Optimize Blender For Faster Animation Playback.

[@OayxYT]

i kinda wish blender had a feature where it renders your scene on the first playback and then you can play it back at full frame rate until you make an adjustment, kinda like after effects

[@lucianomunoz]

Yeah viewport caching would be amazing

[@abubakaramjad3343]

But you can render your viewport

[@corr2143]

there's a nice playblast addon in the marketplace that works like maya's

[@OayxYT]

@@corr2143 i need

[@neveridle]

@@abubakaramjad3343 how?

[@rehan4138]

shade smooth to Shate flat also plays role to reduce frame rate

[@lucianomunoz]

Yeah I was going to mention that!, but I didnt because I'm an idiot xD

[@rehan4138]

@@lucianomunoz you are putting much related material for us. Great effort please keep doing. Thank you

[@lucianomunoz]

@@rehan4138 thank you!, i'm trying to keep it nice for ya'all

[@mrfreen]

Another tip: Select all keys in the dopesheet/action editor, press X and select "clean channels". It will remove all redundant keys and channels. Depending on how complex your animation is, this can greatly improve playback speed. Good for the splining and polishing pass.

[@lucianomunoz]

You are right i think only to 2.91 because they improved the speed of the drawing of the curves so even having the graph editor visible or not doesn't make a huge difference anymore.

[@mrfreen]

@@lucianomunoz Might be worth a test. This was a feature we got added during the making of Cosmos Laundromat, and it was more to do with the animation system than the drawing of curves. Basically if you've keyed everything on a complex rig during blocking, you can end up with a bunch of keys that are useless, but Blender still has to evaluate them. On the Cosmos rigs I could get double the frame rate or more, just by cleaning the redundant keys.

[@vincent4468]

Also find that you can increase the speed, going in the timeline editor, look in the Playback rollup menu and in Sync, change from Play Every Frame to Frame Dropping. Hope it helps!

[@ianvart]

i rarely reply to comments, so take that with a grain of salt. thank you sooooo much for this tip!!!! helped me out so much!! bless your heart!!

[@shaelizadeelizabeth3027]

Thank you so much. This helped me

[@Morgtus]

Hi Luciano There are a few more ways to optimize. If characters are likened to a scene, you can do this to make a copy (so as not to desatroy the original file) of the original file with the character you want to focus on. In the copied character file, link the actions from the scene we are working on. In this way, it was possible for me to get a full 30 frames of animation, because there is nothing else on the scene and in the file itself except the character. This action linking system allows you to preview the animation in a few moments, because you just need to save the file with the main scene with animations, and reload the copy of the file with only the character and the disappeared action. To do this just select the Open Recent option and select the exact same file (a copy of the file with the same character and the linked action). If this method doesn't help, then just render from viewport. There is also a hardware solution, last time I did a very large hardware upgrade to Ryzen 7 2700x, 32 GB RAM, RTX 2006 (about 2000 CUDA). I was expecting a better performance boost in the main animation scene, I was able to get around 22-24 FPS. I started looking for reasons, and it discovered I had the ram bones in the wrong slots, so it is worth checking how the ram bones are placed, if we have, for example, 2 ram bones, check that they are inserted into slots 1 and 2 according to the motherboard's instructions, because often slots have a 1-3-2-4 caonfiguration. Another issue is the timing setting, because by default, the bios in the discs sets the memory speed to about 2300 MHz, and even if we have more efficient memory speed, they will not work at their original speed. That's why it's worth changing the XMP factor (as long as the motherboard supports such functions) and it turns out that it helps a lot. The card I bought, I had to give back under warranty, so I put the previous GTX 960, despite 2 GB less frame, and half the number of CUDA cores, I got over 28 FPS in the same scene, so the correct setting of the RAM can also have a huge impact on optimalization viewport preview best regards Michael

[@lucianomunoz]

those are important things to consider, most definitelly! thank you michael for contributing with your experience!

[@willowmoonart]

Thank you SO much...I'm just getting started in Blender and was so frustrated because my animation wouldn't move at all - the simplify tip fixed it!

