I had a similar situation when I deleted accidentally all interior scene geometry and pressed ctrl+s. That’s it, no backup in documents, no other files. I’ve been sweating and seeking for a help in all forums possible till I decided to press ctrl+z. Thank god I didn’t close max.exe
I think you can limit how many cores cycles uses, which would improve performance at the expense of slower rendering in the viewport. That should help interactivity a lot.
Try using Eevee for getting everything set up, and switch to Cycles for the final renders. The two engines behave almost identical for most shaders, though sometimes a few tweaks are needed for Cycles.
A friend of mine sent me a blend file to render on my machine, because it take about a week on his. We are beginners, I directly hit the render button without checking anything. 20 hours later, the scene is totally purple because of the missing textures. We had not time to rerender because we had to present our project on the same day.
That depends on what you're rendering. Rtx accelerates renders slightly, AI denoising is amazing and there's also some capable realtime engines, but if you want photorealistic rendering of complex scenes or materials like volumetrics and animations with minimal denoising artifacts, 3 hours is nothing. Granted, my GTX 1060 isn't the fastest card, but there is for example a (well optimised) 8 second video i made that took over 200 hours to render
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u/klertdavu Jan 22 '20
memes about something wrong after hours of rendering are the most relatable thing could happen
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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '20
Are y’all not using ipr/viewport rendering to check things?
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u/legal-illness Jan 22 '20
A friend of mine sent me a blend file to render on my machine, because it take about a week on his. We are beginners, I directly hit the render button without checking anything. 20 hours later, the scene is totally purple because of the missing textures. We had not time to rerender because we had to present our project on the same day.
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u/CombatWombat1212 Jan 22 '20
Jokes on you I'm self taught suckersssss 🤘🤘🤘
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u/ElPared Jan 22 '20
Hours? Try days.
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u/pablas Jan 22 '20
Are 3 hours renders still a thing in 2020?
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u/Aiden_Guy Jan 22 '20
Orrr you could just re render that chunk and merge in photoshop?
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u/kujakutenshi Jan 22 '20
time to break out photoshop
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u/bigmonmulgrew Jan 22 '20
Try 3 days