I'm glad I found this thread. I started (trying) to write a plugin for iClone today. Now I see why there are so few of them, and even less for iClone 8. I've never been so frustrated with a programming project than I am right now. I just... I don't even have the words to describe how untidy, incomplete, and contradictory the documentation is. My guess is that some unpaid intern was messing around with it for internal use and the higher-ups thought, hey, we should open that up to the public. Then the intern found a better job about halfway through and left the company with no one else very interested in keeping up with anything. At least that it feels to me.

Seriously, though. Try using this for instance

some_time = RLPy.RTime(0)

This is all over the examples in the documentation. It doesn't work. You get the old "__init__() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given" error. Did they forget "self" ? Who knows?
Fortunately I don't really need it. I was just trying to make a simple program to push a button and have a cube move as a test. Practically took me all day to hack and slash my way through it. Craziness.

OK, rant over. I feel better now. Have a good, everyone. Well, except for the Python API team. You guys can suffer a little.

I know it’s frustrating. I’m sure you already know, but I’m the wiki, the best way is to go to iClone 7 Python info not iClone 8. For a few months a few years ago, they did intense work on the iClone 7 Python stuff - there are lots of examples, and they even did a monthly example Script etc.

I know it doesn’t make up for the frustration you feel, but just wanted to make sure you knew that the iClone 8 Python stuff on the wiki is definitely very sparse but the iClone 7 stuff is better and far more useful. :)

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Also check out my plugin in development! It’s Python with the iClone api. It’s a struggle to code etc as you say, but at least I’ve been able to start getting results :) a beta program is open and you can download it for free:

Https://virtualfilmer.com

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Thanks for the encouragement. Do you happen to know *what* actually changed between iClone 7 and iClone 8 to break all the plugins? I've been trying to stay away from the code examples for iClone 7 because I'm not sure what will and will not work in iClone 8.
Thanks!

I don’t have a handy list, no, sorry :(

But mostly the code examples work for me. The thing that you have to change is that it needs to declare at the top that it’s an iClone 8 plugin - that’s the big new thing.

When I’m at my PC I’ll find the code im talking about and let you know :)

Don’t give up, there’s plenty of stuff that works fine. I believe the thing that “broke” stuff is mostly the stuff that changed in iClone 7 to 8 - in general I mean. If you know those things, I’ve found it fairly easy to figure out.

For example, animation layers (a fundamental change). And it changed entirely the way that keys (for bone animation aka motion layer) exist. In iClone 7 they didn’t exist until you sampled. In iClone 8 they do, on the lowest layer. But of course Expressions (morph targets aka blendshapes, as opposed to bones) still work the same as iClone 7 basically - the keyframes are ‘hidden’ until you sample. Etc etc.

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Ah, OK. For some reason I thought it was a more fundamental framework change than that. Thanks!

In regards to C#, I doubt it, but it would sure be nice. I have asked for this feature with the Nvidia also for Omniverse, and haven't heard anything in over a year.

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