Make Your Blender Render 10x Faster With Runpod | Get RTX 4090 for $0.74

[@RahulAhire]

Signup to Runpod with this link - xpr.to/runpod-signup Edit (8 December 2024) - I've just added the support for OPTIX renderer which should help you to at least gain twice the performance compared to regular settings.

[@vindrawins]

Thanks for making this, it will really help to speed up the whole process of rendering 👍

[@RahulAhire]

Thanks for watching it, really appreciate it.

[@nealmenhinick]

explains every stage and the script considers other blender versions. great tut!

[@Ashleybattles]

Thank you so much ❤

[@Ashleybattles]

Hey quick question did you have an issue with the volumetrics? My fog isn’t appearing in my renders and I’ve been using the same settings for a long time

[@RahulAhire]

Hi Ashley, sorry for late response. I missed the notification. I don't know what your settings ares but in general there seems to have an issue regarding this - blender.stackexchange.com/questions/238685/having-issues-with-volumetric-fog maybe you can try this out. I haven't worked with volumetric fog so I can't tell much about it.

[@mondei1]

I recently started using Runpod because of LLMs and I was thinking to myself "Hmm... why not use this GPU for Blender?" I'm glad you had the same idea and already did the hard work to hack together a way to get it running. Maybe this can be implemented even better using a pre-built image that you can select right in Runpod during the pod setup wizard. The image could start a small web server in which you can select the Blender version and upload your .blend file. Together with a small progress bar of the rendering progress and the ability to download the finished zip-file. When I get back to Blender, I'll definitely try to get this system to work.

[@RahulAhire]

@@mondei1 As devs like you and I, it's easy to get carried away by thinking about adding more features to make it essentially look good. I'm sure you can also make an UI with gradio but handling errors for all its case is challenging. Someone at Runpod actually made an UI after watching this tutorial but it wasn't working as expected. I wanted keep this tutorial as beginner friendly as possible so that even 3D artists can understand what's happening here. But yeah, thanks for watching the video. If there's anything else I can help, please let me know.

[@mondei1]

​@@RahulAhire I actually tried the script on an instance but it got automatically killed by RunPod at the "Building BVH" step. RunPod showed me a 100 % RAM usage so I guess this was the problem. It was a 4090 pod with the 4.1 splash demo. Maybe I was just unlucky. But someone working for RunPod did something for Blender? Crazy. Anyway, I agree with the instant drift to make something out of an idea 🥲. You get peak motivation at the start but this quickly fades away after some work. But my naive brain can't think of anything complicated in this idea. I will come back here when I have finished something. Could be in a few months or never :p

[@RahulAhire]

@@mondei1 try other Runpod instance. Sometimes I've seen that render can be freeze but it only happens few times. If your blend file is really big (in GB) then it can take time. Make sure you can adequate RAM. Sure, I'm always here 👍🏻.

[@CipherEspanol]

Hey brother, thanks a lot for the video. What about if we want to use plugins? Would that work?

[@RahulAhire]

@@CipherEspanol can you expand on what type of plugin you're using that depends on this rendering process?

[@CipherEspanol]

@@RahulAhire let’s say I want to use GeoScatter, but I don’t want to bake the instances it creates. How can I install that plugin in the cloud? Sorry for the questions but I am a beginner.

[@RahulAhire]

@@CipherEspanol thanks for detailed context. I just wanted make sure I understand in the same way as you do. So I find out that you can unzip the addon in the addon folder and just configure your blend file properly locally. Have a look at this answer - blender.stackexchange.com/a/73760 I hope you can be able to locate the folder in this jupyter notebook as I've shown in the video. Let me know if it helps. PS: I did saw your printer hacking video in my recommendation few days ago but I watched it right now and it's really good I wonder how many months it'd have taken to create it. Are you doing it all by yourself or you're having a team?

[@CipherEspanol]

@@RahulAhire Oh really!? Thanks a lot brother, very happy you liked it. I (Bored) did all the video myself. We are 2 guys running the channel at the moment. The video took me more than 200h, but I hope I can go faster in the upcoming videos, lol. Btw, will try what you said and see if it helps. I also followed you on X ;)

[@RahulAhire]

@@CipherEspanol Oh, I do understand it's tedious to make video. This video of mine - The man who invented Trillion Dollar Algorithm : kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3WxY4WbYtqjgpI took about 4-5 months from research to press that upload button. Anyway, I've sub'd your channel, looking for to learn your cinematography style and see how in what way I can implement them on my channel. Edit - if you want Windows RDP (GUI) you can try platform like Tensordock.

