This guide will help you prepare and use your custom addons for rendering on our platform. By the end of this guide, you’ll be able to upload your addons, and integrate them seamlessly into your render jobs.

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Status: 🔫 Beta

This feature is currently in Beta.

While we are continuously working to enhance this functionality, some limitations or unexpected behavior may occur. However, we have successfully tested it with the following addons:

  • PSA
  • Flip Fluid
  • Shakify
  • Nishita Sky

If you encounter any issues, please don’t hesitate to contact our support team.

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Instructions

To use add-ons with Renderjuice, you need to zip your add-on files and upload them to your Renderjuice account.

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Prepare Your Add-on

Before uploading your add-on, you need to make sure it’s working as expected locally.

  • Ensure your add-on is working as expected locally, by rendering a frame. Set the sample size to lower values to speed this up.
  • Once you’ve confirmed it’s working, zip the files and prepare to upload.
  • Ensure the zip name matches the folder name of your add-on.

You can find the addons folder here:

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Upload Your Add-on to Renderjuice

After you’ve zipped your add-on, you can upload it to Renderjuice.

  1. Login to app.renderjuice.com and navigate to the Add-ons page.
  2. Drag and drop or click Upload to upload the addon zip file.

If an addon is uploaded with a file name identical to an existing addon, the previous version will be automatically replaced with the new one.

Add-ons Page

  1. Once uploaded, you can see your add-on in the list of uploaded add-ons in the Add-ons page.

Uploaded Add-ons

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Use uploaded Add-on in a Render Job

Great job! Now you can use your add-on in a render job.

  1. Navigate to the Home page.
  2. Upload your blend file or choose one from recently uploaded.
  3. It will redirect you to the Configure Render page to set your render parameters.

Configure Render Page

  1. In the Add-ons section, you can select the add-on you uploaded to use.
  • If your addon isn’t listed, click the Upload Addon button to upload it.
  • This opens the Addons page in a new tab.
  • After uploading, return to your render configuration tab, where the newly uploaded addon will now be selectable.

Select Add-ons

  1. Click Continue to validate your scene and start your render 🎉.

Monitor the render to ensure your add-on is working as expected, if any issue detected cancel the render, to avoid wasting credits.

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Important Notes

  • Monitor the render to ensure your add-on is working as expected, if any issue detected cancel the render, to avoid wasting credits.
  • If an addon is uploaded with a file name identical to an existing addon, the previous version will be automatically replaced with the new one.
  • For some addons e.g Flip Fluid, you need to bake your simulation locally and put the cache in the same zip as your .blend file. For more details see the Fluid Simulations guide.

Having trouble or something doesn’t seem right? Just chat with us—we’re happy to help and respond quickly!

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