Move the 'Single Image Render' job type to the 'third party job types'
section on the website. It needs more testing & finessing before it can be
bundled with Flamenco.
Add a new job type that can render a single image. It is broken up
into separate tiles, each of which can be rendered independently by a
worker. Only tested with Cycles.
Adaptive sampling is supported. For this, each tile is expanded by 16
pixels in each direction, which is later cropped off before merging
the tiles.
Denoising is not (yet) supported, as Blender/Cycles does not output
all the necessary data into EXR layers.
Tile sizes should (for now) be a power of 2, to avoid alignment
issues.
Reviewed-on: https://projects.blender.org/studio/flamenco/pulls/104327
Reviewed-by: Sybren A. Stüvel <sybren@blender.org>
The docs listed the ffmpeg command as `create-video` but it seems that the actual command is `frames-to-video`.
Reviewed-on: https://projects.blender.org/studio/flamenco/pulls/104333
Reviewed-by: Sybren A. Stüvel <sybren@blender.org>
Flamenco treats assets differently, depending on whether they're referenced
by an absolute or a blendfile-relative path. This is now actually
documented.
Document installation & use of sqlc.
Installing sqlc is only necessary to regenerate the database code. Once
generated, the code is independent of sqlc.
Add a screenshot of the Manager's log on the terminal. This should make
it clearer which "Manager output" is meant, also for people who aren't
familiar with terminals.
Fixes#104303
Reword so that the section starts with the suggestion that each problem
has a solution. And make it an enumerated list to clarify the structure
of the answer.
Updated the troubleshooting section of the FAQ to include guidance on checking the firewall and potential third-party antivirus issues when the Worker cannot connect to the Manager. This enhances the user experience by addressing common connectivity issues more comprehensively.
Add a Worker configuration option to configure the Linux out-of-memory
behaviour. Add `oom_score_adjust=500` to `flamenco-worker.yaml` to increase
the chance that Blender gets killed when the machine runs out of memory,
instead of Flamenco Worker itself.
GORM has certain downsides:
- Code-first approach, where queries have to be translated to the Go code
required to execute them.
- GORM comes with its own SQLite implementation, which doesn't provide an
on-connect callback. This means that new connections cannot correctly
enable foreign key constraints, causing database consistency issues.
[SQLC](https://sqlc.dev/) solves these issues for us.
This commit doesn't fully replace GORM with SQLC, but introduces it for
a few queries. Once all queries have been converted, GORM can be removed
completely.
Add a little intro that explains that there are multiple config files. And
add a section that explains that the worker-specific files are not to be
edited, just deleted.
A few smaller tweaks for the navigation menu (on the left, not the top):
- Smaller font. The upgrade to the latest Geekdocs made this bigger, but I
like it if it's a bit smaller than the main text.
- More visible indicator line for the active element. This was a dashed
underline of just the text. It is now a dashed border-bottom that extends
the entire width of the element. This visibly connects the main body of
text to the active menu element.
And for the main text:
- Less padding for `h3` elements, as the whitespace became a bit too much.
Upgrade the Geekdocs theme from 0.32.4 to 0.44.1. This changes the layout
a little bit; most notably the 'documentation' menu is in a larger font.
I tried the upgrade to solve an issue of images not appearing (while
writing not-yet-committed changes). That wasn't solved by the upgrade, but
in the spirit of keeping up to date I'd thought I'd commit this upgrade
anyway.
