Waiting on long filter processing. Force Quit or wait?
... around. I just need a bit of openness from people than facing a wall of bitterness.
My case and point:
1. Things do run slow... if you just let them be.
2. There's no such thing as "instant". Software companies demo "instant" ... ... games would run smooth, so shaders run really smooth. I sometimes feel people get the false impression about "super fast render speeds" based on some company tech demo... the reality is really harsh.
3. There are always ways to shorten render ...
FF3: Slow
... love to use FF daily, so maybe they can do something to make it much, much, much faster.
I read some of the other posts on this topic, and many pointed to problems with an under powered system, but that is not the case here. The program is simply slow in rendering both the preview image and worse on the final image.
M. Jackson
FF3: Slow
... to pay for this is that you must have a lot of patience and wait much time for FF to render those beautiful results, because in many filters FF is SLOW.
I also feel like forcing myself to use FF and when I click on a preset I know that it will be slow to render, and even many times to preview it.
"tetonimages wrote:
I have a fast Dell computer, maybe a year old, but it was the fastest system they sold at the time. It has a quad core Intel processor, 12 gigs of ram, a fast nVidia card with ...
FF Inc. did not know that FF was slow ? Let´s see what others think.
... also agree with you, FF is NOT dead slow, and is NOT unusable at all, because this would not be true AND I have put in the thread from the first link above the following:
"SpaceRay wrote:
I want to let KNOW that Filter Forge is NOT ALWAYS SLOW, is not a bad software at all, is just that the rendering engine and core parts that process the FF filters could be optimized and updated to the new technologies and be able to get benefit from the 2012 computer power.
Independently of the computer power, the render and preview speed depends and ...
Waiting on long filter processing. Force Quit or wait?
Author: Sharandra. Retoucherpro, have you checked if it is set to use all available cores?
It´s under Options>Rendering.
I sometimes set it to use only one core, when I need to do other stuff while it renders. If I forget to set it back, I wonder about it´s slowness next time, until I remember lol :-)
And sorry about the slowness of my Glowy filter. I tested it on fotos and a 4096x4096 texture before I submitted it and it worked just fine for me, only slow.
Aquaria by Orteil
... would be bad to select a filter that shows how slow FF can be
And it did not win any Usage Award because it is too slow, and probably people does not want to spend so many time waiting to get the result
If FF could make something that makes the rendering faster would be awesome and bring slow filters a new life, like this one
100 % Processor usage
... understand the speed of FF (https://www.filterforge.com/forum/read.php?FID=8&TID=14270&MID=141812&sphrase_id=4674179#message141812)
"kamelus wrote:
" Spaceray wrote:
From seeing the third screenshot, I wonder if you mean that FF is very slow to render the preview or the result?"
FF is Very Slow to render the preview and the result
"
Welcome to Filter Forge that is not yet optimised for GPU acceleration as most others software available.
But it will depend totally on what ...
Possible way to speed things up on user side
Author: Vladimir Golovin. "Kraellin wrote:
this would speed the loading of the plugin"
Actually, all rendering is done in a separate thread, and it doesn't slow down the loading. The loading itself is quite fast, it just *looks* slow because of rendering. The interface is always fully interactive -- you are free to click anywhere while it renders your picture.
Paint HDRtist by lipebianc
Author: lipebianc. annettep38, what preset did you render? Was a factory preset?
Was the option "SHARPainting (Slow)" activated on that preset? Try turning of?
Low "STROKE Repeat" values can also slow down rendering a bit...
How long it takes to render using FF built-in images?
I did some tests here using a 1000x2000 image and rendering took nearly 1 minute (I am on a 3 years old PC)
Realtime Render Checkbox
Author: Vladimir Golovin. "James wrote:
I find the program slows down a lot when it's making the realtime previews"
James -- it's only the rendering that slows down, the rest of the interface always remains fully responsive. You can click any control during the rendering and it will respond quickly.
Is FF Inc. making something for FF 4.0 to have a FASTER render engine?
... after give my opinion.
I hope that someone from FF Inc. will ALSO give his point of view.
