Hi
I'll need that job too. To be able to refresh xpresso without having to provoke it with a mouse click.

@C4DS
Although a solution has not been given (as I wish to do), explanations have been provided. I have therefore considered it resolved.
For IRL reasons, I could not do so. I will be able to get back to it, and if I find THE solution, I will post it ;)

Hi Sebastian,

Thank you for your response. I found the identifiers of the different VRay materials in the file c4d_symbol.h.
Everything works.

Hi all,

I know my question doesn't directly pertain to C4D, but maybe someone here will have the answer.

Creating a c4d material is simple, mat = c4d.Material(c4d.Mbase), but how to create a VRay material?

Thanks

@r_gigante
I've never used it before, and I'm pretty disappointed with this information.

@janbiko
While searching, I found this:
https://medium.com/gdplabs/build-and-debug-c-on-visual-studio-code-for-mac-77e05537105e
it might be able to help you ;)

Hi Jambiko

There is always the solution to use Visual Studio for Mac.
I've never used it before, and I use very little xcode. I prefer the good old Makefile :)

Hi Andreas

It is an external application, and therefore does not require the ownership of Cinema4D. It's not a plugin. Which means, no connection to C4D.
This application also imports OBJ, FBX, 3DS...etc formats and it is not necessary to have the original applications of these formats!
The SDK therefore does not seem to allow a total independent import of .c4d scenes.
There will therefore be no Cinema4D import/export.

Unless I can get the description on the structure of a .c4d file. In this case, I would write my own import/export library ;)
Of course, the information received will remain confidential.

Sorry but I remain convinced that there is, somewhere in the scene file, an information that allows you to reconstruct a parametric sphere!
Without this information, how does Cinema4D rebuild the sphere? With a session of spiritualism?
A normal user will not always think to activate the options of the Mix SDK.
I think I'll drop the c4d scene import.

Hi Andreas

Okay, thank you for these explanations ;)

At the moment, the only solution is to limit the import to polygonal objects and exclude all parametrics objects.
I hope that Melange will evolve to allow a total import of a c4d scene. This caching principle is not really practical:(