Rasterizer (bge.render)

Intro

Example of using a SCA_MouseSensor, and two KX_ObjectActuator to implement MouseLook:

Note

This can also be achieved with the KX_MouseActuator.

# To use a mouse movement sensor "Mouse" and a
# motion actuator to mouse look:
import bge

# scale sets the speed of motion
scale = 1.0, 0.5

co = bge.logic.getCurrentController()
obj = co.owner
mouse = co.sensors["Mouse"]
lmotion = co.actuators["LMove"]
wmotion = co.actuators["WMove"]

# Transform the mouse coordinates to see how far the mouse has moved.
def mousePos():
   x = (bge.render.getWindowWidth() / 2 - mouse.position[0]) * scale[0]
   y = (bge.render.getWindowHeight() / 2 - mouse.position[1]) * scale[1]
   return (x, y)

pos = mousePos()

# Set the amount of motion: X is applied in world coordinates...
wmotion.useLocalTorque = False
wmotion.torque = ((0.0, 0.0, pos[0]))

# ...Y is applied in local coordinates
lmotion.useLocalTorque = True
lmotion.torque = ((-pos[1], 0.0, 0.0))

# Activate both actuators
co.activate(lmotion)
co.activate(wmotion)

# Centre the mouse
bge.render.setMousePosition(int(bge.render.getWindowWidth() / 2), int(bge.render.getWindowHeight() / 2))

Functions

bge.render.getWindowWidth()

Gets the width of the window (in pixels)

Return type

integer

bge.render.getWindowHeight()

Gets the height of the window (in pixels)

Return type

integer

bge.render.setWindowSize(width, height)

Set the width and height of the window (in pixels). This also works for fullscreen applications.

Note

Only works in the standalone player, not the Blender-embedded player.

Parameters
  • width (integer) – width in pixels

  • height (integer) – height in pixels

bge.render.setFullScreen(enable)

Set whether or not the window should be fullscreen.

Note

Only works in the standalone player, not the Blender-embedded player.

Parameters

enable (bool) – True to set full screen, False to set windowed.

bge.render.getFullScreen()

Returns whether or not the window is fullscreen.

Note

Only works in the standalone player, not the Blender-embedded player; there it always returns False.

Return type

bool

bge.render.getDisplayDimensions()

Get the display dimensions, in pixels, of the display (e.g., the monitor). Can return the size of the entire view, so the combination of all monitors; for example, (3840, 1080) for two side-by-side 1080p monitors.

Return type

tuple (width, height)

bge.render.makeScreenshot(filename)

Writes an image file with the displayed image at the frame end.

The image is written to ‘filename’. The path may be absolute (eg. /home/foo/image) or relative when started with // (eg. //image). Note that absolute paths are not portable between platforms. If the filename contains a #, it will be replaced by an incremental index so that screenshots can be taken multiple times without overwriting the previous ones (eg. image-#).

Settings for the image are taken from the render settings (file format and respective settings, gamma and colospace conversion, etc). The image resolution matches the framebuffer, meaning, the window size and aspect ratio. When running from the standalone player, instead of the embedded player, only PNG files are supported. Additional color conversions are also not supported.

Parameters

filename (string) – path and name of the file to write

bge.render.enableVisibility(visible)

Deprecated; doesn’t do anything.

bge.render.showMouse(visible)

Enables or disables the operating system mouse cursor.

Parameters

visible (boolean) –

bge.render.setMousePosition(x, y)

Sets the mouse cursor position.

Parameters
  • x (integer) – X-coordinate in screen pixel coordinates.

  • y (integer) – Y-coordinate in screen pixel coordinates.

bge.render.setBackgroundColor(rgba)

Deprecated and no longer functional. Use KX_WorldInfo.horizonColor or KX_WorldInfo.zenithColor instead.

bge.render.setEyeSeparation(eyesep)

Sets the eye separation for stereo mode. Usually Focal Length/30 provides a confortable value.

Parameters

eyesep (float) – The distance between the left and right eye.

bge.render.getEyeSeparation()

Gets the current eye separation for stereo mode.

Return type

float

bge.render.setFocalLength(focallength)

Sets the focal length for stereo mode. It uses the current camera focal length as initial value.

Parameters

focallength (float) – The focal length.

bge.render.getFocalLength()

Gets the current focal length for stereo mode.

Return type

float

bge.render.getStereoEye()

Gets the current stereoscopy eye being rendered. This function is mainly used in a KX_Scene.pre_draw callback function to customize the camera projection matrices for each stereoscopic eye.

