SetEditorCamera?

[donelgreeko]

Hi deepshade,

how do you get both camera objects (source and target)? By name, by selection, ...?

To get the camera position, you can use CameraObject.GetRelPos and to set CameraObject.SetRelPos. So in example:


cam_target.SetRelPos(cam_source.SetRelPos())


Cheers, donelgreeko

[deepshade]

thanks for the feedback.

This is the very first time I've looked at creating anything in Python. Very little experience in COFFEE or the SDKs. Working out how to get off the ground is always the toughest step in any new language.

The plan was to:
Go to the editor camera
Select scene camera in OM
Run script
If scene camera selected
Editor cam has now all the properties of the scene cam
else report error and exit

you can then 'tinker' with the editor cam to experiment with different views angles etc without having to create a new cam or interfere with that particular scene cam

Next stage would be to have a script which runs the reverse process
editor to selected

As I said - very first steps
Working out was needs to be included in the script?
What needs to be defined, called
Then getting used to the syntax

Have written in C many moons ago
PHP a fair bit
I'm sure the fog will eventually clear

Cookbook could do with some more examples of the basic stuff

appreciate the help so far

[tcastudios]

Also trying to get into Python I took a Coffee script I had that
does a part of what you ask.(Move something to EditorView)
You should be able to do the reverse from this. (Editor to Camera Object).

For simple things as this, coffee is a bit more compact.
What I found was that the Editor Camera and SceneCamera
(Active Camera Object from OM) are truly separated in Python.
The basedraw camera in Coffee is the "same" (the view) so a
object will move into -view- and not in all cases to the Editor Camera.
(That could be elsewhere but the view)
In Python, as I understand it, you need to define what camera
you want to use.

The two scripts below, first Coffee then Python.
Copy all into the corresponding ScriptManagers.
(Copy and Paste can sometimes fail from here
so check if something errors)
The first part of the Python is how to describe the script
as shown at Cineversity.

Cheers
Lennart

COFFEE:

// PlaceAtCamera tcastudios.com 2008/2010 R12
//
// Place selected object at active view
// and transfer camera settings if selected is a camera


if(!object()) return;
var op = object();
var cam = doc->GetRenderBaseDraw()#BASEDRAW_DATA_CAMERA;// Active View/Camera

doc->StartUndo(); // Start the Undo recording

doc->AddUndo(UNDO_OBJECT_REC, op); // Add to Undo
op->SetMg(cam->GetMg());

if(op->IsInstanceOf(Ocamera))
{
doc->AddUndo(UNDOTYPE_CHANGE_SMALL, op); // Add to Undo
op->SetContainer(cam->GetContainer());
}

doc->EndUndo(); // End the Undo recording


Python R12:

"""
PlaceAtCamera

Copyright: tcastudios.com
Written for CINEMA R12.021

Name-US: PlaceAtCamera
Description-US: Place selected object at active view
"""

# Place selected object at active view
# and transfer camera settings if selected is a camera

import c4d

def main():
doc.StartUndo() # Start the Undo buffer
aobj = doc.GetActiveObject() # Selected Object to Move
if aobj is None: # Nothing Selected
return False
edcam = c4d.BaseObject(c4d.Ocamera) # define a camera object
adraw = doc.GetActiveBaseDraw() # Active View

if adraw.GetSceneCamera(doc) is not None: # If Scene Camera
edcam = adraw.GetSceneCamera(doc) # Use Scene Camera

else: # Else
edcam = adraw.GetEditorCamera() # Use Editor Camera

doc.AddUndo(c4d.UNDOTYPE_CHANGE,aobj) # Add to Undo
aobj.SetMg(edcam.GetMg()) # Move Object to Active Cam

if aobj.GetType() == c4d.Ocamera: # If Object is a Camera
doc.AddUndo(c4d.UNDOTYPE_CHANGE_SMALL,aobj)# Add to Undo
aobj.SetData(edcam.GetData()) # Copy the BaseContainer To it
aobj.Message(c4d.MSG_UPDATE) # Update it

c4d.EventAdd() # Make it happen
doc.EndUndo() # End the Undo buffer

if __name__=='__main__':
main()

[deepshade]

Brilliant Lennart

Much appreciated. Getting a few example lines of relevant code is so helpful - getting them commented as well - just great!

cheers

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