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5 Blender Tips That Have Saved Me 100+ Hours

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20 Comments

@Smeaf Creator 3 years ago Pinned

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@dubblesnup4457 3 years ago

1. Noise Threshold
2. Denoise
3. Instancing (alt+d instead of shift+d)
4. Light Paths
5. Imposter (Using planes instead of 3D Meshes for far away objects, such as trees)

@iAmPyroglyph 3 years ago

OptiX tends to be faster but has more artifacts, so a general rule of thumb is:
- Optix for Viewport Rendering (speed preference)
- OIDN for Final Rendering (quality preference)

@Coder_LP 3 years ago

What in the world did his tips do to my PC?!?
It was like 207 samples from 4096 and suddenly it's done???
This video deserves much more attention and likes, thank you Smeaf!

@R3DBLAZE 3 years ago

One more thing I would like to add here, if you’re increasing the noise threshold from 0.01 to 0.1,
You gotta increase the sample count too from like 500 to 2000👍

@dingus6520 3 years ago

bro the unreal tournament music stuck me

@Achelon 3 years ago

I'm a 3D-graphics/gaming teacher, and I've been coding a 3D-engine myself for fun. It amazes me how much I learn about 3D-graphics when I've been doing something so low-level stuff that I didn't know before

@DestroyerV 3 years ago

OMG 2:27 THE MUSIC, all the childhood core memories unlocked!

@gugu5285 3 years ago

the transitions and illustrations being just random videos you saved is honestly pretty fun

@cisqodamme672 2 years ago

the memes catch me offguard damn

@abeblue 3 years ago

Smeaf, even if sometime i'm not intersted of your content, your editing is so satisfying that i can't switch for another video.

@GANONdork123 3 years ago (edited)

To add on to the texture optimization bit, you can get away with fairly low resolutions for the various information maps. In most circumstances, roughness and metallic maps can be 1k or lower, and you won't notice the difference. The key texture maps that should be kept high resolution are the Color/Albedo and Normal maps. Everything else can be downscaled drastically. Also it's a smart idea to combine the various information maps into one. Since they're all grayscale you can put each one into a seperate color channel on the same image. R-Metallic, G-Roughness, B-Ambient Occlusion, A-Displacement. Node Wrangler's automatic PBR setup won't know what to do with it, but it'll cut down greatly on how many textures will need to be loaded and will reduce the clutter in your node tree.

@adambernau8991 3 years ago

This is actually the first time I heard "Foregone Destruction" (at 1:22) while not playing Unreal Tournament or listening to it on purpose. Great track, thanks for making me smile