Radeon Pro Render (Tests, tips)

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#1

Hey guys just starting this thread for the Radeon Pro Renderer in Blender.

In this thread I will talk about some of the tips I have found most helpful for anyone just starting out or who do not have AMD GPU’s, because even though not supported, Nvidia still works.

Here I took an old scene and just added some default materials, changed a few settings and got this:

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How to install:
-Install it like you would a regular add-on, it has it’s render built into the .zip addon file.

How to use Non-AMD GPU:
-Under RPR Render Resources, check the “Include Uncertified Devices” box, now click GPU in the drop down list and select your GPU.

Tips:
-If starting out, I would suggest only using RPR Quality/Type to change your main rendering settings because I’ve noticed changing something as little as Anti-aliasing can give you a messed up render if not done properly. My settings are as follows for Quality/Type
-Render Mode: Global Illumination
-Render Quality: High
-Viewport Quality: Normal

-If you use the provided material library, use the copy textures locally feature so you don’t have to reference them every time you render.

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#2

Prorender is covered under NDA at the moment, what you are doing is against their rules.

#3

Thanks for the share.

#4

I like the pro render. I’m testing the BMW file. I Tried a volumetric just to see if it works. It works.

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#5

@bigbad - Looks good, what quality settings did you use?

#6

I had Clamp Irradiance @ 3.00

Max Ray Depth 20

AA Samples 32 Grid 4

I didn’t find any more settings for quality. It was good right out from the box.

#7

I’m using the blender files from their git repository. This is the classroom. I limited it to 8 minutes.

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#8

Hi.
Is it possible to get the Linux version somewhere?
Is this Open Source?

#9

They are working on a Linux version and it’s open but I’m not sure if it’s open source.

http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/radeon-pro-technologies/radeon-prorender

#10

apply here
http://pro.radeon.com/en-us/software/prorender/

#11

Yes, but very confusing for my lack of knowledge … :slight_smile:
I can not find download link… Also they promise to be Open Source, but apparently only SDK.
I also see that they have a GitHub repository, but I do not understand either :spin:

#12

It’s going to be free and work with Blender. That’s something to be happy about :slight_smile:

#13

What about render times? Does CPU+gpu rendering produce faster results? Compared to cycles ,and what about material? Its node base?

#14

It’s node based and about the same speed as cycles but there is noise. But as cycles. The longer it renders the less noise. For some reason I like the prorenders results a bit better than cycles. Reminds me of luxrender.

#15

Rendered on ProRender 1.2.8 with Blender 2.79RC:

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#16

Wow !
Settings to share ?
thx !

#17

great render.

#18

The burger was basically just using the built-in RPR-uber2 shader with lots of subtle procedural textures to layer the effects.

My thoughts on the ProRender engine:

  • It’s slower than cycles at the moment, but it’s probably expected since it’s an early beta.
  • The material node is missing a lot of adjustment nodes that makes it easy to tweak your textures (contrast/gamma/hsb/level, etc)
  • Instancing doesn’t really work in the latest version I tried, so you can forget about trees or grass.
  • It’s able to render-out-of-core, meaning you can render a scene that’s larger than the available vRAM. This is huge for a big production.
#19

Yeah, I’ve messed around with it as well and found the same.
Still quite crashy as well in my testing, although it’s nice to have another option on Linux.

#20

I’ve tried to make the volume shader work, but it seems to only act like Cycles’ Volume Absorption no matter what I do… What settings did you use?