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Hi @BigRoy,

Please check our Support Procedures in regards of the question structure, namely:

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Regarding you question, there's no high level API that allows you to get a list of all files you've mentioned at once. This effectively means that not only do you need to access this yourself, but you also need to do so for the render engines you'd like to support, as these are likely going to differ among them.

Specifically for the Redshift AOVs and output files question, please check related threads:

get the names of redshift multi passes AOV names from the render settings Add Expression Value in Render Settings Save Path

As for the takes, the only application where they make any sense is the Render Queue. If you're not using it, it's only the active take that's being rendered. Of course you can deal with it by using SetCurrentTake function.

I suggest you keeping this thread for the "render output files" part of your initial question and encourage you to make separate postings for your other questions that diverse from this topic here.

Cheers,
Ilia

Good to hear!

Hi @BigRoy,

For the alembic camera, you can use c4d.MSG_GETREALCAMERADATA, for example:

def main(): data = dict() op.Message(c4d.MSG_GETREALCAMERADATA, data) print(data['res'])

Another option (which would work for other object types as well) would be to check type of the object's cache using GetCache().

Cheers,
Ilia

Hey BigRoy, sadly it's still impossible, I will start the discussion again, thanks for the reminder.

Cheers,
Maxime.

I was just looking for the exact same thing and would second the need for these 3 hooks without the need for a Python Generator object.
It would make the pipeline integration of C4D much more straightforward. @m_adam

Hi @BigRoy,

in python the lifetime of the objects is handled automatically so you're right, there's no need to do anything special to destruct the object.

Good job on your project! Thanks for sharing it with the community!

Cheers,
Ilia

The issue about PYTHONPATH is now resolved in R21 Sp2.

Cheers,
Maxime