Render Commander — Blender Add-on

A Blender addon designed to launch custom background renders directly from Blender.
Optimized for Cycles Render, it lets you run animations in parallel across multiple GPUs, maximizing performance and efficiency for your projects.

Features

Render Presets and Overrides: Adjust render settings on the fly without touching your original file. Create and reuse your render presets for different stages on your projects.

Device Parallel Rendering: On multi-GPU systems, you can significantly speed up animation renders by launching separate render processes, each assigned to its own device.

External Scenes Support: Access scenes stored in external .blend files without opening them. Review their settings, tweak overrides, and launch renders directly from the addon panel.

System Integration: Prevent system sleep while rendering. Get desktop notifications when your renders complete. 

Fine-Tuned: Use custom Blender executables for rendering. Append your owns python scripts to the render job.

Installation

1. Download the latest release from the Releases page.
2. In Blender, go to **Edit > Preferences > Get Extensions.
3. Click Install from Disk… and select the downloaded .zip file.
4. Enable the add-on by checking the box next to Render Commander.

Usage

1. Open the Render Commander panel in the Viewport Sidebar panel.
2. Choose a render mode: Image, Animation, or Frame List.
3. Cycles Render: On the addon preferences sub-panel select the render devices.
4. Optionally apply a preset or override specific settings.
5. Click Render — your job starts immediately, and you can keep working!

Requirements

• Blender 4.2 or newer
• Windows, Linux