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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

• 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