I could neither find this in the manual nor doing a search around here… is there a way to check for installed/loaded (c++) plugins using maxscript?
Don’t think you can get the data found in File>Summary or the Plugin Manager.
But if you know what classes a plugin is implementing, you could check the .classes property of the corresponding superclass to see if it is there or not.
For example
findItem modifier.classes edit_poly
returns 95 on my machine, meaning that the array of modifier classes contains the class edit_poly.
findItem modifier.classes edit_poly > 0
will return true if the class edit_poly is present on the system (Max 7 and higher), or false if not.
You can do the same with
GeometryClass.classes
Helper.classes
Light.classes
and so on…
that’s something new, thanks for stopping by bobo
but, i need this for kees’ helium plugin, which is a rolloutControl (the constructor is ‘schematiccontrol’
now if i just evaluate ‘classof schematiccontrol’ i get ‘Value’
this code returns “RolloutControl”
rollout test "test"
(
schematiccontrol bla
)
superclassof test.bla
only rolloutcontrol doesn’t seem to have a classes property
can you maybe think of a way to solve this for this case?
mh i guess i could just do something like
schematiccontrol != undefined
Edit: Yep, check against undefined