This Render Engine is Powerful! 👀

Free ☑️ PBR Materials ☑️ Cross-Platform ☑️ - Learn how to use Radeon Prorender with Blender in this tutorial!
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[@ashybl]

Would have been better if you could compare the same scene and lighting style in cycles so we could see the differences in rendered output and time

[@daneues94]

I am an art professional and a freelancer- this render engine is incredible and very, very fast. It takes time to get used to and here are a couple things to keep in mind for 2.8: 1- Samples are set differently in the render settings. Experiment with the noise threshold and especially the sample/view update. You can save huge amounts of time by setting the view update to your final output since it stops your GPU for every screen update to generate the image (I learned this after watching my GPUs and CPU closely during renders). Don't use tiled renders. I found that Tiled is far slower. 2- When changing settings for your environment, refresh the viewer by switching between non-render and rendered view. 3- Mapping is best using UV. It seems to have trouble using the Object and Generated input data. 4- Bump up the Max Ray Depth sliders on final output. 5- As of 7/28/19, CPU renders will show errors in your final render. You might not see them, but they leave small black NAN values which will mess up your comp in other programs. 6- Lighting works pretty differently- does not appear to be able to use IES textures yet. Limit the use of area lights especially in arch-viz. 7- Make the jump to this engine... it's reallllly worth it. Comp Specs: i9-9900k AMD Radeon VII GTX 1070 32GB RAM

[@TheTca211]

Hmm so if I used it should I basically use it to replace cycles or are they different beasts like evee vs cycles?

[@daneues94]

yesfull man I would use Cycles or Eevee to test your materials or textures, Bake out your textures, set general lighting, HDRI then use Radeon Prorender to do a final render. Prorender is a little finicky right now as it’s still being developed for 2.8. The way it renders is a bit different and currently the node structure is not a 1/1 match (certain texture nodes for example will altogether crash Blender/Prorender). If you are doing raytracing animation renders or super high resolution raytracing renders, then I would say Radeon Prorender is worth a shot. If you want to also save a lot of time, look up how to do command prompt rendering.

[@TheTca211]

@@daneues94 thank you for the advice! Ill have to look into this then!

[@CalloutWraith]

I really love this Engine, with Cycles since 2.8 my PC crash.

[@heljoshinmax9459]

Wow, converting cycles mats to prorender will really make this thing blow opensource market)))) it would be awesome if you make some comparison tests to cycles. Also I believe we still can get all the passes at the end, right?

[@briansavery]

Most passes are the same

[@3Rton]

Ah yes Prorenderer. I remember when it launched and everything was only available on Russian site that looked like a malware. Nice to see how it has evolved, though.

[@Pixel_FX]

"EVOLVED" Gaming evolved. :V

[@SapphFire]

Hagop D sounds like a DNS hijack

[@mareck6946]

russian? it never was russian

[@adamwrzesniewski1468]

Hey, people, You don't need 2.8 for both CPU/GPU rendering at the same time! This tutorial is a great job Steve!

[@CTRL_SMarcos]

Thank you so much for the video. It would be interesting to see a comparison with equivalent parameters between Cycles and Radeon.

[@Ironpants57]

12:53 Reflection issue when using Microdisplacement.. Take out the normal map and you are good. I've found that normal maps are problematic when you are using microdisplacement. Just a weird bug with microdisplacement.

[@IantoddusSardus]

because it must be in tangent space

[@briansavery]

Can someone attach the scene so I can look at it?

[@waynemation]

NVIDIA is watching haha. Have to try it it looks so nice

[@RicoCilliers]

Super excited for this, especially for rendering on AMD hardware, which will be great for budget systems.

[@RicoCilliers]

I believe AMD has a better price/performance ratio. last time I checked anyway.

[@rulik006]

1080 cost less then vega 56 But im using 390x for 140$

[@Zinogg]

CUDA beats OpenCL in all aspects.

[@WCCXtra]

I'm eyeing a Ryzen/Vega 64 system, myself. Vega outperforms Nvidia equivalent cards in Blender. Likely due to HBM2. Trying to hold out for newer AMD cards, though not past spring 2019.

