Blender Has a Secret Render Engine

[@ArtinAzarnejad]

I’m not saying that you should switch to Octane, I still use Cycles occasionally, use what fits you best

[@Weston3725]

Hey I am downloading this but when I pressed run my windows defender said it was a virus?

[@ArtinAzarnejad]

@@Weston3725same thing happens to me too, not a big deal

[@Weston3725]

@@ArtinAzarnejad ok good I recently got this new computer and was just being safe and thanks

[@NinetyEight418]

This fast changing text is brain melting

[@adri.progression]

I switched 6 months ago and it's great!

[@progzyy]

0:07 : let's forget we just saw the "Workbench" option

[@fen4flo]

There also is a hydra storm engine in the newest versions

[@enderfire3379]

@@fen4flo wait there is a newer version? i use 4.1

[@fen4flo]

@@enderfire3379 There is a 4.2 alpha yes, but hydra storm should be avaliable since 4.0, or so I thought at least

[@Octahedran]

@@fen4flo I think you have to enable it manually in 4.0, never used it though

[@silencethequiet]

@@Octahedran i love it for test renders

[@morlankey]

Note, decreasing the GI clamp will bias the render. It's a high number by default because the 'fireflies' will eventually converge to the correct value with a long enough render time. Setting it to such a low number will make the render darker than it should be.

[@TheCarmenStar]

me, watching this video very intently and closely while having no intentions to ever do photorealism nor having a computer powerful enough for it

[@gloz6662]

same

[@turtle1658]

yeah, tbh, stylized is just more fun as an artist, you have more to do creatively. If you choose photorealism, its just kind of boring in my opinion

[@boriswilsoncreations]

you don't need octane to do realistic stuff if you have cycles. also, there are some other very cool render engines that are for free like LuxCore for instance, which is also an unbiased rendering engine -- if that's what people are looking for -- with tons of cool features

[@Majubo1]

my computer was dying just to render a liquid,how can I do photorealism with such a computer

[@THE_ADMIN-dl3qk]

ikr

[@punmije]

Blender’s secret rendering engine is appleseed

[@bronzekoala9141]

Shame we didn't hear from it since 2019.

[@xrayessay]

No clue why ppl hate on you so much in the comments man. Obviously the title is clickbait, but in this day and age I am happy the title didn’t say “I 3d scanned a body in the suicide forest” or some shit like that. Yeahh Octane has been around for some time, but I am happy you reminded some new Blender ppl that it exists. Keep up the good work man!

[@cemgulpunk]

I use both Blender and C4D, Octane for C4D is my #1 choice. But if I do a job in Blender, I really don't need a render engine other than Cycles. Cycles is the best free render engine hands down.

[@lerngasm]

oh....you know...of cinema4d? The lord has blessed this day. That's my favorite modeling program because its so easy. Like why would you model in anything else.

[@ExacoMvm]

This. Same here, Octane is just a hassle in Blender and super buggy unlike in Max/C4D, but it's not because that, imo Cycles X is a solid renderer, only lacks some postfx.

[@594x]

@@ExacoMvm exactly

[@metatronorder3565]

Agreed as far as rendering textures and skies etc goes BUT...shame cycles can't / doesn't nail Bloom like Eevee does/can...and at least in Eevee, you can animate the bloom more easily/effectively without the headf*ck of compositing etc and the bloom effect is way more realistic than the lame 'glow' node using 'ghost' effects..just my opinion/experiences thus far.

[@ExacoMvm]

@@metatronorder3565 Honestly if you need the most realistic/customizable bloom/glare it's best to do it in comp, unless the engine has built-in bloom/glare that's quite accurate/realistic or like in V-Ray VFB you get quite a lot of control, but still imo it doesn't beat the comp option because you don't get that many options. What I would do if you're using Cycles is to setup a nice preset template in AAE or Fusion/Nuke so you can add it relatively quickly, maybe even Blender's compositor is enough but I doubt it, maybe only for preview purposes.

[@The3Dsmash]

Awesome intro to Octane in Blender. I'm excited to try. Thanks for taking the time to share these tips!

