Re: [Visualpython-users] Making a Movie in Visual Python

[Frédéric <fre...@gb...>]

Le 17/4/2008, "Lorenzo Isella" <lor...@gm...> a écrit:

>I see. So I think I am back to one of the old suggestions I was given,
>namely to use the povray plugin. Now, I think this is quite advanced for me.
>I got hold of the script corresponding to:
>http://www.gbiloba.org/download/SNP-definitif-640x480.avi
>Which also was recommended to me a long time ago.
>It is quite advanced and I cannot run it on my machine (again, I
>installed pymad but the system [and myself] cannot find some missing
>modules).
>However, maybe I would need something simpler to start from.
>I installed povray for Debian, but now what I would need is really some
>simple way to invoke it from Python to save (and then convert) a visual
>Python scene.

I wrote the script for a student, a few years ago. I admit there are a
lot of stuff in it, not directly related to your problem (the annoying
thing is to program the different trajectories and camera positions with
a good timing to get a smooth movie).

In fact, you only need to use povexport() function to export a VPython
scene to a pov script, then run povray on it. If you do this for several
pictures, then you just display them at 15-20 fps, and you have your
movie ;)

I will try to extract a little example from the big script...