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Blender 🔶<p>Flamenco v3.7 was just released!</p><p>- Load job compiler scripts on demand<br>- FFmpeg upgraded to 7.0<br>- Fix issue with pausing jobs<br>- ... and other goodies!</p><p><a href="https://flamenco.blender.org/download/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flamenco.blender.org/download/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Flamenco is Blender's render farm system.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/b3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>b3d</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blender3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blender3d</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/renderfarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>renderfarm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YourOwnRenderFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YourOwnRenderFarm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/devfund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>devfund</span></a></p>
Sybren A. Stüvel<p>Flamenco v3.7 was just released!</p><p>- Load job compiler scripts on demand<br>- FFmpeg upgraded to 7.0<br>- Fix issue with pausing jobs<br>- ... and other goodies!</p><p><a href="https://flamenco.blender.org/download/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flamenco.blender.org/download/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Flamenco is Blender's render farm system.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/b3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>b3d</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/blender3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blender3d</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/renderfarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>renderfarm</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/YourOwnRenderFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YourOwnRenderFarm</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/devfund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>devfund</span></a></p>
Blender 🔶<p>Flamenco v3.6 is released!</p><p>It adds support for pausing jobs, submitting files from Blender via Python, and more. And of course a bunch of bugfixes.</p><p><a href="https://flamenco.blender.org/download/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flamenco.blender.org/download/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Flamenco is Blender's render farm software. Free &amp; Open Source, of course!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/b3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>b3d</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blender3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blender3d</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RenderFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenderFarm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/devfund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>devfund</span></a></p>
Starship Schrödinger's Destiny<p>In order to make the next VR cartoon, I'm going to have to render nearly ten thousand 360-degree 16 megapixel images.</p><p>Which might be fine if it was mono-vision, but if you want stereo-vision you have to do tricky things with translation of the cameras for each pixel-column in the output image or you'd be cross-eyed when you turned around.</p><p>So what you have to do is: build a rig of about 60 1-pixel-wide cameras pointing at right-angles to each other and rotated x/4096th of a circle, and scan that rig over the time-frozen scene as they rotate to fill each of 30 columns in the output image [ https://github.com/revpriest/godotPanoRenderer ]</p><p>And the trouble with that, is it takes like two or three minutes per frame. So doing ten thousand of them takes two weeks or so.</p><p>Two weeks of render!? Not ideal. Some of the future cartoons are supposed to be topical and done in a weekend.</p><p>But what if you could just rent a hundred computers overnight from Amazon? Get them to do a hundred frames each.</p><p>Well you can indeed rent the machines, but can I install my software on it and run it on a computer that doesn't have a monitor plugged in and I can't see the windows?</p><p>Proof of concept is done: Yes I can!</p><p>We install the Nvida drivers, and then X11lib, and vulkan libs, then run startx in one console window, while in another I do the display-config by prefixing the launch of the built app with "DISPLAY=:0.0 " in another console.</p><p>A few changes to my code to allow it to accept command-line arguments telling it which frames to render, and my Godot app can run on a remote machine and save the rendered files to disk.</p><p>Next up is how to scale that, so I can run it on 100 spot machines overnight. They will need some sort of coordinator scripts I guess.</p><p>And the particle effects are going to be annoying since they are random, and will thus be different on each machine. Hopefully I can fix their seeds somehow.</p><p>But, the good news: I have successfully rendered an image on a remote amazon machine. Being able to do the render on many machines at once is not going to be a blocker.</p><p>The show will go on!</p><p><a href="https://starshipsd.com/tags/godot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>godot</span></a> <a href="https://starshipsd.com/tags/vr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vr</span></a> <a href="https://starshipsd.com/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <a href="https://starshipsd.com/tags/cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartoon</span></a> <a href="https://starshipsd.com/tags/renderfarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>renderFarm</span></a></p>
Sybren Stüvel 🧡🤍<p>Flamenco v3.5-alpha0 is now available for download at <a href="https://flamenco.blender.org/download/#go-experimental" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flamenco.blender.org/download/</span><span class="invisible">#go-experimental</span></a></p><p>This includes the built-in MQTT client for connecting your render farm to to HomeAssistant <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@homeassistant" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>homeassistant</span></a></span> </p><p>Please note this is an experimental release. Report any bugs you find, but don't make your production depend on it quite yet!</p><p>For the other changes, see <a href="https://projects.blender.org/studio/flamenco/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.blender.org/studio/fl</span><span class="invisible">amenco/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/b3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>b3d</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/blender3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blender3d</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/RenderFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenderFarm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/YourOwnRenderFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YourOwnRenderFarm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/devfund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>devfund</span></a></p>
Sybren Stüvel 🧡🤍<p>Friday at <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/bcon23" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bcon23</span></a> I'll host a hands-on class on our render farm software Flamenco. Get it running on your own laptop, right there on the spot!</p><p>Join me in the classroom on Friday 12:00!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/b3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>b3d</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/blender3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blender3d</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/RenderFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenderFarm</span></a></p>
Blender 🔶<p>Flamenco v3.3-beta1 has been released!</p><p>It's an experimental release, so be careful. Any testing you can do would be much appreciated.</p><p>Downloads are available at <a href="https://flamenco.blender.org/download/#go-experimental" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flamenco.blender.org/download/</span><span class="invisible">#go-experimental</span></a></p><p> It has some nice new features, like clustering of workers, automatic detection of the project's top-level directory, and many more. The download page links to the entire change log.</p><p>Flamenco is the render farm created by Blender Studio.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/flamenco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flamenco</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RenderFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenderFarm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/b3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>b3d</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blender3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blender3d</span></a></p>
Sybren Stüvel 🧡🤍<p>Blender's accepted Google Summer of Code projects are announced: <a href="https://code.blender.org/2023/05/google-summer-of-code-2023/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">code.blender.org/2023/05/googl</span><span class="invisible">e-summer-of-code-2023/</span></a></p><p>I'll be mentoring Eveline Anderson on various Flamenco improvements. Excited to get the extra help on the project!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/b3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>b3d</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/blender3D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blender3D</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/GSOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GSOC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/GSOC2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GSOC2023</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/devfund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>devfund</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Flamenco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Flamenco</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/RenderFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenderFarm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a></p>