How can I tell blender to quit from the command line once it finishes a render?

Question

I'm using Blender 3.0 in Windows 10. I'm writing a batch file to invoke Blender to render individual .blend files in series (ie render shot 1, then shot 2, etc) in the background.

The problem is that when I invoke blender from within the batch file, It renders the first .blend file just fine, but since the Blender application does not quit after the render is finished, my batch file is essentially hung (ie. it will never process the next command).

Is there a way to tell Blender that when you run it in background mode, you want it to quit once the render is done? I've looked through the docs extensively on the command line options, but nothing is mentioned.

Any ideas or workarounds? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

It took me a while to figure this one out, but I got it working by disabling all of my addons during the render. So one of my addons (not sure which yet) was causing Blender to hang at the end of the animation render.

Instead of disabling all of your addons, using the --factory-startup flag in your command line should accomplish the same result without having to manually disable your addons.