Retrieving Images from Cinema 4D's Picture Viewer for Importing into Photoshop

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I am developing a Cinema 4D plugin to import images into Photoshop. How can I use Python to retrieve image information from Cinema 4D's Picture Viewer?

[Dunhou]

I think picture viewer is hard-coding, we can do nothing, but wait for official answer

[ferdinand]

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out to us. @Dunhou is right, the Picture Viewer is sealed, which means that you can put images into it (with c4d.bitmaps.ShowBitmap or c4d.documents.LoadFile) but you cannot get images or information out of it. This generally applies to all UIs, we do not expose UIs, but the data structures behind them. So, there is for example no Object or Material Manager API interface, their functionalities are exposed via the scene graph. For the Picture Viewer there is no data structure exposed.

Cheers,
Ferdinand