Hello,

as far as I know the licenseID is a temporary session ID that is only used internally. It has no use for third party developers.

The hardware ID is based on the corresponding OS functions. So the hardware ID is the same as long the OS thinks the system is the same.

Please also notice that, for internal reasons, the format of any of these IDs may change in future releases.

Is it up to the studios to decide how they want to license their software. A typical use case could be that a studio creates a single account that is shared in the company. So there would be one user ID for the whole studio.

It is up to you to decide if you want to bind your plugin to that user ID or a system ID.

best wishes,
Sebastian

@m_adam

RE: Maya radial
Yea, it by theory the multiple gedialogs with pop-up from certain distance from the mouse should create a radial. I'll probably have it for another time/thread.

Thanks for the response. Will consider this thread close

RE: non working code example.
Sure sure. Will let you know if anything comes up. The codes I referred above was from awhile ago, so I don't have immediate memory of them.

Hello,

This thread will be considered as solved tomorrow unless you have something to add ?

Cheers,
Manuel

@zipit @m_magalhaes

Yes, zipit was correct on my concern:
If he has to worry about the new API on day-2-day tasks like selecting an object

Guess, I don't have to for now.

Thanks for the clarification.

@Jmelon said in How to use BaseDraw::DrawObject/DrawPolygonObject draw constant color like Display Tag Constant Shading mode:

and sorry for my negligence, I will pay attention next time

Don't worry at all, it helps us to answer your question faster and searching trough the forum.

Cheers,
Manuel

@m_magalhaes said in Safety of GetCache() after ExecutePasses()?:

The scene will be update and you can retrieves the caches.

Great, thanks!

/Filip

@m_magalhaes

"when you are using RenderDocument, you can set the RENDERFLAGS, so it can be virtually "anything""
-Yes, that makes sense. Thanks.

"Can i ask you why you need to know if a render have been started using the RenderDocument() function ?"
-In a custom renderer, I am exploring the possibility of sometimes (depending on user selected options) sending the rendered images to an external image viewer (not the c4d picture viewer). In this case, if RenderDocument() is called, we would still want to render to the c4d bitmap to make sure RenderDocument() correctly returns an image.

Anyway, as I said, this was a bit of a long shot. Since this appears not to be possible, I will explore other options.

Thanks!
/Filip

@m_magalhaes said in Get shader's parent ID:

hello,
thanks @zipit ^^

just one thing, in the context of the script manager, you don't need DOC = c4d.documents.GetActiveDocument() there is already doc.

cheers,
Manuel.

Corrected! ☺

Thank you Manuel!

Hello,

nothing to add, thanks @zipit for the answer 🙂

@Leo_Saramago don't forget to mark your thread to solved.

Cheers,
Manuel

@m_magalhaes Based on the hair_shader.cpp example, I implemented a workaround with a custom shader on the Texture attribute, using calc_sample to sample per segment. Works fine!

@zipit Thanks for showing me so much detail.😁

hello,

@zipit thanks for your answer.

for your next threads, please help us keeping things organised and clean. I know it's not your priority but it really simplify our work here.

Q&A New Functionality. How to Post Questions especially the tagging part.

I've added the tags and marked this thread as a question so when you considered it as solved, please change the state 🙂

In the python help, you have a link to github where you can find examples.
https://github.com/PluginCafe/cinema4d_py_sdk

you will see sometimes in those example this code :

path, fn = os.path.split(__file__) bmp = bitmaps.BaseBitmap() bmp.InitWith(os.path.join(path, "res", "gravitation.tif"))

Just to add a few words about c4d.storage.GeGetC4DPath() That's the classic API.

In c++ with the maxon API you have GetUrl

In Python, in r20 symbol are not set and if you want to retrieve the resource directory it will return the Cinema4D's one and not your plugin's one.

Cheers
Manuel

Hi,

thank you for the clarification.

Cheers
zipit

Thank You @m_magalhaes very helpful! I succeeded. I should have been able to figure this out from the example in the API.
I've used the code basically as you have it with my spline datas saved in different hyperfiles. I then load that data from my tag.

Thanks again.

@fwilleke80 as i mention in the other post, the problem (at least with our raycolider) is that if your ray hit an edge, it will hit 2 polygons at the same time. If it hit a point, it will hit <number of polygons attached to that point> times.

It can be good enough but you have to be careful if you really want something solid.

Cheers
Manuel.

@zipit

Thanks for the response and clarification. Works as expected

@m_magalhaes
Sorry about that. Will be more careful next time.

hello,
thanks @zipit for answering the question 🙂

and thanks you both for the kinds words 🙂

Cheers,
Manuel

Thank you for your help !

Thank you for the help @m_magalhaes