1. Install blender 3.6.9 and setup PATH envvar to call blender from command line.

   blender --version

2. Create a virtual env of python 3.10. This can be done by either conda or python package venv.

   1. conda approach

      conda create -p ./.conda python=3.10
      conda activate ./.conda

   2. venv approach First use pyenv or other tools to install a python intepreter of version 3.10. Here 3.10.14 is used as example:

      pyenv install 3.10.14
      pyenv shell 3.10.14

      Then create a virtual environment:

      python -m venv .venv --prompt mocap_blender
      . .venv/bin/activate

3. Install mocap_blender package.

   pip install -e ./package

4. Start blender / Batch render.

   1. Start blender for scene editing. Debug the blender python script, adjust the lights, setup the materials and save them in the scene. The provided example scene is asset/base.blend and the linked script is script/preview/example.py.

   ./blender.sh

   2. Batch rendering. Implement the interface script (an example is batch_render_example.py), then place the data pickles in corresponding directories.

   Then call the interface from the command line.

   python ./script/batch_render_example.py  data/example  data/example_render

   The output logs are generated under directory temp. Check these logs for debug usage.

View the introductory video on youtube.