I keep wondering if they will ever open their render for public use like Pixar did, that would be cool.

I think for stills, especially interiors, Luxcore is much better (photorealism)..

Just wait until Eevee Next would come out ;-) It's already available as a preview in Blender 4.1 Alpha

Is EEVEE good to use with older GFX cards? [GTX970 here]. I understand Cycles is for RTX cards. And I don't know about Workbench. Those 3 are the default that come with Blender...

@@eladbari The scene needs to fit in the GPU VRAM.

v-ray looks ugly

You got that right, brother!

Any time!

Yes, this is a cool render. It's a pity that it has little support and development has essentially stopped.

afaik it’s basically abandoned. I’ve used it as a Corona alternative (which is also availible for blender, pnly 3.0 tho). Since then I gave up and use cycles with custom energy conserving shaders and Agx colors. This way it’s pretty darn close to Corona in quality and much faster and easier to work with.

@@ajtatosmano2 Oh not it's not abandoned, the community is still pretty active, the issue is that there's a very small group of people working on it for free, so updates come out very spaced apart. Didn't know about the custom shaders and Agx colors, mind sharing some sources for that? I'd like to test it out as well, if there's a possibility to get cycles close to Corona I would really like to hop on it :)

in terms of photorealism it's probably the best renderer available for Blender

@@alexvith seems like I haven't replied, (I remembered otherwise). I've done the custom shaders myself more or less based on the videos of Christopher3D. I faked a lot of things with them, so it's not physically accurate, but looks better nevertheless. However Cycles in Blender 4.0 has the AgX and energy conservation built in, I would try it out for sure. Out of the box it still won't be as good as Corona but I do post-production in every engine anyway. I think you can tweak it in photoshop under 2 minutes to reach a stage where you can't really tell what engine made the render.

Glad you enjoyed it

Hmm, I had similar specs and didn’t have many problems. Are you only making what in camera view or entire 360 scenes

I found switching off 3DView from full render to basic shading before rendering frees up GPU Video ram as in it's trying to double up. Mind you, the file I was working on had 4k textures in several shader slots. Not one of my scenes, I'd like to add!

Glad you like them!

I don't think there is an official Arnold version of Blender, I think there was an unofficial bridge at some point, but I'm not sure what happened to it

Luxcore and ProRender.

Luxcore! Can use Cycles shaders and their own

Luxcore translates cycles materials, as does Octane

Most renderers are capable of good results nowadays, cycles is pretty fast as GPU renderers go, so if you want something free, probably best to stick with it.

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Thank you @@B1tchAssDog

SSGI will be available in Eevee Next that will come out in Blender 4.1 ;-)

⁠@@igorthelightoh really? 😍

The Blender exporter does not work.

@@cr4723 but it already worked I think ? I thought I could remember I used it with Blender some years ago 🤔

@@4KI75E4NN OK, that's interesting. But how did you get it to work?

Why do you prefer AMD if NVIDIA cards are faster?

@@leecaste Because they're only faster in blender. In games (ignoring RT), the 2 would be pretty much trading blows and I much prefer the adrenaline interface over the Nvidia one. With AMD, I could overclock my GPU, see the temps and loads more, all in one package. Now I have to have GPU drivers and MSI afterburner for the same functions and afterburner pops up a stupid error msg every time my PC boots. Plus (in UK) - 6700xt - £330 3070 - £460

@@elbubsio4947 oh, I see, I didn’t understand because I only use the PC for 3D and work, not gaming 👍🏻

@@elbubsio4947 The answer is not really... Pro render was faster when compared to the older version of Cycles. But Cycles-x HIP is usually a bit faster than Pro-Render. If you want to render faster with a 6700xt then noise threshold with OIDN is a good option. Also activate HIP RT if the option is available. With all that together it is usually possible to render relatively fast.

For Blender? Go with Octane. Transparency and lighting quality out of the box are FANTASTIC with octane. In general, Cycles is like a mid tier renderer. Amazing for something that is free and plenty fast, but you'll get better results with Renderman, Octane, vray, Arnold etc etc Only exception is probably redshift, it's really capable but you have to coax realism out of it. Octane and vray are probably my faves

corona used to be insane. i think you still can use it its chaos corona now. personally it feels a bit complicated for a noob to use so i will stick to cycles. but have seen renders with corona and damn the lights and colors was top notch.

