Our Blender plugin is now available for all platforms. This means you can use it in Windows, MacOSX and Linux, with Blender 2.67 or newer. After installing it, you will be able to send renders to our farm and check their status, all from Blender’s interface. The plugin handles the file upload to our farm in a secure way, and launches the render automatically. It also displays a list of your recent jobs, and you can click in the list to open the job page and download the files.

It’s been more than 6 months since we launched our live service and things are going well. We rendered a lot of jobs in the past 6 months, and at this point we need to introduce a file and job retention policy, so we do not store your files on our servers longer than needed.

To this extent, we have elaborated the following retention policy. We will keep the jobs and files for a set amount of time, depending on the membership level.

Just a quick note to let you know that we have updated the blender 2.67 version we have on the site to the latest released by the Foundation. So the current version is now 2.67b. This ads a number of fixes over the 2.67a version and should increase the stability of the renders done with it.

Rendering anything interesting with 2.67? Let me know in the comments.

It’s here. The long awaited Blender 2.67, with it’s support for SSS and FreeStyle has been released  a couple days ago by the Blender Foundation. As usual, we added support for it just a day after it has been released, so you can enjoy this stable release of Blender.

We have also moved all projects that were using the latest SVN version of blender to use the stable 2.67 instead and removed the support for that SVN version.

When we built the first version of RenderStreet, we started with the idea that we can take advantage of Blender’s pack external data feature and make sure the files are uploaded properly, with all the data needed to render them.

As they say, no plan survives the contact with the customer, so a while after we launched we ran into issues with Blender features not supported by the pack operation. Some of them, like the external libraries, were fixed by the dev team. Others, like the font embedding, had workarounds. But it became obvious that sooner or later we will run into something that can’t be supported at all.