Rendering Product Configurations

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Hey All!

I have an upcoming project with a client that involves rendering a large product library for use in a product configurator.

The configurator will be on the web and allows users to see what different customizations look like on the product. These mostly include things like coloring of paneling and materials of the paneling (this company mainly makes fridges).

Now I have been thinking through the best way to set up my renders but I am not totally sure I know a good path forward and thought I might pick the brains of you all here.

Because most of the renders are of only a few products with a lot of different configs I figure I could create a Rig that swaps out the different meshes with materials on parts of the model, I could manually create a blend file for each unique render (this seems tedious), or I could maybe use custom properties and a python script to generate the configurations based on attachment points of different meshes.

Are there solutions out there I am not thinking of that might make this easier?

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Would it be possible to do different color options by animating the color inside the material so it passes through every color option, then rendering the animation as an image sequence? At least for the same product in different colors, you could output all images at once.

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you could animate the visibility of parts and render out a sequence.
there is a addon for keying visibility easily

put every fridge with all the options i a separate collection/viewlayer.
this way you could render out everything in one go with one scene.
you could script the keying part, i suppose.