GreenButton

Installing Yafaray

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) when either YafaRay or Blender Render is the selected rendering engine.

Currently only supporting Blender 2.5 and is only available for Windows

Windows 7/Vista/XP

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Linux

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Mac OS X

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Blender 2.5x

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  Step 1

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

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  Step 2

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

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  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.

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  Step 4

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

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  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).

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  Step 6

  The GreenButton plugin will now be active under the Render Settings of the Properties panel if either "Blender Render" or "Yafaray Render" is selected as the rendering engine (by default on the right-hand side of the screen.

Blender 2.58 - Plugin Version 1.51

• Added Yafaray support
• Minor bug fixes

Blender 2.56 - Plugin Version 0.9

• Bug fixes for starting plugin and checking for updates
• Bug fix for saving plugin as default and reopening Blender
• Overhaul for job progress window in Windows
• Update in Blender on server to correct modifiers in animation
• Addition of OpenEXR as an image format for both stills and animation

Yafaray FAQ's

Yafaray Pricing

For YafaRay 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.

We charge US $0.30 per core hour for all Blender, Yafaray and LuxRender jobs.