Hi. I am trying to use AO node. I tried in every option ecycles provide…but it says its not supported in Optix backend. The problem is that after adding the node I need to close ecycles. The viewport freezes.
Is this a bug?
Is ambient occlusion turned on in your Nvidia settings for Blender?
why i can not find the download link in E-Cycles 2021 pre-order?
kakei when you ordered 2021 e_cycles you would have received an email from mathieu. To get quick answers contact him at that email. Thanks
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" Nvidia settings for Blender " Would you specify where can I find that ?
Thank you !
Nvidia control panel/3dsettings/Manage 3d settings/Global settings and Program Settings
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I am also experiencing an incongruency between viewport and render outcome. Unfortunately I can not share the whole scene. I might be able to recreate it without the confidential information.
On the left is the render and on the right the viewport.
The scene:
I have 3 cylinders inside a mesh that has an alpha material. On top of that mesh there is another cube with translucency emulating water. The cylinders should be visible only when we see them inside the alpha material of the mesh that contains them. The top face of my cube (the one that contains the cylinders) does not have an alpha. So basically in the right image (viewport) I see it as it should be. On the left the render shows reflections/reflaction in caused by the ocean material…The ocean material does not have any interaction with the cylinders…so I am really confused about why the translucent mesh / ocean is showing the cylinders in that funny way.
Go to post 3663. It seems you have to use CUDA. Maybe use the CUDA build and check if this changes your default settings in Nvidia. Or set the RTX build to CUDA under preferences/system. Send mathieu a message to the email you bought e_cycles from and see if there is an explanation among your e_cycles downloads. Good luck.
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Hi Bruno,
AO node in OptiX (Blender and E-Cycles) is only supported in 2.92+. If you use 2.92 or 2.93 builds, it should work as expected. Those builds are in beta and alpha respectively. If you find any bug, you are welcome to make a bug report through your Market Place (Answer purchase confirmation mail from Gumroad or click the “ask a question” button on the Blender Market page).
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New builds of E-Cycles LTS 2.83.12 are available!
The new builds include all the upstream fixes, plus following fixes:
- persistent images could create flickering when used with specific material setups
- holdout collections were rendered in some edge cases with hidden volumes
Luan3D does some great archviz renders with E-Cycles and Affinity Photo:
https://twitter.com/Luan3dr_/status/1354051258081042432
https://twitter.com/Luan3dr_/status/1351151909726511105
https://twitter.com/Luan3dr_/status/1352351041409449985
Happy rendering!
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https://twitter.com/Blender/status/1356600613103169540?s=19
@bliblubli, it seems to be a job for you, doesn’t it? 
Hello!
I was going to upgrade E-Cycles latest version. Why this huge increase on price?
Hi. I am using ecycles and it seems to not be able to work properly with smoke simulation. The viewport seems to be frenetically refreshing.
Hi Victor, isn’t there an upgrade coupon available for existing customers? Cuda was about 79 Eur, Rtx/Cuda about Eur 149, like last year? (gumroad)
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As far as I know nope!
EDIT: The two type of coupons are still there - not at the bottom but before the gumroad E-Cycles 2020 serial number is shown - below the last alpha entry: these are named as
Coupons 25 percent off E-Cycles RTX 2021
Coupons 25 percent off E-Cycles 2021
HTH!
If they’re no longer there, I would contact Mathieu in this case…
In my case I didn’t receive that coupon by mail, so I asked him what to do.
Hi Peter,
thank you for the feedback. Gumroad E-Mail delivery system is again very random it seems.
I see the coupons being used, so I'm sure at least some of you got it.
I discussed with other developers of widely used add-ons and they have sadly the same experience.
I'll speak with Gumroad too and I will try to add announcements in the E-Cycles splash screen to
reach more people.Seems there was again a glitch with the gumroad mail system (I had this problem even with other addons in the past)
Mathieu helped me out super fast as usual, 5/5 Stars!
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Are there some general tips for light and rendersettings for interior archviz?
It seems a single hdri and even 2000samples will give noise…
What will be your settings without denoising?
Thx
Hi Victor,
on Gumroad, the coupons are in your downloads. On the Blender Market, I send 3 emails from December to January. Maybe you need to allow emails from creators in your privacy center on the Blender Market?
Anyway, the price remains the same in 2021. The Blender Market has everything in one page unlike Gumroad, so I keep the variants down to a minimum. Currently 2021 is beta, so it’s sold with 2020 together, maybe that’s what got you thinking it went up?
Most users of 2020 upgraded for 74 (E-Cycles 2021 standard) or 149 (E-Cycles RTX 2021). Now you can still get them for 99 and 199 respectively. If you didn’t receive the mails, I recommend to contact Gumroad/BM to ensure you get emails from creators.
It depends on the scene. You can render good stills with 9 samples using E-Cycles AI-Denoiser even with complex scenes:
For animations, you will need more samples to ensure temporal stability. This scene is rendered at 100 sample and this is the making of:
You can also contact me per mail on Gumroad (by answering the confirmation mail about E-Cycles) or the Blender Market to get help if you have issues with a specific scene. I also recommend watching the tutorials available in your downloads or notion (site kindly made by an E-Cycles user).
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