Running KeyShot6 through command line (terminal)?

[SebMorales]

Hi,
I am trying to do an animation where the geometry (mesh) is in constant transformation and would like to render it with KeyShot. The animation is done in Processing and I am able to export an obj into KeyShot but I can't figure out how to do anything else.

I tried following the instructions here (http://keyshot.com/scripting/doc/6.1/quickstart.html) without much success.

"3. Running KeyShot on the command-line: keyshot6.exe (optional file to open) -script <python script file> (optional script arguments..)"

I have a mac so what I was trying was actually:  ./keyshot6 -script/test.py inside the appropriate folder, keyshot opens but nothing else happens.

The only way I could get Keyshot to import a file was by forcing a file to open with keyshot (open -a keyshot6 name.obj), but this isn't very helpful when trying to render many frames.

Also, for some reason my "Scripting Console" option is grayed out , that is why I am trying form the command line.

Any help would be very appreciated!

Gracias

[Morten Kristensen]

Hello Seb,

You can only use scripting with a Pro license unfortunately, which i why it is greyed out.

If you had a Pro license then you can run via CLI like this:
/Applications/KeyShot6.app/Contents/MacOS/keyshot6 -script /path/to/your/script.py

Hope that helps

[SebMorales]

Ahhh.. I was afraid that would be the case having the edu license. Do you know if there is some kind of beta I could sign up for to get access to the scripting console?

[Morten Kristensen]

Hello Seb,

Unfortunately we don't take in more testers right now due to the current phase of development.

Sorry