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I have a base64 encoded PNG image, and I want to load this into an image. I could write a simple PNG decoder and read every pixel, but this would be very inefficient as this would be done on a per-pixel-basis through Python.

Is there a way to feed bpy.types.Image with the entire raw string of a PNG that doesn't come from disk?

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This seems to work.

def image_from_data(img_name, data):
   # Create image, width and height are dummy values
   img = bpy.data.images.new(img_name, 8, 8)

Set packed file data


img.pack(data=data, data_len=len(data))


Switch to file source so it uses the packed file


img.source = 'FILE'


return img

You can also change the packed data afterwards with another .pack() call; use .reload() in that case to refresh after the change.

scurest
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