@@chokedboy Yeah just checked out some images from it and it does look really good, I'll probably give it a try, thanks!

@@EightNineOne Cheers for the response, I'll give Octane a go. Is it easy to work with?

@@EdenHamilton you’ll still need to learn a few bits. But it’s no harder to use than cycles IMO

Anything with proper caustics - Octane, Luxcore or Vray from this list

Corona render is supposed to be very good, especially with caustics. But, I don't think there's a blender plugin, it's standalone, and it's probably not cheap either. It's definitely paid for. Blender Guru (Andrew Price) rates it very highly.

@@richardconway6425 I’ve never used it personally but only ever heard good things about it

Luxcore all the way

Knobody knows how MoonRay can started or use ih blender.

Yep! Only for old versions

Engines ;-)

Actually D5 render engine is based on Unreal Engine with better integration and easier learning curve.

@SeanChen5487 really? I didn't know that! Only used it for aboit 15 mins before work one day. Will have to give it another go some day soon!

@@SeanChen5487 D5? What do you mean?

In Blender it is a tad janky, awesome renderer elsewhere

And you need to convert all the textures.

@@thequestioner277 that’s true of all renderers. Octane actually does a slightly better job than most by inferring a similar material automatically, it works occasionally.

for 2.79 pretty much useless for 2.8x or 3.0x

Its garbage.

The title, "Best Render Engines for Blender" is enough to tell you what to expect. If you require a comparisons video, how about asking politely?

watch?v=myg-VbapLno

just use cycles not worth to change

@@ektorthebigbro no one: me: **STARTS BICYCLE KICKING THE AIR LIKE LIU KANG FROM MORTAL KOMBAT** *WUOOOOHUHH **_WUTAAA-YUH!!_*

luxcore try it man

All but Cycles, Luxcore, and Eevee or others included are paid monthly minus a couple, Renderman is a super secret club to find the price but it is roughly 600 bucks plus. Vray says free, but then it is sneaky and says well free buuut you have to buy a node which is pricey starting at 208 and sky rocketing from there next tier is 941 and so on. All of this is USD as well. Anyways none of these are worth it, pirate them if you want them, it is justifiable for the ones that want to force you to rent but to never own. The whole render farm thing up front can get out of hand price wise very fast so do not buy into its cheap weird pricing thing.

I can recommend Octane. Its awesome.

​@@stephanstrydom6175is that work for rx580?

Octane, it's probably the best allrounder - fast, intuitive and pretty easy to make things beautiful IMO

@@EightNineOne paid and costly. not costly than redshift though

@@Contactbps there’s a free tier for Blender. Also it’s actually really good value for the paid version. Like £20 a month plus you get access to embergen, cascadeur, moi and a ton of free resources. Redshift is too expensive though agreed. Everything Maxon do is overpriced now IMO

is it still being developed?

it is a shame there is only few luxcore ready profesional assets...on the other hand cycles has really big lybrary high quality models from many websites ,luxcore is good but i hate his denoiser...destroy my scene almost allways.if the luxcore will be more suported maybe it was favorite render engine in most blender users

Yeah, it's just slow@@ollied2025

@@ollied2025 it has a slow development but i am hopfull

@@ibamarcel4577i had always flickering in animation, no matter what i did! I heard temporal denoising in a video editing software will help...

No. Its still terrible. Octane is pretty good though.

Yeah but try rendering huge scenes in cycles in less than 10 minutes

It will be much better when they drop the Filmic colorspace in 4.0.

@@misanthrope_01 cycles is not horrible it just seems like you don't know how to properly use it

@@stephanstrydom6175 wasnt there already a filmic log option in the color management settings?

​@@misanthrope_01cycles is good, but extremly long render times makes it unusable for me. Eevee is going very well and, with good settings, do the job well. Blender is great!!!! Thank you all.

I thought octane is paid? It seemed to say that on their website

paid i think@@Shirruri

@@Shirruri Paid for Windows, Free for Mac, I think

No, its free for Windows too.@@ArthurBizkit

Only if you want to use more than one GPU. the subscription does offer A LOT though for cheap.@@Shirruri