how to save 3D mayavi animation in windows?

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I am confused by how to save a 3D mayavi animation（ideal format is .vtk）
I tried .savefig(), however it can only save 2D images. I have seen somebody spliced every .png together into a .mp4, but I need a 3D data, which I can put it into other 3D visualization tools.
Thanks for your help!

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Hi @CliffordTHU,
MNE does not have any function for this, but you could try using PySurfer and brain.save_movie():
https://pysurfer.github.io/auto_examples/save_movie.html

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I would use https://mne.tools/stable/generated/mne.viz.Brain.html#mne.viz.Brain.save_movie

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Oh, cool, I didn’t know the Brain object had that. Sorry for spreading misinformation then.

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No problem, that API has been under quite active development recently!