Blender add-on
Submitting from Blender
The upload and launch flow inside Blender, what each phase means, and where the render then lives.
- 1Save the fileThe add-on uploads what is on disk, not what is in memory. Unsaved changes are not rendered.
- 2Step 1, pick the scenes and their settingsTick the scenes to render, then set each one's frame range, resolution and output format. Test one frame before an animation.
- 3Step 2, check the filesPress Scan and resolve anything red with Locate. Files only an unticked scene uses are skipped automatically.
- 4Step 3, choose add-ons and colourUntick add-ons the render does not need. Leave the OCIO checkbox on if the scene uses a custom config.
- 5Step 4, upload and launchCheck what is being sent, then one button. Progress is shown per file in the panel and in Blender's status bar.
- 6Open the renderWhen it is away, View on blender.farm opens the live view in your browser. Start a new render resets the panel.
Several scenes, one jobTicking more than one scene renders them one after another on the same GPU, each with its own frame range, resolution and output format. It is one job and one machine, billed for the time it takes, not several renders. The frame limit applies to the total across every ticked scene.
Phases you will see
| Phase | What is happening |
|---|---|
| Preparing | Collecting files and zipping add-ons and OCIO config |
| Fingerprinting files | Hashing so anything already uploaded is skipped. Turn it off with the upload option if you would rather not read the files |
| Creating job | Registering the job and getting upload links |
| Uploading | Per-file progress and speed. Files reused from the cache are counted and not sent |
| Launching render | Renting the GPU machine |
Blender stays usableUploading runs on a background thread, so the interface does not freeze. Do not close Blender before the launch finishes; once the render is away you can close everything and follow it in the browser.
After launch
The render lives on the website from there: live frames, logs, downloads, relaunching. The add-on is a submission tool, it does not stream frames back into Blender.