🚀 Turbo Tools - Faster Cycles Renders & Compositing!

You’d need to investigate using python commands with your chosen render manager. The Turbo Tools developer includes an example python script for command line batch rendering in the downloads folder, you should probably investigate that to understand the available commands, and then modify it to your own/your render managers requirements.

Our I.T guy got it set up on our own bespoke in house render manager in a few minutes, so I guess if you’re advanced enough to be setting up your own render farm, it’ll be a breeze.

Ok, thanks. What render manger do you use?
Just to get it right from the start.

it’s our own.

Man, that’s what I needed. Just rendered out my first Archviz animation and it flickers like hell :sweat_smile:
So that all happens inside the compositor
 I was already wondering why after clicking “animation” in TT I got such flicker.
Answer: RTFM, dude :laughing:

Animation, but also enable the temporal deflickering in compositor.
As for external render farm you can use garage.farm, to render with Turbo Tools. Full support.
However I digging for an internal solution at the moment.

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OK, so before rendering (I output single EXR frames), I set that up in the compositor (which I never really used - SCHANDE) plus check the animation ticker.

Also thinking about setting up my Laptop as a render node, so I’ll be reading about Garage Farm. Thanks @RobertLe

When activating the temporal deflicker function in compositor node. The cache will automatically used. So it switches from render to cache. The cache need to be stored, but only for that. I used it for outputting an EXR with the layers I want. Also the individual layers, like diffuse, glossy, etc., get deflickered. That means you can still use them for compositing. I have setup a group that does that with a fixed naming convention.

Garage.farm will give you both, so it download both automatically, except you switch to manual download.

In my experience the temporal deflickering is compare able to the results of tools like NeatVideo DeNoiser. I did a lot test to compare both. So there are case the one or the other is better, but its really depending on what you render. Seldom case is that I use both. But it’s always good to have the option to use the cache if needed. For example very fast moving object should be exclude. Or if you work with DOF it doesn’t really make sense, eg.

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I also have Neat, but from still renders I know, that Topaz Denoise AI does a very bad job denoising renders, since it doesn’t know the normals and a carpet becomes a blurry mess, for example. I hope that works well with TT! I’ll first render a couple of days :sweat_smile:

Danke vielmals!

Yes but the denoisers in Blender work in a different way. Descripted a few years ago.
There is an output for diffuse and glossy (reflection) total, that contains only the light without the color of textures. Then there is a perfect clean scanline output of the color information of both. If you denoise the noise output from the raytracer and than multiply it with the color output, that contains the texture information, you get much better result.
The only thing that might get worse, is any bump, normal or displacement information. Which is only logical.
But there is currently no model for rendering noise free noisy shading. Yeah, I know a few papers exist, but none final perfect solution.

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Turbo Tools V4 - Updated to version 4.0.9!

Hi, hope you’re well. Turbo Tools has been updated to version 4.0.9. If you’ve purchased a copy, lifetime updates are included so you can download it straight away from your library (link on your receipt).

If you haven’t yet seen Turbo Tools in action, learn how it can speed up Cycles rendering and compositing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEBkCnxu6RY&list=PLj47Aeq9jcpT7zUbGy81wzb4nImxy4fA4

Included in this update:

  • Added compatibility up to Blender version 4.2 Alpha. The addon is now compatible with Blender versions 2.93 to 4.2 Alpha!

  • Added versioning checks which adjust how the caching system works if the new ‘full frame’ compositor mode is detected. This will also improve performance of the experimental full frame compositor for those using earlier versions of Blender.

  • Updates to the standard caching system so that it continues to work if it detects recent code changes the Blender devs made to the experimental GPU mode.

  • I’ve only experienced this once in the last 4 months, but on extremely rare occasions a Blender bug can prevent Turbo Tools from tidying up after rendering. You would always get a popup asking you to revert the scene to it’s pre-render state via undo, but if you missed it, there would be nodes left behind in the compositor that led to slow and incorrect results next time you rendered. Now if you miss the popup message, everything should still revert to it’s pre-render state except the denoising and volume pass checkboxes, and the sample settings (which don’t matter anyway if you’re using the Turbo Render sample pre-sets).

  • After clicking render an undo point will be added to the undo history named ‘revert to pre-render state’ This will allow the user to quickly revert back if they experience the Blender bug discussed in the previous point.

  • Code improvements and optimisations.

  • Blend file named “turbo v4 whats new video blend file.blend” has been added to the download area for those wanting to follow along with the TT4 release video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDWfo9GQz2c

Before installing this update, remove the old addon, restart Blender, and then install this version.

Cheers
Michael
3d illusions

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Hey guys, Pat from Patrock Creative Studio just messaged me to say that without Turbo Tools they wouldn’t have met the deadline for their latest project. The project was a music video for grammy nominated Mexican pop/rock star Chetes, the song is called “Polvo de Estrellas” (“Stardust”).

