Can I close the display?

[kamikaze0923]

Basically just shut down the window which pop up every time when the controller is initialized.

[kamikaze0923]

I still want the image to be rendered and the metadata returned. Just do not want to see the animation.

[kamikaze0923]

Is there a similar option to close the display like in gym Atari? If we do not call env.render(), it will not show us an image.

[mattdeitke]

Hey!

This is not currently available as we basically have to open up unity in the background for all the physics functionality and 3D scene hosting, but there are a few ways this can be less annoying.

You can close the window automatically in python as follows:

from ai2thor.controller import Controller
c = Controller()
...
c.stop()

There is also support for a context manager, which automatically closes the window outside of the scope, which can be used as follows:

from ai2thor.controller import Controller
with Controller() as c:
    ...

Matt.

[ekolve]

Can you tell me if you are on OSX or Linux? We may be able to provide an option to minimize the window on startup.