Developing .obj sequence exporter for selected objects
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Hello i am new here.
I am developing obj files sequence exporter .
Now it properly export regular objects such as moving cube itc but skinned meshes stuck in one pose over all frames.
I found not so elegant solution - Bake it as Alembic before export skinned mesh . Any options to export skinning meshes wihtout prebaking? Or how bake objects by script?import c4d import os import subprocess from c4d import gui #USAGE: #1) SET TIMELINE START-END #2) SELECT OBJECTS TO EXPORT #3) EXECUTE SCRIPT #4) SELECT FILENAME. FRAME NUMBER WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY ADDED TO .OBJ FILE NAMES def main(): c4d.StopAllThreads() doc = c4d.documents.GetActiveDocument() fps = doc.GetFps() fromTime = doc.GetMinTime().GetFrame(fps) toTime = doc.GetMaxTime().GetFrame(fps) animLength = toTime - fromTime + 1 filePath = c4d.storage.SaveDialog() filePath, objName = os.path.split(filePath) objName = objName + "_" filePath = filePath + "\\" for f in range(0,animLength): c4d.EventAdd(c4d.EVENT_FORCEREDRAW) c4d.DrawViews(c4d.DRAWFLAGS_FORCEFULLREDRAW) c4d.StatusSetText("Exporting " + str(f) + " of " + str(animLength)) c4d.StatusSetBar(100.0*f/animLength) objs = doc.GetActiveObjects(c4d.GETACTIVEOBJECTFLAGS_CHILDREN) # Get a fresh, temporary document with only the selected objects docTemp = c4d.documents.IsolateObjects(doc, objs) docTemp.SetTime(c4d.BaseTime(fromTime,fps) + c4d.BaseTime(f,fps)) if docTemp == None: return # Set project scale unitScale = c4d.UnitScaleData() unitScale.SetUnitScale(1.0, c4d.DOCUMENT_UNIT_M) bc = c4d.BaseContainer() bc[c4d.DOCUMENT_DOCUNIT] = unitScale docTemp.SetDocumentData(c4d. DOCUMENTSETTINGS_DOCUMENT, bc) fileName = filePath+objName+str(f)+".obj" savingresult = c4d.documents.SaveDocument(docTemp,fileName,c4d.SAVEDOCUMENTFLAGS_0,c4d.FORMAT_OBJ2EXPORT) c4d.documents.KillDocument(docTemp) c4d.StatusClear() gui.MessageDialog( 'Exporting to'+filePath+' done' ) if __name__=='__main__': main()
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Hello @Polyflow,
welcome to the Plugin Café
Setting time via
SetTime()
basically just sets the time value in the document. But C4D also needs to evaluate the scene at that moment in time. This is done by callingExecutePasses()
.DrawViews() can indeed do the same (and more) for you, but in your case it should not be needed,
ExecutePasses()
should be fine. See for example this thread for some discussion on this topic: python plugin for every frameSo, in your code, you probably also need to "execute" the temporary document.
There's some more information on this in our C++ SDK manuals. I know, we are talking Python here, but maybe it's interesting anyway: BaseDocument manual - Time
Cheers,
Andreas -
May be Polygonize can help you.
Make a clone of the document and turn all objects into polygon based objects.
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I'm afraid I need to apologize, my answer was actually by some discussion we had internally and I was too confused to read properly again. Sorry. Maybe @mikeudin's answer can already help. We'll look into this tomorrow again.
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Hello @Polyflow,
we thought a bit more about your request. Unfortunately I had no time, yet, to do some tests here.
In general we think, my last answer should at least be part of a solution of the problem.In regards to "polygonizing" or "baking", this should actually be just a matter of correctly retrieving the cache of an object in the executed document. Please take a look at
GetDeformCache()
andGetCache()
. Again also the C++ docs have some more info on this: BaseDocument manual - Cache.Cheers,
Andreas -
@mikeudin
Polygonize not works for me.By the way - I'm amazed at the responsiveness of your community.
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Now i am trying to Bake an object before export using Current State To Object but this test piece of code not do anything
res = utils.SendModelingCommand(command = c4d.MCOMMAND_CURRENTSTATETOOBJECT, list = [op], mode = c4d.MODELINGCOMMANDMODE_ALL, doc = doc) c4d.EventAdd()
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Hi @Polyflow,
did you try the example here? Also, please keep an extra eye on the note that's written below there.
You have to first clone your object viaGetClone()
and pass this as to your object list.
For example, I'm using this code in one of my plugins at work (there's a lot of error-handling stuff missing though):# current state to object def csto(op): if op is None: return False doc = op.GetDocument() if doc is None: return False pred = op.GetPred() parent = op.GetUp() settings = c4d.BaseContainer() settings.SetBool(c4d.MDATA_CURRENTSTATETOOBJECT_INHERITANCE, True) newOp = c4d.utils.SendModelingCommand(command=c4d.MCOMMAND_CURRENTSTATETOOBJECT, mode=c4d.MODELINGCOMMANDMODE_ALL, list=[op.GetClone()], doc=doc, bc=settings) if newOp: doc.AddUndo(c4d.UNDOTYPE_NEW, newOp[0]) doc.InsertObject(newOp[0], parent, pred) c4d.EventAdd() return True return False
and
for polygonizing the document:
# Polygonize document, respecting instances in the right order, returns new document def polygonize(doc): if doc is None: return None op = doc.GetFirstObject() oldObjects = [] while op: if op.IsInstanceOf(c4d.Oinstance): # check and convert instances oldObjects.append(op) csto(op) op = GetNextObject(op) for op in oldObjects: doc.AddUndo(c4d.UNDOTYPE_DELETE, op) op.Remove() return doc.Polygonize()
You have to resolve the instances before using this code, though.
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@mp5gosu i am unsuccessfully trying code from documentation.
I’m the developer of Vertex Animation Tools for Unity, I can’t say that I'm new to tool development, but this API makes me feel stupid. I saw the Polygonyze function, but I don’t see its result. I'm really trying to understand the C4D API in reasonable term but I can't. Exporting the obj sequence from c4d is a trivial function that people have been looking for for years, and now I understand why.
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To see the results of Poligonize method you have to insert resulting document.
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@Polyflow: MAXON's SDK Team can only help and assist you in achieving your goal. Writing complete scripts and plugins is not within our mandate.
With that said, what about my answer regarding caches? Can you give us some more details on the issues you have with this approach?
Cheers,
Andreas -
Probably not that helpful but there is an existing script for the C4D OBJ Sequence Exporter
https://richh.co/c4d-native-obj-sequence-export-no-plugins/