[@lucianomunoz]

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@llYuki0okami]

the best is to left click with the shift on objects that we want to animate in current moment and press "/" key, it is also worth mentioning the Timeline-> Playback-> Audio-> Frame Dropping setting so that the speed of the animation itself is correct

[@lucianomunoz]

yeah that's helpful too you mean isolating objects in local view :), and yeah I assumed people knew about playback speed, but i should have mentioned it!

[@KwasiMedia]

Yeah the frame rate dropping definitely makes for a frustrating time. And my PC is a beefed up monster and it still drops. It's an issue blender has. I thought they were working on it.

[@lucianomunoz]

Yeah, there are more and more optimizations to be made, like viewport caching and such things but one step at a time.

[@KwasiMedia]

@@lucianomunoz yes, one step at a time

[@maggyfrog]

what's your specs?

[@ao1835]

Skinning & Opensubdiv needs to be on GPU that would speed things up immensly & with caching for other stuff like hair, partices..etc then you can have full blown scene running realtime & with multiple characters too, that's one thing that Maya team did right.

[@TheThehwashere]

Check to see if any meshes have auto smooth turned on. Located in the object data properties tab, then Normals make sure to uncheck auto smooth for all meshes that have it on. It can increase playback too.

[@jessejames1262]

There's a trick I use to wacth playblast at 24 fps without rendering. I create an empty scene for video sequencer and create scene strip with first scene that contain animation. I turn off av-sync to play every frame and it will cache, not the scene, but images from viewport. So it's kinda cached playback. If we could only have scene strip prefetch - this would be so awesome!

[@lucianomunoz]

That sounds like an awesome tip!, yeah I've been asking for like a pre-fetch button since they did scene caching but doesn't seem to be a prio... i wonder why, like playing your sequences without stutter should be a prio for the vse...

[@hatsunemikuchannel2023]

0:58: Disney, Pixar, this man this awesome! I truly love this awesome scene! 😮😮😊😊😉😉🤗🤗

[@TheThehwashere]

I been told to go into object Data Properties Tab and head down the Normals and UnCheck the Auto Smooth for all meshes in the scene. that can really speed up your playback significantly and also in EEVE unlink any Normal Maps connected to the nodes of your model and that can also speed up your playback in EEVEE viewport

[@lucianomunoz]

Nice tips!

[@TheThehwashere]

@@lucianomunoz thank you

[@Panjinori]

Nice!, I like your tips, it really helped me, Thank you very much!! :)

[@GabrielVez]

I use the decimation modifier to lower the polycount of a copy of the model and apply it when I can to make a super low res. Shape keys can be a problem though. You will need to find ways to transfer them. There's an addon that can do that but I don't remember the name. You can also do it manually and just cut big chunks of the model without losing the overall silhouette. Mostly on the body since the face complexity is one of the most important parts that needs to look good imo

[@GabrielVez]

you can also decimate directly in the mesh too by going into mesh/ cleanup/ decimate geometry when in edit mode. You don't have the problem from applying the modifier but you also don't have the other option the modifier has. Really depend what you need.

[@JustCarsWithThato]

I've been looking for this for months now😭😭 Thanks man.. just subscribed

[@lucianomunoz]

Hey man, i'm glad its useful!

[@JustCarsWithThato]

@@lucianomunoz Thank you very much. 🔥 I can't find the volume resolution at 02:00

[@pearlinastan]

tysm for this video I've been looking for something like this for hours now 😭

[@lucianomunoz]

You're so welcome!

[@blenderartist8367]

Danke, Danke, für diesen wichtigen Beitrag. Ich habe ihn dringend gebraucht.

[@lucianomunoz]

[@impactframes]

I was waiting for this one. Thanks LollypopMan

[@lucianomunoz]

Hey ImpacFrames, thank you!, hope they serve you well!

[@alexisnguyen3744]

I wish I watched this video before... Thx a lot man !

[@lucianomunoz]

I'm glad its useful anywyas!

[@BrianKouhi]

Congrats on the growth Luciano! 5k subs woohoo!

[@lucianomunoz]

Thank you man!, yes this it's super exciting!, now to the 10k!

[@BrianKouhi]

@@lucianomunoz At this rate you'll have it soon 😁

[@michaelray5622]

I understand why Blender is focused more in the modeling side of things but not having GPU/CPU performance mode with caching is really odd. Even today's low-end GPUs should be able to handle this but this also requires drivers to offset all that load to shader's in which technically, AMDs GCN/RDNA technology shouldn't have no issues with performance.

