Blender

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.

Availability and Restrictions

Versions

The following versions of Blender are available on OSC systems: 

You can use module spider blender to view available modules for a given machine. Feel free to contact OSC Help if you need other versions for your work.

Access

Blender is available to all OSC users. If you have any questions, please contact OSC Help.

Publisher/Vendor/Repository and License Type

Blender Foundation, Open source

Usage

Set-up

On Owens-Desktop 'vis' or 'any' node type, run the following command:

module load blender

Using Blender

To run hardware-rendering version of blender, connect to OSC OnDemand and luanch a virtual desktop, either a Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) or an Interactive HPC 'vis' type Desktop, and in desktop open a terminal and run blender with VirtualGL: 

module load virtualgl
vglrun blender

You can also run software-rendering version of blender on any type Desktop: 

blender-softwaregl

Further Reading

• Blender Demo Files
• Blender User Manual