How to automatically save scene as image and video? Help!

[KoKO]

So far i create a helicopter simulation program with PANDA3D. In simulation program, the chopper(heli) will be installed with a camera to take the ground images. So there is small window showing the images takenby this cam. These ground images will be sent to image processing program to compute optic flow of the image to determine the distance between the heli and the ground.

I have a problem on how to save rendered images taken by heli in whatever format. Can someone tell a useful thing for me? I look forward to see your advise.

Thank
KoKO

[KoKO]

From manual,

Using saveScreenShot(fileName), where fileName is the name of the picture(the format of the picture is specified by the extension of filename). Returns True upon succes and False otherwise. The picture is saved in the directory of the script you are running.

These means the rendering scene can be save with saveScreenShot() in bmp format only. Am i right?

Thank
KoKO

[kaweh]

no, you can save it in JPG and PNG. i haven’t tried BMP. i assume TIFF works too. just use the approriate extension.

hth,
kaweh