Hi Michael,

Often I need to capture the screen image.
I normally work with a gray background, soft lighting and the active grid.
To capture the images I set the white background, impose lights with metallic effect and take off the grid.

Is it possible to do this automatically?
For example, I place my object and then a script captures the image with the required setting. But the working settings remain (without having to reset everything in order to work)?

Thanks

Filippo

Hi Filippo, yes it's possible to do that type of thing automatically with a script, the script can save the previous settings, change them to what you want, take the screenshot, and then restore the saved previous settings.

Check out here for an example of this:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=5381.1

I think the one in the first message of that thread does most of what you want already, with saving the previous viewport background, changing the viewport background to white, turning off the grid (there are separate things for the grid and the x/y axes of the grid), then taking the screenshot, then restoring things.

I guess it sounds like the main thing you want to add is the metallic lighting, what settings do you want for that, just the same as checking only the "metallic lighting" checkbox option or any other lighting parameters in addition to that?

The script code for turning on metallic lighting is this: moi.view.metallicLighting = true;

The script code for turning off metallic lighting is this: moi.view.metallicLighting = false;

So you'd just insert the "turn on" part before the screencapture, and insert the turn off part after it.

Does that get you set up?

- Michael

Oh yes!!!

I've changed the script putting the light options:

script: /* Custom screenshot */ var prev_background = moi.view.viewportBackgroundColor; moi.view.viewportBackgroundColor = 0xFFFFFF; moi.view.lineWidth = 0.1; moi.grid.display = false; moi.grid.showXYAxes = false; moi.view.metallicLighting = true; moi.ui.getActiveViewport().renderToClipboard( 2560, 1600 ); moi.view.lineWidth = 1; moi.grid.display = true; moi.grid.showXYAxes = true; moi.view.viewportBackgroundColor = prev_background; moi.view.metallicLighting = false;



Thank you!

Filippo

And ... the code for turning off/on the edges?
Is there it? In order to insert it in the script.


Filippo

Hi Filippo,

> And ... the code for turning off/on the edges?
> Is there it? In order to insert it in the script.

For that the script needs to go through objects and on each object get its edges and set the edges to be hidden or not.

That should go like this for hiding them:

var breps = moi.geometryDatabase.getObjects().getBReps(); for ( var i = 0; i < breps.length; ++i ) { breps.item(i).getEdges().setProperty( 'hidden', true ); }

And for showing them the same thing, just passing false at the end instead like this:

for ( var i = 0; i < breps.length; ++i ) { breps.item(i).getEdges().setProperty( 'hidden', false ); }

You can just insert those whole chunks of code before and after the screencapture just like the other ones.

- Michael

Bene

I've done another step:

for turn on the high lights
moi.view.specularHighlights = true;

for turn off the high lights
moi.view.specularHighlights = false;



at work



script result



... humm... a script to take a coffee?



Thank you

Filippo

Hi Fillipo

The customui has a handy screen shot button left mouse click for grid right mouse click for no grid

using the lighting style chrome you easily get snapshots like this









Thats not easy to get the twist ends to match up

cheers
shayne

Or use the PDF export! ;)

>Shayne
The customui has a handy screen shot button left mouse click for grid right mouse click for no grid

Hi Shayne
Where I can find it?



> Pilou
Or use the PDF export!

Hi Pilou
I save little images in jpg, and I use them in a database

Filippo

Custom UI ;)
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=6507.1

Merci Pilou!