[@RicoCilliers]

I'm hoping in the long run AMD continues to improve as they have done with Ryzen and Vega. The competition with Intel and Nvidia is great for consumers.

[@KeirAzuma]

The way you pronounce Maya is amusing. XD May-ya. Great video though ProRender is a great free option.

[@Y2Kvids]

मायाँ

[@Pixel_FX]

I started using Pro render new version for Blender 2.8 and I didnt even need to change the shaders to uber shader or anything. Tested one of my old projects and switched the render engine to ProRender and hit render and it Just works. kudos to dev team for making them compatible.

[@RandomRotation]

Looks like a pretty nice engine! Will give it a try soon. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@kurekt1]

Pretty cool!

[@scottlee38]

It looks okay I guess. I have some renders that would make cycles dwarf this.

[@steppenwolfthex-creaturesp9777]

I believ that roughness texture is an ORM texture, use the seperate rbg node and use the blue value as roughness

[@benjaminlunsford5134]

:000000

[@NeilRoy]

Nice to see some options for different video cards. Anytime we have more choice = good, especially with open source.

[@FinoMarg]

How about creating a series of videos from start to pro for absolute learners

[@lejeffe1663]

Sweet im using 4rx580s plus a 9700k i7 on an asus WS Pro z390 motherboard.

[@dudepersonvids]

Adding a light for the eyes to reflect is a standard technique used in real-world cinematography as well, called a catch light or eye light. When there's a decent amount of light in a movie scene, and there's no reflection/highlight in the eyes of a character, the movie is usually trying to tell you something about that character.

[@ErebosGR]

He positioned the ring light quite oddly. For portraits, the ring light usually goes around the lens, not to the side and definitely not to the opposite side of the key light.

[@dudepersonvids]

Yeah, I was surprised when he chose to make a ring light and position it that way. He mentioned he couldn't remember what the term was for adding a light specifically for the eyes - a ring light is an odd choice for specifically that purpose, unless you want to emphasize some kind of alien look... and even then it's usually from the same position as the camera.

[@ErebosGR]

Which goes to show that even top CG artists need to take some photography lessons. I learned photography years before going into CG and it has helped me tremendously.

[@jesuraja553]

Hey Dude, you doing good job there. my humble request is whenever you move cursor to the corner of window please hide your head or move it some where else, so every one can see clearly what you doing believe it

[@agustinninoperez9460]

I tried to install the prorender but i couldnt, it ddint appear when i opened blender. someone please help

[@jeronimorodriguez8361]

Go to add-ons and the up click install and finally install the ZIP

[@julianwildauer]

great info! THX a lot!

[@vfn4i83]

Damm, 2 years without touching Blender; I thought Cycles could catch up, at the end AMD had come to the rescue, Thanks a lot, might start something any day now.

[@giantswing3175]

What are you talking about? Cycles is awesome

[@vfn4i83]

@@giantswing3175 yes, It is. But dont work that Well to us amd users.

[@mareck6946]

it works perfectly on AMD Hardware since amd fixed it a year ago :p

[@vfn4i83]

That wonderful then. Going to have a look at it.

[@selvaar9038]

i am a knowledge hungry person. Please give more food (tutorials) to my knowledge. i like radeon pro render but dont know to work with pro render. I kindly request you to take one full architectural project or interior and use pro render with nodes. its a kind request as i am good in cycles render and just now entering pro render. Thank you gentleman.

[@JayBuccola]

Do more videos on this topic. None exist and you will get the views. The engine is growing in popularity but there aren't any videos. We need 2.8 videos.

[@cg.man_aka_kevin]

But why does it crash sometimes? While Cycles and Eevee not. But, I'm using a stable one...

[@Redfishpersonal]

I installed pro render but when I use it, it intermittently crashes blender. I’m using a 2017 MacBook Pro connected to an egpu Vega 56.

[@ryandexter8994]

I think Radeon pro is only for wx series graphics card.

[@DanielGrovePhoto]

Does it work with 2.81? Not seeing it listed as a render engine.

