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Yes! that's exactly what happens. If i merge this whole rig (its saved out to a separate file as you mentined) into a new file it still brakes the 'link' data unit. This file contains 2 cameras just for demonstration, but i wish to not use them in the final rig.

Hi! I'm having a similar issue with 'link' user data input. For the past year i hade to make a lot of animations for a variety of screens an platforms and decide to make a camera crop helper so if i wokr wit 1x1 aspect on the otput i can preview somehow how the 9:16 or 16:9 crop would look like. It's basically like this one from Chad Ashley's (Greyscalegorilla) twitter. As i wanted this to become a standalone rig, i can drag and drop into any scene i made a Camera selector with the link user data input, but if i merge or copy the whole rig it brakes in every new scene. Am I missing something about how the link input works? I want to link to the camera i'm useing because this easy and dirty setup relies on the data from the linked camera. I didn't really find any information why the link element brakes but its really frustrating because it can't be use as intended. Or maybe this is a feature that should be done in python scripting? This was made in r20 ( i use r20,21 and 23 but i usually make simple thing for all of them in r20) Anyone had similar issues? CAM_CROP_RIG_V01_ALT_01.c4d

Sorry a bout that. I'm really glad you helped me with this problem in this short amount of time. If there was a script for this i could buy I would have done so. So thanks again for the help. These screenshots were to convey the features that there is a possibility to make selection by weight, percentage or exact number (the "Savedef" means you could save the selected values of input and recall them in the future.to be honest i don't think in c4d there is a need for that) If you don't mind i will add these features to your script in the near future. Thanks again!

It works perfectly! I was thinking about the seed thing and to be honest its not to practical because i have to store the selection to recall the function again and again. I attached a few screen grabs of the script i was inspired by.

Good news, it just started working 😄 i reloaded all the scripts and its working now 😄 I will think about a way to add a gui nad maybe a random seed generator. but thanks for the help!

I selected and pasted everything into the script manager. So it should be ok.

WOW this was fast! For some reason its not working for me. weather i selected multiple objects or just one that has many children. there are som errors in the console: Traceback (most recent call last): File "scriptmanager", line 17, in <module> File "scriptmanager", line 8, in main NameError: global name 'random' is not defined >>>

Non the less this was really helpful! It confirms that its not a tool that exists currently. I will try to figure something out to help me with this.

The point of such tool for me would actually be to make a selection and then deselect a certain percentage randomly. My idea was to select these objects and and deselect a certain percentage of them. Or to put it differently have a certain percentage selected. then main point is if i have a grid of objects like a bookcase filled with books, but i want to delete some of them randomly i could use this tool to randomly select - say 20% of them and delete.

No. These are just separate objects.

I'm quite new to cinema 4d (getting over from 3ds max). So far i've been loving it ,but there are a few things i can't figure out. In 3ds max there are a collection of small but extremly usefull scripts called soulburn scripts created by Neil Blevins from Blur studios. I managed to recreate the ones i use daily in cinema 4d with existing tools or with small recorded script and actions. I have a problem with random selections. There are a bunch of times when I have hundreds of objects scattered over an area and i want to randomly select a portion or percentage of them for further modification. I have a feeling there should be a simple solution as this seams to be a really frequent problem for most modelers. I've been googling around for hours but i cant find eighter a script or just a generic way to do this. Can anyone help me out with some advice?