Faster Renders: 11 crazy tweaks to speed up cycles
Sayan Mondal shares 11 things to keep in mind to keep your renders fast.
This article is a comprehensive guide to help you boost your blender render speeds with small but effective tweaks, in the scene and the cycles render settings.
After the cycles render engine has been introduced into blender, there has been a drop in the render speed.
It easy to blame the render engine but did you know that some smart tweaks and optimizations to your scene and blender render settings can significantly increase the render speed.
Besides improving the render speed, some of the tricks below will also improve performance and stability of your render.
To make thing easy I have categorized then into 4 Topics: Polygon Count, Materials and Shaders, Rendering & Lights.
Really nice article, follow the majority of this myself but I’m sure to many it’ll be invaluable.
Thanks for the comment. Highly appreciated ;)
-Sayan
Great, great stuff. Easy to read, and I learned a couple things: especially the multiple importance samples thing. I didn’t realize that HDRIs were affected by this. Thanks!
Good to know that it was helpful to you. Thanks for taking the initiative to inform me about it. Makes me smile :)
-Sayan