Merged Alembic Generator object, how to check if it is a camera?

BigRoy

When importing an Alembic it turns the objects into Alembic Generators. How can I, without making the objects editable detect whether the object is a camera or not?

print(op.GetTypeName())

Prints: Alembic Generator.

i_mazlov

Hi @BigRoy,

For the alembic camera, you can use c4d.MSG_GETREALCAMERADATA, for example:

def main():
    data = dict()
    op.Message(c4d.MSG_GETREALCAMERADATA, data)
    print(data['res'])

Another option (which would work for other object types as well) would be to check type of the object's cache using GetCache().

Cheers,
Ilia