Flamenco ​

Flamenco is a cross-platform framework to manage a render farm. Blender Studio uses Flamenco for rendering jobs across with a several machines including artist's workstations.

Flamenco Quickstart Guide ​

Follow the Flamenco Quickstart guide to setup your Flamenco farm. The rest of this page acts as a companion to the Flamenco Quickstart guide, providing additional info relevant for Blender Studio Pipeline users.

Shared Storage ​

On Step 2, you must determine a shared storage path. This path must be accessible by all workers in the farm. This path should be outside of your project's directory and must be an absolute path (the same on each machine).

To learn more about how files are stored on the farm, see the Shaman Storage System documentation.

Blender Path ​

On Step 3, your Blender Path MUST be the same on all workers.

If you are storing your Blender executable at a path that is different on each computer (e.g. relative to each user's home folder), consider either creating a symlink or storing a copy of Blender in a directory that is the same on each workstation.

Distributing Flamenco Add-On ​

On Step 6 you will be provided with the Flamenco Add-On. You will need to distribute this Add-On to all machines in each project using the farm.

• Place a copy of the Add-On zip in the your_project_name/shared/artifacts/addons/ directory.

Advanced users can modify the update_addons.py script which automates the above process. See Update Add-Ons guide

Flamenco Workers ​

After Step 8, ensure flamenco-worker has been run on each machine you will like to include in your Flamenco farm. These worker machines will render jobs once you have submitted a job from Blender to the Flamenco server in Step 9.