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Quick guide video

Create your account

Create a studio account


After creating a studio account, you can login to your personal Dashboard. Here you can monitor all your renders, view your job history and purchase new credits. You can also connect your whole office to our render farm by creating multiple users. Click here to see how it works.

To get you going, we will give you €10 of free render credits.

Create your account
Install the tools

Install the tools


Connect to Drop & Render! Our software is called the cloud manager, this is the render queue manager where you can easily keep an eye on all your projects. After starting up, the Cloud Manager will ask you to install our Blender plugin that will help you setup your project. It has a smart check feature that checks over 300 settings before you even start the project.

But it can do a whole lot more!

  • Tile rendering for big still images
  • Plugin version detection (always use your version)

Windows
  
MAC OS x
Login to the Cloud Manager

Login to the Cloud Manager


Windows
Look for the application called 'Drop and Render User Interface'

macOS
Look for the app 'cloudui'. You can find this in Applications > DropandRender

Login details
Make sure to fill in the correct login details:

Studio Account YOUR STUDIONAME
Password YOUR PASSWORD

In-App Plugin
In-App Plugin

In-App Plugin


After logging in to the cloud manager, a pop-up will come up. Click 'Yes' to install our plugin for Blender.

  • Restart or open Blender
  • Open your project in layout view.
  • In the layout view
  • click the little arrow on the top right corner or simply hit the N-key.
  • Select the DropAndRender-tab on the right


The Drop and Render Plugin will show up.

Submit your Job
Submit your Job

Submit your Job


First click 'Check Scene' in the plugin and make sure no error or warning comes up.

After that it's as simple as hitting the 'Submit Project'-button. Your job will appear inside the Cloud Manager and on the website and apps.

Your job will first be uploaded and put in the queue. The rendering will start automatically.

Having trouble? Look at our FAQ or connect with our support team.

FAQ
  
Support

Your files are save with us


Security is one of our top priorities at Drop and Render. All projects are stored on our server for no longer than 21 days and are encrypted by OpenSSL AES-256 and 2048-bit RSA data encryption.

Your projects are safe with us!

Full control

Fullcontrol


We’re not done yet! We’ve made a group of video’s that we call our Pro Guide to show you more features of Drop and Render.

Watch our Pro video's