Guide
Everything about rendering on blender.farm
What every upload setting does, how the Blender add-on works, and what to check when a render comes back wrong. Short pages, all of it in one place. Search above, or start with your first render.
Start here
What the farm does, how to run your first render, and what it costs.
- How blender.farm worksWhat happens between dropping a .blend and getting frames back, and which parts of that you pay for.
- Your first renderA five minute walkthrough of the browser flow, from dropping a file to watching frames come back.
- Credits and billingOne credit is 20 minutes of render time. What starts the meter, what stops it, and what happens when you run out.
Uploading in the browser
Every setting on the four setup steps, what it reads from your file, and what it changes on the render machine.
- Step 1: SceneEngine, frame range, resolution and output format, read out of your .blend, plus what you can override before launching.
- Step 2: Files it needsHow dependency detection works, what each status means, and the fastest way to attach a folder full of missing files.
- Step 3: Add-ons and colourWhich add-ons your scene needs at render time, how to get them onto the machine, and how to ship a custom OCIO config.
- Step 4: Upload and launchThe upload itself, the file cache that skips re-uploading unchanged files, the job ID, and what launching actually does.
- Watching a renderThe live view: frames as they finish, the log, resource graphs, downloads, extra outputs and stopping early.
- Editing and relaunchingChange the frame range, resolution or output format and render again without uploading the scene a second time.
Blender add-on
Submit renders from inside Blender, with dependency scanning that does not miss things.
- Install the add-onDownload, install into Blender 4.0 or newer, and connect it to your account through the browser.
- The add-on panelEvery section of the sidebar panel, top to bottom, and what each control does.
- Submitting from BlenderThe upload and launch flow inside Blender, what each phase means, and where the render then lives.
- Add-on troubleshootingPanel missing, sign-in not completing, a fix that seems not to have shipped, and other common add-on problems.
Reference
Limits, what to do when a render goes wrong, and short answers.