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Hey,

Just a quick question. Not sure if it's easily doable or implementable.
As always looking for integration with VFX pipeline and stuff... That's just me.

I would like to do the following:
- import an external file (ASCII, CSV or a waveform) and get access to the data from fragmentarium to either parametrize animation or animate camera
- export selected parameters of animation per frame - along with saving the sequence of JPGs I wish I could select parameters to be exported and it would save them as a set of files or a single file CSV data (columns would be fields and rows would be frames)

Is that doable?
I guess the latter needs adding options on a C-side, but maybe the first part is already there?

Thanks!
Actually I found a simple way of working around the input - instead of rendering to bitmaps, I save out to CSV, text-convert to array data type and just include arrays in on the GLSL side.
Pretty usable for smaller amount of data and does what I need.

With QScript control you can save parameters or frag every frame tick if you want

I added app.saveParameters(fileName) to the script commands, saves parameters like in the "Parameters" menu but without a file dialog, you will have to generate incremental filenames just like when saving images from a script animation. If the save fails it will open a warning dialog and will halt until "Ok" button is clicked, I know, not a great thing for a remote render but at least it won't just continue to render 5000 frames wrong.

app.loadParameters(fileName) is already available in v1.0.14, save will be in the next patch release v1.0.15