[@boriswilsoncreations]

the title says "Blender Has a Secret Render Engine", which in fact is misleading, because that's not a render engine that comes with Blender, it's a paid proprietary software by another company. Also, biased and unbiased rendering techniques does not necessarily mean that things will look more or less realistic, so the explanation in the video is also misleading. I say from professional experience, even though Cycles is a biased rendering engine I use it very often in my VFX workflow for photorealistic rendering, and without problems achieving realistic results even with a simple principled shader with no image maps connected to the main shader node.

[@marcopozzi522]

Thank you, you just saved 5:14 Min of my life 😊

[@_end3rguy_]

stoked untili found i would have to remake all my materials to work with this engine

[@mansfault3734]

Hate to burst your bubble, but Octane has been available for Blender for several years. Its nothing new.

[@brahillms1374]

You’re missing the point. Not many people knew about it prior to this video.

[@pevlindir]

@@brahillms1374 doesnt mean its "secret"

[@mansfault3734]

@@brahillms1374 Fuuny, the thousands of online posts going back several years about it would suggest different.

[@brahillms1374]

If I didn’t see this video, I wouldn’t have ever discovered this in the first place. LET ME APPRECIATE HE MADE THIS VIDEO TO ENCOURAGE NEW BLENDER USERS TO TRY OUT THIS RENDERER THAT WOULD BE OBSCURE OTHERWISE.

[@lerngasm]

@@brahillms1374 ya ...man.... dont ruin someones day. People still watch my blender displacement tutorial on my powdered_bread account and are like "wow thanks"

[@gold_twisted]

This Video: "Blender Has a Secret Render Engine" My brain: "Ah yes, the Workbench"

[@kayedans8779]

Been a blender user for 6 months now never heard of octane engine, thanks for the video

[@nostalgianinja]

You could also look for compatibility like Hydra Storm (which is included in Blender) which is used for USD import/Export. Octane is a ***third party*** plugin.

[@enderfire3379]

what is hydra storm?

[@PlanetPulse99]

@@enderfire3379 Hydra Storm was developed by Pixar Animation Studios. It is part of Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) framework, which is an open-source project designed to facilitate the interchange of 3D data between different applications and to support complex scene management and rendering tasks. Pixar created USD and Hydra to streamline their production workflows and to handle the demanding requirements of their high-end animation and visual effects projects.

[@PlanetPulse99]

@@enderfire3379 It is part of Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) framework, which is an open-source project designed to facilitate the interchange of 3D data between different applications and to support complex scene management and rendering tasks. Pixar created USD and Hydra to streamline their production workflows and to handle the demanding requirements of their high-end animation and visual effects projects.

[@Luted09]

@@enderfire3379 a render engine addon that comes preinstalled with blender that i do not know what looks like because my pc is too bad and crashes blender when i try and use it

[@Architector_4]

@@enderfire3379 Hydra Storm is the reference renderer made for the USD (Universal Scene Description) format. It's a simple renderer that, given the same USD scene, should always produce the exact same image in any 3D software that supports both USD and this renderer. It's quite boring and featureless though; its purpose is more about ensuring technical correctness or preview renders than any final production use lol

[@nerdygeek9865]

2:55 picture this… it’s 2 am and KZbin auto play has taken over. Blender in 1 window, KZbin in another window and you are peacefully sleeping in your epic gamer chair. Then KZbin pulled a devious plot to wake me up and played this… This is a great tool tho! I actually will use this.

[@TeleviseGuy]

Octane is the WinRAR of 3D rendering

[@nttainGG]

fr "your winrar subscription will expire in 40 days"

[@boriswilsoncreations]

@LaplacianGaussianLatticeVector 7zip is a free and open-source file archiver that compresses and decompresses files

[@nttainGG]

@LaplacianGaussianLatticeVector winrar but better

[@IronKore]

​@@nttainGGand no ads

[@senior4153]

thank you for actually caring enough to give solution to problems and mention relevant tutorials

[@meiscoolbutmo]

I had a dream where I followed this tutorial, but instead of finding a new render engine, I found built-in furry fetish animations. I then lit my computer on fire.

[@Zaryhh]

The matrix pill scene you added completely knocked me out of my chair 🤣🤣

[@viannizvnv7222]

almost thought this was about blender internal render engine

[@AsphaultYT14]

i thought this was an actual secret rendering engine, until i realized i had to buy it no wonder this doesn't have a bunch of popularity Edit: So it turns out there are a LOT of people crying about me pointing out that octane is limited and they're claiming it to be "free", and if they send a screenshot of the site, it would just be edited, therefore proving me right.

