Small project that generates video frames (png) out of chess games (in pgn), so it could have been called pgn2png.
This project loads the pgn game from the file and generates 30 frames per move of the game. It does this by using the blender API to generate objects and animations. The resulting blender file and be saved and used independently, to investigate what was done, change something, etc.
poetry install
The packaged blender on my linux (LMDE 6) is quite old (3.4) and this project requires 4.x, so I had to download blender from https://www.blender.org/download/ and use the --blender-bin flag pointing to this installation's blender binary.
chess2vid [-h] [-fw FRAME_WIDTH] [-fh FRAME_HEIGHT] -i INPUT_GAME [-b BLENDER_BIN] [-o OUTPUT_PATH] [-stl STL_PATH] [-s SAVE_BLENDER] [-r RENDER_FRAMES [-v]
Warning: Rendering takes a long time!
poetry run chess2vid --input-game my-game.pgn --save-blender my-game.blend --output-path ./my-game-frames --render-frames 1:
Once the frames are generated, go to that path (i.e: cd my-game-frames) and run:
../make_video.sh
The resulting video will be called output.mp4
Given rendering takes a lot of time, you can run the rendering in different machines, dividing the workload. Let's assume a complete game requires about 2000 frames and we have 3 computers, we could run the following:
In computer #1
poetry run chess2vid --input-game my-game.pgn --output-path ./my-game-frames --render-frames 1:700
In computer #2
poetry run chess2vid --input-game my-game.pgn --output-path ./my-game-frames --render-frames 701:1400
In computer #3
poetry run chess2vid --input-game my-game.pgn --output-path ./my-game-frames --render-frames 1401:
Then we can merge the resulting frames in a single path and generate the video