[@lucianomunoz]

its not odd, its just not there yet, there are so many things to improve in animation in blender, and anything related to playback, I kinda gave up pushing the playback performance because i see no progress and i can provide no solutions sadly.

[@michaelray5622]

@@lucianomunoz , it’s odd considering the tools sets are made available. They keep adding features but yet do not address issues related to performance. I can’t speak for NVIDIA but AMD is pretty supportive of programs like Blender it’s just a matter of users contacting AMD and taking it serious. Users typically favor the dated methods of NVIDIA but that company cares only for profit so free applications like Blender are not their cup of tea. NVIDIA is technically bad on paper compared to AMD but due to companies always favoring the primitive CUDA core (shader core) , AMD gets the bad end of the stick. Well, recently AMD has started showing they have better performance with advanced APIs so let’s see how long NVIDIA can keep blaming it on “drivers”. Kind of funny how the tables turned in favor of AMD when DirectX 12 Engines become the default and required. NVIDIA sipped that DX11 for almost 2 console generations. Shit got old

[@JOEWAGH]

I have a very simple character I made rigged and was animating. There is a subsurf modifier but it was set to 1 or 2 on an incredibly low poly character, I mean made with primitives low poly. It was playing back fine at 24 frames until one afternoon suddenly it was stuck at 5-10 frames. I go back to the previous file versions, they all play at 5 frames now. Even going back to before there was any animation and adding some, it plays at 5 frames. When I use blender on a different computer the playback is 24 frames. When I open a different blender file I have with another similarily low poly character, I add a sub surf mod to it and play it's walk cycle and it plays at 24 frames. It's like every single blend file related to my game character is cursed to playback painstakingly slowly but it was working fine before.

[@lucianomunoz]

Damn, have you tried moving it to a clean file?

[@JOEWAGH]

@@lucianomunoz Yeah, appending the mesh to a fresh file would cause the same sluggish playback. I ended up uninstalling blender and getting 2.9 (i was on 2.8) and now everything is back to normal :D

[@TheThehwashere]

@@JOEWAGH what I discovered is that if your meshes have auto smooth on, in the Object Data Properties, if so Turn it off/Uncheck it for all meshes it does help speed up your FPS

[@spartaplan]

THIS VIDEO SAVE MY LIFE

[@lucianomunoz]

I'm happy to help!

[@NoNAme-qw9uz]

Helped me out instantly, thanks

[@lucianomunoz]

I'm glad!

[@jasonpersonal123]

FINALLY, THANKS FOR THIS YAY

[@lucianomunoz]

thank you!

[@amanda_andrade__]

thank you so much more people need to see this, life saver oh yeah time too lol

[@lucianomunoz]

I'm glad it serves you well!, and yes time is really really valuable

[@chinmayjena7789]

Hey man What A Video Yar....Just Owsm 😍💓💓💓...that's Before I just Off my Subdivision modifier to watch my Accurate Animation on Viewport but Now I Do that what you saying..And my Charecter also have Highpoly But it's Showing 24/26 frame per second..Thank you Soo Much Man 🤗♥️

[@lucianomunoz]

I'm happy i was able to help ! :)

[@AMO17]

Thanks boss! This really helped speed things up. My slowness is probably due to my model just being bad lol.

[@lucianomunoz]

Great to hear!

[@francescocaglio5931]

Thanks for the advice ! Now I can finally work !!! Before the simplify method, my frame rate was 3 or 4 frame per second, impossible to do anything decent. Since you're an expert about Rigify, do you think that having so many bones makes some influence to the performance of the session?

[@lucianomunoz]

Really the bones "ammount" obviously will make an impact in performance, the biggest impact in performance in blender seems to be the binding methods and the drivers, so keeping them low/simple is best.

[@FilmSpook]

Many Thanks, my Brother!! Best Wishes to you :)

[@lucianomunoz]

Thank you too

[@clementboquet]

Thank you man!

[@lucianomunoz]

Thank you man!

[@guilhermekubo3086]

Thank you so much!! Saved!

[@lucianomunoz]

Glad it helped!

