New February update available! E-Cycles 2021 now gives you loads of optimizations for the viewport. You can now render millions of polygons with hundreds of thousands of objects in a smooth viewport experience!
E-Cycles 2021 - February update - New features and improvements:
- highly optimized viewport rendering for complex scenes. You can see the new viewport in action – along with a lot of other new features showcased – in a heavy architectural visualization scene by the iMeshh team in this video:
- reworked quick settings panel: all viewport options are now directly accessible in the viewport itself, making them faster to access and leaving room for extra options in the quick settings – for example, to easily scale the resolution of your image,
- improved quality for OptiX denoising,
- better defaults out of the box: new scenes will now default to Cycles with GPU rendering. The standard version of E-Cycles will use CUDA by default, while E-Cycles RTX will use OptiX by default. Please ensure you haven’t set the device type yourself if you want to use these new defaults and save time. If you’re using CPU or OpenCL, you can simply switch to this and save your preferences!
- artists who prefer to work with the compositor version of light groups, will now see updates when tweaking the light groups values, even if no compositor window is opened. You can now easily see the effect of your changes. The best way is still to use viewport light groups though, as it’s real time,
- Physical Glare is now available as a new mode of the glare node. It is based on the physical properties of the human eye, and gives very high quality results!
- higher noise/signal ratio in many standard archviz scenarios for even faster rendering using less samples,
- some very useful add-ons are now activated by default like sun-position to allow for easy use of the new sky texture based on time and location for example,
- a huge load of polishing, bug fixing and typo clean-ups to make the user experience even better!
- you can get 10% off an iMeshh exclusive membership. The coupons are offered with E-Cycles!
E-Cycles is the fastest and easiest photorealistic renderer for Blender. 100% compatible with Cycles, so you can use all your materials and add-ons while rendering on average 2x faster out of the box with NVidia GPUs. Features state of the art denoising technology, a streamlined UI for ease of use and fast workflows, Lightgroups in the viewport for instant feedback of lighting changes, and much more.
- 100% compatible with Cycles
- on average 2x faster on NVidia GPUs
- state of the art denoising technology
- streamlined UI for ease of use and fast workflows
- Light Groups in the viewport for instant feedback on changes to your lighting setup
- SSAA in the viewport for crisp textures and detail-rich denoising
- access to both professional-grade stability and bleeding edge features to fit the needs of every project: support for Long Term Support releases, stable releases and master builds.
You can see an example of E-Cycles full render speed potential and new AI-Denoiser in action in the following videos:
You can find more details and a full description of the new features on the product page:
What artists say
https://twitter.com/BarbieMatthieu/status/1186727940375089154
You can find more testimonials in the ratings section.
How does it work
The speedup out of the box (open the file, hit render) is achieved thanks to:
- better memory access
- better parallelism so that all CUDA cores are better occupied
Render faster, meat your deadlines and spare a lot of money. E-Cycles is a fork of Cycles which renders up to 2.5x faster out of the box when using NVidia GPUs, up to 13x using new options and with same visual quality, up to even 41x faster for real time speed. Better than other third-party engines, E-Cycles is 100% compatible with all your assets, scenes and add-ons so you can start rendering faster and get better denoising the second after you unpacked it!
You can buy E-Cycles 2021 now on Gumroad and the Blender Market. You can also get a membership for CUDA or OptiX.
An example of what is possible with a scene rendering in more than 5 minutes normally, using all the new options of E-Cycles, here only 5 seconds:
Price is not the question. And the pain to maintain a custom build is quite low compared to a 40% speed up…