gettingstarted.rst

Getting started

Installing navipy

It is recommanded to install navipy in a virtual environment . By doing so, the python version installed on the system and the one used by navipy may differ, and ease the use of blender rendering engine.

python setup.py install

Testing navipy

python -m unittest discover navipy

Testing blender

Navipy comes with a command line tool to run your script under blender. It is however required that the python version used by blender, and the one use by navipy matche. To test your installation of blender and navipy you can download the (:download:`script <../../navipy/sensors/blendnavipy_test.py>`) and run it under blender with the following command:

blendnavipy --python-script='blendnavipy_test.py'

The core modules

• Rendering
• Processing
• Comparing
• Moving