Blender Render Queue
BRQ is a super easy to use standalone batch renderer for Blender.
Originally built for indie or small teams, it is a completely separate app from Blender editor.
It will queue multiple projects and render them out.
Simply drag and drop blend files, sort them out, choose camera and view layers, start rendering and go back working while it renders in the background !
Features
- Minimalist interface
- Queue ordering
- Camera selection
- ViewLayer rendering
- Draft animation rendering
- File output wildcars
- On the fly output folder selection
- Queue recovering if the computer crashed
- Auto shutdown computer when queue completes
- Total render time assessment
- Realtime progress
- Remote monitoring web app
- Log output
Requirements
It is compatible with Windows, MacOs and Linux.
It works with Blender v3+, rendering with Workbench, Eevee or Cycles engine.
It uses command line rendering under the hood, so you need to have Blender installed on your machine.
Complete documentation (For the Full version) is here :
https://docs.blender-render-queue.com
*Note that some features presented in the documentation may not be available in the Lite version
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VERSION 4.8.9 (FULL) :
- Monitoring mobile app
- Camera selection
- ViewLayer selection
- Added shortcuts
- Preview image for all output format
- Cycles GPU device selection
- BRQ Blender add-on
- Auto Blender install detection
- Added Turbo Render compatibility
- Fixed compatibility with faulty third party add-ons
- Fix VSE Scene strip rendering
VERSION 3.5.2 (LITE) :
- Added shortcuts
- Preview image for all output format
- Cycles GPU device selection
- BRQ Blender add-on
- Auto Blender install detection
- Added Turbo Render compatibility
- Fixed compatibility with faulty third party add-ons
- Fix VSE Scene strip rendering
VERSION 3.0.0 :
- Added auto shutdown computer option when queue completed
- Added checkbox to show blender error messages (now disabled by default)
- Fixes freeze when rendering large image sequence
VERSION 2.0.8 :
- Fixes blender's exe path error on startup on windows fresh install
VERSION 2.0.6 :
- Slightly rendering speed improvement with Cycles on the GPU on Windows
- Better handling of Blender rendering errors
- Adds Render status message popover on each rendering job
- Fixes bug on last screenshot when queue finished rendering
- Fixes bug on list reorder
- Fixes bug on settings on initial startup
VERSION 1.0.3 :
- Fixes "Can't retrieve blender scenes" error
- Fixes cloud progress infos not updating when window is hidden
Standalone batch renderer for Blender