Cineversity

Hello,

I am trying to speed up my modeling workflow by creating a script in either COFFEE or Python that lets me click one key or icon and set the selected Point(s) to an X a world position of 0. The Set Point Value operator requires to many click and mouse movements and that time adds up. I have a small amount of programming knowledge but no experience scripting for Cinema. Any help or guidance is appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
Kyle

Hi Kyle,

Something like Donavan introduces here:

http://www.cineversity.com/vidplaytut/zero_extrude_script_part_1

Depending on your C4D release/version, you might check the workflow.

Rick has done something here that might work as well for you:

http://www.cineversity.com/vidplaylist/python_scripting1/zero_out_script

You might find this link useful:

https://developers.maxon.net/docs/Cinema4DPythonSDK/html/index.html

All the best

Thanks Dr Sassi. That was exactly what I was trying to do. I used the method in that video to create this script called ZeroX. Works exactly how I need it to. Have an awesome day!

Edit: I added an action to the end that switches me back to whatever tool I was using at the time.

//Select Tool
CallCommand(200000065);

// X to Set
tool()#MDATA_SETVALUE_SETX=1;

// X Value to ZERO
tool()#TEMP_MDATA_SETVALUE_VAL_X=0;

//New Transform
CallButton(tool(), MDATA_NEWTRANSFORM);

//Toggle tool back to active tool
CallCommand(13321);

Great, and thanks for the feedback, Kyle.

The thanks goes certainly to our coding instructor!

ENJOY.