My Custom Blender Startup Settings for performance and workflow improvement in Blender 3.2

[@kelliehebert2677]

I like how you are slowing down, so much easier to follow along and pleasant.

[@TheDucky3D]

I appreciate the feedback

[@whitestone-ml5kk]

@@TheDucky3D Personally I thought you could have slowed down even more and explained them a little better for beginners.

[@mackmoore481]

Keeping the Blender Version on would help future viewers know what version you're using at a glance in case of UI and functionality changes that may cause confusion.

[@manart6506]

Yeah. I know I always check in what version they are doing some tutorial.

[@HyperdriveSoundsystem]

bottom right corner will tell you everything you need to know about the version :)

[@mackmoore481]

@@HyperdriveSoundsystem Yes, but Ducky 3D turns off the option to show it at 1:43 so new Blender users and tutorial followers cannot see what version he is using. They will become confused and have issues when options move around and features are coded differently if they follow tutorials using a different version of Blender.

[@kj3d812]

Agreed.

[@mixchief]

Was thinking the same.

[@Logically_Fallacious]

Well, I have to say you are a man apart. I've had a dream, where I'd see at least one content creator make a default startup file without any crap on the floor. You've done it. I can now die satisfied. It has taken about 3 years, btw.

[@samidzn]

Can't blame u Realtime material is a real time saver and best addon i use it all the time as well!

[@livemusiconlineHD]

Thank you, I often had performance problems, that really helped me

[@ozenuaoluwatobi]

THis got to be the most educating video I've seen on blender after the Doughtnut tutorial

[@naitiksblenderart9885]

this helped me a lot... kepp making videos like this.

[@techitint.9100]

Just Bought your Realtime Material, thanks for your fantastic job.

[@Meerkat000]

Slick set up tut! Thanks man, that was great! Gonna go grab the material pack!

[@johnnyblu84]

Thank you for this video, I will give your setting a try and see how things work out

[@SenJacob]

@Ducky3D CyclesX uses Adaptive Sampling. Even if you set 1024 or 4096 samples, the noise threshold will control your rendering time by adapting sample count. I like keep the max samples to 4096, noise threshold mostly to 0.5 and reduce like 0.2 or 0.1 on final render. Do a render and you will see rendering stops at around 20-30 samples for a transparent cube+sphere..

[@TheDucky3D]

Great stuff!! Thank you man

[@cxob2134]

The only additional addon that a must for any modeler is LoopTools, the circle and Flatten functions are too useful.

[@bee3D]

loop tools is sooo good

[@SaucemanSauceman]

Aprreciate it! Ive followed along on your loop videos and duplicated some. Learning allot about the animation side.

[@abdullah9734]

I have been waiting for this

[@gottagowork]

Other stuff I do to my startup file: 1) I have a "default room" containing a decent starting point for the kind of projects I need to do for work. Often using materials that don't require any UVs, such as different types of walls and floors etc. Comes with a couple of window and door variations as well as some frequently used interior lighting assets. 2) I'll link my material and math library files so I don't have to attach it manually to every project I work on. Fonts and texture paths, and asset libraries are also setup in prefs. Why skip it? 3) In every workspace tabs property, I'll drag the color management field to the top and expand it. 4) The world material contains some dummy nodes I often adjust globally; like "lightstrip intensity", "monitors and display passthroughs" and "exposure compensation" (used by my monitor and display assets, I need them to come out at a consistent brightness regardless of what exposure setting I'm using to get a good lighting exposure). 5) The world material will also contain an RGB mix node containing my white neutralization color and a somewhat desaturated version of it. I copy RGB of this to CM curves. 6) I make sure properties/scene tab I export all the channels I *may* need; ob and mat id, cryptomatte, mist, denoising data and so on. 7) Setup light groups in my startup so I can control all displays, interior lights, and environment light individually in post. Not in yet, but it's on my todo list. 8) Setup decent Fast GI approximation values to fill in the darks (just a very tiny bit required), if denoising messes things up. Say 1-2m distance and 0.01 in factor. Then turn it off. 9) Addons I use: All the extra objects ones, some of the edit ones (looptools and F2), some frequently used import/export ones (incl images as planes, dxf/fbx import), copy attributes menu, and sun position which I use in every project. 10) I have also setup world with a default HDR, matched its sun position to some date and place on sun position addon. Now I can rotate my sun position addon northing and use the same rotation value in one of the HDR rotations and they will always match up. There is also a HDR scaler (IBLs are clipped and problematic) so that the default sun position and elevation creates *about* the same result using Nishita Sky with and without sundisk. Sometimes I need the HDR to reflect, even if Nishita does most of the lighting. I prefer it this way as Nishita clears up pretty nicely. It's not "do it my way or your way", but rather have people think about how they setup their Blender if they happen to use it a lot for work related projects. Used in a professional studio setup, you may even need to set it up specifically to match a certain workflow and pipeline system.

