Differential D7180
Add ScreenRender addon Authored by Luca Rood (LucaRood) on Mar 19 2020, 11:58 AM.
Details ScreenRender allows you to capture the Blender UI for each frame of an animation. More info, and demo here: https://gitlab.com/LucaRood/screenrender I had originally just released this on GitLab, but @Aaron Carlisle (Blendify) thought it might be useful to be included by default, and suggested I submit it. Also, I'm not sure what is the protocol with the bl_info documentation field at the moment.
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Event TimelineComment Actions Oh, and I'm only part of the BF Blender project, not the Add-ons (Community) project, so I suppose if I am to commit this I would need to be added to that group as well... Comment Actions Don't add the entire add-ons project as reviewer, that notifies every member. Please use the GPL. This is using the Blender API so it needs to be GPL in practice anyway, let's not make the licensing more complicated than it needs to be. I think this add-on could use a better name. I'll add you as a member of the add-ons project. Comment Actions Sorry about notifying everyone, I'm not really familiar with the addon process, so didn't know who to add. I didn't intend to submit this addon to the repo originally, hence the MPL, which is my go-to license. I'll update the patch with the license change. I'm open to naming suggestions, if anyone has ideas :) And thanks for adding me to the add-ons project! Comment Actions
I'm using GPL 2 or later (as opposed to GPL 3), as that is used by most of the Blender code. Comment Actions What about "Animated Screen Capture", or "Animated ScreenGrab" for the name ? Comment Actions I didn't want to use the words "capture" or "grab" because they are associated with live interactive screen recording, while what this addon does is in no way interactive, and more akin to the process of offline rendering, except that it "renders" the whole UI. Comment Actions I think that the issue with ScreenRender is that it doesn't convey the idea that the output is an animation. Comment Actions @paul szajner (szap), I get what you mean about conveying the idea of animation, and indeed that makes sense. @Aaron Carlisle (Blendify), yes, based on @paul szajner (szap)'s idea, I'm thinking "UI Animation Render", "Animated UI Render", "Render Animated UI", "Render UI Animation". I don't have a strong opinion on this. I'll rename it to whatever is deemed acceptable. Comment Actions Re naming, I would vote for "UI Animation Render", but do not have a strong opinion here either, it is indeed not easy to get a good descriptive name... Otherwise from quick scan code looks good, and feature is indeed nice to have, so am giving the green light. ;) |