# Superluminal documentation

> Current guides for submitting Blender renders, monitoring jobs, managing outputs, billing, and using the Superluminal web app.

- Canonical HTML: https://superlumin.al/docs
- Markdown endpoint: https://superlumin.al/docs.md
- Structured page data: https://superlumin.al/docs.json
- Last updated: 2026-08-04
- Author: Superluminal Engineering

## Related Superluminal Research

- [Blender render farm](https://superlumin.al/blender-render-farm): A Blender render farm assigns animation frames to many computers. Learn how nodes share work, what each node needs, and why submission starts inside Blender.
- [The best Blender render farms, ranked](https://superlumin.al/compare/blender-render-farms): 4 Blender scenes, 9 render farms, and 43 recorded runs. Compare render-pipeline times, recorded charges, qualified estimates, failures, and workflow outcomes.
- [Superluminal Engineering](https://superlumin.al/authors/superluminal-engineering): Superluminal Engineering is the team responsible for the Blender add-on, render service, technical articles, and their public evidence.

## Complete 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.

![The job workspace with header, frame details, frame grid, preview, job details, and charts panels](https://superlumin.al/docs/images/web/job-overview.png)

*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](/docs/web-ui/job-details#workspace-panels)

- [Annotation 2: Selected-frame details and re-render](/docs/web-ui/job-details#frame-grid-and-selection)

- [Annotation 3: Frame grid](/docs/web-ui/job-details#frame-grid-and-selection)

- [Annotation 4: Sequence preview](/docs/web-ui/job-details#preview)

- [Annotation 5: Job and scene details](/docs/web-ui/job-details#job-and-scene-details)

- [Annotation 6: Operations chart and render logs](/docs/web-ui/job-details#charts-and-logs)

- [Start a first render](/docs/getting-started): Install the add-on, connect an account, create a project, and submit a test frame.
- [Use the Blender add-on](/docs/blender-addon): Understand every control from upload mode through output download.
- [Use the web app](/docs/web-ui): Inspect projects, jobs, frames, previews, metrics, and logs.
- [Solve a problem](/docs/blender-addon/troubleshooting): 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](/docs/automation) is experimental.
- Full-quality output is [downloaded through the add-on](/docs/blender-addon/manage-and-download), not the web job page, and render objects are [retained for seven days](/docs/web-ui/outputs#seven-day-render-object-retention).
- Rendering requires a [positive organization balance](/docs/web-ui/billing). When funds run out, active frames are not guaranteed to finish.
- Storage, Production, and Workstations are visible in navigation but still [Coming Soon previews](/docs/availability).

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](/docs/concepts): Projects, jobs, frames, organizations, credits, and files in plain language.
- [Product availability](/docs/availability): See what is available now, experimental, or still a preview.
- [Billing and credits](/docs/web-ui/billing): Balance requirements, checkout, auto top-up, payment history, and referrals.
- [Support](/docs/support): Contact options and the diagnostic details to include.