Hi,
this doesn't seem to work anymore.

./c4dpy.app/Contents/MacOS/c4dpy -m pip install numpy                                                                                                              
Collecting numpy
  Downloading numpy-1.19.4.zip (7.3 MB)
(null)     |████████████████████████████████| 7.3 MB 5.3 MB/s (null)
(null)  Installing build dependencies ... (null)error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 2:
   command: '/Applications/Maxon Cinema 4D R23/./c4dpy.app/Contents/MacOS/c4dpy' '/Applications/Maxon Cinema 4D R23/resource/modules/python/libs/python37.macos.framework/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip' install --ignore-installed --no-user --prefix /private/tmp/pip-build-env-7f2h5t11/overlay --no-warn-script-location --no-binary :none: --only-binary :none: -i https://pypi.org/simple -- 'setuptools<49.2.0' 'wheel<=0.35.1' 'Cython>=0.29.21,<3.0'
       cwd: None
  Complete output (1 lines):
  /Applications/Maxon Cinema 4D R23/./c4dpy.app/Contents/MacOS/c4dpy: can't open file 'pip': is a directory (file:///Applications/Maxon Cinema 4D R23/resource/modules/python/libs/python37.macos.framework/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip)
  ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 2: '/Applications/Maxon Cinema 4D R23/./c4dpy.app/Contents/MacOS/c4dpy' '/Applications/Maxon Cinema 4D R23/resource/modules/python/libs/python37.macos.framework/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip' install --ignore-installed --no-user --prefix /private/tmp/pip-build-env-7f2h5t11/overlay --no-warn-script-location --no-binary :none: --only-binary :none: -i https://pypi.org/simple -- 'setuptools<49.2.0' 'wheel<=0.35.1' 'Cython>=0.29.21,<3.0' Check the logs for full command output.
[1]    48826 segmentation fault  sudo ./c4dpy.app/Contents/MacOS/c4dpy -m pip install numpy

Hi there,
I'm trying to write a python plugin and keep hitting walls.
My biggest problem is understanding the python api documentation with my limited knowledge of C++ (Done some OpenCl and small C++ project at uni, no knowledge of bigger software architecture).
Usually example projects is all I need to get started with other software APIs, but C4Ds plugin examples on github are pretty useless to learn from for me. (Not even a single line of comment!?)

Where does the "res" folder come from, what is it? Can't find a single trace about it in the python docs apart from this. Which is not comprehensible for me having grown up in the python world...

Secondly I can't get CLion to like the .pyp file ending to make syntax highlighting work. (I don't get it. It is just python, aka 'If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck... Would make live easier with editors.).
And even if the plugin loads in C4D natively, pyc4d just gives me "EnvironmentError: cannot find pyp file - plugin registration failed".

All in all the python API is for me just a horrible experience after knowing pymel, maya cmds and maxscript, which makes me sad. The python api documentation gives me the feeling to only cater C++ plugin developers and does nothing to give an artist with basic programming skills an introduction into a more "tech artisty" life in cinema 4D.

I really don't like having to write those words, but I grew up with Cinema 4D and it was my introduction and part of the reason to pursue a degree in VFX and computer graphics. And it saddens me to say that these experiences drive me more and more into the world of Houdini and Blender...

Grüße,
Magnus