Questions tagged [optimization]
For use on questions asking how to optimize specific things. i.e. game logic, rigid body simulations, viewport performance.
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FPS drop when positioning the character
My problem is as follows
(is a model ported from SFM to Blender)
Animation attempt unsuccessful
Solid Mode
When I create a frame with the rig or in positioning mode, The FPS ends up dropping to 3 or ...
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What is this group that applies transforms onto objects?
I downloaded an asset kit which when imported into blender places objects inside some sort of group (screenshots below). On their own objects have incorrect size and rotation, but when placed within ...
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How small can you make a model realistically?
all! I have a model that I want to add to a THREE.js scene on the web, so making it as light as possible is the main goal. I'm not an expert, so I have no idea how 'small' one could make a model. ...
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Is it good to collapse some vertices on the mesh and reduce as result reduce poly count but make triangles for GameReadyObject
There is so many opinions on this, so many articles, similiar questions, as I am reading one old article and see this. This is Article from Blender 2.4 but I assume logic is same. Is it good to reduce ...
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How to optimize super large objects for large scene rendering
we are trying to render a large solar farm.
For this we used procedural textures, pipes with textures you name it.
Each solar panel strip is about 100m / 100 yards long.
Our goal is to have a complete ...
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More time is spent on render preparation than on the actual rendering. What can I do? [closed]
I'm new to blender and I'm stuck on this giant unsolvable problem that no one seems to have any solution for.
I've modelled a quite complex scene in Blender: roads, bridges vehicles, buildings, trees ...
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During rendering, Is there any way to reduce object loading time?
During rendering, Is there any way to reduce object loading time?
I`m rendering animation both engine eevee, cycle
During rendering I realize that Object Loading time is pretty slow that causing ...
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Ways to optimize run-time of _view_layer_update calls? [duplicate]
I've been working on an Add On project for a while to generate buildings/terrain procedurally out of "primitive" Blender objects as elements. As you might expect, one of the most common ...
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How to duplicate linked an entire model?
Lets say I've modeled a window (with the frame, glass, handle...), set the constraints limiting the translation, and set the parenting hierarchy.
Now I'd like to reuse the entire window somewhere else ...
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Do invisible polygons influence rendering time using Cycles renderer? [duplicate]
TL;DR The number of polygons has negligible impact on rendering time.
I'm having a furniture designed part by part using FreeCAD and exported as Wavefront OBJ (following Tutorial Render with Blender). ...
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Blender - Verge3d optimization of textures
So I started this project that needs to use Woocommerce so customers can customize their products, now I finished the application and everything and it works great on the local verge3d server but when ...
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How to improve texture brush result
I have a couple brushes that I got off of BlenderKit. The link for the brush is this: asset_base_id:66dcf513-f78f-4030-a07a-fcfe9c6a1448 asset_type:brush. I have a cube as a test that has 49152 ...
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Modelling game foliage, such as trees, bushes and grass
So I'm currently practicing my skills as a environmental artist.
The scene I am currently making will involve a lot of foliage, specifically a Hatian forest.
I have been trying various ways to make ...
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UI Lag and Microstutters in the Node Editor
I am getting some distracting lag in the node editor. It's not terrible, but it's annoying enough. It's a really simple file too. But for some reason I keep getting random stutters as I work with ...
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How do I get viewport FPS higher when using image sequence as plane?
When using a high-res (4k) image sequence plane in Blender, the eevee viewport FPS tanks down to an almost unusable rate, despite there being just one plane in the project and my hardware being ...
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How can I go about optimizing textures?
I've modeled six rocks, unwrapped all six of them in one texture, but after painting three rocks I decided to reuse them for the remaining three. Is there a way to move these UV islands around along ...
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Efficient Landscape Mesh Optimization
I need to render an expansive landscape on a render target which lacks the ability to do heightmap-based displacement or mesh subdivision operations in hardware. Thus my only option is to bake the ...
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Efficiently loading large blender files, translating large amounts of objects
I've been struggling for some time now with dealing with large blender files, full of lots of objects (which are clones of the same original object, think an atomic crystal). An example file I've just ...
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Eevee - use lowpoly object for shadows, reflections etc
How can I optimize the scene in Eevee with low-poly object?
I'd like high-poly be visible only for camera and low-poly for shadows/reflections etc.
I ask because there is no Ray Visibility under ...
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When and how to add armor to my game character
I'm currently sculpting for the first time ever and I'm trying to make a clone trooper from star wars. My plan is to retopologize it once it's done and use the "low poly" version for a ...
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Script performance issues. Applying modifiers to mesh with shape keys
I didn't write the script, I can read it, but can't do much else.
This script is used for applying subdiv to a mesh with shapekeys, while preserving the latter. However it seems to be leaking a lot of ...
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Is there anyway to resize textures?
My file size is quite large and takes forever to load all images into vram. I used a lot of ~3K PBR textures found on poliigon and I wish I used 1K textures instead. Is there anyway to select the ...
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Render pre and post synchronizing taking a long time with Eevee
I'm rendering a roughly 2000 sqft jewelry store with Eevee. Frame size is approximately 1000x1200px and the render takes a very long time to synchronize as well as complete once the samples are done ...
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How come the Blender 2.83 Splash Screen by Ian Hubert takes so much less time to render than my Doughnut tutorial?
I'm completely new to blender and going through the Doughnut tutorial at the moment. I'm working on an old laptop (GTX 850M, i5-4210U, 8GB RAM) and the doughnut and cup together take about 10 mins to ...
