# How to find all image coordinates of rendered object?

I got my object and I need to know all pixels that are displaying this object in my rendered picture.

update I tried this code from here:

def tocam(scene, ob):
cam_vec = cam.matrix_world.to_3x3() * Vector((0, 0, -1))
R = cam_vec.to_track_quat('-Z', 'Y').to_matrix().to_4x4()

# scale based on resolution
S = Matrix() # resX=resY
# translate such that origin is middle point of image (and hence cam)
T = Matrix.Translation((-0.5, -0.5, 0))

ob.data.transform(ob.matrix_world)
ob.matrix_world = Matrix()
for v in ob.data.vertices:
vec = w2cv(scene, cam, v.co)
v.co = vec.x, vec.y, 0

ob.data.transform(S * T)

ob.matrix_world = R
angle_x = cam.data.angle_x
x = (0.5 /  tan(angle_x / 2)) * cam_vec.normalized()
ob.matrix_world.translation = cam.matrix_world.translation + x
if cam.data.type == 'ORTHO':
ob.scale *= cam.data.ortho_scale

res_x = 640
res_y = 640

# 2d data printout:
rnd = lambda i: round(i)

for v in ob.data.vertices:
print("{},{}".format(rnd(res_x*v.co.x), rnd(res_y*v.co.y)))


when I plot the points I get this:

but my rendered image is this:

So you can see, that it is not on the correct position and also the shape is not really correct.

Can anyone help me on this? Thanks a lot!

• – batFINGER Feb 3 '20 at 15:21
• Can you tell me more about what your use case is? Would it be viable to you, if the script was run from the cmd and you'd then get a numpy array that you can work with or does it have to be run from inside blenders scripting tab? – WhatAMesh Feb 7 '20 at 8:54
• @WhatAMesh it would be good if it's inside the same script. I am rendering multiple images in my script. The goal is to use them as trainings data for a neural network to do segmentation. So to use the renered images as trainingsdata I need to know which pixels in the rendered Image belong to my object I rendered. At the moment I am starting blender with my script like this: ./blender first.blend --background --python render.py – blenderNewbie Feb 7 '20 at 14:26

Basically one can just render the masks of the objects as images, import them and generate the arrays. This process is the similar for materials (a mask for every material) and depth.

The script can be (at least) run in 2.8x and 2.79b, just adjust the code with the commented code. If you use 2.79b, put blender in the same folder as the your python.exe.

Master script:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import glob, os
import PIL.Image as pil
import subprocess

pathToSlave = r'C:\Users\YourName\PycharmProjects\bse\slave.py'

pathToFile = r'C:\Users\YourName\Desktop\segmentation.blend'
fileName = 'segmentation.blend'

pathToRenderOutput = r'C:\Users\YourName\Desktop\trash\\'
pathToBlender = r'C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\blender-2.79b-windows64\\'

subprocess.call('{}blender {} -b  --python {}'.format(pathToBlender, pathToFile, pathToSlave))

images = glob.glob(os.path.join(pathToRenderOutput, '*.png'))
for img in images:
arr = np.asarray(pil.open(img))
arr = arr.sum(axis=-1)
arr = arr.squeeze()

plt.imshow(arr)
plt.show()


Blender part: A mask is generated for every mesh-object

import bpy

bpy.context.scene.render.engine = 'CYCLES'
bpy.context.scene.use_nodes = True
bpy.context.scene.cycles.samples = 1

# For 2.8x
# bpy.context.scene.view_layers["View Layer"].use_pass_object_index = True

# For 2.79b
bpy.context.scene.render.layers["RenderLayer"].use_pass_object_index = True

tree = bpy.data.scenes['Scene'].node_tree
nodes = tree.nodes
indexOBOutput = tree.get('IndexOB Output')

indexPass = 1  # 0 is the default pass

outputPath = r'C:\Users\YourName\Desktop\trash\\'

fileOutput = nodes.new(type="CompositorNodeOutputFile")
fileOutput.base_path = outputPath
fileOutput.file_slots.remove(fileOutput.inputs[0])

for obj in bpy.data.objects:
if obj.type == 'MESH':
obj.pass_index = indexPass

idNode.index = indexPass


• I get AttributeError: 'Scene' object has no attribute 'view_layers' could this be because I am using blender 2.79? Maybe I can do this easier anyway as I just want a mask from one obj? – blenderNewbie Feb 10 '20 at 9:26
• Thank you! You are awesome. That helped me big time. One more question: Do you know how I can manipulate the output name of the rendered mask? now it is something like object_11000.png – blenderNewbie Feb 10 '20 at 11:01