I have a computer at home that I want to use for rendering so I can continue using my laptop. Is there a way I can send a blend file to my Desktop which will automatically be opened and rendered for me.
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$\begingroup$ You can try using VNC or other kind of remote software like teamviewer (do not use Microsoft's Remote Desktop, as it cannot do OpenGL properly) $\endgroup$– user1853Mar 14, 2018 at 18:12
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Yes, there is. Automatically scheduling it will be a bit of a hassle, though (if you want to do that).
Rendering it
Blender can actually be run from the command line (Terminal on Mac, cmd on Windows). You can render a file like this:
blender -b path/to/file.blend -o whatever-####.png
On Mac, prefix this with /Applications/Blender/Blender.app/Contents/MacOS/ (replace /Applications/Blender with wherever you installed Blender). I don't know what to prefix it with on Windows.
Try this out, and it should spit out a .png image file in the current directory (another name for folder), which should be your home folder.
Rendering it remotely (on Mac)
You can just transfer the file to the remote machine and run the above command. This is for controlling it from the work machine.
Open a terminal on the rendering machine and type hostname. (You only need to do this once.) Then go to your work machine and type ping whatever.local, where whatever.local is the output of the hostname command on the other machine. You should get a continuous stream of output. Hit Ctrl-C to stop it. This step is to make sure that the two computers can see each other.
Now run this command, which does something very interesting:
ssh [email protected]
yourusername is your username on the remote machine.
It'll give you a scary "identity could not be verified" warning the first time you connect. Just type "yes" to continue. (It can't tell the difference between a new machine and an impostor.)
Assuming you got your other machine's password correct, you are now controlling the remote machine!
Now copy the file to your render machine, or run this command:
scp [email protected]:/Users/.../file.blend ~
This will pull the file to your home folder on the remote machine. (Run hostname in another window to get your work machine's name.)
Now run the blender command above. Repeat scp and blender as necessary. When you're done for the day, type exit to log out of the remote machine.
answered Mar 14, 2018 at 16:03
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$\begingroup$ How would I do this on a windows machine? $\endgroup$ Mar 14, 2018 at 19:04
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blendercommand will still work on Windows, so you can transfer the file another way and run the command there. (blendershould be prefixed with wherever it's installed; I just don't know where it installs to on Windows, if anywhere.) $\endgroup$ Mar 15, 2018 at 15:47 -
$\begingroup$ Windows 10 actually has built-in SSH now, but it's disabled by default. (See here for instructions on enabling it.) $\endgroup$ Mar 15, 2018 at 15:49
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If u use a hard drive and put the blend file plus any textures in the same folder u could build it on the laptop and then just plug the hard drive into the pc. Then just open it and press render
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$\begingroup$ But how can i do this if i am not at home, sorry should of specified is there an automated system $\endgroup$ Mar 14, 2018 at 15:47