📦 Auto Output & Render – Add-on Documentation

🔖 Overview

Auto Output & Render is a professional Blender add-on designed to help artists and studios manage their output naming and rendering workflow automatically. With customizable tokens, subfolder structures, and automatic saving for still images and animations, this add-on ensures your renders are always organized—without repetitive manual steps.

🧩 Features

• ✅ Auto-generate output file paths based on tokens: {blendfile}, {scene}, {date}, {resolution}, {version}

• ✅ Render Still Images or Animations

• ✅ Auto-save still images (no more manual "Save As")

• ✅ Auto-create subfolders: {date}/{scene}, {scene}/{date}, or custom

• ✅ Live output preview in popup UI

• ✅ Format support: PNG, JPEG, EXR

📁 Output Naming Example

When rendering from a .blend file named MyProject.blend, in a scene called Forest, at 1920x1080 resolution on March 21, 2025, the output might look like:

/Render/20250321/Forest/MyProject_Forest_20250321_1920x1080_v01_0001.png

If a file with that name exists, the add-on automatically increments version: v02, v03, ...

🛠️ Installation

1. Download the .zip file of the add-on from Blender Market.

2. Open Blender → Edit → Preferences → Add-ons

3. Click Install, and select the .zip file.

4. Enable the checkbox for Auto Output & Render.

5. Done! You’ll find it in the Sidebar (N-panel) under the "Pipeline Tools" tab.

🚀 How to Use

1. Save your .blend file first (this is required to generate output paths).

   
   

   Open the 3D Viewport → Press N to show the sidebar.
   

2. Go to the tab “Pipeline Tools”

   
   

3. Click the button “Auto Output + Render”

   
   

A popup will appear with options:

🎛️ Popup Options:

1. Hit OK → Blender will:

   • Auto-create the folder

   • Auto-name the file with all tokens

   • Render and auto-save the result

📽️ Render Type Behavior

• Still Image

  • Renders current frame and auto-saves image to disk

  • No need to manually save from "Render Result"

• Animation

  • Renders full frame range to sequence using Blender’s internal animation render

  • Files saved automatically per Blender standard

🧠 Pro Tips

• Save different versions of the .blend file and this add-on will auto-increment render versioning (_v01, _v02, etc.)

• Use subfolder options to separate client projects or shots

• Combine this with your studio pipeline folder structure

🧰 Compatibility

• Blender 3.0+

• Windows / macOS / Linux

💬 Support

Need help or have a feature request?

• Contact us via Blender Market messages

• We offer fast support and updates based on user feedback!

🔐 License

This product is licensed for individual or studio commercial use. You may include it in your pipeline, but redistribution outside your team is not allowed.