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Rendering Speed in SU 2016

Posted by Render Plus on December 3, 2015 at 6:17am in IRender nXt ArielVision 3D Design Studio (Sket

Hi Al,

I have been using IRender for more than a year and we got it to work great on Sketchup 2015. But now on Sketchup 2016 the time to render is much longer (up to 4 times longer).

Do you know if there is a adjustment I must make for it to go faster or what should I do?

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  • Rich Hart December 4, 2015 at 3:49am

    Could you do two this:

    Download and install the latest version of IRender that we just posted this week, version OL01.

    http://www.renderplus.com/wp2/download/

    If that doesn't help, can you send us that other model to try it here?

    You can use this link to send us the large file:

    http://www.renderplus.com/wp2/uploads/

  • Daniel Hallqvist December 4, 2015 at 12:42am

    Hi Al,

    I did what you asked me and this time and this is the results:

    Sketchup 2016

    \IRenderBatch64.exe

    Max Threads: 8

    Extraction Time: 16.0 seconds
    Loading Time: 1.0 seconds
    Render Time: 42.1 seconds
    Passes: 20 (AR: 20)
    Geometry:
      Meshes: 1350
      Faces: 97396
      Materials: 22
      Lights: 0

    And for Sketchup 2015

    IRenderBatch64.exe

    Max Threads: 8

    Extraction Time: 16.0 seconds
    Loading Time: 1.0 seconds
    Render Time: 37.1 seconds
    Passes: 20 (AR: 20)

    Geometry:
      Meshes: 1350
      Faces: 97396
      Materials: 22
      Lights: 0
      Material Illuminance Lights: 0

    Test 2

    2015

    Same threads and batch

    Extraction Time: 51.0 seconds
    Loading Time: 2.0 seconds
    Render Time: 25.6 seconds
    Passes: 20 (AR: 20)

    Geometry:
      Meshes: 8431
      Faces: 106104
      Materials: 45
      Lights: 0
      Material Illuminance Lights: 0
      ArPlants: 0
      RPCs: 0

    2016

    Extraction Time: 58.0 seconds
    Loading Time: 2.0 seconds
    Render Time: 25.7 seconds
    Passes: 20 (AR: 20)

    Geometry:
      Meshes: 8431
      Faces: 106104
      Materials: 45
      Lights: 0
      Material Illuminance Lights: 0
      ArPlants: 0
      RPCs: 0

    I see that this only a couple of seconds slower than in 2015 but the other modell I was rendering yesterday took more than one hour but I can not test this one in 2015 since I can not open it.


    Al Hart said:

    You could try checking the rendering statistics as well - once in SU 2015 and again in SU 2016

    Right click on the top of the rendering window to bring up statistics

    2506660663?profile=original

    The check for differences.

    1. the number 64 in the name of the batch file.

    2. The number of threads used for rendering.

    3. The number of faces, lights, etc.

    4. The rendering time and extract time

    2506660803?profile=original

  • Richcat December 3, 2015 at 1:55pm

    ooops - I thought that was directed at me - do you want to start another thread.

    I was just trying to show that the only difference I have noticed between Sk15 and Sk16 was yes it did seem a bit slower to me, but when I turned off the Default tray it went back to normal and the only thing I could see different was the Y resolution changing which I thought would have got smaller not larger.

    I've just used one of the test models to render a corner of it and that render 49 passes in 11.4 mins and with the default tray off and 13.9 mins with it on.

    If it was a more complex larger model would this be an even greater difference which could equate to roughly the 4 times the slowness indicated above or am I showing my age.

  • Rich Hart December 3, 2015 at 12:45pm

    Richcat, why did you send us a batch file?

    I was posting that "how to send" information for anyone else who might have a problem, like the original user who sent us an email that rendering took 4 limes as long in SketchUp 2016. Are you having a problem like that?

    Or are you just showing us that tray makes the rendering size larger?

  • Richcat December 3, 2015 at 12:39pm

    Hi Rich

    Batch files sent via uploads

  • Rich Hart December 3, 2015 at 10:53am

    You can use the "Save Batch Folder" function to put all of the contents of the last batch rendering folder into a zip file that you can send us. Then we can render the exact same data as you are, and see what the settings are set to.

    2506661770?profile=original

    And you can use this link to send us large files:

    http://www.renderplus.com/wp2/uploads/

    Please also send us a note of explanation if you send us support files.

  • Richcat December 3, 2015 at 10:44am

    Hi Al

    Yes its the Y value of th rendering on the render setup options page 2506660652?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024

    Tool Tray off


    2506660549?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024Tool tray on

  • Render Plus December 3, 2015 at 8:42am

    One thing I've just found is to do with the new default tray, it increases the size of the Y value when turned on therefore increasing render time.

    Is this the Y-size of the rendering, or something else?

  • Rich Hart December 3, 2015 at 8:13am

    I did a test, reloading and older version of IRender nXt from last March, OC20, and rendering in SketchUp 2015 and then used the latest version of IRender nXt with SketchUp 2016 and got similar rendering times with both tests. I stopped the rendering during the15th pass.

    Sketchup 2015: 13 minutes 27 seconds

    SketchUp 2016:  13 minutes 59 seconds.

    I also did a similar test with lights in the model, to see if something was different there, but the SketchUp 2016 results were actually faster in that test.

    Here are some images of the statistics dialogs for the first test

    2506660734?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024

    2506660782?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024

  • Richcat December 3, 2015 at 8:04am

    Hi Al

    One thing I've just found is to do with the new default tray, it increases the size of the Y value when turned on therefore increasing render time.

    Cheers Richcat

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