I have wrote in the FF3:Slow thread (http://filterforge.com/forum/read.php?FID=5&TID=9549) this below
I want to let KNOW that Filter Forge is NOT ALWAYS SLOW, is not a bad software at all, is just that the rendering engine and core parts that process the FF filters could be optimized and updated to the new technologies and be able to get benefit from the 2012 computer power.
Independently of the computer power, the render and preview speed depends and ...
Halide - A new image processing language
... at the scene!
Yeah ok, I kinda wish FilterForge opens up some more parts of the render engine for tinkering, but given the nature of the program, it's almost unnecessary.
But yeah, you're spoiled :p REALLY really spoiled to say FilterForge is slow. And most people don't know and don't care about how much effort I put into to making that one shot of a movie render faster. Nobody understands nor cares about the actual people working with the technology. Nobody would BOTHER with such a thing because they'd rather see pretty pictures than a bunch of sliders.
Consider that before you say "its slow." ...
Suggestion to give to new filters a Speed render level rating or mark
... relative to a filter that is VERY SLOW on the same computer.
If my computer can only do a ULTRA FAST filter in 10 minutes, then it's still going to take LONGER to use a VERY SLOW filter.
On the same computer, a fast filter will always be faster than a slow filter. No matter what the computers specs are.
Other than that, yeah, I think Skybase is right, if a user needs some render, the warning will just let him know it's gonna take longer, and he'll still use the filter.
Another reason to remove the speed limit on the submition wizard.
Decorated Latticework by ahimsa
Author: ahimsa. Vine filter? Is it that one that someone made for a game? That one is way too slow to render to add to this one which is also a slow one.
Thanks you two.
FF Inc. did not know that FF was slow ? Let´s see what others think.
... IT IS SLOW or SLOWISH.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/04/filter_forge_for_mac_arrives.html
"Klaus Nordby — on April 01, 2009
I briefly tried Filter Forge a year or so ago, and while it was Great Stuff, it was also painfully slow to use on the hardware I had back then.
Now, with a very fast quad-core CPU, it’s still often a bit slowish — but because of the amazing render quality and staggering range of insanely unique textures and patterns it makes possible, I’d say this software could quickly become invaluable to graphic designers and 3D artists.
So I’m buying the mid-range version for sure — ...
PixelSlaughter tryout death metal
Author: SpaceRay. "CFandM
If you have a two filters that are slow and you stack those then it will make it even more slow to render......"
Sorry to say that the stacking does not mix the filters, I mean that each of the filters is processed always in it´s own, so the time to render is always from one filter alone, and does not matter wich filter is from the previous ...
Making trees -- any ideas?
... ahead... ;)
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/4806.html
"ThreeDee wrote:
Apart from being painfully slow, the experiment started to have a life of its own, so I figured I'll throw a render in here -- this one I called Fractal Mystique. (Renders way too slow to become a usable filter yet, but maybe something will yet become of it.) "
I have some in the library that are fractal-like but not really true...I also have some that are closer but are just waaaay to slow for human consumption...
Those ...
Filter stopping or way too slow
Author: Mardar. http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read.php?FID=11&TID=9189#postform (http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read.php?FID=11&TID=9189#postform)
I have been having trouble with this filter either rendering very slow or not rendering at all. I spoke to the author and he said his filter take a short time to render on his machine. Our conversation is on the above link.
I deleted his filter, shut down FF and then re-loaded it from the library. I thought my file had become ...
Cell Leather by Sphinxmorpher
... filter rejected two times because it was too slow, but I didn't feel that I could sacrifice anything, so I added a little optimization trick which uses blurs (!) to speed up rendering (only works for rather low frequency renderings) - thats why you see a slow first row rendering (the bitmap buffers need to render internally). I just checked in a snippet that describes this method..
FF3: Slow
Author: SpaceRay. I want to let KNOW that Filter Forge is NOT ALWAYS SLOW, is not a bad software at all, is just that the rendering engine and core parts that process the FF filters could be optimized and updated to the new technologies and be able to get benefit from the 2012 computer power.
Independently of the computer power, the render and preview speed depends and ...
