Free blender magazine software for linux

Image Magazine provides a content type which acts both as a folder and as an image.
You populate it with 2 to 4 images, and optionnaly select a layout.
Options include width, background color, padding and margin, and layout mode.
ImageMag then merges the images into a layout while keeping the aspect ratios.
You can then use and call your ImageMag as a standard ploneImage, this mean you can :
.use instance/image_thumbnail, instance/image_large, and so on suffixes to call its different sizes
.call it directly from kupu to illustrate your articles (see readme.txt)
Works with:
- Plone 2.5.2
- Plone 2.5.1
- Plone 2.5

Loki Render software is a queue manager. It serves Blender render jobs or your own scripts to a pool of clients.

This is commonly called "distributed network rendering" or a "render farm". Loki can also boot clients via PXE, making for a quick and scalable pool.

Versatile Encoder allows you to encode your own videos into good quality mpeg4 or h264. The input can be a sequence of files (as generated by blender), a file (if you want to recompress something) or a DVD/VCD (if you need to backup some movie).

This piece of software tries to guess good defaults and to help the user in his choices. It works at least under Windows and Linux, the coding platform is Linux.

It should work without a hassle under all BSD variants and probably under MacOSX too, report me if you get it working somewhere else.

bnrt is 2 programs, a client and a server, that help render frames of animations over a network using multiple computers that all have Blender, a popular opensource 3D modeler/renderer, on them.

bnrt can run on Linux, Windows, and any other environment supported by both Java and Blender. Currently it is only set up to run on Linux and Windows, since those are the OSs I have running and active at the moment. But it is pretty trivial for me to add more OSs as long as they are supported by both Java and Blender.

To use bnrt you need to run the server on each system that you want to render frames on. This is done by either running the server shellscript or batch file. Or you can even just type in java -jar bnrtServer.jar at the command line.

After you have started a server on each system, then you need to run the client, which does not do any rendering. You can run a server and a client on the same machine. To run the client you need to run the following command from a command line:

java -jar bnrtClient.jar {file to render.blend} {first frame} {last frame} {server1} {server2} {server3....}

Please note that at the moment this is still pretty alpha code. I use it on my own network with up to 5 machines, mixed Windows and Linux as well as various processors, and it works quite well for me. YMMV, but if you run into a problem I will be happy to try to help you out as much as possible.