Blender render engine compatibility

Superluminal renders Blender projects with Cycles or EEVEE on Blender 4.0 through 5.2.

The Superluminal add-on runs in Blender 4.4 or newer. It can submit an older .blend file to a matching farm version.

Choose the farm Blender version

Automatic selects the same supported major and minor Blender version as the project. If that version is unavailable, it selects the closest supported version that is not newer.

You can also select a farm version yourself. Use the version that created the project when a scene depends on exact Blender behavior.

The render-node settings guide explains both controls.

Keep the render engine and scene settings

Choose Cycles or EEVEE in Blender. Superluminal uses that choice for the job and keeps the submitted scene settings.

Cycles is a physically based path tracer. EEVEE is a physically based real-time renderer.

A custom engine can also require an add-on, native components, and a farm license. See add-on support before submission.

Render an image sequence

Superluminal can keep the scene's image format or use PNG, JPEG, OpenEXR, OpenEXR Multilayer, and their lossy OpenEXR variants.

It renders image sequences, not video files. Encode the downloaded frames as video after the render.

Web previews help with quick checks. Use the original downloaded output to verify EXR layers, channels, compression, and linear values.

The job submission guide explains the output controls. Live previews covers frame and output inspection.