Game Engine Inside PySide Qt Application

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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I’ve recently picked up PySide for making GUI applications. I also have some experience in using the game engine. Is it possible to embed the blender player inside of a Qt application using PySide?

I’d like to use the blender player as a 3d veiwer, or for making scientific simulations, etc. Thanks!

Here’s an example of what I’m looking for:

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Thanks!

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I can get PySide into blender by going to

C:\Python34\Lib\site-packages

and copying the folder called ‘PySide’ (of course, you would need to have PySide installed first) and pasting it into

C:\blender-2.71\2.71\python\lib

I can get the Qt application to open by pasting this code into the text editor and running the following script:
(note, closing the window that pops up will also close blender. Not sure how to stop this…)

from PySide import QtCore, QtGui

class Ui_MainWindow(object):
    def setupUi(self, MainWindow):
        MainWindow.setObjectName("MainWindow")
        MainWindow.resize(602, 600)
        self.centralwidget = QtGui.QWidget(MainWindow)
        self.centralwidget.setObjectName("centralwidget")
        self.pushButton = QtGui.QPushButton(self.centralwidget)
        self.pushButton.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(30, 480, 93, 28))
        self.pushButton.setObjectName("pushButton")
        self.pushButton_2 = QtGui.QPushButton(self.centralwidget)
        self.pushButton_2.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(140, 480, 93, 28))
        self.pushButton_2.setObjectName("pushButton_2")
        self.pushButton_3 = QtGui.QPushButton(self.centralwidget)
        self.pushButton_3.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(250, 480, 93, 28))
        self.pushButton_3.setObjectName("pushButton_3")
        self.pushButton_4 = QtGui.QPushButton(self.centralwidget)
        self.pushButton_4.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(360, 480, 93, 28))
        self.pushButton_4.setObjectName("pushButton_4")
        self.pushButton_5 = QtGui.QPushButton(self.centralwidget)
        self.pushButton_5.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(470, 480, 93, 28))
        self.pushButton_5.setObjectName("pushButton_5")
        MainWindow.setCentralWidget(self.centralwidget)
        self.menubar = QtGui.QMenuBar(MainWindow)
        self.menubar.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 0, 602, 26))
        self.menubar.setObjectName("menubar")
        MainWindow.setMenuBar(self.menubar)
        self.statusbar = QtGui.QStatusBar(MainWindow)
        self.statusbar.setObjectName("statusbar")
        MainWindow.setStatusBar(self.statusbar)


        self.retranslateUi(MainWindow)
        QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(MainWindow)


    def retranslateUi(self, MainWindow):
        MainWindow.setWindowTitle(QtGui.QApplication.translate("MainWindow", "MainWindow", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
        self.pushButton.setText(QtGui.QApplication.translate("MainWindow", "Some", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
        self.pushButton_2.setText(QtGui.QApplication.translate("MainWindow", "Buttons", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
        self.pushButton_3.setText(QtGui.QApplication.translate("MainWindow", "That", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
        self.pushButton_4.setText(QtGui.QApplication.translate("MainWindow", "Do", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
        self.pushButton_5.setText(QtGui.QApplication.translate("MainWindow", "Stuff", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))




if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    MainWindow = QtGui.QMainWindow()
    ui = Ui_MainWindow()
    ui.setupUi(MainWindow)
    MainWindow.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())
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I learned how to make the pyside app close without closing blender thanks to Metalix’s script. I can also connect a button to perform an action in blender. I can see how this could become a fun way to make addons for blender, but my goal is to get the blender player inside the main window. I’ll keep looking.