Hi there,
Our team have created a bunch of script to automate importing CAD files into C4D. As it is well known, CAD files can be painful to work with, often heavy with unnamed objects.
At some point our script apply some heavy Optimization (2 cm) + a strong PolyReduction Deformer (90%).
So far we have experience 2 strange bug while doing those functions:
1- The PolyReduction hang on some objects IF the Mesh Quality Factor is higher than 0. It seams like some bad polygon are throwing the deformer in an endless loop. As anybody had similar experience?
2- The second problem is more problematic and more urgent, we sometimes have point that goes wild. It seems to be the results of the POLYREDUCTION function, but I cannot reproduce the result manually. If I take the same object, apply manually the optimization and than apply a PolyReduction NO points goes wild…
I suspect that C4D interface command are often more complex than a simple python function (probably multiple function bundled together) since we get different result with the interface and by pure scrip, as if C4D had some cleaning internal process…
For example, if I center the Axis of every object it seems to help some Object, but not All of them (Wild Points are still present)
Lastly we’ve just discovered that page:
https://developers.maxon.net/docs/Cinema4DPythonSDK/html/modules/c4d/C4DAtom/index.html?highlight=message#C4DAtom.Message
So none of our script contains “MSG_CHANGE”. Could this be the root of our problem? Can you give us a rule of a thumb when to use them? At each function that change the geometry? at the end only of the script?
And is there any other command that we have to use when changing the geometry by script?
Thank you for any help you can provide Smile
