Cycles Render Demo by Mike Pan

Benjy · May 2, 2011

Mike Pan demonstrates the new Cycles renderer running on ubuntu 11.04, and shows off it’s realtime rendering capabilities.

Note: The video is a timelapse, so the rendering shown is not real time.

Author Benjy

57 responses

Martin Lindelöf

2 May 2011 at 12:05

*note it’s not realtime* :)

Gavin

2 May 2011 at 12:32

Is it likely that it will be able to render particles. I think we’d all love a GPU renderer that could do grass :)
Excellent work!

Alexgerman

2 May 2011 at 12:45

I hope it will not only work with shit geforce cards!.

Aylon5

2 May 2011 at 12:49

i just hope it will get closer to the old blender render workflow by time.
im very excited about further steps and looking forward to a 64bit windows version with CUDA.

ROUBAL

2 May 2011 at 12:51

Great demo, but a real time video with computer specifications and GPU reference would be better to make an opinion.

Hubberthus

2 May 2011 at 12:53

Very impressive!

I hope Cycles will be used for Mango, because it is closer to a physically correct look than BI.

oiaohm

2 May 2011 at 12:55

Really I want to see a challenge. How main frames per time of sintel can it render.

The top effect of a real-time render is to be able to produce movie grade fast. Of setting bar high gives the project some to reach for as a long term goal.

FXR

2 May 2011 at 13:02

Its seems an excellent big step in that direction.

D. Jordan

2 May 2011 at 13:16

That is amazing I can’t wait for this.

IBD

2 May 2011 at 14:09

Can’t wait till the Cycles project is complete! (Also can’t wait till my *OLD* machine can support it so I can try it out myself xD)

raphael

2 May 2011 at 14:38

The Cycles UI is more readable and usable thant the 2.5x UI… can we expect good changes for 2.5x ?

erik90mx

2 May 2011 at 15:03

I want that power!! now I have 3 in the eye…
Bmesh, Unlimited Clay, An this!!

I suppose that it will need a graphic card :/

Greetings

vladimir

2 May 2011 at 15:10

When is it going to be implemented in Blender with official releases?

blendercomp

2 May 2011 at 15:29

I gave it a go using defaults (two Susane heads) but the render came out all black!
Guess it’s too much to ask what went wrong?

Alexgerman

2 May 2011 at 15:32

ITS ONLY FOR CUDA GEFORCE SYSTEMS , it looks like this …and that is very big shit!

Bart

2 May 2011 at 15:35

@Alexgerman: they will support OpenCL. This is just the first test release.

Amezke

2 May 2011 at 15:36

Very impressive, I’m looking forward to a Windows version, I hope it’ll be soon.

TLOZ

2 May 2011 at 15:42

Will Cycles later also support Radeon graphics cards?
Because I think of changing my old GeForce to a more powerful Radeon HD and it would seriously suck íf I couldn’t use Cycles then…

Wayne

2 May 2011 at 16:27

That looks amazing!.
Can’t wait to get my hands on that!…

Will it be render node only or will we be able to set textures as we do now?.
Would rather be able to do things as we do now as so used to them!.
However, using render nodes as we do with this would be great!.

Alexgerman

2 May 2011 at 16:33

@bart OH NICE omg you save my day;) thx for info

Jorge Molina

2 May 2011 at 16:44

ahhhhhh im getting crazy. i want it now, thank to the people or the person who is working so hard to get this done. really, it’s awesome. i can’t wait, i am eating my fingers.

Chaos

2 May 2011 at 17:20

@TLOZ, take a look at the Alexgerman and Bart comments

mike pan

2 May 2011 at 17:44

You can also find more images and the source blender file from my blog. :)

Daniel

2 May 2011 at 17:50

NOTE ABOUT RADEON CARDS AND OPENCL (since no one seems to be reading any of the other comments):
ATI (Radeon) cards are not currently supported. That is because OpenCL is not currently supported, but will be in the future.

ArtSymptom

2 May 2011 at 18:52

With this rendering, is posible to render hair dinamics? and fluids?

Sen3d

2 May 2011 at 20:08

I luuuuv Nvidia :)

Sen3d

2 May 2011 at 20:13

Oh and, does it work with SLI?

Matt Heimlich

2 May 2011 at 20:23

OpenCL is not supported at the moment simply because it is not mature enough and it missing functions that would allow it to match the speed of CUDA. Brecht has said that this will be on the roadmap for the future, however. I honestly don’t understand the nVidia hate though. Corporate fanboyism is dumb.

creativeking

2 May 2011 at 20:48

wow!!!

rorkimaru

2 May 2011 at 20:58

I still haven’t heard what this will mean for animations? Is it compatible?

Also these never ending renderer sound weird to me, you just let it keep going or something?

I don’t think it’s corporate fanboyism that is making people not like CUDA its the lack of openness. Blender is open by design and compatible with everything. It’s the reason the GE doesn’t use DirectX and the renders use open libraries too.

bntser

2 May 2011 at 21:07

I hope this will become default! That’s amazing how you can see what the render looks like from the editing window! I tried the build, but I can’t make it work; just a black screen. Is that because I have an intel video card? Will I need a nvidia for this to work?

Brett

2 May 2011 at 21:43

@ bntser The reason i think your seeing a black screen is you need to edit all your materials and turn on nodes for each material (little check box in materials under surface that worked for me) hope this helps;-)>
cycles rocks thank you devs

Brad Cathey

2 May 2011 at 22:00

Nvidia has had excellent support for OpenCL for a while. It will only be a short while before it will be ported from CUDA. Then everybody can be happy.

