I am very new to After Effects SDK and I did some reading on the structure of the SDK and examples. Now I was trying to build the examples, and it works fine for Effect plugins. I am on Mac and for making the effect examples, all I need to do is changing the Build Settings in xCode. Then copy the built file under `Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore/personal/paramarama.plugin`. Then I restart After Effects and it gets shown in the effects list.
However, when I try the same thing for AEGP examples, it doesn't work. I noticed that both extensions are .plugin but paramarama says 'Effect' on its file and ProjDumper says 'General'. So this doesn't get shown on the effects.
I got pretty confused. What am I missing here?
How can I run/test AEGP plugin? I think I couldn't really connect the dots between effect plugins and aegp. I'd be grateful for any help.
*Edit: As far as I understand, AEGPs run on the start of After Effects. If so how do I test them?