EEVE experimenting

Artwork Works in Progress
1

does EEVE is faster on CPU then Cycles and by how much ?

I did a test on a big scene with 316 objects and 1.3 millions verts

and EEVE render = 8 min 22 sec

cycles render = 9 min 17 sec

is this normal or there are some parameters to changed ?

other little problems

1 - when I opened up the old cycles file on EEVE
It re ordered all the objects on different collections

how do I find the Camera in EEVE viewport or in right panel?
before I had the camera on one specific layer in cycles

and can you see camera in viewport ?

thanks for feedback
happy cl and EEVE

2

anyone can help with this BL replacement

thanks
happy bl

3

Hi.
I think I did not understand what are you asking.
Eevee is GPU (OpenGL).
Maybe you did not find Render engine selector and what you call “Eevee” is simply open your old Cycles scene in Blender 2.8 and Render. It is still Cycles anyway (surely CPU in your case because you did not select GPU from user preferences). To select Eevee, you should do this:
eevee
You do not expect to open old Cycles scenes with Eevee and it looks good in the first instance, you must make extra configurations from Render tab, Material tab, or configuring Light Probes for example.
You can download sample scenes to study from here:

In addition to the configuration I showed in the image, in new versions of Blender 2.8, in some of those scenes it may be necessary to “Bake indirect Lighting” from Indirect Lighting item in Render tab.

And you remember, do not overwrite your old 2.79x .blend files with the same name from Blender 2.8!

4

I did select the Eeve renderer

I do have a HDRI
not certain where it is now in 2.8 2 days ago.

I will transfert my files to another machine with a GPU
Quadro M2000
4 GB GDDR5

and redo a test with GPU selected

and be back

thanks for feedback
happy cl

5

Just in case, GPU selection is only for Cycles. Eevee uses the GPU configured as primary display, where you have the monitor connected. So if you can open 2.8 and select Eevee, it should already be using your GPU.

6

just added 2.8 SVN to my other machine
in any case I tried to unzip and win does do it !

good point so if I choose Eeve it atomatically select GPU if there is one
if not CPU

thanks
happy cl

7

did first test

it took like 1m 44 sec instead of 6-9 minutes
so it looks like it is faster indeed
only problem whole background is black

so how do I add some light for the whole scene
is there a world light I can add like in cycles ?

thanks
happy cl

8

also cannot find the user preferences in 2.8
where is it ?

how can I add my own user preferences from 2.79?

the scene I have has over 300 objects
and 1.3 millions verts so it is big

thanks
happy bl

9

something strange
I did it on my old desktop with a very basic video card
and it took 30 seconds which is less then on the other I7 and big video card!

how come ?

thanks
happy cl

10

User Preferences is in Edit menu in 2.8 (not File).

Describe the exact model of the GPUs here. I do not know what is the OpenGL performance of those quadro cards.

11

my Desktop has only a default video card but it is opengl 4
so it works ok
and seems to be faster then the other big Quadro M2000M

but on the same file on the I7 + Quadro
the background is totally black
and slower which is very strange

there might be some parameters to be set

thanks happy cl