I love Blender… No really. I do! And I love the quality and the speed at which I am now able to render. I finish my shot, adjust my shaders and then render out my scene. What? My scene? Just one? Command line rendering is something you can do in all software. You copy the path of your render software plus a bunch of commands and the file name in a shell or command window and hit “Return” But that just renders one file. What if you have 10 to do for the following morning? Surely there’s a way to make it so you don't have to stay up and keep putting in lines of text? There sure is! And here’s where you learn how. You are going to learn how to make a path to your render software as an easily called Environment Variable which you can run from anywhere as well as some simple commands for start frame, end frame, folder and output as well as file format. Then you write a simple script, or batch file, in a text editor – I use Sublime text here but Notepad++ is also really good – which you save as a bat file to an easily accessible place and run it from there in a powerShell. It’s so simple you’ll wonder why you never did it before. Here’s the location of a few things you’ll need: https://www.sublimetext.com/ - the text editor I like https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ - the website for notepad++ https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/advanced/command_line/render.html - the simple Blender docs about command line rendering https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/advanced/command_line/render.html - a list of all the rendering commands you’ll ever need Take care and speak to you soon website: http://www.gen-vfx.com twitter: https://twitter.com/genoden If you want to use the music in this tutorial, you can! It is: "Work It Out" by LiQWYD https://www.liqwidmusic.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed/en_US
I love Blender… No really. I do! And I love the quality and the speed at which I am now able to render. I finish my shot, adjust my shaders and then render out my scene. What? My scene? Just one? Command line rendering is something you can do in all software. You copy the path of your render software plus a bunch of commands and the file name in a shell or command window and hit “Return” But that just renders one file. What if you have 10 to do for the following morning? Surely there’s a way to make it so you don't have to stay up and keep putting in lines of text? There sure is! And here’s where you learn how. You are going to learn how to make a path to your render software as an easily called Environment Variable which you can run from anywhere as well as some simple commands for start frame, end frame, folder and output as well as file format. Then you write a simple script, or batch file, in a text editor – I use Sublime text here but Notepad++ is also really good – which you save as a bat file to an easily accessible place and run it from there in a powerShell. It’s so simple you’ll wonder why you never did it before. Here’s the location of a few things you’ll need: https://www.sublimetext.com/ - the text editor I like https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ - the website for notepad++ https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/advanced/command_line/render.html - the simple Blender docs about command line rendering https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/advanced/command_line/render.html - a list of all the rendering commands you’ll ever need Take care and speak to you soon website: http://www.gen-vfx.com twitter: https://twitter.com/genoden If you want to use the music in this tutorial, you can! It is: "Work It Out" by LiQWYD https://www.liqwidmusic.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed/en_US