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Subject: Batch process to make animation from many angles

alexcy23 opened this issue on Feb 17, 2006 · 5 posts
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alexcy23 ( ) posted Fri, 17 February 2006 at 8:18 AM · edited Mon, 10 February 2025 at 11:01 AM

I am new to the Poser screen so excuse my ignorance please. What I basically want to do is the following: I take one figure and I create an animation sequence with it. For example running. Then I want to export that animation,ie 60 frames in image files. And I want to do that same image sequence from different angles. Ie. 360 degrees can give 20 angles (each spaced 18 degrees apart) so at the end I will have a sequence of images for every specific angle. I rotate the figure about the Y-axis to change the viewing angle. I want python once I give the command to export my image files for angle 0, then rotate my figure by 18 degrees and export again and so on until it reaches a full circle.. Can somebody please help to do that since I never before worked with Python. Thank you

svdl ( ) posted Fri, 17 February 2006 at 10:20 AM

It can be done. But I'd advise rotating the camera, not the figure. Here's how it goes (more or less, you'll probably have to tweak the script somewhat):

import poser

exportPath="c:animations"

scene = poser.Scene()

for anglecount in range(20):
    angle=anglecount*18
    scene.Camera("Main Camera").Parameter("yRot").SetValue(angle)
    sequenceName="angle" + str(angle)
    for framenum in range(scene.NumFrames()):
        renderName=sequenceName + "frame" + str(framenum)
        scene.Render()
        scene.SaveImage("jpg",os.path.join(exportPath,renderName)

You should set the render options before running the script. Hope this helps, Steven.

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mkrueger ( ) posted Fri, 17 February 2006 at 1:37 PM

Missing a ")" at the end there! ;)

alexcy23 ( ) posted Sat, 18 February 2006 at 3:07 AM

Hey I tried the above script but I am getting an error in the line with "scene.camera ..." It says: File "", line 15, in ? AttributeError: Camera Can you please help me? Thank you

nruddock ( ) posted Sat, 18 February 2006 at 4:30 AM

There is no "Camera" method, replace with "Actor" and see if that works.

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