Appending cameras to scene

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Hello

I’m struggling a little with a task of appending cameras to scene from A to B. > Code

        link = False     
        newCameras = []
     
        print("Adding new cams")
        with bpy.data.libraries.load(path, link=link) as (data_from, data_to):
            for camera in data_from.cameras:
                newCameras.append(camera)
            data_to.cameras = newCameras
        print(newCameras)
        for camera in newCameras:
            bpy.context.scene.collection.objects.link(camera)

I get:

    bpy.context.scene.collection.objects.link(camera)
TypeError: CollectionObjects.link(): error with argument 1, "object" -  Function.object expected a Object type, not Camera

Any help would be great.
Thanks !

2

In Blender camera’s meshes, lights etc are object-data, not objects you can link to a collection.

You’ll need to either create a new camera object and link the camera to it or link in the camera objects (which will load the camera data too).

3

Hello

Yeah thanks, it was quite “fun” issue… I’m still confused by some decisions of blender api but o well… here is working code>

        newCameras = []
        camNames = []
        with bpy.data.libraries.load(path, link=link) as (data_from, data_to):
            for camera in data_from.cameras:
                camNames.append(camera)
            for cameraName in data_from.objects:
                if cameraName in camNames:
                    newCameras.append(cameraName)

            data_to.cameras = camNames
            data_to.objects = newCameras

        for cam in newCameras:
            bpy.context.scene.collection.objects.link(cam)