Scripting

The C4DDev API provides some utilities that are especially useful for scripting and prototyping in Cinema 4D.

Per-Project libraries

This is extremely useful when using third party libraries in scripts or Python Objects/Tags. You can keep the dependencies together with your Cinema 4D scene file and only make sure that C4DDev is installed if you move the scene around.

# This is a version of localimport that is tuned to work from inside any
# scripting context in Cinema 4D (Tag, Object, XPresso Node).
from c4ddev.scripting.localimport import localimport

with localimport(doc):
  import twitter

def main():
  # TODO: Some clever example
  pass

Script Server

Originally the SublimeScript plugin, this allows you to turn on a socket listening for scripts to be executed in Cinema 4D. In the extras/ directory of C4DDev, you can find a plugin for Sublime Text that allows you to send a script to Cinema 4D.

The default host and port is localhost:2900 and the default password is alpine.