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K-Cycles: Just ridiculous
🕑 Added 2021-03-30 02:39:34 +0000 UTCWow.
Just WOW! Eric Klein shared with me his years long work optimizing Cycles for SPEED and ease of use, and OH... MY... GOSH...
It's seriously fast-- fast enough that I'm now considering using Cycles for many of my renders! Crazy fast. Of course it's a custom build of Blender, but a lot of us (including the Hard Ops and Boxcutter folks) have banged on it and it's ROCK SOLID. And of course all of our addons, including KIT OPS, SYNTH, etc. work fine as well.
Check out the vid above to see it in action.
And if you want to learn more about it including how ridiculously low in price it costs ($49), check it out at:
https://blendermarket.com/creators/k-cycles?ref=295
See you all online!
Comments
Chipp Walters
No, but it IS faster (ATM)
Tim Whiteman
I wonder if it's as ridiculously low in price as the free Cycles X?
Tilman Sommer
My concern was mainly that I suspect maintaining a custom version of Blender will be significantly more effort over time than maintaining an addon. Plus: customers will expect getting Blender updates even if there are no updates in the customization itself.
Chipp Walters
Yeah. Check the graphs at https://blendermarket.com/products/k-cycles?ref=295
Jon White
NM. Sorry, just read through the youtube comments and the answers are in there.
Jon White
Any comparisons to E-Cycles? I've had my eye on that (quite pricey). Some really good reviews...also a very fast render. Just curious. Thanks!
Chipp Walters
Yes, that's a good point. But that's the case for even addons you use frequently. Stuff like Hard Ops, Boxcutter, KIT OPS need to have a "continuity of business" in order to be taken seriously. That only happens with time and performance.
Tilman Sommer
Thanks for sharing. But since it is a custom version of Blender, one needs to keep in mind that maintenance of that version for all or specific platforms might stop at any time at the discretion of the (single?) maintainer. Maybe an idea to solve this could be to raise funds within the Blender community as compensation for Kevin's work and merge it into Blender trunk - or something along those lines.
Kevin Wimberly
Thanks, Chipp!
Chipp Walters
Same answer as above.
Chipp Walters
If enough people ask the author for it, he said he'd consider creating a Linux build too.
Sjon Ueckert
And a Mac OS File?
Kevin Wimberly
I just about purchased, however it seems it's only supported on Windows? Any idea if that's the case, or does it have a Linux file too?
