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It is interesting to hear that the author would prefer Blender over POV-ray in some way, and there are links in the comments to make that work (in terms of runn

by dirkk0 12y ago

It is interesting to hear that the author would prefer Blender over POV-ray in some way, and there are links in the comments to make that work (in terms of running Blender in a headless-like way). I wonder if there are good resources to create Blender scenes in Python with the full rendering step.

GrantS 12y ago
I have experience running blender in a completely scripted manner, from geometry creation, to camera motion, to rendering. These links may help: (1) Blender 2.6, Python Manual with full API and Tutorials http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Extensions/Python http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Extensions/... (2) Run python scripts through blender from command line: blender -b -P script.py blender -b --python-console (for interactive console) http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Command_Line http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Comm...
- GrantS 12y ago
  To follow up with a working example of python via headless blender on the command line, the following 4 lines interactively get me an image of a sphere saved to /tmp/.png ./blender -b --python-console >>> import bpy >>> bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_uv_sphere_add(size=3.0,location=(0,0,0)) >>> bpy.ops.render.render(write_still=True)
  - dirkk0 12y ago
    Great, thanks! Does this work on a Mac and/or Linux?
    - zulko 12y ago
      I just tested it on Ubuntu, it worked. My point in the post was more that the embedded Python in Blender isn't really a "binding", it forces you to use Blender's 'internal' Python installation, so you must reinstall all the packages that you need specifically for Blender's Python (I don't know how, but I think there is a way). Also, this makes it impossible to use virtualenv, I guess (not sure). In short, it would be cool if it just "worked from Python".
    - GrantS 12y ago
      I ran this on a Mac, should work on Linux as well. Since it may not be obvious, the "blender" command line executable is located within the regular Mac OS X Application bundle for blender that you would download from the web: /Applications/Blender/blender.app/Contents/MacOS/blender

by dirkk0 12y ago

GrantS 12y ago

I have experience running blender in a completely scripted manner, from geometry creation, to camera motion, to rendering. These links may help: (1) Blender 2.6, Python Manual with full API and Tutorials http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Extensions/Python http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Extensions/... (2) Run python scripts through blender from command line: blender -b -P script.py blender -b --python-console (for interactive console) http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Command_Line http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Comm...

GrantS 12y ago
To follow up with a working example of python via headless blender on the command line, the following 4 lines interactively get me an image of a sphere saved to /tmp/.png ./blender -b --python-console >>> import bpy >>> bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_uv_sphere_add(size=3.0,location=(0,0,0)) >>> bpy.ops.render.render(write_still=True)
- dirkk0 12y ago
  Great, thanks! Does this work on a Mac and/or Linux?
  - zulko 12y ago
    I just tested it on Ubuntu, it worked. My point in the post was more that the embedded Python in Blender isn't really a "binding", it forces you to use Blender's 'internal' Python installation, so you must reinstall all the packages that you need specifically for Blender's Python (I don't know how, but I think there is a way). Also, this makes it impossible to use virtualenv, I guess (not sure). In short, it would be cool if it just "worked from Python".
  - GrantS 12y ago
    I ran this on a Mac, should work on Linux as well. Since it may not be obvious, the "blender" command line executable is located within the regular Mac OS X Application bundle for blender that you would download from the web: /Applications/Blender/blender.app/Contents/MacOS/blender