Video Guides and Additional Tips

More resources for working with Blender on the Render Network

Reducing .blend file size

Blender can reduce the size of a .blend file using compression techniques. This can be achieved when saving the file by enabling the gear icon on the right side and ticking the Compress option.

Video Guide to reducing the .Blend file size

Bake Rigid Body - To Keyframes

Bake Cloth Physics to disk cache and setting up the correct folder structure to render on the network.

Custom File Output Passes now supported on the network – brief overview and setup

Saving Hair Dynamics to cache – for rendering on the network

Additional Questions

Q) Is Python supported

  1. No, for security reasons all python is disabled, it's advised to bake out your keyframes, you can use blenders bake action .

Sometimes you may use an add-on or create a scripted expression to drive animation channels, unfortunately, the Render Network disables all scripts, but here's a workaround using the Bake Action method

Additional Guides

Please see the complete playlist of video guides to using Blender on the Render Network

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