Hello @hSchoenberger,
Sorry, but this is a C4D SDK question!
It is NOT about the Octane SDK.
"How can I list all installed renderer plugins in C4D with their version?"
Although you have put your sentence into quotes, that was not what you asked, your questions were:
Is there any way to get some information about renderer plugins?
I want to get the version of the Octane plugin.
So how I can loop through all plugins loaded and get some information from the plugins like the version?
And I answered that: There is no public interface with which you could get the version of a plugin. And when plugins provide version information on their own, you must ask their vendors about that. You can access the flags a plugin has been registered with BasePlugin.GetInfo, the disk-level is in-accessible for you.
You can detect installed render engines by looping over all video post data plugins and check if they have PLUGINFLAG_VIDEOPOST_ISRENDERER set (this assumes that the to be detected render engine sets this flag on registration - which is usually unavoidable as you otherwise cannot hook in the render system of Cinema 4D, but there might be 'rogue' render engines out there which side step things).
import c4d
doc: c4d.documents.BaseDocument # The currently active document.
op: c4d.BaseObject | None # The primary selected object in `doc`. Can be `None`.
def main() -> None:
"""Called by Cinema 4D when the script is being executed.
"""
plugin: c4d.plugins.BasePlugin
for plugin in c4d.plugins.FilterPluginList(c4d.PLUGINTYPE_VIDEOPOST, True):
if (plugin.GetInfo() & c4d.PLUGINFLAG_VIDEOPOST_ISRENDERER):
print (plugin.GetName())
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
# Example output for a vanilla installation.
Physical
Redshift
Viewport Renderer
Cheers,
Ferdinand
