Blender: Rendering Stereoscopic Images using "Stereoscopic_Camera_1_6_7.py" addon

 

 

Rendering your Stereoscopic Image

         1.    Open your Blender project

2.    Click File – User Preferences 

3.    Select the Addons tab at the top

4.      Select Object in the left menu

5.      Click Install Addon

6.      Navigate to stereoscopic_camera-1-6-7.py and click Install Addon

7.      There should be a new object in your addons-object lists called Object: Stereoscopic Camera

8.      Check the box to the right of Object: Stereoscopic Camera

9.      Exit User Preferences

10.   Right click select the camera and select the Object Data property (the one that looks like a video camera)



11.   Scroll down to the bottom of the Object Data menu

12.   Click Set Stereo Camera

13.   Click Create L and R Scene

14.   With the center camera selected, change the Editor window to Node Editor

15.   In the Node Editor select the Compositing icon and check Use Nodes

16.   Press the “delete” key to get rid of existing nodes (you won’t need them)

17.   Press “n” to open the Properties Toolbar

18.   In the Properties Toolbar under Stereoscopic Presets, ensure that side-by-side is the selected preset

19.   Click AddNodes    

                                                                             

20.   There are 3 Render Layers nodes present, one is not connected to any other nodes, you can delete that one

21.   Ensure that the scene in the other 2 Render Layers nodes is set so that on is Left_Camera and the other is  Right_Camera

22.   In the File Output node change the filetype to jPEG

23.   Set the output directory by clicking on the file icon  and navigating to desired output location

24.   Select the Render property

25.   Select Image to render current frame

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