New feature: Select render engine for output

[Gattung]

Maybe a useful feature would be an option to select the render engine used for output i.e. sometimes I like to render frames using workbench, to do so I need to go to the render engine for the scene and change it then change it back to eevee or cycles for normal rendering.

Thanks!

[p2or]

Hi @Gattung,

thanks for your request. As a dropdown for the regular render dialog? Good news is that there is a branch already to address that for the batch dialog: https://github.com/p2or/blender-loom/tree/render-attribs

I would appreciate any feedback on this. The problem I personally see is that if there is an option to set the engine, the user wants more... setting the resolution, file format etc. and I have not yet found a way to accommodate all that properties onto the panel. Do you have a good idea to solve this?

Cheers,
Christian

[Gattung]

I don't, I can lay that out in an image but wouldn't know how to implement it.
Thanks for the batch dialog version, I will check it out.

T.

[p2or]

Hi @Gattung,

good news, I hope. We could leverage Blender's regular 'Preset-System' to store all necessary render settings. I had some time over the weekend to develop a first prototype: https://github.com/p2or/blender-loom/tree/render-presets

Basically, this allows to set the engine, samples, output path, image properties, etc. and save all settings as a new custom 'preset' (Properties Header). If a preset exists, a new dropdown will appear in the regular 'Render Dialog' when 'Render using Command Line' is turned on, in order to render the scene regardless of the current settings:

What do you think?

Cheers,
Christian

[Gattung]

I think this is a great implementation, using the presets makes sense. I'm used to using it as only resolution presets but being able to use them as rendering option presets is very useful.

[p2or]

Hi @Gattung,

great, glad you like it. I've just added a few options to specify which settings to include in each preset (I guess something that may change over time):

... and it's also now possible to override the render settings using the presets for all files in the 'Batch Dialog'. If you have time to test it, I would appreciate your feedback on the actual implementation and if you still have ideas to improve something please let me know.

Otherwise, I will test the changes in my spare time extensively and make them available in the next official release (0.8.9).

Cheers,
Christian