Too much time rendering on ArchiCAD 20 64 bit
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2019-10-19
11:45 PM
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2023-05-11
11:52 AM
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Noemi Balogh
I would like to see if someone here experience this same behavior. I have this design that takes hours (about 3 hours to render) and it is a not so big project and I just got this Dell desktop workstation with Xeon processor running at 3gb, 16gb on RAM and an Nvidia Quadro K4000 6gb video card. See pictures attached and let me know if you guys can advice on what am I doing wrong here
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2019-10-20 06:55 AM
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2019-10-21 03:49 AM
On a side note, your CPU is a bit under powered for CineRender. 3GHz quadcore... You would have been better off going for a i7 as you would at least get double the effective core count at 30% faster speed...
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2019-10-21 11:04 AM
Many People have the wrong conception out there that this render is way too slow, where it actually is the settings they use that makes it so slow. Yes of course it's not as fast as vray or Corona but there are dedicated renders only. They can't draw an Elevation, add dimensions or draw a detail. So they are programmed for speed and quality.
Twinmotion is good but no where near vray or Corona. There are so many options out there now but if you like to stay inside ARCHICAD then Cinerender can produce decent renders too.
Don't use the Cinerender high quality presets, they are too slow, choose medium for final rendering but you need to adjust some of the settings, to get the right balance between speed and quality.
All render engine have a lot of settings and need to be fine tuned. Twinmotion is a bit of an exception and good enough for most CGI's, so it's something you should look into in the future.
Cinerender a couple of tips:
Under Effects
- use color mapping for better results
Under Global Illumination
- primary method use irradiance cache default settings
- secondary method use irradiance cache, intensity 150
- Sampling
- Stochastic Samples - Method medium
Irradiance cache
- record density - medium
- cache refinement - medium
under options
- Antialiasing - minimum and max level 4x4
Don't use 3D grass unless you do a close up where you only see a small part of grass that works fine. One last thing , think about where you like to show of your image, do yo need to print, if so which size etc. No point rendering an image at 4K if you only show it of on a normal HD screen resolution 1920 x 1080.
Hope this helps
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2019-10-22 07:02 AM
Carstenem wrote:Just out of interest I tried your settings.
under options
- Antialiasing - minimum and max level 4x4
But I found ...
- Antialiasing - minimum 1x1 and max level 4x4
This sped things up even more.
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2019-10-22 08:10 AM
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2019-10-22 10:41 AM
Also, on a side note, it would be nice if we could share cinerender scenes without having to ZIP them, since right now you can't directly attach them to a post.
This saves us a lot of typing out settings.
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2019-10-22 11:08 AM
It probably really depends on the project AND the camera position. Like if you further away it will be a small difference but if you have a close up shot where you have a lot of glass reflections, gloss, blur, etc. the physical renderer should be faster.
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2019-10-22 11:50 AM
I did notice the same settings didn't perform that well on i7 processor machines though. Cinerender seems to do well with Xeon processors.
My current workstation has a pretty old E5 as well, but at 3.7 GHz a bit faster than OP's machine.
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2019-10-23 07:22 AM
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