Forcing Blender to use GPU

Deadline
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Hello!

I have cleaned up the patch we had posted above, it was not working for me as well. The patch still has the same BlenderForceGPUScript.py file, but not is hardcoded to add the “-P” while rendering.
Attaching the zip file here, and the steps used to force GPU rendering with Blender:

  1. Replace your Blender application plugin files.
    Copy the Blender folder from the Step 1 folder into DeadlineRepository10\custom\plugins

  2. Replace the Blender submitter in the Monitor
    Copy the BlenderSubmission.py file from the Step 2 folder into DeadlineRepository10\custom\scripts\Submission

  3. When you’re submitting your job that needs to have GPU rendering enforced, add path to the “BlenderForceGPUScript.py” at the bottom of the submitter “Path to BlenderForceGPU Script” option.

Just make sure the Worker will be able to run BlenderForceGPUScript.py (included in the Step 3 folder) from wherever you’ve chosen to store it.

Updated Blender plugin files and it works fine with Deadline 10.3.0.x.
BlenderGPU Steps.zip (9.9 KB)

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