Stream camera view

[rdb]

Hi, good to see you back!

This is possible in Panda, and in fact this question comes up fairly frequently.

You can set the window-type to none in Panda3D to create a headless application. On a Linux server, you can use the p3headlessgl display module to run Panda3D without an X11 display server (assuming a supported GPU / driver with EGL support). You can use base.win.addRenderTexture with RTMCopyRam to transfer the image to RAM automatically after rendering it.

Here are some recent threads to get you started:

Writing panda3d to movie file [status in 2022]

I’m not the first person to ask about this, but it’s been a while since the question has been asked. Here are related topics I’ve found dating back more than a decade: And here is a blog post from 2015 where someone streams frames into an ffmpeg command: https://pytan.hatenablog.com/entry/2015/07/21/223331 Is there any status update on movie making capabilities in panda3d? I am trying to programmatically save thousands of panda3d clips as movies.

Panda3d-screenrecorder Easy Realtime Video Encoding from Panda3D

Here I present panda3d-screenrecorder , an engine native, non-blocking, offline screen recorder that will take your ShowBase instance and set up an instant replay type capture system, with a single pandarecord.setup_sg(base) call. Demo videos attached below. The software outputs .mp4 video files by leveraging python-opencv, numpy, and PIL (pillow). setup_sg() offers all of the following optional arguments: setup_sg(input_np,output_file='screencap_vid',buff_hw=[720,400],use_clock=False,RAM_mo…