmap (or maybe I have to load it into Xbase) but with no luck.

    def InitRender(self, sh, irs) :

        bmp = (c4d.bitmaps.InitResourceBitmap(c4d.RESOURCEIMAGE_OK))
        self.texture = c4d.BaseShader(c4d.Xbitmap)

        # Not sure but if I'm doing this correctly but probably here I need to somehow load my bmp.

        self.texture.InitRender(irs)
        return c4d.INITRENDERRESULT_OK

    def FreeRender(self, sh) :
        self.texture.FreeRender()
        self.texture = None

    def Output(self, sh, cd) :
        res = self.texture.Sample(cd)
        return res

I guess you want to create a node of the node.

Thanks, Andreas!
This is a really interesting approach.

Hello PluginCafe! :)

Under c4d.gui.GeDialog class, there is a GeDialog.GetType() function which is a simple plain text without any links inside.

Hello PluginCafe! :)

Is it possible to use 3rd part APIs, e.g. Google Drive API, inside C4D's python plugin?

There is a pip install code on Google Developers webpage:
pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib

Can I simply install it directly inside pyp file or import it by utilizing Niklas' code?

Hello PluginCafe :)

I want to know how to drive one parameter with another and vice versa.
Let's assume I have a Tag Plugin which is assigned to the cube object and tracks its number of segments on X and Y axes. How to control X value if a user interacts with the Y parameter and drive Y value if a user interacts with X parameter?

Code worked on all of my beta testers' mac and windows devices.
Thanks, Maxime!