Blender 5 logs through CLOG, prefixing every line with elapsed time and a
category ("00:02.954 render | Saved: '...'"), and reports errors as
"ERROR ..." instead of "Error: ...". The parser anchored on "Saved:" at the
start of the line, so it counted no frames from a render that wrote all of
them and the job failed as "saved no frames". Progress (Fra:) and error
detection were dead on 5.x for the same reason.
The prefix is now stripped before matching; 4.x output parses as before.
Warnings no longer count as errors: add-ons print them on every launch and
one would otherwise be reported as the reason a render failed. A run that
saves nothing now reports Blender's own error when there is one.
Verified on the real DH2 test.blend under Blender 5.2: the 1.6.2 parser
counts 0 of 3 saved frames, this one counts 3.
Bump worker to 1.6.3.
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Blender work is not a shot submission: no Export, no version, no
validation, QC or delivery. It is "Ctrl+F12, but on the farm", so it is
modelled as what it is — a queue entry and nothing more.
That turned out to need very little. Claim, progress, fail and
complete-render already tolerated a job with no Export behind them, so a
Blender job reuses the whole lifecycle; RenderJob gains projectId, label
and submittedBy so a job with no shot code still has something to show.
Capability gating is new and was already missing: the claim now filters
job types by the machine's reported tools. Without it a workstation
without Blender would claim Blender work and fail it repeatedly, burning
the attempts while a machine that could have rendered it sat idle. The
worker asks for Blender jobs unconditionally and the server refuses them
— trusting the worker to self-select would have left the same hole.
The runner treats a clean exit with no saved frames as a failure:
Blender exits 0 when a frame range is empty or an output path is
unwritable, and a job that silently rendered nothing is the worst
outcome available.
Standalone jobs auto-requeue on a transient failure like any other work;
delivery builds are deliberately excluded, since a half-written package
wants a human first.
Adds the Blender add-on (BlenderPanel/) and its docs. The add-on refuses
to submit an unsaved file — the farm opens the .blend from disk, so
unsaved changes would render the previous state without warning. Its
payload is pinned by a contract test, since add-on and server only ever
meet over JSON.
Worker 1.5.0. Adds migration 20260815000000_blender_render_jobs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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