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. and if so, how does it work? where does it store the image?

. i could've sworn i saw a post about this in the past but i have been unable to find it.

. thanks!


-james
(a nomad. )

it acts the same as the snapshot you can get from the Render menu. You can choose the location where to save the screenshots in the preferences, under the Misc tab.

. hmmm.. still not seeing any images taken - i have a button that takes a snapshot, the code i'm using is :

if msg == 'takePic' and param['value'] == 1.0 :
modul8.setValue('direct_snapshot_previewWindow', 1)
print "got a picture..."

. but nothing appears. is that the correct way to use direct_snapshot ?

-james
(a nomad. )

. replying to myself since i figured it out...

. this line :
modul8.setValue('direct_snapshot_previewWindow', 1)

. should have an extra 0 at the end, like so :
modul8.setValue('direct_snapshot_previewWindow', 1, 0)


. when in doubt, add another 0 to the setValue command parameters.

-james
(a nomad. )

yep… the module documentation is not very precise about that, but the setValue neets to receive 3 falues (keyword, value, layer). Even if all these values are not needed. getValue needs only two (keyword, layer)