How do I render my animation to a file?

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Hi there,

I am new to Panda3D and I just created an animation and want to export it? How do I go about doing that?

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In what tool did you create your animation?

If you created it in Blender, you have a few options–see this thread for at least some of them:

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I created in python (Pycharm IDE). I figure out how to create the egg files after hours of research using “setuptools”.

However, how can I convert the .egg to .gltf?

Thank you

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Aah, I see! You created your animation using Panda itself then, I take it?

Hmm… That I don’t know, I’m afraid–perhaps one of the others will have a better idea!

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Yes, I used panda itself. Thank you for trying

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@Julian Try this attempt, maybe something will come out.

After you import your animation into the blender, you can save it in any format.

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I tried that and I got the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Users\ Julian \AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.80\scripts\addons\blender-egg-importer-master_init_.py”, line 59, in execute
root = context.read_file(path)
File “C:\Users\Julian\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.80\scripts\addons\blender-egg-importer-master\importer.py”, line 74, in read_file
data = open(path, ‘r’).read()
File “C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.80\python\lib\codecs.py”, line 322, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0x8d in position 15: invalid start byte

location: :-1

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I tried scripting it in blender too and the blender program totally closes when I try to run the python script. Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

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What does the egg file contain? It looks like you’re giving it some binary file, not an egg file.

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Animation-0.1-py3.9.egg (800 Bytes)

Please see attached the egg file. Its just a set of cubes falling with an art texture. Sorry for the trouble, but I am very new to python and panda3d.

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I think you need to be more specific. Do you want to build an app build? Take a look at asteroids, for example.
https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/distribution/setuptools-examples

The example comes with an SDK, however you can download them here.
https://www.panda3d.org/download/panda3d-1.10.10/panda3d-1.10.10-samples.zip

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Looks like you got confused by Python EGG format and Panda3D EGG format. Python EGG is a Python package format, basically it’s just a ZIP file. Panda3D EGG is a 3D asset format for storing models and animations.

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Ahh, I think you hit the nail on the head. I didnt realize Panda3d Egg is different (noob). How do I go about getting the panda3d animation in an egg file then?

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No, I don’t want an app build. I want to store my animation in an egg file to read it in blender after.

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You need to use this interface.
https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/reference/panda3d.egg#module-panda3d.egg
Then you can burn it to disk.
https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/programming/internal-structures/other-manipulation/writing-models-to-disk#the-egg-interface
The documentation is not complete, you will need to learn the API yourself.

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But it’s worth noting that no one guarantees 100% results. All this is unofficial.

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Thank you, really appreciate it