Pat’s details:

Pat Stirrat
Patrock Creative Studio
IG: @patrockcreative

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Nice Snail animation from Koen Vissers (https://www.koen.work/) using the Turbo Render feature of Turbo Tools to speed up cycles rendering:

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Just heard that Turbo Tools is being used in the latest Bjork music video. Hopefully I’ll be allowed to post something soon :nerd_face:

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New video showing a few of many ways to add noise back to denoised renders for the effect of film grain:

I hadn’t realised, but I’ve just learned that the Flip Fluids addon has added support for Turbo Tools when rendering flip fluids from the command line. I hadn’t used flip fluids previously, but I might have to give it a try now!

I’m not affiliated by the way.

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Turbo Tools Updated to verion 4.1.0!

Hi, hope you’re well. Turbo Tools has been updated to version 4.1.0. If you’ve purchased a copy, lifetime updates are included so you can download it straight away from your library (link on your receipt).

If you haven’t yet seen Turbo Tools in action, learn how it can speed up Cycles rendering and compositing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEBkCnxu6RY&list=PLj47Aeq9jcpT7zUbGy81wzb4nImxy4fA4

Included in this update:

  • Support for the latest daily builds of Blender 4.2 Alpha whilst still remaining backwards compatible all the way to Blender 2.93!

    If you’re using Blender 4.2 and intend to use the temporal stabiliser’s temporal intelligence option to remove flicker from your animations, then ensure you update to this version before you render, otherwise some of the data needed by temporal intelligence won’t be generated during rendering.

  • Code improvements and optimisations.

Before installing this update, remove the old addon, restart Blender, and then install this updated version.

Cheers
Michael
3d-illusions.co.uk

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Dear Micheal,

Thank you for your add-on. It’s a vast instance, and now I have it. But I’m just a newbie. Can you break down the steps to use this add-on with a simple animation?

Such as:

  1. render full animation with turbo

  2. composting and publish

I tried a lot, but my animation is still long, and I am trying to figure out the best process to do with it.

So please help me. Thank you very much.

Hi, thanks for your purchase. For support, please use the support contact information shown on your receipt, or if you purchased from Blender Market, then you can contact me via their support form :+1:

Check out the 3d illusions Youtube page for some turorials.

  • Rendering a single image with denoising is easy: just select your quality settings in the properties panel. TT will change your render settings before rendering and denoise after.
  • to denoise multipass, make sure the denoising quality is set to Ultra. Anything below that does not denoise multipass.
  • to use temporal denoising, you need to render the animation saving extra motion info (top panel in properties) and afterwards republish it in the compositor view using the special sidepanel. It will be published to the properties output panel (slightly confusing) Follow the youtube video’s. I’ve never gotten this to work myself, I just render animations at higher sample count. Its still faster.

Turbo Tools - Updated to version 4.1.1 !

Hi, hope you’re well. Turbo Tools has been updated to version 4.1.1. If you’ve purchased a copy, lifetime updates are included so you can download it straight away from your library (link on your receipt). Don’t yet use Turbo Tools? Grab it here: Turbo Tools V4 - Turbo Render, Temporal Stabilizer, & Turbo Comp - Blender Market

The performance improvements are so monumental that I’ve released a YouTube demonstration here:

Included in this update:

  • Essential update to avoid crashes seemingly caused by a recent Microsoft update which appears to be conflicting with Nvidia nvogl64.dll. The crash affects existing Blender installations that worked previously. It may be resolved by a future Nvidia or Microsoft update, but it seemed like a good opportunity for improvement.
  • Massive compositor performance improvements.
  • Improved standard caching system (the cache that you create manually to speed up the compositor).
  • Support for the new Blender 4.2 GPU compositor mode for lightening fast compositor processing (not to be confused with the viewport compositor). The Blender developers have not yet made GPU denoising available in the compositor, but I’ll integrate as soon as available. IMPORTANT - the GPU compositor mode should only be used in Blender 4.2 Alpha or later, the experimental GPU compositor modes in earlier Blender versions do not have the necessary features to function correctly with the Turbo Tools compositor enhancements.
  • ‘Validate Cache’ renamed to ‘update cache during playback’
  • ‘avoid fireflies’ option is now off by default to avoid clamping in scenes with extremely bright lights. It’s still recommend to use it if possible, as it can reduce render times, but when it was on by default, users may not have realised the cause of the clamping.
  • Code improvements and optimisations.

Before installing this update, remove the old addon, restart Blender, and then install this updated version.

If you haven’t yet seen Turbo Tools in action, learn how it can speed up Cycles rendering and compositing at

Cheers
Michael
3d-illusions.co.uk

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