I`m doing a tutorial from tutor4u. The vintage microphone one. Got the modeling done and have set up the lights, camera and materials.
Problem is when I go to do a test render with Cycles its taking ages to render anything at all. Its quite a basic scene. Pretty much just the mic and a floor so I don`t think it should be taking so long.
It says it`s going to take like 10 hours to render so something is not right.
Are there any tuts around to show how to set up Cycles/Eevee etc for rendering? If any of you would have some info on it that would be great.
Plus it`s rendering the images at 1920x1080. Where can I reduce this image size?
Ive been experimenting with Blender for some years now so Im not totally new to it. Plus the renders I did in the past, although quite basic, rendered in a few minutes.
-Is the render also slow in Eevee?
-Do you have some really heavy modifiers, like subdivision surfaces with lots of subdivisions?
-Is the scene lit with emissive materials, with a large number of light sources?
-Is the scene completely encased in a room with only a small entry point for the light, like a window?
-Have you increased the number of samples and/or set the noise treshold really low?
-Are there objects with a bunch of long, narrow polygons in a diagonal? Those mess with Cycles’ optimisation system. If you have them, try splitting them by adding edge loops and make them roughly into squares.
You can change the render resolution in the output settings (the tab right past render properties).
After I posted guys I re-searched google using a different search term and have come up with a few tuts to get the best settings for rendering with Cycles (Eevee too)
One from Josh Gambrell which has some really good info so I`ll also try going through that and see how I get on.
He also showed where to set the resolution of the images.
Just popped back to say thanks again guys. Between trying some of the suggestions here and following Josh Gambrell`s advice my render times are massivly improved. From what was going to be hours is now seconds.
Ive changed the render settings so how do I save them? Or will they just remain as they are now theyre changed?
Only problem with my render now is that its very dull. Ive done exactly what was done in the tut.
Check your scale. If you have set your lights at the same intensity as the tutorial, but your scene is 10x the size, then the lights will appear 10x dimmer.
