# BlendGen


- **Getting started**
- [Installation](/getting-started/installation): Build and run the maintained BlendGen Docker images.
- [Your first dataset](/getting-started/first-dataset): Declare a renderer, pass set, dataset index, and session explicitly.

- **Core guides**
- [Architecture](/guides/architecture): How Session, Renderer, render backends, passes, and Dataset cooperate.
- [Render backends](/guides/render-backends): Choose and configure Cycles or Eevee deliberately.
- [Render passes and formats](/guides/render-passes): Select semantic passes, file types, and background behavior without losing information.
- [Callbacks and attributes](/guides/callbacks-and-attributes): Change the Blender scene per frame and record synchronized annotations.
- [Dataset output](/guides/dataset-output): Understand the index format, frame records, pass paths, and attributes.

- **Reference**
- [Python API reference](/api): Generated signatures and docstrings for BlendGen's public Python modules.
- Generated modules
  - [session](/api/generated/session): Generated Python API reference for blendgen.session.
  - [renderer](/api/generated/renderer): Generated Python API reference for blendgen.renderer.
  - [dataset](/api/generated/dataset): Generated Python API reference for blendgen.dataset.
  - [renderers.base](/api/generated/renderers-base): Generated Python API reference for blendgen.renderers.base.
  - [renderers.cycles](/api/generated/renderers-cycles): Generated Python API reference for blendgen.renderers.cycles.
  - [renderers.eevee](/api/generated/renderers-eevee): Generated Python API reference for blendgen.renderers.eevee.
  - [passes.base](/api/generated/passes-base): Generated Python API reference for blendgen.passes.base.
  - [passes.color](/api/generated/passes-color): Generated Python API reference for blendgen.passes.color.
  - [passes.alpha](/api/generated/passes-alpha): Generated Python API reference for blendgen.passes.alpha.
  - [passes.depth](/api/generated/passes-depth): Generated Python API reference for blendgen.passes.depth.
  - [passes.normal](/api/generated/passes-normal): Generated Python API reference for blendgen.passes.normal.
  - [passes.opticalflow](/api/generated/passes-opticalflow): Generated Python API reference for blendgen.passes.opticalflow.
  - [passes.index](/api/generated/passes-index): Generated Python API reference for blendgen.passes.index.
  - [util](/api/generated/util): Generated Python API reference for blendgen.util.
  - [utils.scene](/api/generated/utils-scene): Generated Python API reference for blendgen.utils.scene.
- [Examples](https://github.com/juniorxsound/BlendGen/tree/main/examples)
- [Notebooks](https://github.com/juniorxsound/BlendGen/tree/main/notebooks)