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Render a frame or an animation from a .blend file on the command line with Blender
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What this guide covers
For artists and pipeline people who want to render a still or a frame sequence without opening Blender, for example over a remote shell or in a script. You end with a command that sets output path, format, frame range, engine and threads. Based on the Blender manual; no command was run.
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Guide title
Render a frame or an animation from a .blend file on the command line with Blender
Coverage
For artists and pipeline people who want to render a still or a frame sequence without opening Blender, for example over a remote shell or in a script. You end with a command that sets output path, format, frame range, engine and threads. Based on the Blender manual; no command was run.
Example
A hypothetical 48-frame render written as numbered PNG files into a renders folder; the file count is arithmetic from the frame range and nothing was run.
Useful starting points
- Output options placed after the render flag are ignored; the render flag must come last.
- Flags are case sensitive: the capital and lowercase F do different things.
- If the wrong engine is used, name the engine explicitly rather than relying on the saved file.
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