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• TP Partio Demo - Particle Caching for Cinema 4D
  TP Partio is a plugin for Cinema 4D that will let you cache Thinking Particle particles, write them to disk, share them with other applications and read them back. It will let you take a snapshot of a current frame of your simulation and let it continue from there. It'll let you play your sims backwards, while you can scrub through them on your timeline.*
  
  This functionality has been missing from Cinema 4D for some time now and it has been bugging me for a while. You can now finally scrub through your sims without having to re-simulate from frame zero. You could even cache cloner positions this way by way of a Matrix object. Or, the other way around, feed the cached particles into a cloner.
  
  The video is a short demonstration - please keep in mind that this is still an early version... you can now find it at http://aescripts.com/tp-partio/
  
  TP Partio incorporates the partio library written and released by Disney Animation (http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/partio.html), adapted to work within Cinema 4D.
  
  *It is also an early release, so as a bonus feature, it will ocassionally crash too.
• Cinema 4d Tutorial 05 - Python SDK and plugins
  A look at the Python SDK, documentation and how to write a simple object plugin for Cinema 4D. This isn't so much a step by step instruction guide as it is me commenting on how I wrote the plugin, which files are required to set up your own UI and where to find the right documentation. Together with the source code I hope to give you guys a starting point from where to explore the SDK and possibilities of the Python API.
  
  I've put the source files here: http://www.908lab.de/?projects=tutorial-c4d-python-sdk-and-plugins