command line (CMD) to take screenShots

[max_romju]

when I need to take a series of screenshot(differient camera position ), is boring to click UI. so I want to write scripts to run.

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi max_romju,

Will a 'command line' like functionality work for you?

Best regards,
Alexander

[max_romju]

yeah,thanks for reply . this Will be highly efficient.

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Great. We have that logged as a request but cannot give ETA for it. We will inform you when there is development on the matter.

[max_romju]

dear Alexander.Atanasov, is there any progress?

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi max_romju

No, nothing in development yet, we will try to do something for it in the next or the next next release.

Best regards,
Alexander

[npg]

We've added command line rendering in 1.5.0 - see "vantage_console.exe --help".

[VR-studio]

We've added command line rendering in 1.5.0 - see "vantage_console.exe --help".

Superb and it works like a charm.

Future whislist for the command line for us would be:

- Render in an scene which is already open (it now already can detect if an instance is already running).
- Adjust / Add / Change materials of objects
- Move, rotate, scale objects
- Adjust the camera (position (x,y,z,), rotation and camera settings)
- Merge different scenes
- Export 360 renders
and so on.

[npg]

- Render in an scene which is already open (it now already can detect if an instance is already running).

What would be the purpose of this? Is it that you want to run a bunch of jobs and simply avoid the overhead of restarting Vantage for each command? In this case, we are working on batching renders from the UI.

- Adjust the camera (position (x,y,z,), rotation and camera settings)

You can do this now by saving your cameras to a vantage file and then using -camera "name" on the console.

Changing materials and moving objects is closer to full scripting. I'm not sure how appropriate it is for a single command line. But I have an idea for a possible "middle ground" solution...