Run SOFA with GUI animated step by step from python script

[japhten]

Hello,
I would like to trigger the Sofa.Simulation.animate function in python based on a certain timer that I have in my python code. I would also like to visualize the soft robot in the GUI at the same time (just for visualization, without touching the buttons from the GUI). Basically I would like to have a function similar to this:

    def run_sofa_gui(self):
        GUIManager.Init("myscene", "qt")
        GUIManager.createGUI(self.root, __file__)
        GUIManager.SetDimension(1080, 800)
        GUIManager.MainLoop(self.root)
        GUIManager.closeGUI()

But instead of the MainLoop I would like to be able to call the Sofa.Simulation.animate(self.root, self.root.dt.value) function whenever I want to.
Is that possible?
Thank you so much for your help, it would be most helpful!
Best wishes,
Juliette H.

[hugtalbot]

Hi @japhten

You have an example of this in the basic.py example. But having both the runSofa GUI and managing the steps in python is not possible. What you can do is to run your time step as in the basic.py example and use another solution for rendering like SimRender or other python based rendering tool.

Hope this helps