Superluminal documentation

Superluminal is a render farm for Blender. The add-on prepares and submits your scene. The web app shows projects, frames, previews, logs, performance, and billing. When frames finish, you download the full output through Blender.

*A running job in the web app: frame grid, live preview, job details, and per-frame operation timing in one workspace.*

• Annotation 1: Job status, progress, and actions

• Annotation 2: Selected-frame details and re-render

• Annotation 3: Frame grid

• Annotation 4: Sequence preview

• Annotation 5: Job and scene details

• Annotation 6: Operations chart and render logs

• Start a first render: Install the add-on, connect an account, create a project, and submit a test frame.
• Use the Blender add-on: Understand every control from upload mode through output download.
• Use the web app: Inspect projects, jobs, frames, previews, metrics, and logs.
• Solve a problem: Run focused checks and collect the details support needs.

The workflow at a glance

Prepare in Blender

Save the .blend, test the intended frame locally, and choose whether the submission should be self-contained or reuse project files.

Submit through the add-on

Select a Superluminal project, frame range, render order, image format, Blender version, and any render-time add-ons.

Review in the web app

Watch frame state, inspect previews and render layers, compare machines and operation timings, and search live logs.

Download through Blender

Choose a local folder in Manage & Download. You can start before the whole job finishes. The downloader follows completed frames.

Current product boundaries

Four limits cause most of the confusion. Each links to a full explanation:

• Rendering is submitted from the Blender add-on. The public API is experimental.
• Full-quality output is downloaded through the add-on, not the web job page, and render objects are retained for seven days.
• Rendering requires a positive organization balance. When funds run out, active frames are not guaranteed to finish.
• Storage, Production, and Workstations are visible in navigation but still Coming Soon previews.

The app shows current pricing, referral benefits, and available capacity. These docs do not repeat numbers that change.

New home, same product

These guides now live inside Superluminal at /docs. Older docs.superlumin.al links redirect to their matching page here.

• Core concepts: Projects, jobs, frames, organizations, credits, and files in plain language.
• Product availability: See what is available now, experimental, or still a preview.
• Billing and credits: Balance requirements, checkout, auto top-up, payment history, and referrals.
• Support: Contact options and the diagnostic details to include.