[@eknight2904]

would be good to have the preview of textures like this in the standard Blender Cycles node tree set-up

[@t-mansam7582]

Thanks

[@hereb4theend]

How's the intensity? It's pretty intense. ... ...

[@dnashj33]

Please ask AMD to send you a Radeon Vega VII when it comes out in a few weeks? It's the first AMD card I've considered getting in a long, long time. I'm really anxious to see how it stacks up against the 1080Ti (basically the RTX 2080)

[@Pixel_FX]

@Don Nash If you use blender, AMD Radeon is better choice. They perform way better than Nvidia cards thanks to AMD GPUs higher compute power.

[@sespider]

Is there a good Blender tutorial on how to convert planes to hair strands?

[@faruambient]

good insight! do you have any tips for render settings? I cant seem to get decent render quality.

[@risenroc]

CG Geek, do you still have experience with ProRender? I'm not having any luck following along with this video. I can't get any texture except for those in their material library to work. I have ProRender version 2.4.11 (can't get 3.0 to install). I've tried this on Blender versions 2.91.0, 2.90.1, and 2.83.9. Thank you!

[@risenroc]

Update: I just found out that my textures were too hi-rez. I would still love to know more about ProRender and your experiences with it! Thank you!

[@richNfit4life]

I installed ProRender into Blender and restarted, but it does not show up in the drop-down list. Guess I did not install it correctly? How does one install it into Blender, anyone?

[@aldaendl8468]

have the same issue...8750H, gtx 1060 6g

[@yadday5153]

An option will ask you to choose the folder in which you installed blender. After that, shut your blender and restart it again. It should work.

[@richNfit4life]

I did that...chose the folder, that being Applications, in which Blender was installed, and that did not work. Turns out that I needed to go to Applications, then Blender, then blender.app and that worked. I did find a manual that said the same thing, to chose the folder where Blender was installed and nothing else. But that was not quite right. You have to select Blender and then choose blender.app after selecting Applications. But thanks for the reply just the same.

[@yadday5153]

Oh yeah, Blender within Applications. I ought to have been more clear. But I'm glad you figured it out. You're welcome RichardJLC.

[@alifkhan4128]

Thanks for this tutorial. Can you do a How to setup Renderman with blender tutorial????

[@virtual_intel]

Is it compatible with Blender 2.72? Mine shows up in the User Preferences, but when I try to activate/enable the Pro Renderer add-on an error shows up. It won't allow me to enable it. Not sure what's the issue with that. Any thoughts!

[@virtual_intel]

Oh forget it I located the info on the official website for the plugin/add-on and it states Blender 2.8 will test drive on that version, but I'm using 2.72 for now for a project so I needed to downgrade. Hopefully when I'm done I can get this Pro Renderer to work how you did it here. Thanks for the cool tutorial. Subbed for sure!

[@briansavery]

Should be compatible with 2.79/2.78

[@sambowen]

Watched this earlier, but watching now that I got it running on my desktop....running my old laptop hard drive haha. Was disappointed that cycles ran so slow when i got it switched to GPU, it does seem to be much faster (3mins for cycles about 30sec for RPR, but converting the materials seems to be a little bit of a pain, and it seems to have issues with my environment map, but i gotta play around with it some more though, and make sure I've got all my materials/images copied over lol...

[@yashkoli8051]

The link is changed - www.amd.com/en/technologies/radeon-prorender

[@sliwilly]

WTF how many GPU do you have!?

[@treazure]

What kind of rig do you have with 5 Graphic cards!? Massive tower, massive PSU, and enough fans to make it hover?

[@Zinogg]

i think it's a workstation, maybe!!!

[@raimuhammaduzairfareed7628]

Please make a video on how to install radeon pro render in houdini 18 please

[@evilkoolade]

i can't figure out how to output render passes do you know how (specifically prorender)

[@gwynbleidd9000]

Multiplayer open exr?

[@blenderratt3692]

Thx for the video. I really wish you'd show us how to set up a skin shader in prorender for Manuel Bastioni labs. I just can't get it to look right. Also does adaptive subdivision still only work if sub surf is the last modifier in the stack? It would be perfect for character animation rendering but in most cases a displacement modifier in beneath the subsurf. is there a work around?

