Quadblaster

(Easy Playblasting With Metadata For Production and Animation Review)

With Quadblaster you can export, increment, add metadata, make a fourview collage, ... to a playblast with a press of a button! This add-onbrings additional functionality to Blender's Viewport Rendering (also called playblast) so that animation can quickly be annotated and exported for review.

Features:

• Quickly export a Viewport Render of an animation from the current view together with metadata notes burnt in for review
• Quickly make a four view playblast collage so an animation can be reviewed from all sides (persp, front, side, top)
Lots of metadata options useful during reviews: (animator name, file name, action name, fps, Blender's frames, notes)
• Overwrite/increment filenames; Automatically increment the file or overwrite the highest increment
• Quick Shading settings: playblast in flat shaded view, with or without the grid

Installation Guide

1. Download the zip
2. Go to Blender's Preferences> Add-ons > Install from disk > and select the zip
3. Set up the ffmpeg path and Animator's name (if ffmpeg is installed in the default folder you don't need to set it up here)

note: This plugin requires ffmpeg (free) so make sure it's installed!

Quadblaster Updates:

3.0

New Features/Changes:

• Option to chose custom output folder
  
• Animator name is now set in the addon preferences so it stays persistent across files once set up
• Near losless compression as Blender will now first output a PNG sequence and then encode that with ffmpeg
• Added version compatibility checker
• Font size slider

Fixes:

• Updated addon structure to work for 4.0
• Added code that will check if ffmpeg can be found on the system
• Addon will now use the systems %tmp% folder rather than a random one as before

QoL improvements:

• Export settings are now handled by the addon, they don't need to be set in Blender's Output menu like before
• Playblast is now done as an image sequence prior to encoding to avoid too much compression
• ffmpeg can be set in the Add-ons Preferences if the user is using a custom install path
• Renamed some buttons so it's easier to tell their purpose
• Added new warnings to inform the user about the status
• Reorganized UI panel for clarity

TODO:

• Couldn't find an elegant way to show the progress bar during encoding
• Add ways to add suffix elements to the filename
• Add notes to metadata
• Add animation state to metadata (blocking, blocking +, spline, vfx, etc)

2.7 (v2)

• If a playblast is interrupted the addon will now properly reset itself (please report issue if found)
• Better UI organization
• Support for single playblast from view
• Fixed bug that didn't change shading to Flat always
• Cleaned up code
• Extensions will now be correctly set on render

2.6
release

I am a hobby developer. If you're encountering issue I can try to fix them but can't guarantee I will be able to or have time to. By buying this software you acknowledge this. It was tested with Blender 3.3.1, 4.0.1, 4.1.1, 4.2.1, 4.3.1 and 4.4.0  Distributed under CC BY-NC-SA