Capture viewport as image in cache

[nathanletwory (Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory)]

To capture Raytraced viewport you have to give the amount of passes you want.

You have to set up a https://developer.rhino3d.com/api/RhinoCommon/html/T_Rhino_Display_ViewCapture.htm , set its https://developer.rhino3d.com/api/RhinoCommon/html/P_Rhino_Display_ViewCapture_RealtimeRenderPasses.htm and pass the view you want to capture to https://developer.rhino3d.com/api/RhinoCommon/html/M_Rhino_Display_ViewCapture_CaptureToBitmap.htm on the ViewCapture instance.

A more elaborate example in using the ViewCapture class:

Issue Programmatically Saving "Raytraced" (Cycles) Renderings

Here a script that does a capture using the ViewCapture script. Use this method if you don’t want to use the dashed command version. # Material switcher # and Raytraced viewcapturing import scriptcontext as sc import Rhino.Render as rr import Rhino as r import Rhino.DocObjects as rdob import System av = sc.doc.Views.ActiveView cycles = sc.doc.Views.ActiveView.RealtimeDisplayMode oldpasses = cycles.MaxPasses cycles.MaxPasses = 2 def capture_viewport(name): cycles.Paused = True view_captur…

Fun fact: very, very long ago I had a Cycles component for the GH canvas (no longer available)