Re: [EXT] Use Chickadee to render animation to file?

[Jack Hill]

On Fri, 27 May 2022, Thompson, David wrote:

> Hi Jack,
>
> This is an interesting use case! It's certainly possible, but would require 
> some work. It would probably look something like
> this: Render the scene to a framebuffer texture, copy the pixel data from the 
> GPU, and pipe it to a video encoder. Chickadee's
> texture API doesn't yet provide any procedures that allow you to access the raw 
> pixel data, so that would need to be added
> first. It would be a little clunky because you'd have to wait for the animation 
> to finish in real time since it's not a real
> animation tool but it would work. Feel free to give it a shot and let us know 
> how it goes!
>
> - Dave

Dave,

Thanks for the positive response and, of course for Chickadee (and Haunt, 
etc.)! I might give it a go, but no promises as it could very well be too 
much for me to bite off at this time.

Best,
Jack