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Clouds Flythrough | Cycles Blender Tutorial
Posted by Aidy Burrows on Dec 15, 2016
After this Flythrough video you’ll know…
- How to use a particle system to create a starfield.
- How to create a star with built in streaks no compositing required.
- Faking volumetrics with an array.
- About the awesome Space VFX Elements series. 😉
- A sense of completion for reading all the way this far down the bulletpoint list. Bulletpoint list reading level up!
Distance fade node group can be found here in this blend file.
HEY THERE! Space travellers! Cloud crusaders! Nebula, ummmm, peregrinators! (Had to break out the thesaurus for that one.)
Like the peregrine falcons of the sky (those guys can get to about 390 km/h – crazy speeds!) we’ll dive through stellar nurseries in this latest bonus and free tutorial from the Space VFX Elements Series!
RESOURCES
Distance fade node group can be found here in this blend file.
Space VFX Series can be found here.
Owners of the course will have access to the flythrough project blend files (also in the resources pack).
Aidy.
Comments (12)
Hello Aidy, I have a question 🙂
Instead of rendering our project why don’t we bake it to make the render time faster than rendering it directly as it is?
Instead of using the GPU, the CPU is of course the fallback keep the tile sizes down low like 16, or split it out and fade between several different scenes, so like the first 40 planes, then the next 40 planes and so on. That way you can take your transparency amount right down to speed things up too. As for baking that may work too, but that’s a lot of textures to bake. Definitely worth a try though since it wouldn’t take too long to try it out. 🙂
This renders extreeeeemly slowly. There has to be a better way to do this. I can’t wait all day for one frame.
It’s in depend with your computer, don’t worry what video card do you have? If it’s slow then choose cpu and go to performance tab and type in 16 value I hope this is gonna be helpful for you. If not let me know mybe I can figure out or ask someone else for a better way for rendering this project
yeah something seems off there, volumetrics would take even longer, are you taking advantage of a GPU? The settings at around 00:30 in the video? Otherwise, an option is to send me a link to the blend and i’ll see if there’s anything else causing the slowdown. Although i guess it could be a graphics card issue? Mine isn’t very spectacular that I used for the video a NVidia GeForce GTX 670MX.
Hey. Thank You for replying. I changed some settings thought I had it good but I only had 44 frames render in 24 hours. I finally shut it off because it was so annoying and I wanted to do this other tutorial. Not sure what I did wrong. Some of the settings on the video I couldn’t see because the screen was blurry even viewing it full screen on youtube. here is a link to the file https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ajr-iFYhArwogQpalTON4qFDTCbh
No problem! I’ve had youtube blurry for me sometimes too lately, i’ve had to manually click that little gear icon and set the quality to HD again. Maybe that could have been similar for you. But anyway got the file thanks! 🙂 The issue is that you have your render settings at ‘100’ samples, you only need 1 or 2 like you have in your preview settings, then things should go a whole lot faster! Also I guess that you don’t have a compatible GPU either? As your rendering device is set to CPU. But even so just that 100… Read more »
It worked I rendered just a frame and it was much faster but the quality sucks the stars are very pixelated. I was told in another tutorial that the render settings were for quality. And I haven’t had problems before on that setting. I think it was BornCG’s tutorial on how to render an animation from a bunch of PNG’s.
I’ll render this and see what happens. Thank You again for the help it wouldn’t have ever occurred to me to change the render setting *laughs*
no worries, glad it helped! The emission shader doesn’t really depend on samples, that’s why we can get this to render so fast, in other cases, with other shader types like diffuse and glossy shaders more samples will clean up the noise of the image though as i say we aren’t using them here.
Maybe scale the star plane down a little or lower the size in the particles, either will do the same thing. 🙂 Then perhaps try rendering a larger size overall. 🙂
Having seen it, it looks good overall to me though nice job! 🙂
Here’s one frame of the full animation
I have a question 🙂
Instead of rendering our project why don’t we bake it to make the render time faster than rendering it directly as it is?
please tell us if there’s some solution to faster the render time for somebody who don’t have a video card 🙂
Thanks in advance