[@lamodenior]

*you can see the hdr working in the background now*

[@ivanpeluffo2841]

I wonder why you experts use such version of Blender and not one of the latest. Is there something we don´t know about?

[@raimuhammaduzairfareed7628]

Hi dear CGGeek an you make a tutorial on how to install radeon pro render in houdini 18 please

[@TECH3_]

But I am not able to install and run it properly can any one help me ???

[@briansavery]

Post your issue on community.amd.com/community/prorender

[@benjaminlunsford5134]

no

[@maplebones2501]

Does this still hold up in 2020?

[@lejeffe1663]

Some what, i decommissioned a crypto miner and now i have 4 rx580 with i7 97000k all working properly it crunches the workload pretty fast. But i also have an Asus z390 ws pro motherboard with a plx chip so i can run 8×8x8x8 setups.

[@makanansari144]

The Linux version is tough to install! any help?

[@benjaminlunsford5134]

:00000

[@aeropsi996]

Sir i am ur great fan... Plzz make a tutorial on complete creation of trex (walk cycle and roar) in blender..... Plzzz sir, waiting fr positive reply. 🙏

[@dimmacommunication]

I never used blender in my life cause all I had were garbage PCs , now my new pc will come with a redon rx 580, I have a few questions : I saw there's 2 types of Drivers for the card, the gaming and the pro drivers , wich one do you use ? I will probably never game.

[@wynestine2950]

Please do a tutorial about how to import after effects camera traking data to blender!!!!!

[@scorpionmindset]

Am I the only one who thinks the shadows are too sharp in ProRender?

[@DraDni]

Would have been nice to follow along with the demo but after setting the node up for the head skin shaders, I got error messages trying to do any other materials like body, eyes, etc. Maybe my NVidia GTX 1060, 6GB is not big enough or fast enough.

[@FATALTOTAL08]

Interesting Renderer. Is there any nvidia competitor to AMD Pro Render ? Because Nvidia Gelato is no longer updated ! Seems realtime RTX Raytracing is all the rage...

[@LastNight0]

floating number XD ded

[@FUNTOMAS_791]

Hi. Can i run AMD and NVIDIA cards together? Thanks

[@jamesconkle9158]

I’m wondering why you just used one card for preview rendering? Is there a downside to using all your cards?

[@alhusseinali]

Nice

[@benjaminlunsford5134]

thats gay

[@alhusseinali]

@@benjaminlunsford5134 who ?!😑

[@npc.artist]

Can it Bake like cycle?

[@Joshua-kn6dq]

It is not showing up for me (2.8)

[@giulianogentile8336]

I have a problem with Blender, to see if someone can help me. Since I bought the video card (GTX 1070ti) I can not open the Cycles engine. It normally opens the internal engine, but when I change to Cycles it immediately closes the program. The same thing happens to me when I open user preferences. Before when I had only the processor, I could render everything without problem. I tried to see the Drivers but they are all updated. I tried another version of Blender but the same happens with all the latest ones. Does anyone have an idea of ​​what I can do? I asked in forums but nothing. I looked in English pages but nothing and on KZbin there are no similar videos.

[@virleestudio1335]

Hai, I'm new in 3d software, i'm using blender and i just download 3d model plant, and already had texture in it, so many complicated texture, can you make tutorial how to apply texture that come with the 3d model, specially plants, thank you..

[@MissthaufenGmbH]

Help! My GPU doesn't render objects, only the background, but when I switch to CPU it does render everything and when I'm using both (GPU & CPU) then it's rendering the background and the objects in kind of a transparent way.

[@Nois3less69]

When ever I render the screen is just black or just my hdr shows up and model.

[@coloremblem]

How about the awesome denoiser? :P

[@somedude4575]

Lots of firefly

[@ogcontraband]

Wth, how many video cards do you have in that machine? lol

[@ruudygh]

how does prorender deal with fireflys?

[@diesertan4181]

How will i install prorender

[@Forest5]

What renders faster eevee or AMD Radeon™ ProRender for Blender?

