Blender - Skope

Install

Copy .env-dist to .env

If you have Blender, don't bother running install.sh; just edit .env to match your Blender path. Ymmv.

Otherwise, run install.sh to install a version of Blender in the ./vendor dir.

Run skope.sh test. This should open the default project-dir.

Run

Dont open the .blend file. Instead, run \ skope.sh [command] --project-dir render/foobar

This starts src/skope.blend with src/skope-init.py, sometimes just in the background to generate stills or clips.

The --project-dir argument expects to use the following folders:

• [project-dir]/input : images to use for the skope
• [project-dir]/output : where to write output files
• [project-dir]/import : where to look for json import files to regenerate

There are several commands available:

• edit (edit the blend file)
• ui (edit the blend file with frame change handlers enabled)
• render (generate images or clips from scratch)
• regenerate (regenerate images or clips from saved json files)

There are also some other command line options:

skope.sh [command] --project-dir render/foobar
--type (stills|clip)
--amount (number of stills)
--length (number of frames in clip)
--scale (percentage)
--format (JPG|PNG - stills only)
--input-dir (path to source images - default $projectdir/input)
--output-dir (path to output dir - default $projectdir/output)
--import-dir (path to dir with json files - default $projectdir/import)