[@RemmyMusic1]

anyway you could share that template? Sounds very useful !

[@gottagowork]

@@RemmyMusic1 Not really, as it contains some stuff relevant only to my line of work, and for multiple monitors. Obviously I could change this, but... It's much better to have people think through their own needs and set it up in a way that suits their needs better.

[@RemmyMusic1]

@@gottagowork fair enough.i just see it as, I could use the baseline that a professional uses to make sure I'm not in my own way

[@gottagowork]

@@RemmyMusic1 Hehe, well I'm not really a "professional". I occasionally use Blender to render out the stuff we propose to customer for sure, but it's not what you'd call high quality archviz stuff :) My actual trade and training would be drafting and light engineering using Solidworks and AutoCad. Blender stuff is secondary.

[@darrennew8211]

The Maker Tales channel has a video on how to customize what start-up settings you use each time. I.e., how to add new stuff to the File->New menu, which is really handy if you use Blender for multiple kinds of work.

[@AlvosTiger]

Your cat makes cute sounds

[@SpoonerStudios]

Very precise and clear, thank you.

[@CinematicDestiny4K]

Awesome, appreciate the tips!

[@adeyemiabdullahi1901]

Thanks a lot. I really needed that. 😄😄😄😄😄

[@ih4269]

Fantastic...big help

[@DaCapitalist1]

Any update as to why you are using OptiX in cycles render devices with your CPU and GPU selected?

[@toapyandfriends]

love...this vid...subscribed

[@TheDucky3D]

Thank you

[@ItsWesSmithYo]

Watching everyone delete the cube, cam & light, is a right of passage. Blend on kids 🖤🍩🍕😎

[@rowlandreeves5476]

Very helpful !

[@SpeedRacerx89]

Thank you for sharing!

[@kj3d812]

@Ducky3D, 5:19 what about those of us who specialize in photorealistic ArchVis using Cycles? Would the sampling settings still be that low, or should they be higher for archvis? (I'm one of the "year and a half in" Blender artists, so still learning.)

[@ajtatosmano2]

For interiors it's very low. For most of the time I enable viewport denoise, but set the starting pass to 25 or 50, depending on the scene. After I am done with most of the work I need to get the final look I will disable viewport denoising, set the noise threshold lower and use the viewport with the render region feature. but this is just for tweaking the already choosen textures. For light paths in the viewport 2 is enough for glossy and diffuse light, but I leave the transmission and transparent settings high. For the final tweaking I will crank up the numbers. I don't have a particularly strong pc, so these setting are useful. I don't use fast GI approximation because it changes the lighting too much. But the other settings are fine for most of the times, because composition and lighting is what makes a good shot. Texture wise when you lay down color and roughness you can already see if it fits the scene. And to get the realistic archvis quality you have to use higher settings in the end.

[@helloiamhere-l2p]

On the realtime materials is the studo version allow people to sell the work using the textures

[@L.A.B.N29]

¿Outside the preference settings do I need to save it somewhere else or the other stuff I changed keeps saved?

[@serebrennikof]

thank you man!

[@rajinmuhammad673]

Your sattings matches mine.

[@santiagooli]

Hi Ducky you may help me. I might have something wrong with my viewport parameters or the camera... The moment I tilt it a bit, I lose the floor grid... and it annoys me a lot.... What do I need to change to keep the grid visible in the distance? Thanks Santiago.

[@thekurtmagirt]

This is a noob question, but can I save the "scene settings" so that I don't have to apply the setup each time I get on?

[@antstock13]

Do you get lock ups? I do PC freezes, hard shutdown, any ideas? TIA

[@kat74809]

Do you know if cycles-x rendering is faster or slower than the newest 3.2.2 version? I want to download the version with the fastest cycle render time and don't know which to download.

[@raoul3444]

cool man !!!!!

