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#986: add Blender scene export for 3D Camera Tracker
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{center, normal, size?}, multiple?}` (Create Text / Solid / Null / Shadow Catcher, Camera and Light,
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Create Multiple …), `camera.deletePoints {points?, wait?}` (re-solves; with Auto-delete Points
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Across Time the same feature's other tracks go too) and `camera.create` (the Create Camera button).
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Each is one undo step; the first create adds the one-node "3D Tracker Camera" keyed on every frame.
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Each edit is one undo step; the first create adds the one-node "3D Tracker Camera" keyed on every frame.
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`camera.exportBlender {path: ".py", layer?, effect?, sensorWidth?: 36, unitScale?: 0.01,
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startFrame?: 1, includePoints?: true}` exports the solve as an executable Blender scene script:
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baked camera/lens/focus, synced video background, points and ground. See
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[Blender camera export](blender-camera-export.md) for framing, assumptions and limitations.
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Changing the layer's frames clears the analysis; changing `effects/#1/shotType`,
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`effects/#1/horizontalAngleOfView`, `effects/#1/advanced/solveMethod` re-solves the stored tracks.
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# Exporting a tracked camera to Blender
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After the **3D Camera Tracker** finishes solving, click **Export Scene to Blender...** in its
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Effect Controls and save the `.py` file. In Blender 4.0 or newer, open it in the Scripting
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workspace's Text Editor and choose **Run Script**. The script creates and activates a new scene;
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it preserves existing scenes and objects. Save the resulting `.blend` normally.
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The script uses Blender's public Python API, with no add-on or Python dependencies beyond
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Blender itself. For unattended use: `blender --background --python "Tracked Scene.py"`.
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That imports the scene in memory; it does not automatically save a `.blend`.
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## Transferred data
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- Camera position and quaternion rotation baked on every analyzed frame, with consistent
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quaternion signs and linear interpolation; zoom/lens animation, including Variable Zoom.
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- Tracking input/video resolution, horizontal sensor fit, exact rational composition FPS,
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frame range and composition markers within the analyzed interval. The first analyzed frame
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becomes Blender frame 1 by default; the original composition timestamps remain in metadata.
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- The original video or still as the camera's background image, at full opacity, refreshed on
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frame changes. Source-frame offsets are baked too, accounting for trim, stretch, source FPS
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and Time Remap. This is a viewport background, not a render/compositor background.
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- Focus distance, DOF switch, f-stop, iris blade count, rotation and aspect sampled from the
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tracker's linked **3D Tracker Camera**, including keyframes and expressions. Create that
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camera and adjust its Camera Options before exporting to transfer custom focus settings.
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- Solved 3D points as a non-rendering vertex mesh, with point attributes for track ID,
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reprojection error and first/last visible frame. A chosen ground plane becomes Blender's XY
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plane, with its origin preserved and a non-rendering wire plane as a placement guide.
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- Shutter duration (not automatically enabled), plus the original shutter phase in metadata.
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- A Blender Text datablock named `EffectCraft Tracking Metadata.json` containing the complete
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solve, optional original 2D tracks, per-frame timings, source interpretation, diagnostics and
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export warnings. Radial distortion coefficients are also camera custom properties.
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Coordinates are converted from EffectCraft's right/down/forward world to Blender's
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right/forward/up world, including the camera's local up and negative-Z viewing direction.
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Export uses the tracking input's framing, not the footage layer's final 2D placement in the
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composition. Camera pose and lens always come from the solve; subsequent manual pose/lens edits
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on the linked camera are not substituted for the tracked motion.
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## What cannot be inferred
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Monocular tracking cannot recover absolute scene scale, physical sensor size, optical focus,
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f-stop or exposure from feature tracks. The default sensor width is an assumption of **36 mm**;
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the focal length in millimeters is derived from it while preserving the solved field of view.
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The default scale is **0.01 Blender units per composition-world pixel**, not a measurement.
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Without a linked camera, DOF is disabled and focus distance uses the default solved scene depth.
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Blender's physical DOF approximates EffectCraft's blur model: Blur Level and Iris Roundness are
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retained in metadata, but have no direct Blender equivalent.
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Brown-model radial `k1`/`k2` coefficients use radius normalized to half the image diagonal.
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They are preserved, **not** assigned to Blender's different lens-distortion model. For a precise
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match when distortion is nonzero, use an undistorted plate; the script prints a warning.
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The tracker assumes square pixels, so Blender renders square pixels; any non-square source
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interpretation is retained in metadata and flagged.
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The `.py` references the video; it does not contain a copy of the video's bytes. When moving it,
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keep the video next to the script (same filename), or relink the background image in Blender.
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Missing/unsupported media produces a warning while retaining the imported camera and geometry.
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Masks and effects applied before the tracker are not baked into the original media. Export
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requires a direct video/still footage layer at the analyzed size; render precomps, sequences or
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size-changing preprocessing to a video and track that video first.
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## Agent / control-channel command
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```json
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{
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"command": "camera.exportBlender",
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"params": {
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"layer": "#1",
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"path": "/output/Tracked Scene.py",
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"sensorWidth": 36,
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"unitScale": 0.01,
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"startFrame": 1,
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"includePoints": true
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}
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}
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```
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`comp`, `layer` and `effect` select the tracker as with `camera.analyze`. Without explicit
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selection, the selected tracker (or first tracker in the composition) is used. `sensorWidth`,
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`unitScale`, `startFrame` and `includePoints` are optional. The reply contains file size,
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exported frame/point counts and warnings. Writing uses the host's atomic file service.
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Calls issued by scripts require **Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network** in
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Settings ▸ Scripting & Expressions. Export from the UI or control channel remains available
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with that preference off.
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Export is limited to 100,000 analyzed frames, 100,000 points and 64 MiB of serialized scene data;
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invalid, stale or incomplete solves return an actionable error without modifying the document.
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## Verification
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Engine tests check argument validation, escaped/Unicode paths, fractional FPS, trim/stretch,
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focus/f-stop, zoom, ground placement, malformed solves and write failures. To additionally run
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the generated artifact against an installed Blender's public API:
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```sh
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EFFECTCRAFT_BLENDER=/path/to/blender cargo test -p effectcraft-engine tests::blender -- --nocapture
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```
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Optionally set `EFFECTCRAFT_BLENDER_PLATE` to a local synthetic 640×360 video to exercise media
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loading and source-frame offsets. The oracle checks every synthetic point's projection through
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the imported camera on every frame, as well as animation, DOF, timing and scene preservation.
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