[@eyaldraws]

Also, if you animate with dialog, but your sound and animation are not in sync, just go to the „Playback“ Menu in your timeline in the option „Sync“ choose „Sync to Audio“.

[@saltnickel1777]

This will be helpful in the future. Sir how do you rig and animate 2 mesh high and low poly? If you animate the low poly will the much heavier mesh automatically update?

[@lucianomunoz]

Yes, exactly it will.

[@paulnographics5244]

@@lucianomunoz Hiya, please excuse my ignorance, I'm a newbie and have been trying to discover how I could create a low poly copy of my Make Human / Mixamo dancing rig. Please advise me or provide a link. Thanks.

[@presidualist4587]

Thank you brodie

[@stubbornsoul1649]

thx bro you save my life

[@lucianomunoz]

happy to help!

[@bluptoon]

THANKYOU SO SO SOOOOO MUCH!!! YOU ARE A TIPAZO!

[@lucianomunoz]

haha, Gracias!

[@GemGames3]

Thanks so much! Simplify did just the trick :)

[@lucianomunoz]

Awesome!

[@devanshutak25]

You can also turn off anti-aliasing and smooth wires in the viewport section in preferences! :D

[@lucianomunoz]

Yes I went through that, and really I wasn't able to find any real impact, not even half a frame of gain. Did you gain any more fps?

[@devanshutak25]

@@lucianomunoz I haven't tried with animated characters but when dealing with high poly meshes with a bunch of modifiers, this makes the viewport a bit snappier. Not a whole not though

[@petertremblay3725]

In solid mode you have to disable shadow to get better speed.

[@lucianomunoz]

nice one!

[@acerproductions7393]

OMG THANKS

[@warrior5009]

I have GTX 1650 and I don't know how....but it lags when I got to a high poly edit mode.....my friend have same graphic card but it doesn't lag on his pc... Also...I don't have ssd so if that's the problem then please reply me

[@lucianomunoz]

might be that an ssd would make a difference, but I'm not sure.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

3:44 Rather than manually enabling/disabling particular objects or collections for preview renders, how about setting up a separate renderlayer?

[@lucianomunoz]

That could totally be an option, also you could potentially only turn off the visibility in the viewport instead of for the render and you should still get better fps in the viewport :)

[@aliefdjatisunda9915]

Thanks u so much... its really helped me... like it

[@lucianomunoz]

thanks, glad to help!

[@chinmayjena7789]

Hey dear Can You say me which Number Of frame Is Extremely good For Our Viewport Playback ?...

[@lucianomunoz]

I dont lnow the answer to that question, i dont think there is a specific number of frames that will make playback better

[@JOES.80]

Thank you so much!

[@lucianomunoz]

Glad it helped!

[@waterybarfilms2658]

Thank you!

[@lucianomunoz]

You bet!

[@alvarorodriguez-kq8tw]

thank you very much!

[@lucianomunoz]

Thank you!

[@llYuki0okami]

In the latest versions of Blender, I'm seeing strange behavior when it comes to fps during animations. ExludeFromViewLaye and HideInViewport have no effect on the preformance, disabling individual objects by DisableInViewport still does nothing, even if I can't see anything in the viewport, I still have 5 fps. I have to click on the DisableInViewport of root collection with Shift key, then it returns 60 fps. To work I have to create a lowpoly version and put it in a completely separate collection along with armature. Is it normal?

[@loosenews1488]

Thanks ... awesome tip

[@lucianomunoz]

Happy to help

[@animationoverload750]

Solid tutorial man! You just saved my skin. One more Sub for you!

[@lucianomunoz]

Thanks for the sub!, glad you liked the tut!

[@MikeTaylor-uw5zy]

May I ask how you get such smooth lip synching? Are you using Papagayo with a pose library as your base?

[@lucianomunoz]

no it's all by hand, the way its usually done, but reckon for a series production or similar using papagayo would be a good start to polish up on top.

[@nerdydrow]

Regression in skeleton animation from 2.79 performance is very disappointing, I have the same character, posing is nice in 2.79, it is trash in 2.9

[@lucianomunoz]

Are you using subdivision modifiers? because the subsurf is slower in 2.8 and 2.9 than in 2.79!

