I am a part-time pipeline engineer at my company, and trying to write a python script to help out the c4d users.
We run our renderfarm on Qube, which uses the command-line to control Cinema.
Unfortunately with Cinema, when you package a job up to send off to the farm, the paths to realflow mesh files to not get translated into relative paths. Thus, we are trying to write a script to do this. We'd like to have the script change any paths to meshes to a new, specified one. It would be even better if we could get it to happen without opening cinema (as in, modify the c4d file) but lets start with this:
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import c4d
from c4d import documents
doc = documents.GetActiveDocument()
charAmount = 10 #number of characters to replace at the beginning.
replaceWith = 'Hello'
first = doc.GetFirstObject()
def Browse(obj):
if not obj: return
if obj.GetTypeName() == 'RF_MESH_IMPORTER':
temp = obj[c4d.M_IMP_FILE_PATH]
result = replaceWith + temp[charAmount:]
obj[c4d.M_IMP_FILE_PATH] = result
c4d.DrawViews() #refreshes screen
Browse(obj.GetDown())
Browse(obj.GetNext())
Browse(first)
Any ideas?
We are using R12.
Thanks