Question: Exporting/Building flash animations out of Panda

General Discussion
1

Hi,

I was wondering if there is any known path from a Panda3D animation (or at least from the modells there) into flash animations?

Anyone have experiences, pointers, ideas for such an approach?

Kind regards,
Andrew Smart

2

Flash? Not likely. But you can export the individual frames of an animation out as image files, and then use e.g. Windows Movie Maker to assemble them into a .wmv (or use other software to assemble them into the movie format of your choice).

You can save out the frames of an animation with the base.movie() call. From ShowBase.py:

    def movie(self, namePrefix = 'movie', duration = 1.0, fps = 30,
              format = 'png', sd = 4, source = None):
        """
        Spawn a task to capture a movie using the screenshot function.
        - namePrefix will be used to form output file names (can include
          path information (e.g. '/i/beta/frames/myMovie')
        - duration is the length of the movie in seconds
        - fps is the frame rate of the resulting movie
        - format specifies output file format (e.g. png, bmp)
        - sd specifies number of significant digits for frame count in the
          output file name (e.g. if sd = 4, movie_0001.png)
        - source is the Window, Buffer, DisplayRegion, or Texture from which
          to save the resulting images.  The default is the main window.
        """

David

3

Hi David,

thanks. I feared already that this will be the answer… :confused: :smiley:

The movie approach is the “last resort” - I was hoping that I would be able to have some 3d effects made with Panda and easily move them into the web via flash (with the possibility to build some interaction into flash).

Andrew