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I recently purchased E-Cycles and it’s awesome! I didn’t know how much I needed this in my life :smiley:

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Hi Mathieu,

Does E-cycles and NVlink double the memory on 2 x RTX 2080ti meanning to have 22gb of VRAM?

Cheers,
Pato.

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Hi Pato,

if you have an NVLink between the 2 and an SLI-compatible motherboard, yes.
On Linux it works out of the box.
On Windows, some drivers are buggy it seems and it’s kind of hard to get it working for some users. Windows also requires to activate SLI in the control panel for this functionnality to work.

Cheers,
Mathieu

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New builds of E-Cycles 2.90 are up with:

  • the latest version of the new sky texture by @MarcoPPavanello
  • improved support of scenes using both NVLink and system memory to allow for very heavy scene rendering on GPU
  • all the latest fixes and improvements of upstream.

https://twitter.com/Entity3D/status/1272014140161359872

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Which version of E-Cycles is stable now and renders fast without rtx card ? is experimental build 2.83 v20200408 is stable now ?

Thanks

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The new icon is a great addition. Love the icon. Thanks!

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Hi, there are release builds for 2.82a and 2.83, all other builds are bug fix or new 2.90 builds. E_cycles_2.83_release_v20200605, for example.
Later builds are faster usually but may have bugs.
You can work in a stable release build and render in 2.90 but keep a copy of the original file.

Cheers, mib

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Hi Mathieu thanks for the answer,

Im still deciding for wich RTX I shold go, so it is possible to get normal E cycles (i have a 1080ti) and then when i dicede which RTX card Ill get upgrade to Ecycles RTX?

Thanks,
Pato.

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So this paid addon makes Blender cycles almost outdated and deprecated.

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Look at it as a ‘Things to come’ for cycles. You get to render with the latest optimalisations and custom features.

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I agree with ps8, also, think of it as a kind of backpack with new technology. Cycles gets developed by many different developers and E-Cycles is uniting all the latest and greatest stuff to it.

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Hi Pato,
yes, the price of E-Cycles standard is deduced when you upgrade to RTX.
Kind regards,
Mathieu

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Is there light mix in E-Cycles now? Similar to Corona, V-Ray or Maxwell? Thanks

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Since last year yes. It’s available in the layer panel. You just have to pick the light collections/world and name your layer to find them in the Render Layers node.

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New builds of E-Cycles 2.90 are up!

  • Denoising quality when using the slow pass mode was improved.
  • all the latest improvements from upstream are in as usual

Happy rendering!

https://twitter.com/brentpatterson/status/1273053334467940353

https://twitter.com/johannes_wilde/status/1273587590327873537

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builds on gumroad say 06 14 2020 and not today’s date. Mathieu can you update the downloads?

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Updates are at the bottoms of the downloads today.

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Indeed, due to a bug in Gumroad’s UI, new builds are ordered automatically and you will find them at the bottom of the page.

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Hey guys, does anybody know what is the fastest way of baking Ambient Occlusion in E-Cycles RTX 2.83?

I have bake option only in CUDA and CPU mode, and I only managed to bake it with CPU.

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E-Cycles standard is the best version for Baking using CUDA. It should bake faster and is more memory-efficient. As a general rule, CUDA-only features are best used with E-Cycles standard :slight_smile:

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