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Is there a way to write the console output to disk? In other words, as the system writes to the console, it also writes to a text file?
I am hoping that there is a simple setting in blender rather than having to write a bunch of scripts to write messages to a file on my disk drive.
This is so I can figure out why my script is causing blender to shut down.
You need to run the Blender executable from the command line.
In Windows this requires you to run a new Command Prompt and the execute blender.exe from the correct location. In Linux/MAC the process is similar.
On my Windows machine, I go to the Start Bar and type in Command
in the new window I type the directory to where Blender was installed followed by the program I want to run, blender.exe
To capture all the output a redirection character > is used.
Finally I have a folder on my C: drive called "tmp" that I know I have access to write to. You will have to enter a folder and filename your Windows user can write to.
After running Blender the new file myfile.log has the following contents. This was after simply opening and closing blender. (type is a windows program that just dumps text files to the console)
blender.exe > myfile.log$\endgroup$>blenderwill write its output to that window, which doesn't close even if Blender crashes. $\endgroup$blender.exe>myfile.logmeans, nor 'simply opening it as>blender' $\endgroup$