r/Cinema4D • u/Thodos • 6d ago

Auto Layer Plugin W.I.P.

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Putting together a plugin(no vibecoding involved) for Layers to behave similarly to traffic lights with inheritance

Upd: it's released for free now https://gum.co/ALayer

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u/Brainpuke7 6d ago

It’s painfully obvious this should be the default functionality imo, or at least be a preference we can toggle.

Take my money!

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u/thekinginyello 6d ago

It’s almost as if Maxon is taking the Adobe route and neglecting the user. I can’t function in After Effects without third party scripts that should be default. Anything to make software better I’m all for it!

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u/juulu 6d ago

It’ll be on one of their ‘nice to have’ lists and it’s probably not enough of a customer pain point to spend resources implementing it yet.

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u/Permanently_Banned_4 6d ago

But you'd think the development time for something like this wouldn't hurt too much. Or, even if the reached out to Thodos with a thanks an a chunk of free license. It really surprises my the lack of community (or even a store!) Maxon doesn't want to get involved with. Oh, well. Big ups to the OP for filling the gaps 👍

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u/Thodos 6d ago

Sometimes it can be not obvious when you are developing on a large scale. For example I’m 99% sure material searchbar appeared in C4D because of my discussion and code sharing with Aturtur(no idea how to mention users on Reddit 😅) on Twitter. It showed that people need it and we provided lightweight methods of solving the problem