The Render Multiple Instances (RMI) addon for Blender provides a convenient way to render animations faster by utilizing multiple instances in background. Here are the key features of the addon:
The addon is designed to work seamlessly with Blender 4.2 and later versions. It simplifies the process of rendering animations by leveraging multiple instances, resulting in faster rendering times. The flipbook features enable quick previews of animations, while the FFmpeg encoding ensures the final output is ready to use.
Even when using just a single instance, the RMI addon can improve rendering speed by rendering the animation in the background, allowing you to continue working in Blender while the rendering is in progress.
The Render Multiple Instances (RMI) panel is located in
Output Properties > Render Multiple Instances
Note that the FFmpeg encoding features of the addon require FFmpeg to be installed on the machine for them to function properly.
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oh yeah and it crashed blender
In the years i've used it it never once crashed blender. It launches other instance to render, saving the blend file just before to make sure all instances are updated to the last modification.
Even in the even of a crash you should not lose any progress.
Now, i just pushed an update yesterday, can you check it it works for you know?
Hello dear developers of RMI addon I have tested this add-on against normal rendering and terminal rendering , the add-on performed poorly I tried Rendering in 2 and 4 instance as well. it was the slowest . additional info:
blender version : 4.2.1 overall render settings: { Cycles > Supported > GPU Compute Noise Thtesh hold 0.01 max Samples 512 Open Image Denoise Light Paths (Top to bottom) = Total 12 , D 4 , G 4 , T 12 , V 0 , T 32 . performance > final render > persistent data enabled } overall output settings: { resolution X 1920 Y 1080 render region and crop to render region activated format png color RGBA color depth 8 compression 0% image sequence overwrite } computer : { OS : windows 11 CPU : I7 13700K Ram : 32 GB DDR5 6400 MT/s CL 32 GPU : RTX 3090 SSD : Samsung 990 Pro }