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Blender is a free open source 3D content creation suite that is used by digital artists to create 3D art and animations.

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About Blender

Blender is a free open source 3D content creation suite that is used by digital artists to create 3D art and animations. There is a wide toolset available in Blender, defining a complete pipeline (from modelling to sequence editing) controlled by a flexible and consistent user interface. It is a powerful and smart software that currently is used in today’s movies, games and advertisements (Spiderman 2 for example used Blender for the story board animations).

There have been movies that use part or completely this software for special effects and animation. "Friday or Another Day", a Locarno International Film Festival winner was the first 35 mm feature film to use Blender for all the special effects, while movies like "Elephants Dream", "Big Buck Bunny" were animation movies created completely in Blender were conceived as projects to validate and improve the software.

GreenButton & Blender

Using GreenButton with Blender enables Blender users to render their jobs at super speed boosting the performance of Blender and significantly reducing processing time.

For a limited time we are offering a special of just US $0.18 per core hour for all Blender, Yafaray and LuxRender jobs. This special is available until the 29th of Feburary 2012.

Click here to contact us if you have any questions about using GreenButton with Blender.

Special installation instructions for Blender 2.60 on Windows 64bit

  • Install Blender 2.60 using the 64bit installer. During installation when asked where to install the Blender user data files, select option 2: Use the installation directory.
  • Run the GreenButton 64bit installer. When asked for a location for installation, please provide the Blender installation folder, i.e. the folder that contains the blender.exe application. By default this is c:\users\MyUser\Blender Foundation\Blender on Windows 7.

Blender 2.6x

  • When you first run the installer, it may install some required dependencies, before it installs GreenButton. These are Microsoft's .Net 4.0 and Reactive Libraries.
  • Download and run the appropriate GreenButton installer for your version of Blender (Windows, Mac OS X or Linux, 32-bit or 64-bit).
  • If you are running Windows, your choice of 32bit or 64bit installer will depend on your installation of Blender as well as your operating system.
  • Open Blender and open the User Preferences window from the File menu. Under the Add-Ons tab, activate the GreenButton plugin (under the Render category).
  • The GreenButton plugin will now be active under the Render Settings of the Properties panel (by default on the right-hand side of the screen).

Blender 2.4x

  • Ensure you have Python 2.6 installed, which you can download here (select to install for 'All Users' during installation).
  • When you first run the installer, it may install some required dependencies, before it installs GreenButton. These are Microsoft's .Net 4.0 and Reactive Libraries.
  • Download and run the appropriate GreenButton installer for your version of Python/Blender (Windows, Mac OS X or Linux, 32-bit or 64-bit).
  • If you are running Windows, your choice of 32bit or 64bit installer will depend on your installation of Blender and Python as well as your operating system.
  • The plugin may prompt you to supply the path where you put the Blender executables (if you didn't use the Blender installer).
  • Open Blender. Within the Render menu of the User Preferences window you will find a new option: 'GreenButton - Your Personal [Super]Computer'. You can also reach this option in Scripts window (within the Scripts->Render menu).
  • When you start the plugin, you will be able to log into your GreenButton account and set up your render job!

Windows 7/Vista/XP

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Mac OS X

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Linux

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Blender 2.6x

  • Step 1

    Open the User Preferences window from the File menu within Blender.

  • Step 2

    Under the Add-Ons tab, activate the GreenButton plugin (under the Render category).

  • Step 3

    Select the plugin from Render Settings within the Properties panel. Log in with your GreenButton account. If you haven't got one already, sign up here. From the main menu, click on the 'Submit New Job' button.

  • Step 4

    Configure the job settings and press the 'Submit Job' button.

  • Step 5

    You can monitor the progress of your jobs by clicking on the 'My Jobs' button in the main menu. Double-click on a job to download a collection of frames or the merged output (image collection or video).


Blender 2.4x

  • Step 1

    Load the script in Blender by selecting it from the Render menu in the User Preferences window. Alternatively, you can load the script by choosing the Scripts->Render->GreenButton menu item in the Scripts window.

  • Step 2

    Log in with your GreenButton account. If you haven't got one already, sign up here.

  • Step 3

    From the main menu, click on the 'Create New Render Job' button.

  • Step 4

    Select which renderer you would like to use to render your scene. You can choose from Blender 2.49b, Blender 2.54, or LuxRender 0.7.

  • Step 5

    If rendering with Blender, all you need to do is select the frames that you wish to render and press submit. If rendering with Lux you will need to set up the Lux scene as well. More information on using LuxRender can be found at www.luxrender.net. You can also choose the output format, with numerous still image and video file formats available.

  • Step 6

    You can monitor the progress of your jobs by clicking on the 'My Jobs' button in the main menu. Double-click on a job to download a collection of frames or the merged output (image collection or video).

 

Blender 2.61

  • Support for Blender 2.61
  • Preliminary support for Cycles render engine
  • H.264 video encoding
  • Additional support for caching assets, and better library support
  • More output image formats supported (including Multilayer)

Blender 2.60

  • Support for 2.60a
  • Minor bug fixes

Blender 2.49 - Plugin Version 1.2

  • New interface for Mac and Linux plugins for viewing/downloading jobs
  • Upload progress bar added for Mac and Linux
  • Overhaul of job progress window in Windows
  • Updates/Bugfixes to lighting in LuxRender on server
  • Addition of OpenEXR as a still image format, both for Blender and LuxRender
  • Addition of Targa as a LuxRender still image format

Blender 2.49 - Plugin Version 1.11

  • Lossless video format changed to H264 codec
  • Upload job file bug fixed for Linux and Mac
  • Image resolution max increased (20000 x 20000)
  • Automatic login function
  • Large file downloads performance improved
  • Fixed error ocurring at 100% complete
  • Fixed video compiling error at 99% complete
  • Fixed submission communications error for Mac and Linux

Blender FAQ's


Blender Pricing

For Blender jobs, while we haven’t yet enabled fully automated Job Prediction, we still dynamically allocate cores to your jobs to manage the performance. Basically, all jobs submitted to GreenButton are allocated only a small number of cores initially, then once your job is running; our system monitors the job, and then determines how many extra cores should be allocated. Generally we boost the initial number of cores by 400% but please note, the extra cores can take a further 15 to 20 minutes to come online, so small jobs (less than 100 frames or single frame renders) may complete before the additional cores are available.

If you decide that your job is not running fast enough, simply contact us and we can crank it up even more.


For a limited time we are offering a special of just US $0.18 per core hour for all Blender, Yafaray and LuxRender jobs. This special is available until the 29th of Feburary 2012.