Integrations

Blender

Install the Eclipse Blender add-on and submit Cycles or Eevee jobs from the Local and Distributed panels.

Blender uses the Eclipse add-on. After install, enable it under Edit → Preferences → Add-ons, then open the Eclipse submit panels. Engines: Cycles and Eevee.

Install

  1. In Eclipse: Manage integrations → Blender → Install for each Blender version.
  2. In Blender: Edit → Preferences → Add-ons → enable Eclipse Render Manager.
  3. Open the Eclipse panel from the Blender UI (N-panel / Eclipse operators as installed).

Local Queue panel

Labelled Submit to Eclipse (Local Queue). Typical controls:

  • Frame Range: Start / End / Step.
  • Submission Mode: Standard (Blender renders via the local Eclipse worker).
  • Render Settings: Camera, Engine (Cycles / Eevee), resolution, output format, AOVs / Cryptomatte where enabled.
  • Job Metadata: Project, Label, Artist, Department, Priority.
  • Submit.

Distributed Queue panel

Labelled Submit to Eclipse (Distributed Queue). Adds farm project and mode:

  • Submission Mode: Collect & Package (default) or Shared Path.
  • Collect & Package: scene lands under projects/blender/collect_package/<Project>/scenes/<job_id>/ with collected deps; output under the packaged project.
  • Shared Path: .blend copied under projects/blender/shared_path/<Project>/jobs/…; frames write under …/render/<label>/ when paths are already share-safe.
  • Farm settings: shared root, project picker, optional node selection (same pattern as Maya).

End-to-end submit

  1. Save the .blend file.
  2. Set Cycles or Eevee and output paths in Blender.
  3. Open Local or Distributed Eclipse panel.
  4. Choose mode, frames, and metadata.
  5. For Collect & Package, complete the Scene Collect dialog if shown.
  6. Submit and monitor in Eclipse (Local or Distributed Jobs).

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