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Polargrid free CPU rendering

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By on 3D News

PolarGriD writes:

This free program is for Blender Artists who have great ideas but no render resources. Polargrid is supporting the Blender Community with this offering. We see this as an investment into the Blender community. The only limitation is the resolution of your output images; The free service is limited to a frame size of 1920 x 1080 pixels. Your projects will render on incredibly fast GIGABYTE AMD EPYC ROME 7642 48Core Blade Systems. Much faster and more reliable than any other free or paid CPU Blender cloud service. The machines run on green energy in our new Datacenter in Boden, Sweden.

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About the Author

Peter Uhlich

I have a legacy with CGI for over 30 years! I was working with the Amiga with Sculpt 3D and Imagine in the '80s. I worked in the '90s with Cyberware 3D Laser scanners when Maya was called Alias and when Houdini was called Prism. We are operating green energy datacenters in the Nordics.

35 Comments

    • Luiz Eduardo Mihich on

      Oops, the manual seems meant for an Old Blender version
      in Blender 3.0, there is no email or Token request field.
      if you turn on the plugin, gives you a huge exception error message.

      Reply
    • Luiz Eduardo Mihich on

      Oops, the manual seems meant for an Old Blender version
      in Blender 3.0, there is no email or Token request field.
      if you turn on the plugin, gives you a huge exception error message.

      Reply
  10. claas e kuhnen on

    plug-in works
    read the manual
    follow the steps after the initial error message (read it !!!)
    follow the manual

    IT WORKS !

    Reply
    • Luiz Eduardo on

      Nope ! No Add on preferences showing for me at all !!! in Blender 3.0.
      When I turn on the Add on , I get a Bible size error message , and instalation therefore can’t be successful.
      Thanks anyway.

      Reply
    • Umby on

      Please stop posting same comment. The error for me is not when installing the addon or requesting the token.

      Here's the console message:

      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "C:\Users\****\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.0\scripts\addons\render_polargrid\async_loop.py", line 296, in _stop_async_task
      self.async_task.result() # This re-raises any exception of the task.
      File "C:\Users\****\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.0\scripts\addons\render_polargrid\space_properties.py", line 203, in async_execute
      outfile, missing_sources, use_flip_fluids = await copy(
      File "C:\Users\****\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.0\scripts\addons\render_polargrid\polargrid_upload.py", line 135, in copy
      await loop.run_in_executor(None, packer.strategise)
      File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 3.0\3.0\python\lib\concurrent\futures\thread.py", line 52, in run
      result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
      File "C:\Users\****\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.0\scripts\addons\blender_asset_tracer\pack\__init__.py", line 250, in strategise
      for usage in trace.deps(self.blendfile, self._progress_cb):
      File "C:\Users\****\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.0\scripts\addons\blender_asset_tracer\trace\__init__.py", line 48, in deps
      bfile = blendfile.open_cached(bfilepath)
      File "C:\Users\****\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.0\scripts\addons\blender_asset_tracer\blendfile\__init__.py", line 65, in open_cached
      bfile = BlendFile(path, mode=mode)
      File "C:\Users\****\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.0\scripts\addons\blender_asset_tracer\blendfile\__init__.py", line 119, in __init__
      self.fileobj = self._open_file(path, mode)
      File "C:\Users\****\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.0\scripts\addons\blender_asset_tracer\blendfile\__init__.py", line 181, in _open_file
      raise exceptions.BlendFileError("File is not a blend file", path)
      blender_asset_tracer.blendfile.exceptions.BlendFileError: File is not a blend file: D:\3D Objects\Balls\balls.polar

      Reply
  11. Luiz Eduardo Mihich on

    You are Welcome .
    Hopefully, the manual will be updated or someone will give us support
    , my error message is similar.

    Reply
  13. Peter Uhlich on

    The comment on the programmer to the error message is this;

    Think the user has a different add-on installed that conflicts with ours (blender_asset_tracer is an older version). Would advise to disable blend file compression or try disabling other add-ons.

    Reply
  14. Tino on

    is this working for someone ?
    I can upload a job but then when trying to access the jobs-website i just land at a blank site. Is there any trick or is it just not working currently?

    Reply
  15. alexmb on

    i even never seen it in cpu cycles menu
    i no pro i just wanted to test but i failed at both, the plugin and the 'i cant use blender' interface
    peace

    Reply
    • Tino Nettling on

      i just tried again .. no luck. I land on the same white page as before. I changed default browser from Safari to Opera and i'm getting an error saying that this page doesn't work

      Can i contact you somewhere other than what's app (as i don't have that)?

      Reply
  17. Tino on

    i finally got polargrid rendering to work (i had to redo the token auth thing in order to get to the job website)

    So it renders nicely, but when i want to get my results i have to down load a couple of zips with my images… wich would be okay, as this service is free.
    But it also downloads very slow … maybe 3-400kb/s.
    Often it doesnt work at all.. i'm getting just gateway errors.

    I’m curious if this gets any better or more comfortable when i book a flatrate?

    Does anyone know a way to contact them per email? (i don’t have twitter or whatsapp)

    Reply

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