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Scene Assembler

Scene Assembler is a node-based scene assembly and render queue addon for Blender 5.1+. It lets you build complex multi-layer renders visually — combining collections, applying per-layer overrides, configuring render passes, and sending everything to a local render queue — without modifying your production scenes.

What it does

In a typical production workflow, rendering multiple variations of a scene means duplicating .blend files, manually adjusting settings, and keeping everything in sync as the project evolves. Scene Assembler replaces that with a node graph where each branch represents one render layer or variation. You define the collections, overrides, passes, and output paths once, and the addon assembles and renders each configuration automatically.

Key capabilities:

  • Node-based assembly — build render layers visually by connecting collection, override, and output nodes
  • Non-destructive overrides — swap materials, adjust lights, toggle visibility, or change any RNA property per layer without touching the source scene
  • Render queue with a full dashboard — send jobs to a local queue, then monitor progress, reorder, pause/resume, set priority, edit a job's frame range, and read logs from a browser-based Queue Manager
  • No-node-graph rendering — send a plain scene to the same queue straight from Blender's Render properties tab, no graph required
  • Convert to Video — automatically encode a finished render's image sequence to a video file
  • Batch rendering — add jobs to a batch list and render or queue them in one click
  • Camera Burst — render the same scene from multiple cameras automatically, one output file per camera
  • Camera Sequence & Timeline — switch cameras or sequence entire Scene nodes over an animation, driven from the node graph
  • Variables — share collections, cameras, and render settings across node graphs using Set and Get nodes

Requirements

  • Blender 5.2 LTS (primary target; 5.1 should also work)
  • Windows, macOS, or Linux
  • Cycles or EEVEE Next

Getting started

New to Scene Assembler? Start with the Installation guide, then follow the Quick Start to build your first render setup in under ten minutes.