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Best IDE for Cinema 4D plugins development

VSCode with Cinema 4D Connection

A new Cinema 4D R2023.2.0 update offers Code Exchanger. Function that makes possible to communicate between Cinema 4D and Visual Studio Code. So that developers can send and/or execute a Python script from Cinema 4D to Visual Studio and vice-versa. In addition, the Visual Studio Code Extension improves the developer experience for all Cinema 4D developers because it makes it offers auto-complete the *.c4d Python package, debugging support, syntax highlighting for *.res and *.str files and even the output of the Python console directly in Visual Studio Code. So let’s find out how to setup this IDE to use with Cinema 4D R2023.2.0 for best python development.

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Cinema 4D R23 Mac OSX compatibility

Cinema 4D on OSX_10.13.6

With the release of the new version of Cinema 4D R23, unpleasant news came to the plugin and script developers. This application now uses Python 3.7.7. Of course, there are quite serious differences from the previous version 2.7, so for full compatibility it is necessary to carefully check the code of each script and plugin and, if necessary, make changes.

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