Capture the rendered image

Scripting Issues
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Hello,

I’m using Panda3D for robot simulation, and in order to balance the computing load, I’m trying to separate physics, rendering, and output processing over different machines on a network.

To do that, I need to transmit the rendered images to a client somewhere over the network (through python multiprocessing syncmanager), so I need to “capture” each rendered frame as an object in the Panda3D instance (in order to give it to the syncmanager).

Is it possible ?
If so, how, and would it have a significant influence on performances ?

Thanks for your help :slight_smile:

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It would certainly be possible (by attaching an image to the window in RTMCopyRam mode) though it would most certainly have a hit on your performance. You’d have to try it and see if the performance is acceptable.