Sorry I forgot to reply here. Anyway, forget about “Camera Cropper” and say hello to “Camera Regions”! Tutorial: https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/bafcaa9c-cfc1-4e8e-88c1-c7af39dfd45c Gitlab page: https://gitlab.com/ChameleonScales/camera_regions Blenderartists thread: https://blenderartists.org/t/add-on-camera-regions/682526/42

Thanks. I've acquired a better understanding of the add-on since then and I don't face any more issue with it, so I don't personally need a turorial anymore. I'm not even sure the issues I faced can still happen on the latest version. Thanks for the reply anyway

Woops! I was using relative paths for a library that was sitting in my common server. Using absolute paths solved the issue. Maybe it would be a good thing to have some sort of warning for that in the log, such as adding this line at the end: Sync failed: Are you using relative paths for a remote library? If so, try changing it to an absolute path".

Actually there's no need to give an example, it simply happens with the default cube. Here are the steps: - save the default scene somewhere - close the file and open a new one - delete and purge everything - File > Link > browse to your saved file > Objects > Cube - select the cube in the viewport - Object > Relations > Make Library Override... > Cube - Resync From there, sync fails all the time. Tested on Blender 2.81a and 2.82 beta as of january 29 2020

I made further updates to my Camera cropper add-on and used it at work with Crowd Render and it works pretty good already. If people ask you about the region render feature, feel free to direct them to me for some help on my workaround while you work on a more built-in solution.

I just updated my cropper add-on to 2.8: https://gitlab.com/ChameleonScales/camera-cropper/tree/master More updates and features to come soon.

Hi James, Border Render would be a huge help for me. In my work, using Crowd Render is often pointless since the objects that have to be rendered cover a small part of a very large image (objects inserted in real footage using shadowcatcher), so using Border render allows me to avoid all the empty space which would still take time to render. If I use crowdrender on 5 equally powerful machines, it still takes a lot longer to render than rendering the small region on a single machine. I made this camera cropper add-on a while ago which I need to update to 2.8 but would this approach be of any interest to you? Also maybe I can try and join forces directly in your add-on. I'm not nearly as experienced as you but if you think I can help feel free to ask (I would need pointers on where to look in your code) You can contact me at chameleonscales@protonmail.com