Is upgrading IT worth the money?

[stephensamuels]

Thanks Ben, I’ll give it a try and see what it tells me.

[stephensamuels]

Hi Ronald

I’m away from my machine but essentially it was 1600 square tiles in a square array that had a different photographic image UV projected on each side.  A burning sphere moved in a spiral path above the array and, using animation nodes, they flipped over in its path.  One camera followed a simple tracking path and there was one light source, no background at that stage.  So, not a huge number of polygons (6 per tile and a UV sphere), recorded at 24fps and the resolution was 4k.  I can’t remember the other render settings but they wouldn’t have been radical – i’m not at that stage yet!

As for the performance tips, they’re terrific.  Will work my way through and see how it helps.

Very much appreciated, thanks.

[stephensamuels]

Hi Stefan, that’s very interesting as i was just looking at a threadripper and 1080ti set up as a step up from my current machine.  Would be good to hear how you find it – breathtakingly fast? – and what’s causing the render crashes.

Thanks for the ‘discipline’ tips, they are much appreciated.  Will work harder to keep my scenes clean!

PS  Where can i find out about Render Layers?  I don’t know what they are or how to use them.

[Ben Reynolds]

The Fundamentals of compositing course in the Intro to Blender learning flow covers render layers.

[hapit]

For rendering animations I now use a renderfarm (like render street).

I thought, before investing 1000 bucks in a new graphics card. I can use 20 Month of Render Street One.

Without waiting for the rendering and not able to use the PC for something else.

The only think you must be aware of, is a good internet connection. You need to upload your blend file and ressources and after rendering you have to download all the frames.

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