Saving via the API?

Coding Python Support
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So I am running a script in UI-less mode:

blender -b -P script.py

The script is generating a lot of geometry and I want to save that to a .blend file.
I tried using:

bpy.ops.wm.save_as_mainfile("/home/user/foo.blend")

and

bpy.ops.wm.save_mainfile("/home/user/foo.blend")

at the end of the script to save the file, without much success.

I searched the API docs and the web couldn’t find any other ops or commands that can do this… how do people save files when running background scripts?

Thanks!

2

i’m on windows and it works for me:

C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender>blender -P C:\Users\CoDEmanX\Desktop
<b>saveme.py -b C:\Users\CoDEmanX\Desktop\removeme.blend -P C:\Users\CoDEmanX\Desk
top<b>saveme2.py

found bundled python: C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.64\python
Total files 0|Changed 0|Failed 0
read blend: C:\Users\CoDEmanX\Desktop\removeme.blend
Total files 0|Changed 0|Failed 0
Total files 0|Changed 0|Failed 0

Blender quit

I use absolute paths for blend and scripts, otherwise it won’t work (unless i run from the dir where they are in and use absolute path for blender executable instead)

The py scripts are:

import bpy
bpy.ops.wm.save_as_mainfile(filepath="D:\\pysaved.blend")


import bpy
bpy.ops.wm.save_as_mainfile(filepath="D:\\pysaved2.blend")

And both files are created at given location.

3

I didn’t write the parameter name:
“filepath=”

It works now. Thank you for your time.

4

oh yeah, you can’t use positional arguments on operators, as they will interpret this as override or something