[@gseric47gamingallthingssta97]

Same thing for me. The problem is that I'm using Daz Importer 1.5 on Blender 2.9 and I have no idea how I'd go about using it on 2.79. With 2.79, the simulation goes through one loop and everything speeds up the 2nd time around, just like that. In 2.9, it's just slow, every single loop.

[@joelastorga7548]

For me worked deleting all unecesary files. Even if they are suposedly not being used in Blender, I erased them and the FPS got really high!

[@lucianomunoz]

nice!

[@TheThehwashere]

try this trick, go into object Data Properties Tab and head down the Normals and UnCheck the Auto Smooth for all meshes in the scene. that can really speed up your playback significantly and also in EEVE unlink any Normal Maps connected to the nodes of your model and that can also speed up your playback in EEVEE viewport

[@razern420]

is there a way to make 6 second 3d animation video looks faster with high fps but at the same time I still want it to be 6 second video. is it possible

[@lazyprogrammer3152]

Really nice tutorial man

[@lucianomunoz]

Thank you very much man!

[@fatihsevindik7863]

Hey thanks, do i just have to set these options for the playback at the viewport or do i have to reduce everything even for rendering, so that it gets after rendering also fluent animations?

[@lucianomunoz]

no, this is only to improve the speed in the viewport, in the render they'll be fluent nevertheless.

[@nonrealitymotions9081]

Great tutorial. Thanks

[@lucianomunoz]

Thank you!

[@JustinMettam]

How can I make a low res rig for rigify. I saw in this video you could switch between a high res version and a low res version.

[@lucianomunoz]

just create simple shapes that give you a general idea of the silhouette of the character and parent them to the respective bones/controls, put them in a different collection, turn on off as needed.

[@pheonixmaher]

1.3k like over here

[@lucianomunoz]

🥰

[@Deezsirrer]

Holy Shit the only video helped me

[@lucianomunoz]

whohoooo!!

[@Deezsirrer]

@@lucianomunoz Been pain in the ass for nearly a month Not knowing how To animate without Render animation to view real time Saw this and I can finally chillout ty bro

[@RoN43wwq]

volume resolution not working (BUG) it`s reduce volumes opacity but animation playing with the same fps like before simplify

[@lucianomunoz]

Report the bug! :D

[@breezstudio9630]

Hi! lollypopman i wonder how did u converted geo of animated character to High poly low poly 2:53 or it is separate geo. Can you explain please!

[@yami3985]

i tried many thing to reduce lag but still not work. everytime i import video reference, fps dropped down and sometimes when u animate for long time, it will slowly drop fps and get lag. this is only for 1 rig. imagine animating with 2 rig and fps will drop down to 5-8. i wish blender make animation look better like maya

[@lucianomunoz]

Clearly the problem is your video, for best performance convert it to a secuence of jpgs and load it as that :)

[@yami3985]

@@lucianomunoz thanks and i found other solution that "frame dropping" also can help this even fps is 15-18 but playback animation is fast and no lag

[@TheThehwashere]

@@yami3985 Check to see if any of your meshes have Auto Smooth turned on In the Object Data Properties, if so Turn it off/Uncheck it for all meshes in the scene hopefully it should help.

[@gseric47gamingallthingssta97]

Awesome video. I wish this helped me with my animation, but I'm still stuck at under 2 fps with all of these changes. I have a Ryzen 7 and a 2060 Super, so this is really getting on my nerves :( (edit): I got 60fps *until* I add keyframes. Could this be the problem?

[@lucianomunoz]

uhm, that's just blender being blender, what if you have your dopesheet/timeline/grapheditor hidden is it still as slow? what version of blender are you in?

[@gseric47gamingallthingssta97]

@@lucianomunoz I'm using 2.91; how do you go about hiding those things?

[@TheThehwashere]

Check to see if any of your meshes have Auto Smooth turned on In the Object Data Properties, if so Turn it off/Uncheck it for all meshes in the scene hopefully it should help.

[@gseric47gamingallthingssta97]

@@TheThehwashere wow, and I'm using Daz, so there is most definitely a smoothing modifier trying to calculate-recalculate. Thanks for the tip. I'll try it out later.

[@TheThehwashere]

@@gseric47gamingallthingssta97 your wleome hope it helps

[@rugged980]

Thanks. How can I get those characters agent 327?

