Disable BAT's Strict Pointer Mode to work around issues with dangling
pointers in the Blender Animation Studio files. These seem to be caused
by not-perfectly-resynced library overrides. Ignoring those pointers
seems to cause less problems than crashing on them.
The code now requires Python 3.7 or newer, as a side-effect of the changes
required for compatibility with 3.9 (as used in Blender 2.93). As a result,
Blender Cloud Add-on now requires Blender 2.80 or newer.
When the to-be-rendered blend file is contained in the job storage
directory, it is now assumed that all files are already reachable by the
Flamenco Workers. This supports environments working directly on shared
storage.
This assumes that the paths are already correct for the Flamenco
Workers. No detection of missing files is done (as BAT doesn't run).
When using Blender Cloud Add-on 1.12 or older, Flamenco Server will
automatically convert the Manager settings to version 1. As a result,
upgrading is recommended but not required to keep working with a newer
Flamenco Server.
This button can be enabled in the add-on preferences and and then be
available on the Flamenco Render panel. Pressing the button will
silently close Blender after the job has been submitted to Flamenco (for
example to click, walk away, and free up memory for when the same
machine is part of the render farm).
Flamenco Server changed from expecting a fixed number of sample chunks to
a compile-time determined number of nonuniform chunks. The artist can now
influence the size of each render task by setting a maximum number of
samples per render task.
Requires that the file is configured for rendering to Matroska video
files.
Audio is only extracted when there is an audio codec configured. This is
a bit arbitrary, but it's at least a way to tell whether the artist is
considering that there is audio of any relevance in the current blend
file.
These are all needed to use FFmpeg on the worker to render a video from
rendered image sequences.
- fps: float, the scene FPS
- images_or_video: either 'images' or 'video', depending on what's being
output by Blender. We don't support using FFmpeg to join chunked videos
yet.
- output_file_extension: string like '.png' or '.exr', only set when
outputting images (since doing this for video requires a lookup table and
isn't even being used at the moment).