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Quick keyframe frame insertion for Shape Keys with `foreach_set` from data
I would like to animate an objects' shape keys from a data set. Imagine a default cube that will get longer (side face vertices will move in +X direction) according to a data.
The date looks like this ...
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Will applying Decimate Modifiers speed up Blender?
I'm working on my first big paid project and I'm coming across a lot of problems. I'm not sure what Blender can handle, but my project was something like 6 million plus faces. I'd simply click a ...
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Proper modeling to sculpting process
So here is the issue I am facing. I first model my ... well.. model and I then bring it to sculpting and at around 1milion+ polygons ( or tris and other stuff) I start getting really laggy. I mean my ...
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Why is RTX 2080 is slower to render than laptop with EEVEE?
I just changed my laptop
Macbook Pro with a Radeon 460 pro 4gb, 16goRam
to a new computer with a
RTX 2080 Ti 11gb with a intel i9 9000 CPU, 16go Ram
With Cycles i have no problem to speed up my ...
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Adaptive Sub Sampling for reducing noise in renders [closed]
I got the idea of using the Intel Denoiser to make a simple algorithm and give different pixels, different number of samples after one low-samples render. I further explain this idea in this video: ...
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Are there any optimal settings to take full advantage of hardware when working in Blender?
Just getting started in Blender but do come from a video editing background specifically with Adobe Premiere Pro CC. I have my computer set up so I have my m.2 drive running my source media and an SSD ...
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How do I optimize my large grass system to render quicker?
I'm working on an animation which has a lot of natural landscapes, and I'm using a particle system to generate grass (Models that come with the Graswald addon). These frames take a long time to render ...
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How do I optimize this planar object's vertices?
So in a nutshell I want to optimize the vertices in my object, more in some parts and less in others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvrh6rbrnbQ
Currently the object is planar, but I do want to ...
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How to eliminate holes/bubble inside the volume of an object with blender [duplicate]
I’m a beginner and I obtained my object, a mandible, from the CT-scan of a patient.
The problem is that inside of the bone tissue there are areas denser than others. To obtain the .stl file I have to ...
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Blender doesn't use system resources optimally
let me just preface this by saying I am new to Blender and have a very minimal knowledge pf it as of now.
The problem happened as I was following along with a tutorial and while doing a cloth ...
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Optimize Blender for macbook pro 2011
So I'm really new to blender, barely been 6 months.
I use a Macbook Pro 2011 running a 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 2620M with with dedicated graphics, with 4gb of RAM(Yes I know.), and 750gb HDD partitioned ...
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How can I unsubdivide regions of flat faces with Python?
First: I have a very detailed mesh (16M tris) but there are many regions where lots of faces have the same height and angle.
An optimization approach (real time rendering is the goal) is to select a ...
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Reduce subdivision quality in viewport on multiple objects at once
I increased the viewport quality on my subdivision but forgot to reduce it after finishing the model and have since duplicated the model like 60 times, is there a way to turn down the viewport quality ...
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Why does memory and file size increase when objects are joined?
Why does memory file size increase when objects are joined?
As you can see from the pic I am working on a building.
When the objects are not joined file size is 50MB
When I join them the file size ...
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Hacks for improving performance on large scenes
Hi I’m using blender mostly doing exterior architecture visualisations. Through previous months I’ve found many problems that affects this software. But the main issue is lack of performance power ...
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View object with used texture
I'm working on a project with a lot of objects, I want to make the file a lot smaller, because its overloading my hardware.
I want to see which objects are using the selected texture. I'm in the ...
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OptiX Tile Size and Render Times
OptiX rendering, to my knowledge, uses the RT cores in the Turing architecture cards like my 2060. How does tile size affect the render speed?
As far as I know the general rule is to increase tile ...
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How to optimize Viewport for video editing on low-spec hardware?
I downloaded blender in hopes of using it for simple video editing, and while it appears to have all the tools I want, trying to preview the video is simply not working well enough. The preview is ...
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Pose planning for reflective surfaces. Difficult mathematical / geometrical problem . Possible with blender?
first of all this is not a blender - specific question, but i would like to realize it if it is possible with blender since it is open source and can be combined with python programming.
I am working ...
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Eevee - Viewport Render image vs F12 rendering (speed) [duplicate]
I wonder why Eevee renders slowly when pressing F12, while viewport rendering does the same exact picture (down to the pixel) but takes less than a second.
Where are these seconds lost ? What kind of ...
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Does Blender bloat unnecessarily the Windows Registry?
According to Revo Uninstaller, Blender adds more than 4400 registry keys to the Windows Registry. They are almost all spread in Registry folder:
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Good amount of Tris for a mobile game? [closed]
What would be a good amount of tris for a character that will be used in a mobile game? So you have an idea lets say a mobile game like Clash Royale, I'm of course trying to keep it low but I just ...
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(Beginner) Large metal ceiling optimization
I'm pretty new to blender.
I am trying to render a large metal ceiling (over 120m long) (see image)
you would not see through it
you would not see the edge
as it is on the ceiling, the vertical ...
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Rendering particles vs ALT+D copying the object
I have a simple question.
Is it better for render time and optimization to add for example Trees as particle system or to ALT+D duplicate it as many times as i need. What will be easier for memory?
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is there a way to unify the direction of edges or assign them a direction?
basically I want to find out a way to set the same direction to a selection of edges having almost the same direction like in picture
(to select them all I select one, press shift + G and choose ...
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Rendering scene background in only some frames of an animation
Is there any way to render a specific scene, say the background, during only the second half of an animation while the foreground renders the entire time? For example in a 100 frame clip could I get ...
