Please Render Faster!
Author: Kalimera. Render times are typically very slow.
At other times times it is very very very slow.
As soon as the render button is clicked FF becomes a Background Processes.
Not sure if this is relevant.
In Task Manager:
CPU around 10%
Memory around 18%
Is this typical?
I run Windows 10 64 bit.
Xeon W3690 and 12 GB RAM.
FF 5 is up to date.
Fractal Art
Author: Sphinx.. Ok, 3D version starting to produce some images now.. but damn its slow.. really slow - some of these renders took over 1 hour - luas metatable system is not that impressive when you use it in critical areas :-S
Steampunk Grunge Panel by Mongoose King
... doing quite a bit more waiting with this filter, it's abominably slow.
I actually made this filter a long time ago, before almost every other filter I've submitted, back with Filter Forge v1, the reason I've never submitted before is it was too slow to render all the presets, I've only been able to submit it now because I've upgraded from a Core2 Duo at 2.0Ghz to an AMD FX8310 overclocked at 4Ghz, still takes over 6 mins to render the default image.
The internals are a huge complicated mess, I've ...
Other Interesting Ideas
... done (shown above) BUT using this to apply the Vladimir's Crysta texture to texturing in 3D the sides of the cubes, so they would look in the same way as the well done sphere you have done.
Perhaps this would be too much work for FF to make and render :D
SLOW ?
Perhaps the bad side of this excellent and well done Smudge 3D thing you have done would be probably that it will be slow. Is this Smudge 3D very slow? How much ? at least for a 2000 x 2000 render.
Slow.. slow... slow...
Author: Vincs. Hi everyone,
I'm a graphic designer and i'm testing filter forge since 3 weeks now.
I made some many tests about time rendering at work and wow... How is it possible?
All my tests made with a very simple filter : http://www.filterforge.com/filters/9436.html with no antialiasing, in a 2000x2000px resolution.
My time render is :
Last macbook Air (i5 2x1.8ghz - Ram ...
PosterOgre
Author: IONclad. well PosterOgreII is up. I am actually surprised that it was accepted. It's a personal use filter but takes 40+ minutes to render a 3000pixel image on my dual core athlon... so, it's slow. Slow but funky.
:)
PosterOgreII (http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2549.html)
Slowrendering
Author: johnE. I am running a fast Mac laptop and I have very slowrendering times. I installed FF on my Windows (via parellels) and it too takes forever to render to file.
I am rendering a 6700 x 8300 photo. I am using the Old Photo filter. I am guessing it based on the progress indicator it will takes 1-2 hours ...
Photoshop 2015 CS - Installation Problems
Author: GMM. Judging from the first screenshot I assume the plugin has been installed successfully.
Filter Forge is not slow, though certain filters may be slow. Here is a thread (https://filterforge.com/forum/read.php?FID=5&TID=11020) with hints to reduce rendering times.
Suggestion to give to new filters a Speed render level rating or mark
... would be able to go in to the filter and simplify it to the extent where render may take shorter times. Now there are some cases where I can't do that due to aesthetic reasons.
Honestly, in terms of "speed" I think 5 minutes for a 600x600 render is considerably slow already. I generally try to maintain a maximum 2 minute for any filter I submit to the library. ;) But those are just my marks and quality standards for myself. Basically, just as long as you can go in that filter and cut down what can be cut down ...
Slowrendering?
Author: Totte. It is not slow (for what it accomplish), and for FilterForge, CPU count is what matters. There is a distinct difference in rendering on lets say an iMac with Core2Duo and a MacPro with 2 QuadCore Xeons, a very distinct difference. It is also vital that you have set it up in settings to use all CPUs (you can see that with the Activity Monitor as well if FF leaves anything ...
Slider for multi blend
... contribution ... I cannot check it out because I don't do beta .... But what I was wondering is, does combining blends together slow the whole filter down? I use lots of blends in my filters and I have found that at a certain point the filters starts to slow down in rendering ... Please forgive me for hating slow filters and I love your Dab and Swattle (I spelled that wrong) filter but I have only used it a couple of time because I'm old and I fear I will die before it renders ... Sorry that is poor humor .... It ...
Comparison between FF2 and FF3 render speed test
... research and investigate more to see if the results from the first had been really true.
"Please, I want to ask to any moderator that could change the thread title to a better one that could probably read "Comparison between FF2 and FF3 render speed test" "
As the SLOW reason is NOT true.
I am sorry that I had not time to compare yet FF2 to FF3 render speed, BUT I have made a benchmark of FF2 and found a very interesting thing that I did not know and I think is very important for thinking that FF could be slow
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Waiting on long filter processing. Force Quit or wait?
Author: CFandM. Well one of the biggest reasons is that there is a lot of blurs in this filter...One or two can slow down a render at that size let alone what this filter has...
So if I were to give a definite reason why its slow are all those blurs..
Optimizing Filters for Speed
Author: Skybase. For example if you enable Anti-Alias it'll run slow as you'd expect. Disabling orthogonal and having density at 100 will make it sluggish. Pretty sure there are a couple more, but those settings alone are a mild hinderance to render speed. So I guess it's "can be slow".
FF3: Slow
... changed their memory usage limit from the default 60% value (in Tools > Options > Rendering)."
I have already changed it long time ago and is at 90% and is STILL very slow on many of the filters if you put a 3000x3000 resolution. With very slow I mean that it would take between 15 to 25 minutes to render the result.
FF3: Slow
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You say that I could bug the author to try to optimize the filter, but I have seen many filters made by Vladimir Golovin that is supposed that nobody else knows best how to optimize a filter and these are ones of those many that takes 45 minutes to render a 4000x4000 result.
And I have FF Professional with multicore active and an Intel i7 2600K that is one of the fastest CPU so the problem is not from a slow computer.
FF3: Slow
Author: SpaceRay. "iSeeThis
Alas, even FF4 is STILL slow"
FF4 has exactly the same render engine as FF 3 so there can´t be any speed increase, and also it has been confirmed in other threads that FF 4.0 will NOT have any speed increase.
"iSeeThis
How the hill could this be. I can't believe it"
I have been asking ...
Slowrendering
Author: johnE. I read about slowrender times in some posts. The common consensus (fr om 2012) at the time render times were slow because of the MAC OS. So I just experimented in Windows and the render times are about the same.
Some of the filters are very cool but if you are experimenting ...
Sneak Peak (Paints with Wood Grain)
Author: Presidio. Hi Stevie,
"Personally, I hate working on my slow ones because all my time is spent waiting for renders. I usually will not use a filter if it takes too long to render a 600 x 600.....because it will take forever to test to find what I want and render larger images.....unless the effect is worth the wait "
Exactly~ You are soooo right!!...
Override map_type in config script.
... outline the two workflows again ( hopefully clearer), maybe I am missing something obvious.
Current workfow ( slow).
Tweak filter (filter.ffxml) in FF
For each map I want to output
Duplicate preset. specify map type and update preset (slow part)
Render with commandline renderer with config.xml
Render in Maya.
Goto Tweak filter.
More efficient workflow ( if possible)
Setup multiple entries in config.xml to specify different map_type (possible?)
Tweak filter (filter.ffxml) in FF
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