[@lejeffe1663]

Prorender renders faster but this is because its utilizing 4 rx580 and a 97000k i7 as apose to a single gpu or cpu workload crunch

[@A.X.N]

do you know ho to make video texture work on RPR?

[@kojobeats4115]

Hi thank you for your good Videos Can you or someone else help me?I saw often at your thumbnail that you made your vertices or edges visible in the render. I surched in the internet but couldn't find a Tutorial. Does anybody knows how it works? Sorry for my bad englisch I'm from Germany

[@ruudygh]

can u use lightpath node like in cycles to cheat?

[@digitaldope6247]

Anyone else getting an error when activating the add-on? Problem loading the helper.py script. Add-on will not activate. I'm using 2.79.

[@wille7888]

I got that problem too! But I have version 2.8 now!

[@dessybalandrano7136]

I got a question, with this render engine Can I use it with a nvdia video card?? or Is it necesary to use it with a radeon video card??

[@CGGeek]

Definitely! works great on my 1080ti.

[@giantswing3175]

Really weird that you didn't compare it to cycles considering that almost everyone would be interested in that

[@benjaminlunsford5134]

no

[@giantswing3175]

@@benjaminlunsford5134 No what? I've seen plenty of people in the comments asking that so...

[@benjaminlunsford5134]

@@giantswing3175 no

[@giantswing3175]

Lol ok edgy boy, say another no please :)

[@benjaminlunsford5134]

@@giantswing3175 yes

[@BrandonDyer64]

The real answer to your face cam problem is to not use one.

[@unterbelichtet759]

Do you think Windows or MacOS is better for 3D stuff?

[@AlexeyTutorials]

Why would you use this one instead of cycles? It's looks hideously slow and buggy.

[@daneues94]

Alexey Lugovoy it’s actually incredibly fast and the quality of the Ray tracing is superior.

[@lucasrezende7214]

I tried it about 2 months ago and it was pretty bad, crashed all the time, is it better?

[@kashyapchonekar5437]

Is this ported to 2.80?

[@emberizumirose9343]

How does this renderer compare to Eevee?

[@JohnSmith-rn3vl]

Still no ability to bake out textures for game development though.

[@deanrobbins8102]

I have the new (as of last fall) Radeon Pro WX 9100 as well. Have you had any issues with your card crashing your system or threads getting stuck in the GPU causing BSOB? I've had nothing but issues with multiple 9100 cards and AMD has no idea what is going on.

[@mareck6946]

have you tried doing a full driver uninstall/reinstall? is your PSU capable of handling theese? Are the cards thru a chipset bus limited ?

[@deanrobbins8102]

1000 watt PSU, no overclock on an 1800x, Asus Crosshair Hero VI MB. Before going into service, I ran stress tests including MemTest86 over a two day period with no crashing or memory errors. The only time the rig started to have issues was when the 9100 was installed. Previously, a 980ti was in the rig running three 1080p monitors. When the 9100 came, I hooked up 3-4k panels. Nothing but trouble since. I've been working with AMD for almost a year now and they have no idea why the problems I have exist. They set up an identical rig to mine and had no issues. I have both pro and gaming drivers installed due to various workflow applications. Ali (Radeon Canada division) was doing a screen share with me. We have done multiple clean uninstalled using DDU Uninstaller and the AMD Clean Uninstaller. Even went into the REGAPPS to make sure nothing was floating around. Install the pro drivers no problem. Install the gaming drivers and it fails usually once or twice. So, we have to start the process over again. We got it to stick during our last screen share and the machine was shut down for the night. When I powered up the next day .... driver access was simply gone! Like I said, AMD has no idea why the 9100 is acting this way on my setup. They've told me they have "never" seen this issue or have had anyone else report these issues.

