Blender Python 2.79: Getting New Vertex Position From Rotated Bone?

MrQuetch

Hello, everyone.

So, how can I do what the title says? I've got a model that has been rigged, and can now be animated. Depending on the frame that I have selected of my animation, I would like to export the new vertex positions from that frame. Does Blender already do this internally? It appears that I'm getting the same vertex positions every time I run my script. Anyone have any ideas as to how I can go about doing this?

Thank you very much in advance. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Edit: I've found this UR: https://ipfs-sec.stackexchange.cloudflare-ipfs.com/blender/A/question/44637.html
So, that one deals with matrices. But, I just need thew newly-positioned vertices in some form or another. I'll keep working on it and see if things go as planned.

rollin

You might want this:
https://docs.blender.org/api/2.79/bpy.types.Object.html?highlight=to_mesh#bpy.types.Object.to_mesh
but this has changed in 2.8
https://docs.blender.org/api/2.80/bpy.types.Object.html?highlight=to_mesh#bpy.types.Object.to_mesh

I used this:

https://docs.blender.org/api/blender2.8/bpy.types.Depsgraph.html

MrQuetch

rollin said:

You might want this:
https://docs.blender.org/api/2.79/bpy.types.Object.html?highlight=to_mesh#bpy.types.Object.to_mesh
but this has changed in 2.8
https://docs.blender.org/api/2.80/bpy.types.Object.html?highlight=to_mesh#bpy.types.Object.to_mesh

I used this:

https://docs.blender.org/api/blender2.8/bpy.types.Depsgraph.html

Wow! Thank you, rollin! This is exactly what I needed... The script works perfectly... I can't believe how easy it was to implement. It's nice that I can reference the new mesh just as easily as standard meshes.