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Its main panel lives in **Render Properties → Superluminal Render**.\n\n### Two apps, one workflow\n\nConfigure and submit in Blender. Use the web app for deep monitoring and review. Return to Blender to download full-quality output.\n\n## Panel map\n\n![The Superluminal Render panel with project, job name, frame range, render pattern, format, and submit actions](https://superlumin.al/docs/images/blender/addon-submit-panel.png)\n\n*The whole add-on lives in one Render Properties panel, with collapsible sections below the submit actions.*\n\n- [Annotation 1: Project and job name](/docs/blender-addon/job-submission#name-and-project)\n\n- [Annotation 2: Frame range and render pattern](/docs/blender-addon/job-submission#frame-range)\n\n- [Annotation 3: Image format](/docs/blender-addon/job-submission#image-format)\n\n- [Annotation 4: Submit a still or the animation](/docs/blender-addon/job-submission#what-happens-after-you-click-submit)\n\n- [Annotation 5: Optional automatic frame download](/docs/blender-addon/manage-and-download#download-output)\n\nThe controls change with connection and project state. Each area of the panel has its own guide:\n\n1. **Connection**: browser-based account connection, with password sign-in as a collapsed fallback. → [Install and connect](/docs/blender-addon/install-and-connect)\n2. **Project and job**: project picker, job name, frame range, render pattern, image format, and submit buttons. → [Submit a job](/docs/blender-addon/job-submission)\n3. **Upload Settings**: ZIP or PROJECT mode, project-root controls, path warnings, and enabled add-ons to package. → [Upload settings](/docs/blender-addon/upload-settings) and [Add-ons and dependencies](/docs/blender-addon/addons-and-dependencies)\n4. **Render Node Settings** and **Experimental**: farm Blender version, error-finish behavior, and the Persistence Engine. → [Render-node settings](/docs/blender-addon/render-node-settings)\n5. **Manage & Download**: refresh and filter jobs, open a job in the browser, select a local path, and download output. → [Manage & Download](/docs/blender-addon/manage-and-download)\n\nClicking a submit button opens a separate terminal window with the submission transcript. [Read the submission terminal](/docs/blender-addon/submission-terminal) explains it stage by stage.\n\n## Basic workflow\n\n### Connect\n\nChoose **Connect to Superluminal** and complete the browser flow.\n\n### Select a project\n\nChoose where the job and reusable project files belong.\n\n### Configure\n\nSet naming, frame range, render pattern, image format, upload mode, add-ons, Blender version, and experimental behavior.\n\n### Submit\n\nUse **Submit Still** for one chosen frame or **Submit Animation** for the configured range, then let the terminal finish.\n\n### Inspect\n\nSelect the job in **Manage & Download** or open its full web view.\n\n### Download\n\nChoose a local folder and run **Download job output**.\n\n- [First render](/docs/getting-started): The whole loop once, end to end, with one test frame.\n- [Web app](/docs/web-ui): Where submitted jobs are reviewed: frames, previews, charts, and logs.\n- [Troubleshooting](/docs/blender-addon/troubleshooting): Diagnose connection, packaging, registration, render, and download issues.", "images": [ { "id": "addon-submit-panel", "src": "/docs/images/blender/addon-submit-panel.png", "alt": "The Superluminal Render panel with project, job name, frame range, render pattern, format, and submit actions", "caption": "The whole add-on lives in one Render Properties panel, with collapsible sections below the submit actions.", "width": 1440, "height": 1000, "annotations": [ { "number": 1, "label": "Project and job name", "href": "/docs/blender-addon/job-submission#name-and-project" }, { "number": 2, "label": "Frame range and render pattern", "href": "/docs/blender-addon/job-submission#frame-range" }, { "number": 3, "label": "Image format", "href": "/docs/blender-addon/job-submission#image-format" }, { "number": 4, "label": "Submit a still or the animation", "href": "/docs/blender-addon/job-submission#what-happens-after-you-click-submit" }, { "number": 5, "label": "Optional automatic frame download", "href": "/docs/blender-addon/manage-and-download#download-output" } ] } ], "machineReadable": { "markdown": "/docs/blender-addon.md", "json": "/docs/blender-addon.json" }, "internalLinks": [ "/docs/blender-addon/job-submission", "/docs/blender-addon/job-submission", "/docs/blender-addon/job-submission", "/docs/blender-addon/job-submission", "/docs/blender-addon/manage-and-download", "/docs/blender-addon/install-and-connect", "/docs/blender-addon/job-submission", "/docs/blender-addon/upload-settings", "/docs/blender-addon/addons-and-dependencies", "/docs/blender-addon/render-node-settings", "/docs/blender-addon/manage-and-download", "/docs/blender-addon/submission-terminal", "/docs/getting-started", "/docs/web-ui", "/docs/blender-addon/troubleshooting" ], "readingTime": "3 min read", "toc": [ { "id": "two-apps-one-workflow", "title": "Two apps, one workflow", "level": 3 }, { "id": "panel-map", "title": "Panel map", "level": 2 }, { "id": "basic-workflow", "title": "Basic workflow", "level": 2 }, { "id": "connect", "title": "Connect", "level": 3 }, { "id": "select-a-project", "title": "Select a project", "level": 3 }, { "id": "configure", "title": "Configure", "level": 3 }, { "id": "submit", "title": "Submit", "level": 3 }, { "id": "inspect", "title": "Inspect", "level": 3 }, { "id": "download", "title": "Download", "level": 3 } ], "wordCount": 460, "relatedArticles": [ { "path": "/interface", "title": "The Superluminal render interface", "description": "A visual tour of Superluminal's Blender add-on, file checks, live job page, previews, and output downloads." }, { "path": "/dependencies", "title": "Blender project dependencies", "description": "Before upload, Superluminal checks textures, linked Blender files, UDIMs, sequences, caches, fonts, and other external inputs." }, { "path": "/addons", "title": "Add-ons on render nodes", "description": "Select the Blender add-ons that affect a render. 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