I'm looking for a Python script to do the following: It will play an animation sequence, then move the camera to a new position and then play the same animation sequence again. This process should be able to repeated as many times as I want. Has anyone seen a Python script that does this?

How do you envisage inputting the different sequences?

I was Daz user previouly and bought Poser 5 yesterday so this is difficult to explain:

Control Box 1:

You could use the standard camera control box with its wheels and readouts so you could have complete control over what the camera does. At the bottom of the interface you would add a submit button along with 2 edit boxes: "start frame" and "end frame" that the camera would watch.

Control Box 2:

You'd need a second interface to keep track of it all, where you can create and name a list of camera positions and at the bottom you would need a "start" button to start the process.

Control Box 3:

This is something that would be really nice to have: If it were possible to save the above settings as part of the scene so you can use a second script to do batch processing on multiple scenes, then you could let the computer create the animations overnight instead of waiting for each one to complete.

 

 

I think you can do all this with the Poser animation pallet and/or saved pose files.

I know  why you want to do this - I have often wanted to have this kind of capability.

It sounds easy, write a script that controls Posers rendering, then input options that turn on and turn off elements on each batch render.

I'm not a python person - so I do not know the details - but I gather from many discussions about Poser batch rendering that it is not easy for some reason.

So, you save multiple versions with different cameras, and..

There is a batch render script by MarkDC out there...with certain technical cavets.

Also, there is another "commercial" solution that I forget the link? Someone?

My solution is simple.  Set up all your multiple camera angles with specific cameras on your sequence. Copy and paste multiple sequences on your timeline, and turn on anf off the cameras you need.

JP