c4d_light_lister

A light lister for Cinema 4D, note this project is a bit old, don’t judge my code style on this one.

Preview

Even if this video is the redshift light lister it’s the same for c4d(with c4d parameters ofc), when I will have some time I will make a proper video for this version. Redshift C4D Light Lister The version showed in the video is the v1, some features was added since it.

Download

You can download the actual version on github or if you prefer a zip here

• Unizip in your c4d plugin folder
• Enjoy !

Features

• List all c4d lights
• Acces to all light parameter throught an UI
• Easily choose wich parameter to display in the UI
• Order lights independantly from the scene order

Compatibility

Win - Mac R15 - R18

About source code

My initial idea was to do a lights lister for any render engine. But due to a c4d limitation of wich scroll bar is actually scrolled I was not able to synchronize scroll bar for each render engine. So I end up with 1 plugin for each render engine. This end’s to mess a bit the class structure since is mainly thinked for multiple render engine, but when I will have some time I will do

• Code Cleaning
• Comment
• Port it to C++ and make a light lister for all renders engines in one plugin :)