DuBlast - Duduf Playblast
Quick Playblast tool for Blender
DuBlast is part of the DuBLF, the Duduf Blender Framework, a toolset developped by Duduf & Rainbox Laboratory for their productions.
DuBlast is an add-on for Blender which makes it easy to create and play animation playblasts, without having to change any render or output setting.
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Quick Render Buttons
The Quick Render Buttons add-on here is a simple but handy add-on which includes a button for Playblasts by DuBlast (you'll need to install both addons).
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Difference between DuBlast and the native Viewport Render Animation command
| DuBlast | Viewport Render Animation |
|---|---|
| Automatically plays the rendered animation | Needs the user to manually play the animation [Ctrl] + [F11] |
| Has its own output settings, so the user can create playblasts without altering the output settings of the scene | Shares the output settings with the scene/render settings, which means the user has to alter the output settings even if they're already set for rendering the scene |
| Has custom output format presets for better animation playback and seek | Needs the user to manually set the output to an animator friendly format |
| Scales down the size of the text for the metadata according to the resolution % | Keeps the same size for the text of the metadata, no matter the output resolution, which results in huge texts at lower resolution |
| Atomatically adjusts the rendered animation dimension to fit the MP4 requirements when set to use MP4 | The user has to find a fitting resolution % for the dimensions to have an even number of lines and columns |