as-a-service / blender

A simple web service that renders a Blender 3D scene with custom text.

Render Blender 3D scenes in the cloud (using Docker)

A simple web app that renders a Blender 3D scene with custom text.

Run with docker run -p 8080:8080 gcr.io/as-a-service-dev/render

API

URL parameters:

• text: The text to render, defaults to HELLO.
• scene: the name of the .blend file to render (without the extension), defaults to basic, other supported values are outrun and outrun-filter.

Example: /?text=OUTRUN&scene=outrun

Bring your own 3D scene:

1. Create a Blender scene, your scene must contain a text object with the name Text,
2. Add your .blend file in the models/ folder,

Running the server locally

• Build with docker build . -t render
• Start with docker run -p 8080:8080 render
• Open in your browser at http://localhost:8080/?text=Hey

blender's Issues

Blender 3.3.1 is supported?

Hi! I open file outrun.blend in Blender 3.3.1 and save without editing. New file size is 923 932 bytes.

But after call api I get this picture:

Can you tell me the version of Blender that will work?

Tips for running Headless Eevee in google cloud run?

Rendering with Eevee needs a display attached. I've had some success getting Eevee renders to work using PyVirtualDisplay, but I wanted to reach out and see what techniques you've used. I looked through the code and didn't see you using anything to create a virtual display.