topic Set differen viewport for saveAsImageFile method in Fusion API and Scripts Forum

Set differen viewport for saveAsImageFile method

NDeis — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 05:33:09 GMT

Is there a way to change the "viewport" reference of the "app.activeViewport.saveAsImageFile" method?

Essentially want to create thumbnail's of a bunch of views triggered by another event. The code works perfectly for activeViewport but I can't find an api reference for viewport control that is not tied to the active view.

I've seen some reference to camera control but that seems to be for modifying the activeViewport still.

Re: Set differen viewport for saveAsImageFile method

BrianEkins — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 18:56:06 GMT

Unfortunately, only the active viewport is accessible. Fusion originally only supported a single viewport and when the functionality was added to Fusion it didn't get exposed through the API. It hasn't been considered too high of a priority because I don't think multiple viewports are used that much in Fusion. Just to make sure we're talking about the same thing, below is a picture where multiple viewports are enabled.

Re: Set differen viewport for saveAsImageFile method

NDeis — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 07:42:10 GMT

Thanks for the reply, yes I do believe we are talking about the same thing when referencing viewports but it's causing me to think that I may be looking in the wrong direction. For generating image/thumbnail exports of the model though are we limited to the activeViewport? This being the same view port that the UI/user is using?

I guess I'm looking to see if there is a secondary "camera" entity that the script has control of that is not visible to the user as some other modeling programs have available.