[Bf-python] Accessing objects for render operation

[Tom Edwards]

Look into baking. There are various options including "full bake", which 
should give you a texture with all lighting, shaders, etc. applied. I've 
not actually tried using that system myself though.

On 21/10/2014 9:28 PM, Khalifa Lame wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> One other thing, please. I need to access the final results of the 
> texture stack. For example, a texture for the model's color (the 
> result of blending all the textures that influence color), another for 
> normals, another for specular, etc.
>
> bpy.types.Texture.evaluate() sounds like it could be useful but it 
> doesn't take any arguments that could specify which channel to return 
> eg. color, normal, alpha or spec
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Tom Edwards <contact at steamreview.org 
> <mailto:contact at steamreview.org>> wrote:
>
>     You want Object.to_mesh(). It returns a mesh datablock with all
>     modifiers etc. applied and works on all object types except empties.
>
>
>     On 21/10/2014 7:52 PM, Khalifa Lame wrote:
>>     Exporting the mesh might not be an option in my situation. I'd
>>     like my renderer to be able to draw on the viewport in real time.
>>     Exporting and then reading back the data would be too slow for this.
>>     The renderer is being designed to make use of the bgl module, so
>>     all of its work is done within the blender application.
>>
>>     I can't find any good example that seems to fit my approach.
>>     cycles doesn't depend on the python API; luxrender and co use
>>     exporters, since they don't have any real time features.
>>
>>     On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Jeremy Bayley
>>     <jbayleyvisuals at gmail.com <mailto:jbayleyvisuals at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         If you are trying to get you assets without exporting it
>>         might not be possible to do in a simple way. For example if
>>         you have modifiers on an object and you try to link that
>>         object to another project the modifiers are ignored. So if
>>         you don't use export you will probably have the same issue
>>         trying to send data to an external render without doing
>>         system level coding.
>>
>>         On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Khalifa Lame
>>         <khalibloo at gmail.com <mailto:khalibloo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             How does one retrieve the final (with all modifiers
>>             applied) vertex/face information from objects in a
>>             blender scene? I wish feed the info into an external
>>             renderer.
>>
>>             It would also be nice if it worked with curves/nurbs/meta
>>             and so on.
>>
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