unable to use blenderpro due to lack of understanding the fundametals (I am so sorry)

[fee-lix]

I'm new to blenderproc and I'm really embarrassed that I can't get it to work despite the detailed documentation. I mainly use python for data analysis within anaconda (jupyter notebooks) on windows and clearly have not enough knowledge to manage to understand whats going on. I would be very geratfull if someone could give me a hint.

By now, I did the followig:

1. created a new environment with python 3.10 using the anaconda prompt
2. made a folder and cd there
3. activated the new env
4. pip install blenderproc
5. git clone https://github.com/DLR-RM/BlenderProc
6. cd BlenderProc
7. pip install -e .
8. now, the doc says "BlenderProc has to be run inside the blender python environment, as only there we can access the blender API. Therefore, instead of running your script with the usual python interpreter, the command line interface of BlenderProc has to be used." I have no idea how to use the command line interface of BlenderProc. Do I just have to write blenderproc run <your_python_script> in the anaconda prompt?
9. moving on, testing pip installation by running blenderproc quickstart
10. Produces RuntimeError: This script can only be ran by "blenderproc run", instead of calling python path call: blenderproc run path
11. Instead calling python blenderproc quickstart somehow works and installs blender and dependencies + produces correct output-file
12. using blenderproc vis hdf5 output/0.hdf5 does not work but typing python blenderproc vis hdf5 output/0.hdf5 in the anaconda prompt does work and shows results.
13. Docs on Debugging in the blender gui: To understand what is actually going on, BlenderProc has the great feature of visualizing everything inside the blender UI. To do so, simply call your script with the debug instead of run subcommand: blenderproc debug quickstart.py
14. running this command does also not work. Using python blenderproc debug quickstart.py also does not work resulting in a RuntimeError: The given run script does not exist: quickstart.py
15. Right now, I have no idea if I am doing something wrong or how to fix it. I have the feeling that I am doing something fundamentally wrong. If someone could provide me with some input on what to do, I would be very thankfull.

[MartinSmeyer]

Hey @fee-lix

So step 4 and step 5,6,7 are two mutually exclusive alternative ways of installing BlenderProc. If you don't want to alter the BlenderProc source code, you can just perform step 4 and leave out step 5,6,7. This might be the reason why you experience unexpected behaviors. So please try again in a clean conda environment and report what you get.

[fee-lix]

Thank you very much! Now everything works wonderfully.