[PD] [GEM] pix_write option for rendering a texture only

cyrille henry cyrille.henry at la-kitchen.fr
Sat May 24 15:39:07 CEST 2008


hello,

unless i misunderstand, what you describe is currently working.

gemhead 99
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pix_write

will capture in a file what you can see in the gem windows.

cyrille


Patrice Colet a écrit :
>   Hi, it's possible to render on a video file the texture drawn into a 
> geo object, but the quality is always poor whatever codec we use (even 
> uncompressed files), that can be useful for having poor animated 
> textures, but anyway the quality is never as good as we can get when we 
> render into picture files (isn't it?).
> 
>   We can render framebuffer into picture files with the help of 
> [pix_write], but I don't know any simple solution yet to render directly 
> into pict files what we can get with the 'unstable' [pix_record].
> 
>   The only *multiplatform* solution I'm thinking about is rendering the 
> framebuffer into tiff files, cropping and transforming them to a lighter 
> file format with imagemagicks controlled by a script file loaded with 
> [popen], for having my texture rendered into a decent quality, that's 
> quite complicated.
> 
>   So my question that will certainly stay unanswered is/
> 
>   What about adding a simple option to [pix_write] for rendering into 
> picture files only the texture created by a gemchain instead of the 
> framebuffer?
> 
>   Many thanks if you have a simple answer or another solution.
> 
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