[@kirigayakazuto1997]

is the script support for blender compositing node? to render multiple scenes and layer ..

[@RahulAhire]

@@kirigayakazuto1997 I would say can the blender export settings accordingly in blend file. By default it JPEG/PNG and if you want exr then select appropriate options. Rest everything I said in this video still applies.

[@tommyleejohn]

Hey thanks for the amazing video. Can u explain or show an example of how to maybe adjust settings like render layer etc. Or is it possible to select CPU or GPU in the shell?

[@tommyleejohn]

Also, how do I do it, when I have a video as a shader.

[@RahulAhire]

@@tommyleejohn thanks for coming by and watching the video. The default settings are such that you don't need to select any of them. The script utilises both CPU and GPU to its full potential. Edit - I haven't worked in shader so could you explain what does that exactly mean?

[@tommyleejohn]

@@RahulAhirehey okay Perfect! In shader would be I have a Screen where I put in a video for example. The shader is the material that has the video inside with a Image Texture node. So the video file is outside the blender in the finder structure

[@RahulAhire]

@@tommyleejohn you mean video texture? For that keep the video in the same folder where the blend file is. And keep the same in the jupyter notebook as shown here. Edit - don't forget to link the video file again file uploading the blend file.

[@andreabell189]

Hey great video. Can you render multiple animation cameras in your scene? Also can you use the blender plug in K-cycles? Thanks!

[@RahulAhire]

Thanks for watching the video, I really appreciate it. If you follow the standard blender settings, you should be able to render out images. I haven't deal with multi camera setup so I don't know if blender creates multiple folder for different camera. The script works on per scene basis so I'll have to try to properly confirm. Regarding K-cycle, the answer is no, at least on the command line version as demonstrated in the video.

[@andreabell189]

Thank you so much for your reply! This is super useful information!!! Thank you very much for your help! I will definitely check out your suggestion! Thank you 😊

[@RahulAhire]

@@andreabell189 if you strictly want GUI based blender setup, you can checkout tensordock where you can rent Ubuntu server and install xRDP (see this guide - linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-xrdp-on-ubuntu-20-04/) on it. It's little technical but if you can manage to get it running then it's basically a virtual local desktop. Only drawback is if you don't live in US or EU then the ping are so high its unusable.

[@andreabell189]

@RahulAhire oh great, I will investigate... I am uk based so might not work..... how would this compare to something like a render farm like fox render... really I am looking for the cheapest and fastest way to render out an animation. If I have to use python or whatever so be it.. thanks again for your help! Your great 👍

[@RahulAhire]

@@andreabell189 compared to fox render both Runpod and Tensordock are great. Runpod is quick and easy to use compared to Tensordock which has little additional step. You can use Tensordock from anywhere. By EU, I mean their server are in US, Ukraine and Poland. Runpod is container and Tensordock is Server which gives you more control (given you know what you're doing). However from last few days I've noticing that there's a shortage of GPU and performance is little inconsistent on Runpod. The support team has indeed assured me that it's a temporary issue as they are removing old GPUs and will be resolved soon. Tensordock is slightly faster (5-15 secs/frame). So I think this should help you to make a decision. Edit alerts (8 December 2024) - I just noticed the performance difference isn't entirely the fault of Runpod. I happened to discover how to use optix today and boom, GPU was running at its full speed giving max performance compared to not using optix.

[@kewlorsolutions]

Thank you so much for this, is there a way to have it output and mp4 and can this work with Unreal Engine? Thanks again

[@RahulAhire]

@@kewlorsolutions I haven't worked with Unreal so I can't tell much in detail. You can rent a Windows GPU VM with other providers to get a remote desktop like GUI environment. But that's little technical.

[@scmusicacademy1341]

Excelent , thank you so much. Just one question : is it possible to use runpod for clo3d ?

[@RahulAhire]

With this setup - the answer is no because it's a Linux based system not a windows or Mac. Now you can use windows container but it's technical and not suitable unless you have a dev know how. My suggestion would be look for a cheap windows GPU VM (like Tensordock or many are such available) and just RDP it and install the clo 3D.

[@scmusicacademy1341]

@@RahulAhire tks. could you please recommend a tutorial in youtube to do it ?

