This one Includes several fixes. The two most important changes are about loading external blendfiles and logs.

Render+ now loads data from blendfiles by spinning an instance of Blender in the background and then writing and reading the information in a text file. This is a bit slower than directly loading the blendfiles as we did before, but has the benefit of supporting compressed blendfiles and being more future proof. Changes in the blendfile format will no longer break support in Render+.

Logs received a lot of attention since I’ve been noticing they were a bit short on info. Render logs now include a list of enabled addons, app handlers, OS and blender versions, the entire custom python code generated, custom overrides and even more.

Finally, Render+ now properly removes frame numbers in filenames for still images. This has been a headache for a very long time, but looks like I finally put together the right combination of settings + custom code to rename the file. Frame numbers are still added for animations of course. There is also now a checkbox to enable/disable frame numbers in case you want them, and a slider to change the number of digits to use for frame numbers.

Full Changelog

• Better process detection for batches in Windows
• Added a lot more information on render logs. This should help a lot with debugging and support.
• Render+ now renders without frame numbers by default when rendering still images in batches.
• Added a checkbox to enable frame numbers in still images
• Added an option to set how many digits frame numbers should be in the render filename
• Removed Pip install for the requests package. This has been included with Blender for some time, will help with loading times.
• Render+ now supports reading information from compressed blender files. The system was completely changed and is now more future proof.
• Added more unit tests. This will help avoid regressions between versions.
• Added support for Metal option for MacOS when rendering with the GPU
• Removed old code for cycles samples