Return type

LEFT_EYE, RIGHT_EYE

bge.render.setMaterialMode(mode)

Deprecated and no longer functional.

Set the material mode to use for OpenGL rendering.

Parameters

mode (KX_TEXFACE_MATERIAL, KX_BLENDER_MULTITEX_MATERIAL, KX_BLENDER_GLSL_MATERIAL) – material mode

Note

Changes will only affect newly created scenes.

bge.render.getMaterialMode(mode)

Deprecated and no longer functional.

Get the material mode to use for OpenGL rendering.

Return type

KX_TEXFACE_MATERIAL, KX_BLENDER_MULTITEX_MATERIAL, KX_BLENDER_GLSL_MATERIAL

bge.render.setGLSLMaterialSetting(setting, enable)

Enables or disables a GLSL material setting.

Parameters
  • setting (string (lights, shaders, shadows, ramps, nodes, extra_textures)) –

  • enable (boolean) –

bge.render.getGLSLMaterialSetting(setting)

Get the state of a GLSL material setting.

Parameters

setting (string (lights, shaders, shadows, ramps, nodes, extra_textures)) –

Return type

boolean

bge.render.setAnisotropicFiltering(level)

Set the anisotropic filtering level for textures.

Parameters

level (integer (must be one of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16)) – The new anisotropic filtering level to use

Note

Changing this value can cause all textures to be recreated, which can be slow.

bge.render.getAnisotropicFiltering()

Get the anisotropic filtering level used for textures.

Return type

integer (one of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16)

bge.render.setMipmapping(value)

Change how to use mipmapping.

Note

Changing this value can cause all textures to be recreated, which can be slow.

bge.render.getMipmapping()

Get the current mipmapping setting.

Return type

RAS_MIPMAP_NONE, RAS_MIPMAP_NEAREST, RAS_MIPMAP_LINEAR

bge.render.drawLine(fromVec, toVec, color)

Draw a line in the 3D scene.

Parameters
  • fromVec (list [x, y, z]) – the origin of the line

  • toVec (list [x, y, z]) – the end of the line

  • color (list [r, g, b, a]) – the color of the line

bge.render.enableMotionBlur(factor)

Enable the motion blur effect.

Parameters

factor (float [0.0 - 1.0]) – the ammount of motion blur to display.

bge.render.disableMotionBlur()

Disable the motion blur effect.

bge.render.showFramerate(enable)

Show or hide the framerate.

Parameters

enable (boolean) –

bge.render.showProfile(enable)

Show or hide the profile.

Parameters

enable (boolean) –

bge.render.showProperties(enable)

Show or hide the debug properties.

Parameters

enable (boolean) –

bge.render.autoDebugList(enable)

Enable or disable auto adding debug properties to the debug list.

Parameters

enable (boolean) –

bge.render.clearDebugList()

Clears the debug property list.

bge.render.setVsync(value)

Set the vsync value

Parameters

value (integer) – One of VSYNC_OFF, VSYNC_ON, VSYNC_ADAPTIVE

bge.render.getVsync()

Get the current vsync value

Return type

One of VSYNC_OFF, VSYNC_ON, VSYNC_ADAPTIVE

Constants

General

bge.render.KX_BLENDER_MULTITEX_MATERIAL

Deprecated.

Materials approximating blender materials with multitexturing.

Value

1

bge.render.KX_BLENDER_GLSL_MATERIAL

Deprecated.

Materials approximating blender materials with GLSL.

Value

2

bge.render.VSYNC_OFF

Disables vsync.

Value

1

bge.render.VSYNC_ON

Enables vsync.

Value

0

bge.render.VSYNC_ADAPTIVE

Enables adaptive vsync, if supported. Adaptive vsync enables vsync if the framerate is above the monitors refresh rate. Otherwise, vsync is diabled if the framerate is too low.

Value

2

bge.render.LEFT_EYE

Left eye being used during stereoscopic rendering.

Value

0

bge.render.RIGHT_EYE

Right eye being used during stereoscopic rendering.

Value

1

HDR

bge.render.HDR_NONE

Use 8 bit per channel image format.

Value

0

bge.render.HDR_HALF_FLOAT

Use 16 bit float per channel image format.

Value

1

bge.render.HDR_FULL_FLOAT

Use 32 bit float per channel image format.

Value

2

Mipmap

bge.render.RAS_MIPMAP_NONE

Disables mipmaps.

Value

0

bge.render.RAS_MIPMAP_NEAREST

Nearest mipmaps.

Value

1

bge.render.RAS_MIPMAP_LINEAR

Linear mipmaps.

Value

2