[@RahulAhire]

@@scmusicacademy1341 check this out docs.tensordock.com/virtual-machines/how-to-rdp-into-your-instance

[@avishukla1505]

hey just curious, what are you doing these i just saw a video of yours few years back about dropping out college so what you are actually doing these days?

[@RahulAhire]

Well I'm actually focusing on my startup Experientia. You can see it's video right here - KZbin.com/@experientiaYT and read about the mission statement - blog.rahulahire.com/what-is-experientia

[@Vivavisuals3D]

Curious if this is possible with cinema4d and redshift?

[@RahulAhire]

@@Vivavisuals3D the simple answer is no because both of them don't have command line interface version like blender. If you want you can spin up a window based GPU GUI on Tensordock if that's what you needed.

[@Alphain]

can this work with multi-layer exr?

[@RahulAhire]

@@Alphain you mean the file format exr instead of png? Try changing the settings in blend file and also the script line where it mentions .png to .exr

[@Alphain]

@@RahulAhire where can i contact you?

[@RahulAhire]

@@Alphain received your DM on IG

[@ZacharyGarner-e9r]

any way to render with EEVEE instead of Cycles?

[@RahulAhire]

@@ZacharyGarner-e9r try saving the blend file with eevee as a renderer and see it's working or not.

[@ZacharyGarner-e9r]

@@RahulAhire Do I need to specify EEVEE instead of Cycles in runpod?

[@RahulAhire]

@@ZacharyGarner-e9r I mean in the blend file. In the Blender docs, I didn't found anything specific to EEVEE i.e meaning I've to test and then update. Right now, I've updated the scripts to use OPTIX as a renderer so you can get great speed and GPU is 100% utilised all the time. So, if you can then please try using CYCLES as option in blend file.

[@ZacharyGarner-e9r]

@@RahulAhire I understand. Cycles is alot better for rendering. My computer is not good however and I usually do everything in EEVEE. But I am so happy you made this it helps me out alot.

[@BoxingCommunity07]

I thought I can access it will be accessible through RDP. That's so mess up 🙁 I was assuming it windows 😶

[@RahulAhire]

Actually you can - have a look at this blog it shows you how to deploy a RDP Ubuntu server in which you can install blender. There's also a link for the template in the blog. blog.runpod.io/gpu-accelerated-virtual-desktop-on-runpod/

[@BoxingCommunity07]

@@RahulAhire TBH I didn't used anything except windows. Right now I am using paper space windows virtual machine at price of $0.52 /Hours. But the GPU isn't fast. It is Quadro P4000. Is there any other virtual service you can recommend? That offers windows

[@RahulAhire]

@@BoxingCommunity07 most online services are based on Linux so it'd be hard to get it configured. With that said, blender officially supports Linux so I don't think you'll have any problem in using that.

[@BoxingCommunity07]

@@RahulAhire Hmm, I haven't used Linux that's why I am having trouble if I can get view just like desktop where blender shortcut is added. Is it possible 🙁

[@RahulAhire]

@@BoxingCommunity07 you can download blender for Linux. See the blender download page for more options. Edit - it's the same gui interface that we are used to in windows. Look for blender in Linux tutorial.

[@williamfernandez2185]

MUY BUENO TODO SU CONTENIDO,GRACIAS,,PERO ME PUEDE AYUDAR A ESCRIBRI EL CODIGO PARA RENDERIZAR BLENDER EN KAGGLE,,NO SE SI SE PUEDE,ALLA ES GRATUITO, CON BUEN TIEMPO Y BUENAS GPU DISPONIBLES,, POR FAVOR AYUDA

[@RahulAhire]

@@williamfernandez2185 this is the code, I don't know what's else you need. Can you please clarify?

[@williamfernandez2185]

@@RahulAhire claro,, es para utilizar este codigo en kaggle,, es un servivio gratuito de cpu y gpu,, para renderizar con blender pero en la plataforma de kaggle. gracias

[@RahulAhire]

@@williamfernandez2185 if kaggle support jupyter notebook then download the script given in the description and follow the tutorial. It should work fine as intended if kaggle has already configured CUDA.

[@rlhugh]

Great video topic :) Please consider making the video a little shorter :)

[@rlhugh]

eg 6:46 in, and havent started an instance yet :P

[@RahulAhire]

Thanks for watching this video. I really appreciate it. I could explain the video in short but it won't make comprehensive sense for the viewers. But I've indeed added the timestamp so that might be helpful. If not then let me know how should I correct it...