[@lucianomunoz]

cloud.blender.org

[@immovablechair4405]

I recently got an 12 core CPU and the playback is still slow...damn

[@lucianomunoz]

Yeah as far as I know animation is not multi-threaded yet so you can have 64 cores and it wouldn't make a difference. Sorry !

[@kharenaman65]

@@lucianomunoz Yep, single thread performance must be good to get a good playback FPS

[@TheThehwashere]

Check to see if any meshes have auto smooth turned on. Located in the object data properties tab, then Normals make sure to uncheck auto smooth for all meshes that have it on. It can increase playback too.

[@AnnieandtheDeer]

When I simplify, it appears low-poly in the character viewport. How can I fix this?

[@lucianomunoz]

well simplify kills the subdivisions so thats why it looks more low poly and thats why you gain performance.

[@schonkigplavuis8850]

I have a gameready model only 180k verts. It's still playing at 8fps............

[@lucianomunoz]

ugh, watch what modifiers you got on it that may be slowing you down

[@schonkigplavuis8850]

@@lucianomunoz Hey what happened was that the wrong model had the TV screen thing on. I used a proxy model to bake the animation on, and my 247k poly model as export to the Unity Engine. I was really frustrated. As a newbie a lot of things don't make sense in blender. But your method proved effective.

[@lucianomunoz]

Happy to hear it worked for you!

[@chinmayjena7789]

Hey Brother Please Make A Video ..How We can Control The Whole lips in one Control ... Please

[@lucianomunoz]

I may think about it, I'm not doing much rigging videos lately, as I just know the basics to survive, hence my rigify videos, so likely not soon, but I'll put it on my list!

[@neillholley5061]

Selecting 'viewport render animation' only creates gray image frames, for me. What do i need to do in order for the animation to render out correctly?

[@lucianomunoz]

should work by default there might be some issues in your scene.

[@MUHIL]

What's your PC specs?

[@lucianomunoz]

Razer Blade Base Model Mid 2020 RTX2070 i7 10750H 16 GB of RAM

[@Dibaril4]

TL;DR Hide everything but it's not enough, do 4:49

[@lucianomunoz]

haha, yeah

[@larisdalley7383]

Ooooomg thank youu sooo much i got from 1.5 frames to 12 frames thank youu!!! haha

[@lucianomunoz]

awesome!

[@TheThehwashere]

this also might help? Check to see if any of your meshes have Auto Smooth turned on In the Object Data Properties Tab if so? Turn it off/Uncheck it, for all meshes in the scene hopefully it should help, make things a little faster

[@ajitmahapatra7078]

Can you please upload all your paid courses on udemy.. it easy to buy course from there... please

[@lucianomunoz]

When i have them online, of course i will!

[@pelakalion]

Gracias Luciano, me ayudó mucho con una escena que estoy haciendo. Lastima que no llegue a 24 fps ^^u. En mi caso mi pc es incluso menos potente que el tuyo.

[@lucianomunoz]

Me alegro que ayudara, a mi me paso alro raro con la escena que mostre porque al rato si hacia play a 24, imagino que habra sido la grabacion de pantalla que me quitaba un par de fps mas, igual mirate los comentarios la gente ha ido posteando otros tips extras que pueden ayudar :)

[@chinmayjena7789]

We Indian use yar Word for Dear 🤗🤗🤗♥️♥️♥️

[@lucianomunoz]

Yar ?

[@apathypeace]

"okay lets turn on the low res models" *there's no difference* LMFAO the look on your face when you thought you were going to get smooth playback and it jumped up by 2fps HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@shareten1247]

indian DisclAimer are going to be allowed to be the fastest GG for the break iidididid

[@lucianomunoz]

no idea what you're saying but sure!

[@UkeyMusicLEAKS]

Non of these tutorials work for me

[@lucianomunoz]

So sad.

[@strawberryyogurt0]

Fresh blender 2.91 with a generic sphere and i’m getting fps playback of 2 fps: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pniTlXmen7Ghg8k

[@lucianomunoz]

your graphic drivers maybe?

[@fgdhdghndghndhg9114]

doesn't work

[@lucianomunoz]

how come?

[@alisahassett3468]

Thank you so much!

[@lucianomunoz]

You're welcome!