John Imperio

2 May 2011 at 22:58

WOW! this is gonna be monumental! I hope they make this top priority for next major Blender release..

To the developers working on this… you guys are freakin’ awesome! keep up the crazy good work!!! you guys are making history here… seriously!

Skauch

2 May 2011 at 23:44

Cycles with CUDA cards is impressive, one of the most incredible things I seen in Blender!, but then I tried it in an old notebook with Celeron processor and a very deprecated built-in video card, and the CPU acceleration maybe is a little bit slow than CUDA, but is totally usable and impressive too, So i don’t see a real problem about use CUDA as one of the aceleration options.

claas

3 May 2011 at 00:02

Skauch

I think CUDA can be really good but other engines such as Modo etc do only use the CPU and you also have a decent
speed to work with.

Mehmet PINARCI

3 May 2011 at 00:44

well thats some sweet stuff .

Kike sanz

3 May 2011 at 02:24

SINTEL (and other BF MOVIES) should be re-rendered with cycles in the future .I remember Colin levy saying that some scenes didn’t turn out as he envisioned due to dated internal renderer.

ben

3 May 2011 at 02:43

im really pumped for this. GET IT TO WINDOWS!!

Ian

3 May 2011 at 03:06

I know that eventually everything wil be modeled and animated in viewports with real time renders instead of open gl. This is a huge step in that direction and we’re getting very close.

Fable Fox

3 May 2011 at 03:38

@Gavin

AFAIK, GPU is best for particles really. I read about the pasta(?) storm in Cloudy with Meatball, where Sony used GPU renderer. Most of fire, water in Harry Potter & Avatar Last Airbender is also GPU (serious super computer GPU that is – a collection of high end card). But GPU none the less.

This is because of small GPU memory, and particles are same thing, but lots and lots of it. So GPU is good here.

There is also a demo of furry car floating on youtube, which is a test example of particles and GPU.

Hubberthus

3 May 2011 at 07:35

@blendercomp: I also had black screen first on linux (built from svn), I copied libOpenImageIO.so to /usr/lib because cycles did not see it.

@rorkimaru: With a time limit or “noiseness limit” animations are possible.

@Kike sanz: This has a new materialing system, I think rerenders will be possible when there will be a converter.

I would like to see what wonders it can do with Justacluster!! :)

Quinn

3 May 2011 at 08:09

lolol. people only complain about geforce cuz they have radeon and cant use these features… i have nothing against ATI, they just dont seem to care about gpu computing at the moment. dont even have anything like cuda… and thats been out for YEARS. and dont complain about speed. i have a 3 year old 9800 that costs like $80 and i can render just fine with it.

MSZ

3 May 2011 at 12:03

It’s really impresive. Can’t wait to get it on Windows and test few things.

Amezke

3 May 2011 at 12:41

@MSZ

There is already available a Windows version, without CUDA support:

http://graphicall.org/106

3 May 2011 at 20:29

Hello!

I tired cycles but whenever I activate it, blender shut downs. My question is: Is Cycles engine dependent on latest hardware only? Is it possible to run it on older PCs lets say without the fancy stuff, just quality fast rendering?
Thank you for taking time to reply!
Best regards,

kABHIr

4 May 2011 at 10:31

really awesome can’t wait for the official build.

Thanks for your hardwork

slukas

4 May 2011 at 15:29

Hey!

Could someone tell me if it is possible to render in realtime like on the video? All I can do with latest windows build is to render it normal way – no material changing ‘on fly’ and such stuff.

Thank you and best regards,

slukas

pixnlove

4 May 2011 at 23:40

This really bring blender to another level…
Yes I cannot wait for this to be part of the official build,
That will definitely make me switch to 2.5.

It is so good to have you back.

Josh

5 May 2011 at 09:28

My question is this.
Will this project go anywhere or stay as a partial piece of software?
Is Mike Pan willing to say develop this if we started a fundraiser?
Finally if we did get it to become fully developed it has to have something over LuxRender’s GPU rendering.
Possibly a very tight integration(almost if it were internal in many ways) between Blender and Cycles?
Maybe we could fund this like the ocean sim,
as this is more useful then the ocean sim, and look on how well it did.

Kirill Krymov

13 May 2011 at 00:05

Hi! Is there any way to control the Displacement?

Rchv

13 May 2011 at 16:48

Hmm, I downloaded the build from Graphicall and the BMW file, and immediately is running on a Windows 7 machine with ATI videocard!

24 May 2011 at 19:31

Hello!

On linux after finding all missing stuff needed for blender with cycles to launch it renders black screen, what should I do? the lib file is located to the usr/lib folder
could someone advice what else could be done?

Thank you!

24 May 2011 at 20:03

well my trouble is this: ImportError: libOpenImageIO.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32
any ideas?

JuL

26 May 2011 at 22:58

Hi, this is all very exciting and I tried it on windows32bit:
Is anyone else having this problem when everything looks good in the view port (bottom right in the example file) but appears very dark just at the end of the final pass of the actual “F12 render”(top left in the example file)? Example file is here: http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=325553Bug.jpg

I would be glad if you had any ideas on how to fix this.
Thanks.

Anemotion

29 May 2011 at 09:28

When is this gonna be implemented into Blender ?
Not fair showing off, and not delivering ! LOL

Spproplus

17 March 2012 at 23:23

It would be fun to see it in real time :-)

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