Blender add-on

The add-on panel

Every section of the sidebar panel, top to bottom, and what each control does.

3D viewport, press N, tab blender.farm. The panel changes shape depending on what is going on, this is the full set.

Account

Your email and current credit balance, with an X to disconnect. Accounts with the early adopter perk get an extra line here. The balance refreshes when you connect and after a job.

File

The name and size of the saved .blend. Unsaved files cannot be submitted, the launch button stays disabled with a Save your .blend first note. Save, then submit.

Render settings

Engine: Read from the scene. Cycles and EEVEE are supported.
Resolution: Final pixel size after the scene's resolution percentage, with the percentage shown when it is not 100.
Frames (Start / End)editable: Two editable fields, seeded from the scene's own frame range and re-synced every time you open a file. Type your own values to render a subset for this session. The frame count and step are shown underneath.
Samples: Cycles samples, or EEVEE render samples. Informational; change it in Blender's render properties.
Output: The scene's output format and whether that is an image or a video. See Step 1: Scene for what actually comes back.

Frame fields follow the fileOpening a .blend reloads Start and End from that scene. A manual override lasts for the session but is replaced the next time a file is opened, which is exactly when the panel should follow the file rather than your last edit.

Dependencies

Scan walks the scene and lists every external file it needs. Found files are ticked with their size; sequences collapse to one line with a pattern and file count.

Anything missing is shown in red with a Locate button. Point it at the real file (or, for volume and cache entries, the folder), and the relocation is remembered across re-scans so the upload uses your corrected path.

Colour management

Shows which OCIO config the scene is using. On Blender's bundled config there is nothing to do. On a custom config, the file name is shown along with a default-on Upload OCIO config checkbox, so matching colours needs no action, only an opt-out.

Add-ons

Every non-built-in add-on you have enabled, each with a checkbox and all of them ticked by default, plus All / None. Ticked add-ons are zipped and installed on the render machine so the scene renders the way it does locally. Untick the ones the render does not need to keep uploads small.

Upload options

Total upload: How many files and how many bytes the job will send, updated after a scan.
Skip re-uploading unchanged fileson by default: Fingerprints each file and reuses anything you have uploaded before, from either the add-on or the browser. See Step 4: Upload and launch.

Preferences

Edit > Preferences > Add-ons > blender.farm Render holds the connection state and the API URL. The API URL only needs changing if you are pointed at a non-production dashboard.