[@toapyandfriends]

Why do you use both GPU and CPU? I've been reading a lot on line that says you shouldn't do that

[@TheDucky3D]

I haven’t done a heavy amount of research into it. I’ve heard here and there that you should, and other places say that you shouldn’t. For me I found no issue with using both but it’s really about what works for you

[@juliusfucik4011]

It depends on your combination of CPU and GPU and scene. I have done testing with a dozen scenes using a 5950X and an 3090. The 3090 is so fast, your CPU will always be last to finish. Switching to GPU only is faster in all scenes in this case. However, if you have an older GPU and a CPU with fewer, but faster cores, depending on the exact hardware, sometimes it can get slightly faster. I have only ever tested this on a 1060 6GB and a 2700X. The 2700X is fast enough to actually contribute before the GPU is finished. Someone out there must have done more extensive tests and documented them online.

[@TheDucky3D]

@@djdawless like I said I’m not certain on the topic, i didn’t remove your post, KZbin flags things for spam quite often when they are not spam.

[@djdawless]

@@TheDucky3D No worries maybe it was because I tried to post a link, because I've never had a flagged post before.

[@toapyandfriends]

😀'Cool I Just talked to Ducky 3-D! thanks for the quick reply!😀

[@SuperFlyBallerz]

since you don't use Blender's denoiser, what do you use to get your images/animations to look so clean?

[@noclip_thru]

probably denoising data in the layer properties tab and denoise node in the compiler. Thats what I do anyway.

[@faizotp8764]

Composition denoise

[@andrewphoto4750]

i swear rendering with gpu and cpu is alower than Gpu alone. I have a i9 12900k, if I render together with my 3080 its slower

[@rabbitdruid5499]

hither, the material work with game engine unreal?

[@thenout]

Cool! Also mind "Fast GI approximation" ;) Btw, do you have any optimization tips for animation? I have a fairly large Scene with two very low poly characters interacting. Even though I disabled everything except the characters plus went into local mode, timeline scrubbing is ridiculously slow to the point you're animating practically blind. If I copy my characters to a fresh Blender file, of course it's fast as should be. But this ain't practical and often causes disruptions... (I'm on a 5950X / 3090 rig)

[@kikogwapito]

I wish I have higher cpu and gpu like what you have :( I love rendering in cycles but I can't finish it until I wait few hours

[@myla_0072]

i bought realtime materials through gumroad when it was version 2.1.3. just went go grab the new updated version from there and the update isnt there. its still 2.1.3 for me. help?

[@TheDucky3D]

That is the newest version, if you see “UV wood” in the categories. Make sure you uninstall any previous versions before installing the new one. Otherwise there may be some materials overlapping

[@myla_0072]

@@TheDucky3D oh my bad, i though it was the same as before. thank you i got it ages ago when there was 200 material in it and i have loved playing with them to create different effects

[@KennyPhases]

BLENDERRRRR

[@justthatguy2288]

Bruh there's a blender 3.2 version?

[@y_king-47]

yep, it has recently released

[@AJShiningThreads]

Need to see your kittah

[@mitchellrcohen]

I agree

[@kevinbai3313]

Idk why my eevee on 3.2 is soooo slow, just went back to 3.1.2, dont know if just me or anyone else like this?

[@faizotp8764]

What is cycle X. ? blender people tell me ❤️

[@viveksharma9399]

hey can you make anime hairstyle tutorial in a easy way ? with realistic hair type

[@Stoerfishprojekt]

😧 How could that be a good "start up setting" when I have to start a fresh blend-project afterwards, without deleting the defaultcube as a first step? 🤣

[@xxsaru]

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[@jeremymullins1294]

hey we have the same processor! Hi five.

[@calesthanics]

lol he flexed on his pc rtx 3090 siuuuu

[@Nami86113]

I wish I had a GPU

[@manart6506]

2:50 a year or two? After that time probably someone is a Blender expert. You know the basics after a few weeks and then it’s about art and consulting how to do certain effects.

[@TheDucky3D]

I would say it takes closer to four years before someone would be an expert. Learning happens rapidly in the beginning then slows later in the years

[@muneebkhaki]

@@TheDucky3D I agree

[@manart6506]

@@TheDucky3D I guess even 4 years is fast, I am amazed how much we can do with Blender in a short time of learning.

[@timfitzgibbon9104]

I agree with @Ducky 3D , depends who you are, I'm a year and a bit in, and still learning every day, far from an expert, steep learning curve.

[@manart6506]

@@timfitzgibbon9104 I think geometry nodes might be the thing that takes the longer for a variety of reasons.

[@channel-yp8qd]

Hi

[@Aniceghost]

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[@UKSLIBRARY]

Not useful

[@dacrow1976]

Omg! Depth of field preview and saving render settings. I hate when I assume that there's just no option for those.

[@colbyisart]

Thank you for sharing. 💯