[X3D-Public] Server side rendering solution with code?

[Campbell Barton]

Did you see my reply before?,

Blender has been used quite a few times for this purpose.
I've personally setup blender to do server side rendering of scientific
data, automated edited video rendering, and even openGL rendering on
systems without graphics cards using software opengl and dummy X server.

You can load in x3d/3ds/obj/collada or write your own exporter.

Try blender 2.57b, go to the text editors:
'Text (menu item) -> Script Templates -> Background Job'

In 'example_function' rather then creating your own objects you can call
bpy.ops.import_scene.x3d(filepath="somefile.x3d")


On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 14:15 -0700, Tony Parisi wrote:
> I don't really need a VNC solution. At the moment it's for a single
> still render from a fixed camera.
> 
> So I just need a rendering engine that can run server side and save a
> JPEG or PNG. Anybody know any good ones?
> 
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Nicholas F. Polys <npolys at vt.edu>
> wrote:
>         Hi Tony~
>         
>         good to hear you again!
>         
>         You might consider using a normal rendering engine and
>         shipping pixels with something like VirtualGL / TurboVNC; Sun
>         took it pretty far before the AQ.
>         
>         I am not sure exactly what libraries are used inside Paraview
>         and Visit 's remote rendering engines, but VT and the national
>         labs are doing this for sci-vis and HPC workflows.
>         
>         br,
>         
>         _n_polys
>         
>         -- 
>         Nicholas F. Polys Ph.D.
>         
>         Director of Visual Computing
>         Virginia Tech Information Technology
>         
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>         
>         
>         
>         On 5/5/2011 4:12 PM, Tony Parisi wrote: 
>         > 
>         > Tony
>         > 
>         > I mean: rendering. As in: generate an image from a model.
>         > The input could be a Max file, or some other format like X3D
>         > or COLLADA. Sorry for any confusion there.
>         > 
>         > Tony
>         > 
>         > 
>         > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Tom Sparks
>         > <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>         >         
>         >         >Hi all,
>         >         
>         >         > Does anybody know of good server-side code to
>         >         render 3DS
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         Do you mean rending as creating an image from
>         >         computer model
>         >         (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_%
>         >         28computer_graphics%29) 
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         > or files exported from 3DS (e.g. X3D or 
>         >         >COLLADA)?
>         >         
>         >         to what?
>         >         
>         >         X3D and collada are standard xml files so XSL can be
>         >         used (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xsl )
>         >         
>         >         here is a list of conversion tool
>         >         http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/help.html#Conversions 
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         > Commercial solutions preferred, open source a
>         >         plus.
>         >         
>         >         >Thanks in advance for any information!
>         >         
>         >         >Tony
>         >         
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