Hi there,
I recently started rendering my Blender animations on a RasPi 4 cluster. All RasPis run headless and I use a regular PC for the modelling part. When the scenes are done I transfer the project files via ssh and let the RasPis do their work over night. So far this has worked amazingly well.
Yesterday I made a scene that uses the ocean modifier (which adds waves to a plane, as the name indicates, mostly used to create realistic fluid surfaces) and ran into my first problem, but it’s a severe one: This modifier seems not to be present in the Tumbleweed build of Blender 2.93.1. It relies on openEXR, so I assume it has something to do with this: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/openexr-build-error-on-linux-and-arm64/19031
I could render the scene on Arch Linux, so the modifier obviously works on an aarch64 platform - but unfortunately their bootloader refuses to work on newer RasPi boards, so I have currently one distro that boots on all my RasPis but doesn’t support all of Blender 2.9.3.1’s features and one that does but doesn’t boot on all my boards.
Any idea or plans to make a complete build of Blender?
Cheers, Joachim