How can I access object outline coordinates?

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For the life of me, I can’t figure out how to access data about the active object’s outline in the viewport. Is it accessible via Python? Maybe bgl?

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hi

usign this addon http://www.pasteall.org/51127/python you can access to the data coordinates of each vertex and give you the information in a txt file

also you can access to that kind of data using

  • bpy.context.active_object.data.vertices
  • bpy.context.active_object.data.polygons

also if you want the general location of a mesh using the “origin” as reference you can use

bpy.context.active_object.location

best

Diego

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Thanks for the reply, but I think you may have misunderstood what I was asking. I need information about the outline of a selected object, as drawn in the viewport.


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the contour? like the red line here :

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I’m beginning to wonder if there’s literally no way to access this (?). I’d like to find a way to get the 2d coordinates of each pixel of the outline, relative to the camera view in the viewport.

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Yessir, that. :slight_smile: