MDSANIMA RenderTime

The Blender add-on estimates and calculate how long your animation will take to render done based on the rendering time of the only one frame.

You will also find here useful rendering statistics as well as automations of various time-consuming activities and manny more useful features and tools.

Blender Add-on

The add-on is located in the View3D > UI area panel and show rendering time statistic. Automatically calculating rendering time for frame range based on your scene then shows date when rendering is done. The add-on also printing rendering statistic in System Console inside Blender terminal.

Developed on Python 3.10.4 and tested on Blender 3.1.2 and 2.93 LTS version. The add-on also works on older Blender versions as well but this is not recommended.

How to Install

Installing the add-on is very simple process, just follow this instruction steps:

• Go to release page on this repository and download the latest add-on version.
• Open the Blender 3.1.2 in your system.
• Then open the Preferences and select Add-ons on the right side.
• Next click the Install button and select the add-on path on your hard drive where you previously downloaded the latest version.
• Select the Community support level button to view the add-on in the list below in the next step.
• On the search field type MDSANIMA RenderTime and then enable an add-on.

That's it, the add-on MDSANIMA RenderTime has been enabled. Now close the Preferences window the add-on will appear in 3D Viewport on the right context panel section. If you don't see this section, just use the N key shortcut in 3D Viewport area to open the right panel where our add-on is located.

Finally, we can meet together.

How to Use

Just click on the RENDER button to see the statistics. The button renders one frame of the animation and uses it to calculate how long your whole animation will take to render done. To refresh statistic, just hover the cursor in to the button RENDER, but don't click on it, then you will see the new date when the rendering will complete.

You can also use the quick F12 key shortcut to render a frame and then just hover the cursor over the render button to see the new statistics.

Development

Instruction for the Blender and Python add-ons or package development can from with my other repository but instruction for automate release is the some like here. Please check the mdsanima-dev Python package documentation site on GitHub Pages for more information about it.

Only to do with Blender and Python add-ons development you must install the fake-bpy-module for the code completion in Visual Studio Code just type in the terminal:

pip install fake-bpy-module-latest

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License

The Blender add-on MDSANIMA RenderTime developed by Marcin Różewski is released under the terms of GPL License.