[@mareck6946]

hahaha ok i know the crux probably. you did not correctly unsinstall the nvidia drivers. they bite even after uninstalling them when you add amd hardware - i cant think of this as an accident since its a problem sicne many years now. i had exactly the same thing and also tought the card was faulty at first until i swapped the hd with a clean install - and no issues there anymore. After cleaning up the leftovers from the nvidia driver on the old hddsys issues were gone. it took some fiddling tho - theres also some reg values that need to be cleaned after ( ccleaner can fix that for you ). i suspect some shady practices there. Issue ( with bsod sometimes ) persists if you had the nvidia drivers installed then install the amd drivers without purging the nvidia drivers first. If thats done once you even can install nvidia drivers again and mix both cards freely and theres no issues anymore. but if you swap one for the other you may think amd is crap - no its actually the nv driver.

[@deanrobbins8102]

Nope. Ended up building another machine from scratch and same issues were there. Never had an Nvidia card in the second system. The second system has second gen Ryzen 2600X and 400 series MB. AMD and I have spend at least 10 hours on screen sharing to troubleshoot. They have seen everything, even when the machines would crash and still have no answers. According to their specs and power draw, a 750 watt PSU is all that is required. The original system running the 980ti (which drew more power than the 9100) was stable. It has something to do with their software/drivers. No reason for driver access to disappear like that. Been running an Nvidia P4000 with no issues in the original machine. I dig AMD but they have a lot of work to do with graphics still. The one thing that did impress me was AMD agreed to give me one of the next gen 9100's when they come out. Maybe 2019 or 2020 though. They recognize there is an issue but have no answer - yet. So, I have an unused system until that time. As a one man engineering shop, that kind of hit hurt and they recognized that which is why they were willing to offer up a free card.

[@mareck6946]

its at least something. For me it was the mixed driver issue. Did you install all updates to windows before installing the drivers ?

[@choicesii1]

Can it bake yet?

[@danielguimaraesscatigno4236]

Unfortunatly it havn't worked with gpu render, strange, I have a r9 280x, it was supposed to work

[@KostasAdamos]

I’m sorry mate but except if you are working mostly on premiere or video editing you have thrown a bag full of money to waste with the wx7100!!! For that kind of work the rx580 is faster and much, much chipper!!! I know from experience!!! ;)

[@gabrielpetit5193]

Is Prorender availible for Linux platforms?

[@CGGeek]

Yes sir!

[@Towik]

A pity it doesn't work with 2.8 RPR is much faster then Cycles, at least on my AMD gpu.

[@CGGeek]

Support for 2.8 will be coming. :)

[@Draugo]

Why do you keep calling them outputs when they are inputs?

[@bronzekoala9141]

I found it's procedural capabilities (which are basically non existant) just too basic to be useful. There isn't even perlin noise with more than 1 octave...

[@godzoookie]

Hey, instead of blank box how 'bout just not having your face on there at all.

[@OrlenDGreat]

How to set up render farm using GPU's? Hundreds of GPU's!!!

[@benjaminlunsford5134]

no

[@xanecosmo5061]

EEVEE:Hold my beer

[@HrafnNordhri]

Why do we need the floating head view? You are showing Blender.. so show blender...

[@ShredST]

Because having a personal brand is important to internet content creators, and showing his face helps building his brand.

[@HrafnNordhri]

@@ShredST Makes sense.. I hadn't thought of that.

[@StrayVertex]

Anyone know how to get ProRenderer to play nice with a GTX 1080? I'm getting a "Hardware check: fail ---> Unable to load OpenCL.DLL. You may need to update your graphics driver". My drivers are up to date so...

[@XxxTheGoldenApplexxX]

OpenCL is for amd cards

[@StrayVertex]

It's not actually.

[@staughost]

ProRenderer works like **** on nvidia.

[@32bart10]

How do you get an nvidia and AMD graphics cards working on the same machine?

[@AngryMan540]

You only plug in one brand for the monitors. I used to use a RX480 for gaming and one of the 3.5gb 970s for rendering in blender.

[@32bart10]

Steve has them both as an option when he renders in blender. I thought that wasn't possible?

[@AngryMan540]

@@32bart10 Blender can see all the hardware installed, with the drivers, that said only use one brand of card at a time to connect to the monitors

[@mareck6946]

its possible since years lol and no SLI makes things worse if you want to render with it.