Learn how to activate your own internal webserver to communicate with VRED externally.
Video captions: In Autodesk VRED, you have the possibility to activate the own internal webserver to communicate with the program externally. Open Preferences in the main menu bar, under Edit. Select the menu option, WebInterface, and activate, if necessary, Enable Web Server. The default port is 8888. In case the web server is not activated, and was activated for the first time, a software reboot is required. Complete this process with Apply.
Open up your web browser and enter the URL, localhost:8888. Now you are connected with Autodesk VRED via the internal web server, via the port 8888. Select Scenegraph to read out the current Scenegraph structure of your scene.
With the aid of the Python API, you have the facility to communicate with Autodesk VRED and, therefore, can control the software externally. As example, call up the variant, Carpaint. You can see, by calling up the variant set, Carpaint, the color of our geometry changes.