Is there a way with maxscript to get a list of whatever bitmap loaders are available to use so I can create a filter?
Cheers,
Cg.
Not quite, but you can make a list of all bitmap formats you’ve ever heard of and call
maxOps.canImportBitmap ("C:\\1" + typeStr)
on each type.
The SDK has better facilities for what you need, but they’re not exposed to maxscript.
(
fn GetAllBitmapIO =
(
stream = "" as stringstream
showclass "*:*BitmapIO" to:stream
seek stream 0
formats = #()
while not eof stream do
(
append formats (trimright (filterstring (readline stream) ":")[1])
)
)
GetAllBitmapIO()
)
Those are actually the names of the importers, not necessarily the extensions that they import.
Btw, you can more easily get this list using
bitmapio.classes
Yes you are right. I though the task was to get the names to build a filter, possibly to be used in a Open File dialog.
But then you would need to get the extensions for items like “Portable_Network_Graphics”=“PNG”.
The SDK lets you get this using the ‘Ext’ method on BitmapIO.
I wonder if it’s exposed to the .NET SDK which would be accessible from maxscript.