Blender Benchmark Client

Run benchmarks, collect data!

CLI usage

• Ensure python3 is installed
• Checkout the Blender scenes from https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/lib/benchmarks/cycles/ into a scenes directory
• Copy the config/farm.cfg.example to config/farm.cfg and edit if needed. If device_type is CPU, device_name will be ignored.
• Run benchmark/farm.py
• The results will be stored in the output_dir specified in config/farm.cfg

Build for release

macOS

• Open Xcode, view account settings and ensure the presence of a macOS distribution certificate of type "Developer ID Application".
• Open Terminal, run security find-identity and ensure the presence of valid identity
• Set env variable CODESIGN_IDENTITY to the valid identity
• Set env variable STORAGE_DIRECTORY to a directory where the bundling will happen
• Run bundle/bundle.sh

The script will generate a .zip file containing the signed .dmg