[@ArtinAzarnejad]

It’s literally free

[@AsphaultYT14]

@@ArtinAzarnejad it comes with a free trial that lasts a week, which makes it paid after 7 days of use

[@jaf8728]

​@@ArtinAzarnejad *free for blender only, other applications require a license

[@AsphaultYT14]

@@ArtinAzarnejad it has a free trial which lasts 7 days, that makes it paid

[@MatiEP09]

@@AsphaultYT14 did you download OctaneRender or Octane X?

[@nurb2kea]

octan edition scares me the most...

[@Lord2225]

Cycles is unbiased too. Also other 'sercet' render engines that have other feautues: renderman - powerful engine with good artistic control. Unfortunately no gpu support. Luxcore - state of the art caustics also supports gpus

[@lotusinframe]

been using octane belnder for the last 3 months, i can tell its way better than cycles

[@perli216]

In what way?

[@perli216]

In what way?

[@lotusinframe]

@@perli216 real scale of lighting, better displacement, much more control compared to cycles, faster than cycles, and much more

[@1polygonewithme]

Yep I love the way Octane renders it lights

[@lotusinframe]

@@1polygonewithme ayo Capt. Patrick, the guys who introduced me octane renders🫡🫡🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

[@JRis44]

Wow this is a blockchain project producing actual utility. Gunna have to definitely give a hand clap to a team of people actually producing something other than meme coins and nonsense.

[@SomeRandomPiggo]

Meh, there are other "secret" engines too like Renderman

[@ArtinAzarnejad]

Thats awesome, thanks for sharing

[@HexOverride]

and the extremely secret blender render :)

[@PabTSM-OfficialChannel]

renderman =D

[@Nebulous6]

Pretty neat. Too bad about the requirement for an internet connection in order to run Octane. For that reason, I pass on it.

[@amasun13]

Thank you, guru

[@jmssun]

As much as I love the rendering quality of Octane, this introduces too many dependencies making projection chain over complicated, and prone to breakage over time if any one thing in this chain breaks due to availability and/or compatibility. So I always advise against this type of practice in all the studios I’ve worked at.

[@AdventureMase]

so like why not just use cycles

[@ArtinAzarnejad]

Personal preference, it's not about which one is better, it's about what works for you, my reasons for choosing Octane can be different from another Octane user, but personally, I simply think that it just looks better and has a more advanced material system

[@AdventureMase]

@@ArtinAzarnejad okie dokie cool!!

[@julian_behrens]

it looks way better for non daylight scenes (so studio or artificial light + its faster)

[@jinchoung]

octane lets you render deep exr! which is only useful if you're comping in nuke but it's still amazing you can get deep compositing renders out of blender!

[@buttersmooth4532]

OK, I was looking for your channel and after 12 month I got recommendation.

[@MacToecutter]

Okay, what the heck? There are also Vray, Arnold, Redshift, Corona, Rendermann and a few other render engines for Blender. But the point is that all these engines including Octane cost money, Cycles does not.

[@SSukram_]

Octane is free smh

[@1polygonewithme]

Octane is free if you are only using 1 gpu

[@thewolfstu]

I recognize those Photon caustics examples.

[@ArtinAzarnejad]

Yeah, they are from one of the Corridor Crew’s videos

[@thewolfstu]

@@ArtinAzarnejad Now I am curious if you can get Photon in Blender as well. lol

[@MuSkA_]

Been using Octane in Blender for years on my daily job, hardly a "secret"

[@paradoxsupreme7479]

unique video. keep it up

[@jamesheller9185]

only if you had made this video earlier, i wouldnt get fed up with it trying to work right:( amazing video by the way

[@gustavolaveaga2674]

I just switch... and not going back

[@SUSSYBACKAVERYSUS]

1:40: can't run "Octane Server"

[@WaveCommotion]

I thought that shit was dead already lol. The only good thing about octane blender was the camera settings in which you could get some good bokeh but that's it, now we have Cycles and addons for it

[@FTAthere]

Only OG's know about Blender Internal

[@TheCrackingSpark]

The only thing stopping me from installing octane and never using cycles ever again is the fact that I HAVE to learn EVERY SINGLE SHADING NODE OVER AGAIN like dude come oooon I'm a freaking god at shading with blender nodes, don't freaking CHANGE them wtf octane not cool dawg :c

[@suryakamalnd9888]

i used to use cycles.. then switched to unreal for all rendering and camera stuff..

