[SOLVED] Suggestion: local screenshots/ folder

[Deimel]

Hi all,

Currently (v16.04 & master), runSofa saves screenshots of a simulation into a subdirectory of sofa’s installation. This is very inconvenient for subsequent conversion into videos, as screenshots of any simulation get dumped into the same folder.

I believe it makes more sense to save screenshots into a subdirectory of the current working directory, i.e. next to the sofa scene file:

In applications/projects/runSofa/Main.cpp:336:
– BaseGUI::setScreenshotDirectoryPath(Utils::getSofaPathPrefix() + “/screenshots”, true);
+ BaseGUI::setScreenshotDirectoryPath(“./screenshots”, true);

This would also make the screenshots more discoverable for novice users, as the folder would show up next to the scene file.

[Guillaume]

Hi Raphael,

You’re right with the video problem: all the screenshots get in the same folder and it quickly becomes messy.
However, I think that having a screenshot folders next to the scene files would make things more complicated (screenshot folders everywhere). Moreover, nothing would change for the video mess problem…

I guess it would be cool to have a structure like this (located in build root directory):

screenshots/
	scene_name/
		scene_name_00000001.png
		scene_name_00000004.png
		video_00000001/
			scene_name_00000002.png
			scene_name_00000003.png

What do you think ?

Anyway, if you implement cool features in Sofa and you want to propose them to the community, do not hesitate to open Pull Requests in our GitHub 😉

Cheers,
Guillaume.

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