manually doing .BCF generation.

[MineElectricity]

Hi,

I have a project too big for blender, so I presently generate .ply, .scn and .cfg files using a script.
The problem being that I have way too many files and I loose considerable amounts of time in IO operations.

Thus, I would like to know how to directly make .bcf files, but I couldn't find any documentation.
My supposition was that it simply is .cfg followed by .scn and then by all the .ply written in binary and then compressed. But as pointed out on the discord server I may be wrong.

So if I could have a little help on how to write such files it would be greatly appreciated, otherwise I would do it by testing byte by byte an already generated .bcf file.

Thank you !

[Dade]

I have a project too big for blender, so I presently generate .ply, .scn and .cfg files using a script.
The problem being that I have way too many files and I loose considerable amounts of time in IO operations.

Thus, I would like to know how to directly make .bcf files, but I couldn't find any documentation.
My supposition was that it simply is .cfg followed by .scn and then by all the .ply written in binary and then compressed. But as pointed out on the discord server I may be wrong.

So if I could have a little help on how to write such files it would be greatly appreciated, otherwise I would do it by testing byte by byte an already generated .bcf file.

LuxCore has specific render engine to save scenes as text or binary format: it is called FILESAVER and the render just produces the files.

You can convert from any supported format (.cfg, .lxs, ect.) in binary format with the following command:

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pyluxcoretools.exe console -D renderengine.type FILESAVER -D filesaver.format BIN -D filesaver.filename exported-scene.bcf scenes/cornell/cornell.cfg

Or, if you are using a script to create the scene, you can directly save the scene in binary format. LuxCore API as explicit methods for this process (aside FILESAVER render engine).

LuxCore .bcf format in a serialization of memory scene using Boost serialization process, the output is pipelined with gzip to compress the output in roder to save space.
.bcf format is intended as a temporary format so it supported only across LuxCore tools of the very same version.

Boost serialization (and gzipping) may be a not particularly fast process so I'm not sure if it is really going to accelerate your process however copy around a single self-contained binary file is a lot easier and faster than many text files.

[MineElectricity]

Hi and thank you for your quick response.

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Or, if you are using a script to create the scene, you can directly save the scene in binary format. LuxCore API as explicit methods for this process (aside FILESAVER render engine).

That is exactly what I am doing, though, I don't fully understand how to use LuxCore API's explicit methods, so I'll try to figure it out and come back to you if I'm really stuck, thank you.

[Dade]

That is exactly what I am doing, though, I don't fully understand how to use LuxCore API's explicit methods, so I'll try to figure it out and come back to you if I'm really stuck, thank you.

You have just to use RenderConfiog::Save() method: https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/LuxCor ... re.h#L1209