[@lerngasm]

for real that's actually a great idea if you can stand the importing. I'm considering using that for all my product renders tbh.

[@ChubbyStoat]

What are the benefits of switching to Octane renderer in Blender? I've watched the entire video and it seems to be more of a guide than a feature showcase

[@eggsonl]

0:45 : Slavic Classic

[@Castawayleaf]

I’m using this with all my new 3d art

[@NaraSherko]

Bro my viewport now looks like a unity game

[@katoy9976]

O yüzden benim için tek tek bireyler var. Neyse açıklaması uzun sürecek.

[@superNova5837]

If I use this my laptop will explode

[@carlogonza1126]

This would be really good for creating Backrooms videos.

[@GonkOrange]

Cycles is also unbiased.

[@oby1]

I feel like the render engine is all upto the artist. If they can justify switching from a decent paintbrush over to an expensive paintbrush- thier work better be stellar. I dont see the need to switch to octane besides the novelty? Is there any justification for octane?

[@batucenk3997]

There are many subtle differences between render engines. All these differences contribute to the final product’s overall quality. For example, a game made with UE5, no matter how many different shaders it uses, still gives you the feeling that it’s made with UE5. Cycles is a brute-force render engine and performs very poorly in GPU memory management. Additionally, every render engine differs in aspects like subsurface scattering (SSS) and certain lighting calculations.

[@biltkv]

All the roblox users watching this video out of boredom knowing dang well they will never ever need it: Very cool video thank you

[@teresashinkansen9402]

Isn't cycles also an unbiased render engine? Only caustics seem to be something cycles struggles with.

[@MrFoxANDnoobie]

It’s speed?

[@ExacoMvm]

same as cycles +-

[@Paratokhs]

The fan!!! the dang fan!!! now I'm a fan. PS: If you know, you know.

[@MyStudio-io3so]

Keep getting dll error and tcp error when trying to open Octane Server prime app

[@ivv3393]

Guys I have a problem with octane. I am using it in linux and it great the problem when I render, it crash with no reason. I am using fedora 39

[@petterlarsson7257]

why are you using opera gx

[@IROHPRS]

ty dude

[@suspiciousestsandwich]

What about Pixar's rendering engine?

[@Shadow-Silver-Edits]

It's called "nonyabusiness" made by "f*ckoff studios" designed for computers whose owners are "stupid as f*ck (like you)"

[@MossManOG]

yes, but what's the render time? my mac would NEVER handle this lol 😂

[@cicadaknight3048]

cool clickbait bro. waiting for your next vid "GUYS THERES ANOTHER HIDDEN SUPER SECRET BLENDER RENDERER... ITS CALLED MALT...!!!!" these are made by other people it's not a secret. i thought this vid was going to be about a secret renderer thing hidden within blender's code or something.

[@ArtinAzarnejad]

womp womp

[@Im2Xtr3me]

bro go ratioed by "womp womp"💀

[@Glamiscoolest3]

​@@ArtinAzarnejadW ARTIN

[@javadahmadi]

I am on Mac. Can I expect faster rendering? Is the final render better quality?

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Its NOT a blender render engine. It's an external render e fine It's also a pain in the ASS to work with. It's to overcomplicated

[@raulgalets]

I cannot find the GI Clamp slider

[@raulgalets]

oh I see, path tracing kernel must be set

[@MEAREMLG]

why do these trigger my antivirus tho

[@ChillaxeMake]

nobody tell him about renderman

[@JakeRobert123]

How fast is it compared to cycles. That's the only thing I want to know

[@SB-Boi]

I don’t believe it is a huge difference in speed

[@Kyncaid84]

i just hate to have another different build just for octane. I hate having multiple version of the same software. I know it might be useful but not as a default choice. Why can't I simply update blender? é_è

[@realleglesslizard]

does it work on mac

[@toastedprinny]

I'm mad that the website doesn't allow me to link your channel... ugh

[@CGToonStudio]

Can you please drop a 15 minute long tutorial on texture projection mapping and texture painting? In blender 4.0

[@slavsit7600]

cgmatter has done a tutorial on texture projection

[@CGToonStudio]

@@slavsit7600 kk thanks

[@pigeondriver8992]

tysm

[@betterlit]

i cant use the latest versions of blender, i am stuck on blender 2.9 something something on lts, i manage to create good renders but i want to use the latest versions instead of being stuck in this old outdated version of blender.

