Exporting X & Y coordinates to file

Question

Im trying to export X & Y coordinates of certain object to file with this script I found years ago somewhere:

import bpy  


def write_some_data(context, filepath, use_some_setting):
    print("running write_some_data...")
    camera = context.active_object
    mw = camera.matrix_world
    scene = context.scene
    frame = scene.frame_start
 
    f = open(filepath, 'w', encoding='utf-8')
    while frame <= scene.frame_end:
        scene.frame_set(frame)
        x, y, z = mw.to_translation()
        rx, ry, rz = mw.to_euler('XYZ')
        f.write("%d" % frame)
        f.write(", ")   
        f.write("%5.3f, %5.3f" % (x, y))
        f.write("\n")
        frame += 1 
    f.close()  

    return {'FINISHED'}

It almost works, but output looks like this:

0, 0.510, -0.370
1, 0.518, -0.190
2, 0.524, -0.010
3, 0.536, 0.177
4, 0.544, 0.365
5, 0.553, 0.548
6, 0.559, 0.730
7, 0.568, 0.912
8, 0.575, 1.094
9, 0.575, 1.283
10, 0.574, 1.471

My purpose is to save X & Y positions inside area of 512,512px (rendered 2D size) and output should have coordinates between 0 - 512px. I dont know python or scripting well, been looking for answer for couple of days now.

Answer 1

You can get the location coordinates of an object called 'Cube' with the following code:

import bpy

scene = bpy.context.scene
cube = bpy.data.objects['Cube']

f = open(filepath, 'w', encoding='utf-8')

for frame in range(1,scene.frame_end):
    scene.frame_set(frame)
    x, y, z = cube.location
    
    f.write("%d" % frame)
    f.write(", ")   
    f.write("%5.3f, %5.3f" % (x, y))
    f.write("\n")

    print(frame, x, y, z)

f.close()