@Rohar10 Currently, all python scripts are running within the Blender, using Blender-Python-Interpreter. To make this tool more useful and compatible with other packages, we want to be able to run the script using other system-python-interpreter (i.e. conda/poetry/pyenv).

Below links shows method to install bpy package on conda-python. Lets see if we can launch the script using a system-python-interpreter and generate .blender file. This methods should be documented somewhere in README file.

• how to build and install bpy
  • build blender
• bpy API doc

• Create action-list to link blender to VR

Reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CypV9pPTCXo&ab_channel=CheckeredBug

Tasks

• install bpy and setup python environment
• Check if saving and loading .blender file is possible with bpy package
• Write unit-test using pytest
  • Create tests directory
  • Create test files for file handling test_file_handling.py

For later

• Decide API

Reference

• Read pytest
• Read Test Driven Development or Behavior Driven Development concept
• https://docs.blender.org/api/current/info_advanced_blender_as_bpy.html#limitations

https://github.com/adikorlahalli/Blender-Soft-Arm-Simulation/blob/a056583924145f65ff70b4f9ccc195c940bd722b/Blender/1_arm_sim_varied_radii.py#L27

• .blend
• .npz
• .ipynb

• Instead of cylinder-sphere model, we need some more optimized model for visualization
• related to #10

Look into bezier or bspline method with bevel.

Set up a counter for keyframe, and a method to set last frame to avoid infinite running.

Currently, the camera in the results of the .blend file is initialized from a far distance. It might be better to have a command to set camera location, look at and some other camera properties. (Might be useful to have similar things as the one in povray?

Create example cases (either in documentation or part of package):

• Given the position of the center lines of three FREEs, the BR2 can be visualized.
• Given the position of the center line of the BR2 and centerline location of three rods, visualize all three.

Originally posted by @hanson-hschang in #9 (comment)