using game engine to render frames?

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hi everyone!

i’d like to use the blender game engine to render my animation frames, perhaps even with motion blur support (the way it usually works, render n subframes and blend), to speed up the rendering process.

i know that the results look a lot less good than with blenders rendering engine, but it would be a really handy way to do previews and render really simple projects that require no special lighting or raytracing setups.

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Hi,

See the section on the “render button” on this page:

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/3D_View_Options

It renders the view using OpenGL.

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or look here. see #6.

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rawpigeon: thanks will have a look.

J09: thank you, but that approach sucks. it does a screenshot(!) of the window, also the frames are not frame-by-frame.

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If you hold the control key whilst you click the window preview button, it renders sequentially to the output directory, just tried it, nice and fast - the frames can go into sequence editor or comp nodes too - really nice, thanks for reminding me…

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how do you get those into comp nodes and sequence editor?

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in the normal manner; for the sequence editor add a image sequence strip, choose your rendered images from the browser and place it on the timeline / for the comp nodes add an image input strip and choose your image seq from the browser (remember to set number of frames and auto frome advance)

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It appears that in Blender 2.5, the preview also renders virtual objects like camera outlines, light outlines, even outlines of objects… how can I make sure that it only renders actual objects?