Posts made by vwgamedev

Hello, I am currently trying to realize an asset pipeline for our game project that allows us to prepare our characters and clothes for processing in Unity.

Basically I have found a clean way to do this in Cinema4D that I can do by hand and that leads to success.
I create a few extra bones that we need and do some renaming. None of this is a big deal. But it is important that we then run the "Set Deformed Mesh". If I do this manually, everything works perfectly, but I just can't find a way to call this function directly in Python. I have found a way to set the button to "Set Deformed Mesh" but this does not "press" it.:

def apply_deformed_mesh(meshes):
    """
    Apply 'Set Deformed Mesh' on all meshes with weight tags.
    """
    for obj in meshes:
        weight_tag = obj.GetTag(c4d.Tweights)
        if weight_tag:
            bc = weight_tag.GetDataInstance()
            
            # Set the button to 'Set Deformed Mesh'
            bc.SetInt32(c4d.ID_CA_WEIGHT_TAG_SET_BUTTON, c4d.ID_CA_WEIGHT_TAG_SET_DEFORMED_MESH)

            weight_tag.Message(c4d.MSG_UPDATE)

    # Update the scene
    c4d.EventAdd()

Is there a way to execute this command somehow to automate the whole thing?

I am currently trying to find out if it is possible to run the UV Rectangulize function via Python. I can only find two references to it in the entire Python SDK MDATA_UVRECTANGULARIZE_ALIGN: int = 2280
MDATA_UVRECTANGULARIZE_EQUIDISTANT: int = 2281
and this reference in the Cinema4D C++ SDK
Unfortunately these are not mentioned in any way in the documentation and I don't understand to which c4d.MCOMMAND_* they belong.

Basically I built a script that returns each UV island as a BaseSelect, now I want to iterate over this list of BaseSelect and try to apply the rectangulize for each island. I want to avoid doing this via c4d.CallCommand(1055347) if there is another way, especially because the method via CallCommand displays the dialog box with the message in the GUI for a UV island that cannot be rectangulated and this would obviously be extremely annoying in an automated plugin.

@ferdinand
Thank you for the hint and the superfast response! I was not aware that these symbols dissolve into these numbers, which of course makes it much easier to work with them now. I was able to solve it with CallUVCommand:

    settings = c4d.BaseContainer()
    settings[c4d.RELAXUV_KEEP_BORDER] = False
    settings[c4d.RELAXUV_KEEP_NEIGHBORS] = False
    settings[c4d.RELAXUV_KEEP_POINTSEL] = False
    settings[c4d.RELAXUV_CUT_EDGESEL] = True
    settings[c4d.RELAXUV_EDGESEL_POINTER] = edge_sellection
    settings[c4d.RELAXUV_MAX_ITERATIONS] = 1
    settings[c4d.RELAXUV_MODE] = c4d.RELAXUV_MODE_ABF
    ret = c4d.modules.bodypaint.CallUVCommand(handle.GetPoints(),
                                              handle.GetPointCount(),
                                              handle.GetPolys(),
                                              handle.GetPolyCount(),
                                              uvw,
                                              handle.GetPolySel(),
                                              handle.GetUVPointSel(),
                                              obj,
                                              handle.GetMode(),
                                              c4d.UVCOMMAND_RELAX,
                                              settings)

Hello,

I would like to use UV Relaxing and in particular pass the current edge selection via RELAXUV_EDGESEL_POINTER to create UV seams on the selected edges.

Basically the script does the UV Relaxing and I can see this clearly in the UV Editor Window, it doesn't report any errors and the res of SendModelingCommand() also returns True. Also I check via print(edge_selection.GetCount()) if my selection is passed at all and the count always matches the current edge selection. However, the relaxing does not use the edge selection as it would work in UV Manager via the UV Relaxing tab.

I also found an older thread from 2016 mentioning that RELAXUV_EDGESEL_POINTER expects a string reference to a selection tag, although the SDK clearly indicates that a c4d.BaseSelect is expected, of course I tried that too, but that also remains unsuccessful.

from typing import Optional
import c4d

doc: c4d.documents.BaseDocument  # The active document
op: Optional[c4d.BaseObject]  # The active object, None if unselected

def main() -> None:
    Unwrap(op)

def Unwrap(obj: c4d.BaseObject):
    if not isinstance(obj, c4d.PolygonObject):
        return None
    
    edge_selection = get_selected_edges(obj)
    print(edge_selection.GetCount())
    # Set up the settings for the UV unwrapping.
    settings = c4d.BaseContainer()
    settings[c4d.RELAXUV_KEEP_BORDER] = False
    settings[c4d.RELAXUV_KEEP_NEIGHBORS] = False
    settings[c4d.RELAXUV_KEEP_POINTSEL] = False
    settings[c4d.RELAXUV_CUT_EDGESEL] = True
    settings[c4d.RELAXUV_EDGESEL_POINTER] = edge_selection
    settings[c4d.RELAXUV_MAX_ITERATIONS] = 0
    settings[c4d.RELAXUV_MODE] = 0

    # Execute the UV unwrapping command.
    res = c4d.utils.SendModelingCommand(command=1053624,
                                        list=[obj],
                                        mode=c4d.MODELINGCOMMANDMODE_POLYGONSELECTION,
                                        bc=settings,
                                        doc=doc)
    print(res)
    c4d.EventAdd()



def get_selected_edges(obj):
    if not isinstance(obj, c4d.PolygonObject):
        return None

    neighbor = c4d.utils.Neighbor()
    neighbor.Init(obj)

    return obj.GetSelectedEdges(neighbor, c4d.EDGESELECTIONTYPE_SELECTION)

"""
def state():
    # Defines the state of the command in a menu. Similar to CommandData.GetState.
    return c4d.CMD_ENABLED
"""

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()