[@PryStudios]

Does it render faster

[@principedelapaz3593]

cycle is soo good for me a think no difference 😶

[@imschokolade]

Evan King👍

[@psclip3309]

and im using octane for all the time and never going back to cycle anymore, because its easy more realistic, the bump node is amazing, the procedural node is more than cycle, but octane render look very noisy even when using denoise, i can see a lot of noise on my final render, and the octane server often force closes, and is it right that this should stay online? it's very annoying.

[@3DMVR]

damn sounds like I should switch cycles be removing way too much noise making shit like watercolored

[@ExacoMvm]

For me Cycles X and Octane is same shit more or less, why you like Octane is likely due to it's default post processing, you can setup that in Cycles too and for bump maps and such make sure your bitmaps are in correct color space, but I'm sure Octane's shaders are superior. In my testing the render speed is also quite similar, Cycles X can be faster sometimes. But I agree Octane is the best GPU engine when it comes to realism or physical accuracy, too bad it kinda sucks in Blender, you would love the C4D version.

[@simoko7076]

Patricians use Luxcore

[@purav1916]

I dont know why there are alot of hate comments, found this video helpful :) but I've run into one problem. I downloaded and installed both the server and the render engine but when i try to open the Octaneprime server it doesn't open at all? is there any fix to this lol?

[@zauza25]

Cycles can do all the same that you mention in first min of vid. Like passes lol

[@yahyadiaa9679]

doesn't even work for amd gpu :(

[@wasichupaaa]

Lol i thought it would be called roblox spawner plate

[@meowkoos]

As a viewer I wanna say this video could be better to depict profits of using octane instead of other blender engines, cuz yeah, Octane has its own features (I'm octane C4D enjoyeer)

[@pxrposevfx6421]

LITERALLY EVERYBODY FKING KNOWS THAT 🤣

[@himfrfr1187]

Only con is no geo nodes

[@MrBrigadierArchived]

🤧☕💦💦 I don't think it's correct to say "Blender has..." because it's not a directly Blender thing. I mean, otherwise we can claim to Blender render ways like AppleSeed, Nvidia Omniverse, RenderMan, MoonRay, D5 Renderer... And LuxeCore, sure if it's still alive or something. All of it different companies with own rules. Did anyone read them? I recommend it for sure just in case this also restricts your legal usability. As I remember, the only practical differences CyclesX and Octane is only the way it deals with glass or something. Isn't it?

[@Mittzys]

cycles is unbiased

[@Poly-A-A]

Pars khazar no way

[@ArtinAzarnejad]

yes way

[@Whateverdata55]

bud I still use evvee because my PC can't handle cycles lol

[@alu2901]

Lol same. Cycles on my pc takes like 4 hours to render a single frame, meanwhile Eevee takes less than 10 seconds.

[@07productionz]

ig I need a nvidia card to use it ):

[@katoy9976]

Biz mizah ve şiirde neden iyiyiz hiç düşündün mü? Çünkü bizden qncak ya soytarı olur ya da hayal kırıklığı yaşamış bir ruh.

[@gnamp]

Cost?

[@lerngasm]

its free for blender, but good luck getting it working its sort of confusing. if you dont have nvidia graphics card also you can't use it (as far as I know)

[@homborgor]

I'll save you 5 minutes and 14 seconds. Blender doesn't have a secret render engine, he's on about octane. Have a good day xox

[@Dark-Animates]

Nah I use workbench

[@mr_whyy]

Wtf,it's not owned by blender

[@BitFireStudio]

That style of captioning is so obnoxious.

[@mvmnt.]

"secret" lol

[@f4vi]

Tremendo el click bait para vender un addon. En fin, denunciado el video, papu.

[@demo-mp]

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