• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Can only render script generated particles via “render view” or picture viewer

  Posted by Ben Morrow on July 10, 2015 at 1:29 am

  Hey so the task I have is to render thinking particles using the cloner technique to give them geometry so they show up.

  I am using the below user script (albeit with more complex layout for the particles). If I run it I get all the right particles and can see them fine using “render view” .. I can’t however render them out to a video (even a preview video) because they don’t show up. I have confirmed that other objects in the scene render out to video.

  My guess is that I need some sort of “birthing” event similar to what happens with an emitter, but I can’t seem to work out how to do that.

  I have tried a range of strategies to execute the code including a custom generator, but all to no avail.

  Any help much appreciated!!

  import c4d
  from c4d import gui
  from c4d import documents
  #Welcome to the world of Python

  def main():
  Doc = documents.GetActiveDocument()
  TPMS = Doc.GetParticleSystem()
  ids = TPMS.AllocParticles(500)

  for i in range(500):
  idx = ids[i]
  TPMS.SetLife(idx, doc.GetMaxTime()) # set life to the doc length
  TPMS.SetPosition(idx, c4d.Vector(0.0,0.0,i*2.0))
  TPMS.SetSize(idx, 10.0)
  TPMS.SetSpin(idx,c4d.Vector(0.0,0.0,0.0),0.0)

  if __name__==’__main__’:
  main()

  Ben Morrow replied 11 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

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  Brian Jones

  July 10, 2015 at 2:46 pm

  particles don’t render unless you use something to make them visible – assign an object to the particle (i.e.. the Shape node in xpresso) or use something like Hair or Pyrocluster or Sketch and Toon – or other 3rd party plugins
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  Ben Morrow

  July 10, 2015 at 9:30 pm

  So I was indeed using the cloner to instance a cube geometry based on the thinking particles.

  The problem was in fact this line:

  Doc = documents.GetActiveDocument()

  which was causing all particles to be created in the editor rather than the batch renderer (even at render time).

  removing that line and replacing the references with just ‘doc’ fixed it.

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